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Media Outlets

Modi Announces $260 Billion Coronavirus Rescue Package for India

He was scant on details. But the relief is more than economists predicted and comes as Indian cities are hemorrhaging jobs and workers.

Coronavirus

Coronavirus US live: Fauci testifies pandemic is not 'under control' in America

Fauci says opening too soon may cause says ‘spikes’ leading to larger outbreaksAnalysis shows thousands in US getting Covid-19 at workPence will avoid close contact with TrumpThe race for a vaccine: how Trump’s ‘America First’ approach slows the glob...

Coronavirus live news: Facebook reports rise in posts removed for hate speech

Spain to quarantine overseas travellers; Trump walks out of press conference; White House staff ordered to wear masksChina plans to test all 11m Wuhan residents for coronavirus EU could reopen borders to countries with similar risk profilesCoronaviru...

Coronavirus Outbreak in Latin America Now Rivals Europe’s. But Its Options Are Worse.

An analysis by The New York Times found some cities in Latin America have seen spikes in fatalities that match the worst of the pandemic elsewhere.

Richard Fenno, Who Studied Congress Close Up, Dies at 93

His books broke new ground in political science, emphasizing politicians’ interactions not in Washington but in their home districts.

Slice, an online ordering and marketing platform for pizzerias, raises $43M

Global investment firm KKR is betting on the pizza business — it just led a $43 million Series C investment in Slice. Formerly known as MyPizza, Slice has created a mobile app and website where diners can order a custom pizza delivery from their loc...

Ahmaud Arbery's Killing Shows Running Has Long Excluded Black People

Born in lily-white Oregon, it’s a sport that’s long claimed to be for everyone — even as African-American joggers have been persistently subjected to harassment and worse.

Nobody Is Protected From President Trump

The simple accessory of a mask tells the story of a presidency and a pandemic.

Snap’s Yellow accelerator debuts its third batch of investments

This morning, Snap joined a host of startup accelerators shifting its demo day online amid the COVID-19 quarantine. With its third class of startups, Yellow, Snap’s in-house startup accelerator that launched in 2018, brought investors and foun...

In Netflix’s ‘Hollywood,’ One Movie Fixes Racism. Hooray!

Ryan Murphy’s revisionist series is laughably self-satisfied and willfully naïve about complex real-world problems. I also kind of enjoyed it.

Facebook to pay $52 million to content moderators suffering from PTSD

Facebook has agreed in principle to pay $52 million to compensate current and former content moderators who developed mental health issues on the job. The Verge reported Tuesday that the settlement will cover more than 11,000 content moderators who...

Tiny Love Stories: ‘A Picture of Me Looking at You’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.

Amid a Sea of Vouchers, Road Scholar Offers Cash

Many travelers seeking refunds are instead given only credit for a future trip. How one nonprofit is managing to give people their money back.

Los brotes en América Latina ahora compiten con los de Europa. Las perspectivas son peores

Un análisis de The New York Times encontró que algunas ciudades latinoamericanas presentan tasas de mortalidad similares a las del peor momento de la pandemia en cualquier otro lugar. La devastación ofrece un vistazo al daño que el virus puede inflig...