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As coronavirus infections tick up across the United States, there’s a lot of confusion about if, and when, to wear a mask. “This is the hardest thing of all because it’s not just the risks and benefits to you,” said Dr. Robert Wachter, a professor and the chair of the…

BRUSSELS — The race is on. As columns of Russian troops began pouring into Ukraine nearly two months ago, the United States and its allies started supplying Kyiv with weapons for what many expected to be a short war: sniper rifles, helmets, medical kits, encrypted communications, lots of bullets and…

By Tuesday afternoon, Mr. Adams himself confirmed that he would release his “tax information” — careful wording that might not mean his full returns — and reminded journalists that he did not have to do so. “Now remember, I’m not required,” he said at a news conference. “We know that,…

“As people walk away from Cawthorn, our job is to meet them,” she said, adding, “For those who don’t know what to make of a gay Christian minister, what is very clear with them is I’m being honest with them from the start.” In Senator John Kennedy, Republican of Louisiana,…

Officers stopped showing up by the hundreds. That left much of the complex in the hands of detainees, and by the summer and fall of 2021, violence and disorder were rampant. In one striking example, The Times obtained video of the “fight night” inside one of the jails in October,…

Martial Simon, the schizophrenic man accused of fatally shoving a woman in front of a subway train in January, will be sent to a locked psychiatric facility indefinitely, after prosecutors agreed Tuesday not to contest a finding that he is unfit to stand trial. Mr. Simon, 61, was declared unfit…

Which is what the book-banning right must urgently come to grips with, because its increasingly illiberal streak parallels the excesses of the hard left’s engaging in hyper-woke partisanship in the guise of progress and social justice. And the left is definitely no model: Last week, the book “Bad and Boujee:…

Testing for the virus in Shanghai on Tuesday. The city of Wuhu in Anhui Province is entering a similar lockdown after reporting two Covid cases.Credit…Alex Plavevski/EPA, via Shutterstock All it took was one confirmed Covid case among the 2.4 million residents of Wuhu, a city in the farmland of eastern…

That was the evening’s other remarkable detail. It’s just a red, long-sleeve polo sweater that he wears with a pair of gold chains, black loafers and dark slacks that are all but tucked into a pair of creamy-looking socks. He looks simultaneously ready for bed, the office and “The Santa…

LOS ANGELES — After Iryna Merezhko persuaded her sister in Ukraine that her young nephew should join her in Los Angeles to wait out the war, she traveled halfway around the globe to pick him up. “I told him it would be a California vacation,” she recalled. “We would go…