LONDON — It was a study in contrasts. In one instance, as an expert on global health policy was being interviewed on the BBC about coronavirus lockdowns in Britain on Monday, her daughter could be seen in the background dealing with a pressing question: Where should she display her unicorn drawing? The…
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Late Action on Virus Prompts Fears Over Safety of U.S. Diplomats in Saudi Arabia
WASHINGTON — Inside the sprawling American Embassy compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, a coronavirus outbreak was spreading. Dozens of embassy employees became sick last month, and more than 20 others were quarantined after a birthday barbecue became a potential vector for the spread of the disease. A Sudanese driver for the top…
Federal Officials Turn to a New Testing Strategy as Infections Surge
The Trump administration plans to adopt a decades-old testing strategy that will vastly increase the number of coronavirus tests performed in the United States and permit widespread tracking of the virus as it surges across the country. The method, called pooled testing, signals a paradigm shift. Instead of carefully rationing tests to…
White House Dismisses Reports of Bounties, but Is Silent on Russia
First President Trump denied knowing about it. Then he called it a possible “hoax.” Next, the White House attacked the news media. And now an unnamed intelligence official is to blame. The one thing Mr. Trump and his top officials have not done is to address the substance of intelligence reports that…
Explosion in Iran Kills 19, State TV Says
TEHRAN, Iran — An explosion from a gas leak in a medical clinic in northern Tehran killed 19 people, Iranian state TV reported Tuesday. Authorities initially said 13 people were dead, but Jalal Maleki, a spokesman for the Tehran Fire Department, later told state TV that the toll had risen to 19.…
What Americans Need to Know About Europe’s Travel Ban
On July 1, after months of lockdown, European nations will begin to open their borders to nonessential travelers coming from a select list of countries in which the Covid-19 pandemic has been deemed sufficiently under control. The United States is not on the list. Moreover, the U.S. State Department continues to advise…
How to Make Sense of the Roberts Court
Want to get The Morning by email? Here’s the sign-up. Good morning. Trump was briefed on the Russian bounty program months ago. The coronavirus is hitting California hard. And the Supreme Court rules against both abortion restrictions and financial regulation. Image Anti-abortion activists in front of the Supreme Court on Monday.Credit…Alex Wong/Getty…
Iranian Missile Facility Blows Up, and Conspiracy Theories Abound in Tehran
When a major explosion lit the skies on the edge of Tehran last week, the Iranian government was quick to dismiss the episode as a gas explosion at the Parchin military base, which was once the focus of international nuclear inspectors. It turned out that was false: Satellite photographs show the explosion…
China’s Vaccine, TikTok, Pakistan Stock Exchange: Your Tuesday Briefing
Good morning. We’re covering developments in China’s vaccine efforts, a conversation about bias against darker skin tones in India and Reddit’s push to limit hate speech. Image A researcher works at CanSino Biologics in Tianjin, China in 2018.Credit…Reuters China’s military to use experimental vaccine A coronavirus vaccine candidate has received approval from…
A Surprising Role Model Emerges for Boris Johnson: F.D.R.
LONDON — Boris Johnson and Joseph R. Biden Jr. are hardly political bedfellows. But the British prime minister and the American presidential candidate have one thing in common: both have latched on to Franklin D. Roosevelt as a model for how to lead in an era of economic collapse and social upheaval.…
India Debates Skin-Tone Bias as Beauty Companies Alter Ads
NEW DELHI — Throughout the years she was growing up in southern India, Christy Jennifer, a producer with a media house in the city of Chennai, was traumatized by episodes of prejudice. As she walked through school corridors, classmates pointed at her darker skin and teased her, she said. Even friends and…
U.S. Virus Surge, Hong Kong, Pride: Your Monday Briefing
(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. We’re covering the surge in U.S. coronavirus cases, Beijing’s quick moves to enact a security law for Hong Kong and flying the rainbow flag for a Pride march in central Taipei. Image Drive-thru testing in Phoenix, Arizona on Saturday. Credit…Adriana Zehbrauskas…
Spies and Commandos Warned Months Ago of Russian Bounties on U.S. Troops
WASHINGTON — United States intelligence officers and Special Operations forces in Afghanistan alerted their superiors as early as January to a suspected Russian plot to pay bounties to the Taliban to kill American troops in Afghanistan, according to officials briefed on the matter. The crucial information that led the spies and commandos…
Coronavirus Live Updates: Surge Threatens to Overwhelm Mississippi and Houston
Here’s what you need to know: Image Health care workers help patients outside the Houston Medical Center on Thursday. Houston’s mayor has said that I.C.U.s there were nearly at capacity.Credit…Erin Trieb for The New York Times Some Mississippi I.C.U.s are full, while Houston is on red alert. The coronavirus continued its surge…
‘PizzaGate’ Conspiracy Theory Thrives Anew in the TikTok Era
WASHINGTON — Four minutes into a video that was posted on Instagram last month, Justin Bieber leaned into the camera and adjusted the front of his black knit beanie. For some of his 130 million followers, it was a signal. In the video, someone had posted a comment asking Mr. Bieber to…
E.U. Plans to Bar Most U.S. Travelers When Bloc Reopens
BRUSSELS — The European Union is ready to bar most travelers from the United States, Russia, and dozens of other countries considered too risky because they have not controlled the coronavirus outbreak, E.U. officials said Friday. By contrast, travelers from more than a dozen countries that are not overwhelmed by the coronavirus…
W.H.O. Seeks Billions in Funding to Combat the Coronavirus
Low Pay, High Risk: Nursing Home Workers Confront Coronavirus Dilemma ‘Health Care Kamikazes’: How Spain’s Workers Are Battling Coronavirus, Unprotected She’s an Honors Student. And Homeless. Will the Virtual Classroom Reach Her? ‘People Are Dying’: 72 Hours Inside a N.Y.C. Hospital Battling Coronavirus Coronavirus Has Hospitals in Desperate Need of Equipment. These…
Iraq Raids Iranian-Backed Militia Accused of Attacking U.S. Forces
BAGHDAD — Iraqi forces raided an Iranian-backed militia suspected of carrying out a spate of rocket attacks against American forces, making good on the new prime minister’s promise to crack down on armed groups that have strained relations with the United States. The raid overnight Thursday on a brigade headquarters of the…
In a German Tech Giant’s Fall, Charges of Lies, Spies and Missing Billions
In the elite corridors of corporate Germany, Markus Braun had become a legend. A little-known entrepreneur until just a few years ago, Mr. Braun had forged an obscure Bavarian company called Wirecard into a German tech icon, winning a coveted spot on the benchmark DAX stock index. Wirecard provided the invisible financial…
Zeev Sternhell, ‘Super Zionist’ Wary of Extremism, Dies at 85
Zeev Sternhell, a Holocaust survivor and an expert in 20th-century European fascism and the kind of extreme nationalism that he viewed as a threat to democracy in Israel, died on Sunday in Jerusalem. He was 85. His death was announced by the Hebrew University, where he had taught political science from 1966…