India on Monday reported at least 90,000 new daily infections, breaking its own record from the day before and taking its total to more than 4.2 million cases. Continue reading Covid-19 Live Updates: India Passes Brazil to Become No. 2 on Caseload List

Communities are running short on time to hire poll workers and reconfigure in-person voting to make it safe during a pandemic. Continue reading In Year of Voting by Mail, a Scramble to Beef Up In-Person Voting, Too

Forced underground in the 1990s to a life of cover gigs and guitar lessons, they are re-emerging amid the country’s political awakening. Continue reading For Aging Belarus Rockers, a Late Shot at Stardom

The largest oil reserves and one of the world’s most incompetent governments have brought authoritarianism, economic collapse and environmental disaster to the country. Continue reading What the Oil Spill in Venezuela Tells Us About Its Politics

A huge flock of purple martins is using Nashville as a staging ground for the fall migration — and bringing music back to the city’s shuttered symphony center. Continue reading A 150,000-Bird Orchestra in the Sky

The I.O.C. is on the wrong side of history, again. Continue reading I Used the Podium to Protest. The Olympic Committee Punished Me.

Why are party leaders fighting to get rid of one surprisingly progressive element of the 2017 tax bill? Continue reading The Tax Cut for the Rich That Democrats Love

The harvest of the much-extolled, but long-lost Judean dates was something of a scientific miracle. The fruit sprouted from seeds 2,000 years old. Continue reading Aided by Modern Ingenuity, a Taste of Ancient Judean Dates

And students in Britain and New Jersey are facing a particularly uncertain start to the year. Continue reading The wheels come off the school bus industry

The location in Battery Park City offers a 90-minute session with socially distant seating. Continue reading Learn to Shuck Oysters at Seamore’s