Tom Brady’s departure from the New England Patriots brings an end to one of the NFL’s most memorable eras By NOAH TRISTER AP Sports Writer March 18, 2020, 12:01 PM 5 min read Tom Brady’s departure from the New England Patriots brings an end to one of the NFL’s most memorable eras. It also means […]
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Good morning and welcome to On Politics, a daily political analysis of the 2020 elections based on reporting by New York Times journalists. Sign up here to get On Politics in your inbox every weekday. Where things stand in the race Joe Biden took all three prizes in yesterday’s Democratic primaries, handily winning Florida, Illinois
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The news on children and the new coronavirus has, up to this point, been pretty reassuring. Just this week more evidence emerged from China that children seem to get milder symptoms than adults — although experts warn that the notion that children tend to simply be asymptomatic carriers of the virus who are somehow “immune”
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Image caption Kellie Bright in the Queen Vic in EastEnders The BBC has suspended filming on dramas including EastEnders, Casualty, Doctors and Holby City “until further notice” amid the coronavirus outbreak. The number of EastEnders episodes screened will also be cut from four to two per week, the broadcaster said. In a statement, the corporation
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Residents of Venice are noticing a vast improvement in the quality of the famous canals that run through the city, which are running clear for the first time in years, and fish can even be seen in the usually murky waters. The coronavirus lockdown has left Venice streets empty, and a drastic drop in water
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TOKYO — Toshiya Fujita just wants somebody to make a decision already. Mr. Fujita, the managing director of a leather goods wholesaler in Tokyo, is trying to figure out how many Olympics key chains to order. Like hundreds of business managers in Japan, he is caught in a will-they-or-won’t-they guessing game about whether the Tokyo
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SAN FRANCISCO — Pat Hanrahan was a young biophysics student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the 1980s when he decided to give up his work with microscopic insects and join a small group of computer scientists in their quest to make a movie. The group was led by Ed Catmull, a computer graphics pioneer
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The torch relay has not always been an Olympic fixture By STEPHEN WADE AP Sports Writer March 18, 2020, 10:09 AM 4 min read TOKYO — The torch relay was not always a fixture of the modern Olympics, which began in 1896. The relay tradition started at Adolph Hitler’s 1936 Berlin Olympics — the Games
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WASHINGTON — As a general rule, the nation’s capital is not a “work from home” kind of town, even though theoretically it could be. It’s not as if a lot of essential goods are created here in some physical plant or factory — not cars, or microprocessors, or beer or, on most days, legislation. We
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BELGRADE, Serbia — The main Serbian hospital treating patients infected with coronavirus looks like an abandoned building, but it isn’t. With its rundown facade, peeling walls and rooms crammed with metal beds, the downtown Belgrade clinic for infectious diseases has for decades been a symbol of Serbia’s depleted health system that now has to cope
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