Former President Obama went to bat for Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) during the 2020 Democratic primary at a private meeting with donors, according to a new excerpt from "Lucky" provided exclusively

On December 2nd, Mukul Ganguly, an eighty-three-year-old retired civil engineer in Kolkata, India, went to the Salt Lake Market to buy fish. The pandemic was surging around much of the world, and he w

SACRAMENTO — Californians who qualify for a $600 state stimulus payment could see the money arrive as soon as a month after filing their tax returns under a $7.6-billion COVID-19 economic relief packa

Shelly Ortiz, who quit her job as a server in Phoenix after the summer. Credit... Caitlin O'Hara for The New York Times The Great Read Is This the End of Tipping? The restaurant industry is in crisis.

With the US trapped in a historic lockdown, everyone agrees that enormous federal spending is necessary to keep the economy going over the next year and beyond — and everyone has their own ideas about

Donald Trump’s relentless campaign to overturn the election he lost culminated in the mob that invaded the Capitol. His abuse of power and dereliction of duty clearly merited impeachment and convictio

Under the cover of night on June 1, 1863, Harriet Tubman led Union troops from the Sea Islands up the black waters of South Carolina’s Combahee River, with a plan to destroy bridges, raid Confederate

Even in a year of horrendous suffering, what is unfolding in Brazil stands out. In the rainforest city of Manaus, home to 2 million people, bodies are reportedly being dropped into mass graves as quic

Troy Hudson didn’t want to think about Mars. It was Christmas, he had taken some time off, and this planet had enough going on at the end of 2020. But Mars was difficult to escape, he told me. It twir

Biden, Emphasizing Job Creation, Signs Sweeping Climate Actions The array of directives — touching on international relations, drilling policy, employment and national security, among other things — e

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) (R) listens as U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill on October 20, 2020 in Washington, DC. Stefani Reynolds | G

Amanda Gorman Captures the Moment, in Verse The youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history read “The Hill We Climb,” which she finished after the riot at the Capitol. “I’m not going to in any way gloss o

Biden Seeks Quick Start With Executive Actions and Aggressive Legislation In an effort to mark a clean break from the Trump era, the president-elect plans to roll out dozens of executive orders in his

Updated at 11:13 a.m. on April 21, 2021. They were business owners , CEOs , state legislators , police officers , active and retired service members, real-estate brokers , stay-at-home dads , and, I a

Despite hospitals overflowing with patients, heartbreaking numbers of deaths and COVID-19 infection rates hovering at dangerous levels, there are some signs that the daily increase in the number of co

Pall bearers with the coffin of Jesse Taken Alive, a Lakota member of the Standing Rock Tribe, who died from Covid-19, at Kesling Funeral Home in Mobridge, S.D., last month. Tribal Elders Are Dying Fr

If you’re like most Americans, there’s a good chance you’re going to wear a cloth mask today. Doing so makes sense. It remains the official recommendation in the United States, and it is something we’

Multiple gorillas at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park have contracted the coronavirus in the first known instances of natural transmission to great apes, the zoo announced Monday. The zoo tested the gori

Illustration by Trevor Davis; family photos courtesy of Arun Venugopal; other images by Federico Benocci / Eyeem / Getty; Tim Abramowitz / Getty; Michelle Marsan / Shutterstock This article was publis

Just as I wrapped up a series I worked on most of last year about the most notable Macs of all time, I received a comment on Twitter about a specific peculiarity about my list that I’d never considere

Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday, forcing their way inside the building and interrupting Congress’s certification of electoral votes. Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Andrew Prokop is a seni

When Chanelle Helm helped organize protests after the March 13 killing of Breonna Taylor, Louisville police responded with batons, stun grenades and tear gas. The 40-year-old Black Lives Matter activi

Here are some of the ways that $443,210,038.26 could have been spent in the state of Georgia in 2020. Each time someone filed for unemployment—4.2 million claims have been processed since March, more

Raphael Warnock, From the Pulpit to Politics, Doesn’t Shy From ‘Uncomfortable’ Truths He first wanted to run for office years ago. Now Stacey Abrams, the Democratic Party and the Rev. Raphael Warnock

Adrienne LaFrance, writing for The Atlantic, “ Facebook Is a Doomsday Machine ”: People tend to complain about Facebook as if something recentlycurdled. There’s a notion that the social web was once u

Packages of “Impossible Foods” burgers and Beyond Meat made from plant-based substitutes for meat products sit on a shelf for sale in New York City. Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images This story is par

The influenza pandemic that began in 1918 killed as many as 100 million people over two years. It was one of the deadliest disasters in history, and the one all subsequent pandemics are now compared w

Note : This story has not been updated since 2020. You can divide Mac history in a bunch of different ways. But perhaps the clearest line of demarcation is the mid-1998 release of the original iMac. T

Aletha Maybank is chief health equity officer at the American Medical Association. Camara Phyllis Jones is a family physician, epidemiologist and past president of the American Public Health Associati

Black Doctor Dies of Covid-19 After Complaining of Racist Treatment “He made me feel like a drug addict,” Dr. Susan Moore said, accusing a white doctor of downplaying her complaints of pain and sugges

A protester confronts Phoenix Police officers on June 2, 2020, in Phoenix during demonstrations over the death of George Floyd. (AP Photo/Matt York) The same day police officer Derek Chauvin killed Ge

ATLANTA — The two Democratic candidates in the upcoming Senate runoffs in Georgia each raised more than $100 million in the past two months — huge sums that put them ahead of their Republican opponent

Credit... Adam Maida for ProPublica No ‘Negative’ News: How China Censored the Coronavirus Thousands of internal directives and reports reveal how Chinese officials stage-managed what appeared online

The newly discovered coronavirus had killed only a few dozen people when Feixiong Cheng started looking for a treatment. He knew time was of the essence: Cheng, a data analyst at the Cleveland Clinic,

The Great Read It’s Peak Season for Tamales in Los Angeles Big tamaladas are canceled this year, but many of the city’s tamaleras press on because tamales, along with the cultures and microeconomies t

A new, seemingly more contagious variety of SARS-CoV-2 — the virus that causes Covid-19 — that has been spreading rapidly in the United Kingdom has now been found in the United States in at least two

WASHINGTON — As President-elect Joe Biden prepares to tackle the devastating COVID-19 pandemic killing thousands of Americans a day, he has given his health team another equally challenging task: root

In a surprise video address on Tuesday night, President Trump said something House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) could finally get behind: The proposed stimulus checks of $600 in Congress’s coronavi

The coronavirus pandemic has led to a good news, bad news college application season, as the University of California drew a record number of applicants for fall 2021 while California State University

I f you flew into Honolulu International Airport anytime after the start of the pandemic, you would have had a different experience from most Americans who have traveled elsewhere this year. In the da