France Lockdown, Poland Protests, Coronavirus: Your Thursday Briefing
(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. We’re covering new virus restrictions in Germany and France, protests in Poland over new abortion laws and a radical proposal to combat climate change. France and Germany impose severe restrictions With coronavirus case numbers rising rapidly and hospitals already under More...
Americans Abroad Wait to See if Mail-In Ballots They Mailed Will Arrive
State election officials, as well as legal and technology experts and some nonprofit groups that promote voting, argued that the electronic transmission of ballots raised security and privacy concerns, and that More...
Your Tuesday Briefing – The New York Times
The Senate confirms Amy Coney Barrett A divided Senate voted Monday night to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, less than six weeks after the death of her predecessor, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. With More...
A Teacher, His Killer and the Failure of French Integration
ÉVREUX, France — They could have easily shared the same classroom — the immigrant teenager and the veteran teacher known for his commitment to instilling the nation’s ideals, in a relationship that had More...
As Lawlessness Roils Nigeria, Police Chief Vows to Take Back Streets
LAGOS — Nigeria’s police chief on Saturday ordered the mobilization of all police resources to reclaim public space after more than two weeks of peaceful protests over police brutality gave way to widespread More...
Bangkok Is Engulfed by Protests. What’s Driving Them?
BANGKOK — Protests in Thailand that began as a student-led revolt against the military’s influence on the classroom have ballooned to encompass a sweeping range of issues at the heart of the country’s deep-rooted More...
E.U. Debates Whether a Veggie Burger Is Really a Burger
LONDON — When is a burger not a burger? When it contains no meat, according to a divisive proposed amendment on which the European Parliament is scheduled to vote on Friday, part of a set of measures that would More...
Nigeria Protests, Coronavirus, Pope Francis: Your Thursday Briefing
(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. We’re covering the killing of protesters in Nigeria by security forces, Pope Francis’ support for same-sex civil unions and Azerbaijan’s More...
Your Wednesday Briefing – The New York Times
Britain initiates plans for human challenge trials Scientists at Imperial College London plan to deliberately infect volunteers with the coronavirus early next year, beginning the world’s first effort to study More...
Suspect Stalked French School Before Beheading Teacher, Officials Say
PARIS — The suspect in the beheading of a history teacher in a Paris suburb was an 18-year-old immigrant of Chechen descent who was angered by the classroom display of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, French More...