DECEMBER 30, 2020
Confetti testing on Tuesday in Times Square in New York City, which will be off limits to most people on New Year’s Eve because of the coronavirus pandemic. - James Estrin/NY Times
In most cities this New Year’s Eve, there will be no roaring crowds, no gatherings for fireworks shows and, let’s hope, no strangers kissing at...
DECEMBER 30, 2020
Sen. Josh Hawley asks questions during a Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee hearing to discuss election security and the 2020 election process on Dec. 16. - Greg Nash/Pool via AP
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) on Wednesday pledged to challenge President-elect Joe Biden's victory in Pennsylvania and possibly other states on Jan. 6, when Congress is...
DECEMBER 29, 2020
President-elect Joe Biden speaks at a news conference about his administration's transition and the holidays at the Queen Theater in Wilmington, Del., on Dec. 22. - Sarah Silbiger/TWP
President-elect Joe Biden plans to deliver an address on the coronavirus pandemic as the nation experiences what his chief medical adviser on the issue, Anthony S. Fauci, described Tuesday...
DECEMBER 29, 2020
Coronavirus hospitalizations in the U.S. have hit an all-time high as of Monday, with more than 121,000 people hospitalized nationwide, according to the COVID Tracking Project.
This figure includes 22,592 intensive care patients, an increase from 16 percent capacity in September to 40 percent.
A continued increase could put overwhelmed hospitals in the position of having to ration care,...
DECEMBER 28, 2020
Brief Scorecard: India 326 (Rahane 112, Jadeja 57, Lyon 3-72, Starc 3-78) and 70 for 2 beat Australia 195 (Bumrah 4-56) and 200 (Green 45, Siraj 3-37) by eight wickets
Indian spinners Ravi Ashwin and Ravi Jadeja proved a handful for Australia Australia's Cameron Green made a battling 45 in the second innings. - WILLIAM WEST
Stand-in captain Ajinkya...
DECEMBER 28, 2020
The best time to send an email is around the late afternoon when users finish up work and head home. - Getty Images/Thinkstock
If you browse the web in Incognito mode, everything you do is private, right? In a word, no.
Your internet service provider, for example, can still see your activity. This misconception has even turned into a...
DECEMBER 28, 2020
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., speaks during a weekly news conference, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
The House on Monday approved giving Americans weathering the coronavirus pandemic $2,000 stimulus checks, substantially boosting payments from the $600 checks that were set to be given out as part of a COVID-19 relief...
DECEMBER 28, 2020
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden delivers a speech after a conference video call in Wilmington. - Reuters/JONATHAN ERNST
WILMINGTON, DELAWARE - President-elect Joe Biden said on Monday many of America's security agencies had been "hollowed out" under President Donald Trump and the lack of information being provided to his transition team by the outgoing administration was an "irresponsibility."
"We've...
DECEMBER 28, 2020
Dr. Hisam Goueli treated several psychotic patients who had never had mental health issues before, including a woman who told him she kept visualizing her children being murdered. “It was like she was experiencing a movie,” he said. - Tamayo /NY Times
Almost immediately, Dr. Hisam Goueli could tell that the patient who came to his psychiatric hospital...
DECEMBER 28, 2020
The rare activist moment at China’s central bank was too late and too crude.
Jack Ma, billionaire and chairman of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., wears a shirt with his initials, JMA, embroidered onto its sleeve, during a session on day three of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Friday, Jan. 23, 2015. World...
