In a major policy revision, federal health officials said that only three feet would serve in classrooms so long as everyone is masked.

The district attorney for Bucks County, Pa., said Gregg Shore, a high-ranking prosecutor, had been making food deliveries during work hours for the county. “I don’t know why he did this,” he said.

Britain’s “one-jab” strategy is working, offering lessons for the world.

For some, the best way to tackle racism is to not mention it and instead use “more encouraging words.”

Times journalists asked leading companies about the racial makeup of their work forces. The responses, or the lack of them, were revealing. Here, the reporters discuss what they found.

Some countries have stockpiles. Others have nothing. Getting a vaccine means living in the right place — or knowing the right people.

From hospitals, railways and dockyards to schools, shops and trading houses, the country is at a standstill. Strikers hope their actions will force the army to return power after its coup on Feb. 1.

A court has confined 10 prominent opposition politicians and dissidents to house arrest, ostensibly for violating coronavirus safety rules.

AstraZeneca vaccine ‘safe and effective.’

Accounts of atrocities keep coming in as the wounded flee to the regional capital, Mekelle, where Tigrayans say they are being winnowed for their leaders’ rebellion.