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WASHINGTON — The Biden administration announced Tuesday that it is restoring parts of a bedrock environmental law, once again requiring that climate impacts be considered and local communities have input before federal agencies approve highways, pipelines and other major projects. The administration has resurrected requirements of the 50-year-old National Environmental…

Riders are still required to wear masks while taking public transportation in New York City, despite a federal judge in Florida’s ruling on Monday to overturn the nationwide mask mandate on planes and public transit. With the decision-making power left in the hands of local transit agencies, the Metropolitan Transportation…

If I’m the only person wearing a mask on a plane or subway train, in a store or at another indoor location, am I really protected from infection? It’s true that masks work best when everyone around you is wearing one. That’s because when an infected person wears a mask,…

At one point, Harvard’s president, Derek Bok, got so fed up with Mr. Kahn’s dogged reporting that he barred university officials from speaking to The Crimson. Years later, Mr. Kahn relished the memory, an early experience of journalism’s capturing the attention of the powerful. “That felt addictive,” he said. In…

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…

WASHINGTON — The world economy has entered a period of intense uncertainty as a capricious pandemic and the fallout from Russia’s war in Ukraine are fueling inflation and weighing on an already fragile global recovery. These colliding challenges are confronting policymakers and central bankers in the United States and Europe…

LVIV, Ukraine — Christian Borys was at home in Toronto in February trying to find a way to help Ukrainians threatened by war when he decided to print some stickers from an internet meme: the Virgin Mary hoisting an antitank missile. Mr. Borys, who had worked for the e-commerce platform…

KHARKIV, Ukraine — When Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine in February, its strategy featured a rapid advance of tanks and helicopter assaults deep into the country — two strategies that ultimately failed and cost Moscow an untold number of casualties. Now, with a narrower goal focused primarily on Ukraine’s…

Gerald Bryson, a former worker at Amazon’s JFK8 warehouse on Staten Island, spoke at a rally there in March 2021.Credit…Dave Sanders for The New York Times By Karen Weise Karen Weise has written extensively about safety and unionization efforts at Amazon’s facilities. A judge ruled on Monday that Amazon must…

Some diners said that tips allow business owners to deflect the responsibility for paying a living wage. Gabriel Ramirez, who works in a Los Angeles smoke shop, said he would prefer that labor costs were reflected in menu prices rather than leaving it up to customers to tip. “It is…