Alek Minassian Found Guilty in Toronto Van Attack
The defendant was convicted of murder and attempted murder for killing 10 people and injuring 16 when he mounted the curb of a busy sidewalk...
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Brazil’s Covid Crisis Is a Warning to the Whole World, Scientists Say
Brazil is seeing a record number of deaths, and the spread of a more contagious coronavirus virus variant that may cause reinfection. RIO DE JANEIRO...
How to Pretend You’re in the Riviera Maya, Mexico, Today
While your travel plans may be on hold, you can pretend you’re somewhere new for the night. Around the World at Home invites you to...
Surf’s Up. The Temperature Isn’t.
It’s a cold Friday morning in late January. The snow has been falling all night. With two friends, Curtis Eichenberger and Brian McElroy, I’m heading...
‘Guernica’ Tapestry Is Taken Back From U.N. by a Rockefeller
The replica of Picasso’s famed painting depicting the horrors of war had hung outside the Security Council chamber since 1985, on loan from the Rockefeller...
A Millennial Woman Takes on the U.N.
Arora Akanksha, a 34-year-old auditor with no diplomatic experience, has declared her candidacy for secretary general — an audacious bid to shake up an organization...
‘V.I.P. Immunization’ for the Powerful and Their Cronies Rattles South America
A wave of corruption scandals is exposing how the powerful and well-connected in South America jumped the line to get vaccines early. Public dismay is...
Biden and Trudeau Renew the Ties Put to the Test by Trump
“The United States has no closer friend than Canada,” President Biden told Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Mr. Biden’s first virtual meeting with a foreign...
Emma Coronel Aispuro, Wife of Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán, Arrested
Emma Coronel Aispuro, who had been under investigation for at least two years, was also charged with plotting to break her husband, Mexico’s most notorious...
Positive Coronavirus Test? Canadians Worry Their Neighbors Will Find Out.
The fear of public shaming is becoming so prevalent in some Canadian provinces that doctors worry it is driving virus cases underground. For a time,...