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Here’s what you need to know: As cases drop in the Northeast and some cities reopen, other places report stubbornly high numbers. Hong Kong police deny permission for Tiananmen Square vigil for the first time in 30 years. With the U.S. preoccupied by events at home, rivals are testing the …

Here’s what you need to know: U.S. communities are convulsed by two crises: a pandemic and police violence. Merkel declined Trump’s invitation to attend the G7 in person. Then Trump postponed the summit. Nations expand reopenings, and global cases pass 6 million. Catching up with an octogenarian couple once separated …

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden recently suggested that, as the public health emergency deepens, all-mail ballots are “worth looking at, quickly.” Mail-in ballots could be helpful as a stopgap right now, but it’s a slow and inefficient process in a digital age that demands a better answer. In addition, the …

Here’s what you need to know: Major U.S. cities edge closer to normalcy. But as global infections near 6 million, cautionary tales abound. After the W.H.O. loses U.S. support, the E.U. doubles down. The U.S. Supreme Court rejects a California church’s challenge to attendance limits. A partygoer in the Memorial …

TOKYO — As the world tries to get a handle on the coronavirus and emerge from paralyzing lockdowns, public health officials have repeated a mantra: “test, test, test.” But Japan went its own way, limiting tests to only the most severe cases as other countries raced to screen as many …

Photo by Nikolai Kazakov / Shutterstock.com Every day, you can take simple steps to reduce your risk of coronavirus infection — from wiping down counters to properly washing your hands. But here is one protective step you might have overlooked: opening the window a hair when you ride in a …

The 1,340 Maluku Islands are a long way from anywhere. So remote are these Indonesian isles that the country’s most famous novelist was imprisoned there in a gulag that was actually an archipelago. But the coronavirus is stalking the farthest reaches of the planet. The first case of the virus …

Pikoso.kz / Shutterstock.com The COVID-19 pandemic has dominated headlines for months now, and many states still are trying to figure out how to best deal with the situation. Because every state is responding to the coronavirus in its own way, restrictions differ from location to location. WalletHub completed an analysis …

The first confirmed coronavirus infections in Europe and the United States, discovered in January, did not ignite the epidemics that followed, according to a close analysis of hundreds of viral genomes. Instead, the outbreaks plaguing much of the West began weeks later, the study concluded. The revised timeline may clarify …