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LONDON — In Hungary, the prime minister can now rule by decree. In Britain, ministers have what a critic called “eye-watering” power to detain people and close borders. Israel’s prime minister has shut down courts and begun an intrusive surveillance of citizens. Chile has sent the military to public squares …

We have never needed books more than we need them now, and book people are working to get them to us. Authors have moved their book tours online, trying to reach readers through podcasts and virtual-meeting platforms. But for independent bookstores, none of these efforts will matter if readers don’t …

For nearly three years, the chef T.J. Steele refused to offer delivery at Claro, his Michelin star restaurant in the Gowanus neighborhood of Brooklyn. He ignored the constant entreaties from online delivery companies like Grubhub and DoorDash, which were sometimes sent to his personal email address. Creating a delivery operation would …

Governor Cuomo said that 1,218 people had died in New York, up from 965 on Sunday morning. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, briefing reporters on Monday, said that the worst of the coronavirus outbreak was yet to come, even as another 253 people died in the state in a 24-hour period. …

In this season of infection, the stock market little more than a twitching corpse, in an atmosphere of alarm and despondency, I am reminded of the enlightenments of the strict curfew Uganda endured in 1966. It was, for all its miseries, an episode of life lessons, as well as monotonous …

BERLIN — A Vincent van Gogh painting was stolen overnight from a small museum in Laren in the Netherlands, just 20 miles southeast of Amsterdam, on what would have been the artist’s 167th birthday. “I feel enormous anger and sadness,” Jan Rudolph de Lorm, the museum’s director, said in a …

The next day, Phil Kienle, G.M.’s head of manufacturing for North America, and a few other executives flew to Ventec’s headquarters in Bothell, Wash. Early on Friday, March 20, the G.M. team sat down with Ventec executives to learn how the ventilators are made, and what parts are required. Ventec …

As the coronavirus pandemic has all but shut down New York City, its subway — an emblem of urban overcrowding — has become almost unrecognizable. Before the crisis erupted, more than five million people squeezed onto the system every day. Today, it carries fewer than 1 million, lower than the …

In recent weeks, the city has started to open recreation centers, which were closed to stop the spread of the virus, to homeless people. “We’re not going to keep them in jail because they don’t have a home,” Sheriff Villanueva said. California has the second-largest prison population in the country, …

Cherish Browning, 28, said she was at a house party last weekend with about 100 people. “Everybody’s really not taking it seriously,” she said. Still, she said, many people at the party were wearing masks and gloves. Dale Rich, a veteran photographer who lives on Detroit’s northeast side, said he …