Tensions over how to contain the coronavirus escalated Tuesday in the United States as the death toll climbed to nine and lawmakers expressed doubts about the government’s ability to ramp
The public health authorities descended on a hospital, telling some nurses and doctors they would need to be quarantined. They ordered a synagogue to halt all services, and told attendants
New York officials warned on Monday that the coronavirus was likely to spread in New York City, a day after confirming that a Manhattan woman had contracted the virus while
There is perhaps no place in America harder to escape crowds than the New York City subway, which, as the nation’s largest transit system, carries more than five million people
Dozens of Asian-American parents filtered into a Queens auditorium in January, gathering to protest a local school desegregation plan that they said would drive their children to low-performing schools in
A huge swarm of birds migrating is nothing unusual – flocks can fly thousands of miles undetected. But in a rare event on Monday, US National Weather Service radar captured
At long last, you don’t have to be in the room where it happens. For all those who have been unable to afford, or even find, tickets to “Hamilton,” there
Last week, we told you that the city’s top health official said it was “inevitable” that the new strain of coronavirus, which began with an outbreak in China and has been spread
A key accuser in the Harvey Weinstein rape trial broke down in tears on the witness stand on Monday when it came out in court that she had been sexually
Shaun Donovan, a former housing secretary and budget director under President Barack Obama, filed paperwork on Monday to run for mayor of New York City. Mr. Donovan was housing secretary