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
President-elect Joe Biden chose Rep. Deb Haaland (D-N.M.) Thursday to serve as the first Native American Cabinet secretary and head the Interior Department, a historic pick that marks a turning point
Neera Tanden participates in a panel discussion during the annual Milken Institute Global Conference. (Michael Kovac / Getty Images) Speaking on Monday at The Wall Street Journal ’s CEO Council Summit
Xavier Becerra, H.H.S. Pick, Was California’s Anti-Trump Attack Dog Mr. Becerra was the first in his family to go to college. As attorney general of California, he took on the Trump administration on
In late August of 2010, I traveled to Iraq for the fifth time as vice president. While there, I participated in the change-of-command ceremony for United States Forces–Iraq. President Barack Obama had
As winter descends on a country ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic, life unfolds on a split screen. On one side, the picture is bleak: Every 30 seconds , another American dies of COVID-19. The number
Note : This story has not been updated since 2020. Apple’s first attempt at the thin, light laptop of the future happened a couple of years too soon. In early 2008, Apple introduced the original MacBo
Updated at 5:39 p.m. ET on December 7, 2020. O n the evening of September 11, 1980, my mom was approached by a neighbor who held rank in the Turkish military. He told her to stock up on bread and rice
Eight months out from the first frightening peak of coronavirus cases in the US, Americans are facing another dangerous surge of the pandemic. More than 100,000 Americans are in the hospital right now
Apple caused quite a stir with the announcement of their Pro Display XDR , a High Dynamic Range display that occupies a convoluted space in the market. It seeks to be both a Very Nice Computer Display
We knew this to be true: Computers could run fast and hot, or slow and cool. For laptops in particular, the best you could hope for is a middle ground: fast enough and cool enough. But if you wanted a
Better necessarily implies different . That’s one of my favorite axioms. It’s both intuitively and undeniably true. But it gets to the heart of a certain universal cognitive dissonance inherent in man
Many today say the difference between RISC and CISC has become irrelevant. Is that true? And if not what exactly is the difference between modern RISC and CISC CPUs? Published in The Startup · 25 min
Note : This story has not been updated since 2020. It slowly became clear that one day Apple’s processors would come for Intel. As Apple’s skill in building chips for the iPhone and iPad became increa
Hibernation Works for Bears. Could It Work for Us, Too? A grizzly’s body can slow down for months without damage. Researchers wonder if the ability can be harnessed to aid human health. In studying gr
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