Wednesday, August 18, 2021

The Biden administration will use a federal civil rights arm to deter states from banning universal masking in classrooms.


By BY SHERYL GAY STOLBERG AND ERICA L. GREEN from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2XyAgSN

Intelligence officials did not predict the imminence of the Afghan government’s collapse, officials said.


By BY JULIAN E. BARNES from NYT World https://ift.tt/3srYYj4

Nations Rush to Fly Evacuees Out of Kabul


By BY THE NEW YORK TIMES from NYT World https://ift.tt/3z5UYaM

T-Mobile Says Hack Exposed Personal Data of 40 Million People


By BY ISABELLA GRULLÓN PAZ from NYT Business https://ift.tt/3srjHDI

Glen Ford, Black Journalist Who Lashed the Mainstream, Dies at 71


By BY CLAY RISEN from NYT Business https://ift.tt/3stx8mx

The Truth About Long Covid Is Complicated. Better Treatment Isn’t.


By BY ADAM GAFFNEY AND ZACKARY BERGER from NYT Opinion https://ift.tt/3z26Xpz

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Tests Postive for Covid-19


By BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3z1r1IC

Memory of Migrant Crisis Haunts Europe as First Afghan Refugees Land


By BY KATRIN BENNHOLD AND STEVEN ERLANGER from NYT World https://ift.tt/3AVRzeO

E.P.A. to Block Pesticide Tied to Neurological Harm in Children


By BY CORAL DAVENPORT from NYT Climate https://ift.tt/3mdikHH

Collapse and Conquest: The Taliban Strategy That Seized Afghanistan


By BY DAVID ZUCCHINO from NYT World https://ift.tt/3ANtMO8

Hiro, Fashion Photographer Who Captured the Surreal, Dies at 90


By BY ROBERT D. MCFADDEN from NYT Style https://ift.tt/3CSsNON

Review: A Home Delivery, Shiny and Bright


By BY BRIAN SEIBERT from NYT Arts https://ift.tt/3su5CFE

Kushner Friend Who Was Pardoned by Trump Is Charged in New York


By BY JONAH E. BROMWICH AND KATE CHRISTOBEK from NYT New York https://ift.tt/3y4KMhq

Fed officials saw a path to slowing bond-buying this year, but debated when to start.


By BY JEANNA SMIALEK from NYT Business https://ift.tt/3k7JBZo

Leaders in Afghanistan’s Panjshir Valley Defy the Taliban


By BY THE NEW YORK TIMES from NYT World https://ift.tt/2XCV8Zg

Ashraf Ghani says he fled Afghanistan to avoid being lynched.


By BY CARLOTTA GALL from NYT World https://ift.tt/3y2VvJ0

Israel, once the model for beating Covid, faces a new surge of infections.


By BY ISABEL KERSHNER from NYT World https://ift.tt/3mf7HEu

More than 15 million people in the Mid-Atlantic are under a tornado watch.


By BY NEIL VIGDOR from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3mac2bT

Tough talk from European politicians fearful of a migrant wave from Afghanistan.


By BY KATRIN BENNHOLD AND STEVEN ERLANGER from NYT World https://ift.tt/2Uud4nz

Israel, Once the Model for Beating Covid, Faces New Surge of Infections


By BY ISABEL KERSHNER from NYT World https://ift.tt/3xZSold

Tech Companies’ Afghanistan Foreign Policy


By BY SHIRA OVIDE from NYT Technology https://ift.tt/3gcdLcO

Garth Brooks Cancels Five Stadium Concerts as Covid-19 Cases Rise


By BY BEN SISARIO from NYT Arts https://ift.tt/2UzbvF6

San Francisco Sues Three Online Retailers for Selling ‘Ghost Guns’


By BY GLENN THRUSH from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3CWpoyr