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On ABC’s “This Week,” Adm. Brett Giroir, an official with Health and Human Services, acknowledged that with “more cases, more hospitalizations,” the expectation was for “deaths to go up” over the next several weeks. “It’s really essential to wear masks,” he said, adding: “We have to have like 90 percent of people wearing the masks […]

Based on the new estimates, MDC, the company that paid its C.E.O. the $8.5 million in consulting fees, could require more than $40 million to clean up its 140 wells if they are permanently closed, according to an analysis by Greg Rogers, a co-author of the report and a former adviser to BP and its […]

These parallels have led Dr. Timms to argue that koalas could serve as a “missing link” in the search for a human vaccine. “The koala is more than just a fancy animal model,” he said. “It actually is really useful for human studies.” An ancient curse No one knows how or when koalas first got […]

A 30-year-old man who believed the coronavirus was a hoax and attended a “Covid party” died after being infected with the virus, according to a Texas hospital. The man had attended a gathering with an infected person to test whether the coronavirus was real, said Dr. Jane Appleby, chief medical officer at Methodist Hospital in […]

“There’s no downside to wearing a mask,” Admiral Giroir responded. “I’m a pediatric I.C.U. physician. I wore a mask 10 hours a day for many many years.” Dr. Adams wore a mask during his entire interview on the CBS program “Face the Nation” even though he was being interviewed remotely from Indiana. He said measures […]

Amid growing calls for masks, Trump wears one publicly for the first time. President Trump on Saturday wore a mask in public for the first time, after repeated urging from aides that it was a necessary message to send to Americans. Mr. Trump wore a dark mask affixed with the presidential seal during a visit […]

Amid growing calls for masks, Trump wears one publicly for the first time. President Trump on Saturday wore a mask in public for the first time, after repeated urging from aides that it was a necessary message to send to Americans. Mr. Trump wore a dark mask affixed with the presidential seal during a visit […]

“The grizzly is foundational to many Indigenous cultures,” said Rain Bear Stands Last, who assisted plaintiffs with the lawsuit and is the executive director of the Global Indigenous Council, a body of Indigenous tribes from around the world. “Had the decision gone against tribes,” he said, ”it would have set a devastating precedent.” In 2017, […]

Car alarms, jackhammers, a drunken argument and the rumble of the No. 7 train passing overhead. It is the glorious urban symphony that pours into a typical New York City apartment building day and night. Sure, closing the window can help, but there goes your natural ventilation. What if there were technology to cancel the […]

Warnings of further restrictions in Texas and Georgia as U.S. cases continue record climbs. As coronavirus cases reach new highs and outbreaks continue to grow steeply in the U.S. South and West, officials in two battered states are warning that they may need to reverse reopenings that had followed a national lull in confirmed infections. […]