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Blood Plasma From Survivors Will Be Given to Coronavirus Patients
Can blood from coronavirus survivors help other people fight the illness? Doctors in New York will soon be testing the idea in hospitalized patients who...
Coronavirus Helps Bring Down Kosovo’s Government, With Nudge From U.S.
BERLIN — The coronavirus crisis contributed for the first time to the collapse of a national government on Wednesday after a majority of lawmakers in...
Britain Locks Down to Stem the Coronavirus. More or Less.
LONDON — A day after Prime Minister Boris Johnson imposed a virtual lockdown on Britain, London’s subways teemed with rush-hour passengers while a tugboat plied...
Dip in Italy’s Cases Does Not Come Fast Enough for Swamped Hospitals
ROME — The patient had won national swimming championships in his youth but now had a lot going against him. As he waited for a...
With Live Sports Gone, Announcer Offers Play by Play of the Everyday
The narration begins customarily, with the play-by-play announcer enthusiastically welcoming his audience live to a competition unfolding on the screen. But this is no ordinary...
Betty Williams, Peace Laureate From Northern Ireland, Dies at 76
DUBLIN — Betty Williams, a grass-roots activist who shared the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize as a founder of a protest movement that mobilized tens of...
Suzy Delair, French Star of Movies and Music Halls, Dies at 102
Suzy Delair, a French film actress and music-hall singer best known for her 1940s thrillers directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, her starring role in Laurel and...
Virus Hits Europe Harder Than China. Is That the Price of an Open Society?
The macabre milestones keep coming. By Wednesday, Europe had recorded more coronavirus cases and fatalities than China. On Thursday, Italy — by itself — passed...
What to Name the Oldest Modern Bird Fossil? Wonderchicken
Even paleontology has ugly duckling stories. In 2000, a fossil collector found a chunk of rock about as big as a deck of cards in...