Not Over Yet: Late-Summer Covid Wave Brings Warning of More to Come
A late-summer wave of coronavirus infections has touched schools, workplaces and local government, as experts warned the public to brace for even more Covid-19 spread this fall and winter. Hospitalizations…
Opinion | How Free Speech and Willful Blindness Will Play Out in the Trump Prosecution
More than a decade ago, a divided Supreme Court ruled in United States v. Alvarez that an elected member of a district water board in California could not be prosecuted…
How to Recognize a Tennis Prodigy
You may have seen it if you’re a tennis fan. The ad begins with a young boy of 10 or 11, sitting in a humble apartment watching Venus Williams on…
Can’t Sleep? This Therapy Is Often Better for Insomnia Than Medication
About one in four adults in the United States develop symptoms of insomnia each year. In most cases, these are short-lived, caused by things like stress or illness. But one…
Tools Born From Fracking Fuel Geothermal Rush
In a sagebrush valley full of wind turbines and solar panels in western Utah, Tim Latimer gazed up at a very different device he believes could be just as important…
Opinion | We Have Unfinished Business With These Three Killer Diseases
As with so many infectious diseases, lack of determination is the real stumbling block. The United States and other donor nations could argue that we already do more than our…
The Online Scam Industry Is Thriving. Cambodia Plays a Key Role.
Around the world, reports of cyber-scam schemes targeting unsuspecting victims online have proliferated rapidly. Southeast Asia has become a center of gravity for those criminal syndicates, often in remote and…
NY’s Safe Injection Site, OnPoint, Stays Open After Legal Threat
During his afternoons at work, Bryan Ortiz wraps tourniquets around the arms of intravenous drug users to help them find a good vein. If asked, he will even insert the…
Democrats Want to Flip N.Y. House Seats. But There’s a Primary Problem.
Sipping iced coffee at a diner the other day, Liz Whitmer Gereghty looked every bit the dream recruit Democrats need to recapture this coveted suburban House seat north of New…
Hearings in Two Trump Jan. 6 Cases Set for Monday
By the end of Monday, another piece could be put in place in the complicated jigsaw puzzle of the four criminal cases facing former President Donald J. Trump: A date…