The lawsuits followed heightened tensions over the new lockdowns, which prompted ultra-Orthodox Jews in the Borough Park neighborhood of Brooklyn this week to protest, light masks on fire and attack at least three people, including two local men accused of disloyalty to the Hasidic community. The governors order will affect…

Everybody knows that we dine in Spain much later than in other countries, so not being able to stay open until midnight is pure economic nonsense, said Florentino Pérez del Barsa, a Madrid restaurateur. While public attention often focuses on those who shout the loudest like the thousands who protested…

A new phishing scam is duping unsuspecting victims with enticing links promising access to President Trumps alleged health records and top-secret COVID-19 treatment information. In reality, these misleading links are triggering downloads that sneak a new, dangerous form of malware onto the PCs of unsuspecting truth-seekers. The ProofPoint cybersecurity firm…

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I would say that 30,000 a day, if thats your goal, that will give you just a flavor of what the cases look like, said Dr. Michael Mina, a professor of epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. But I really dont believe that that testing is…

The vice president admittedly was in a difficult situation; he was asked to lead a project where his boss wasnt on board, said Senator Angus King, independent of Maine, who clashed with Mr. Pence during an April conference call about coronavirus testing. During that call, Mr. King erupted at the…

Some Republicans hoped his ill-fated June rally in Tulsa, Okla., when he couldnt come close to filling the arena and some of his own staff members got the virus, would serve as a wake-up call. But while the event put an end to his rallies for a period, it did…

For Mr. Schumer and his leadership team, the strategy is not merely about making Republicans squirm. The Democratic leader, who has long inspired mistrust from certain elements of the partys progressive wing and wants to fend off a primary challenge for his own seat in 2022, needs to show the…

During deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan, commanders often failed to prioritize sleep. Changing schedules, long duty shifts and overnight missions led to chronic fatigue that fueled a voraciousdependency on energy drinks, which left many troops feeling frazzled. Army research found that soldiers who guzzled energy drinks had higher levels of…

In an alternate universe, where the WIRED25 event could safely have been held in person, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Anthony Fauci would have been greeted like a rock star. A strange combination of A-list celebrity and level-headed grandfather, Fauci has gamely taken up the position of…