The EU’s charges against Amazon will soon be out in the open. Margrethe Vestager, the EU’s competition and digital chief, is aiming to publish her concerns that Amazon discriminated against external sellers on its platform before the summer break, a person familiar with the matter said. The charge sheet is a next step in the…
Some West Virginians voting in Tuesday’s primary will be allowed to tap on their phones or laptops instead of heading to the polls. Some in Delaware will get to do the same next month. And the trend may spread into November, as the coronavirus pandemic inspires a search for voting methods that don’t expose people…
Officials from Florida to Missouri are hurriedly rewriting their disaster plans, worried that crowding large groups of evacuees in shelters could spread coronavirus during what’s expected to be a busy hurricane and tornado season. Firefighters in Colorado are working social distancing into their strategy for tackling long-duration wildfires. And New York City is spending $55…
Sam Barnes racked his brain one chilly morning in January 1944, wondering what he might have done wrong. Barnes, a popular African American petty officer working at Great Lakes Naval Training Station in Illinois, had been in the Navy for 15 months and had never been disciplined. Why, he wondered, was he being ordered to…
Max Rose helped flip the House in 2018 by flipping a district covering Staten Island and a slice of south Brooklyn that had voted for a Democrat just once in nearly 40 years—New York City’s Trump Country. He did it by running against both parties, by being blunt and brash, and by running as a…
Earlier this week, a group of officials with USAID, an agency on the front lines of the rapidly escalating global battle against the coronavirus, found themselves in an increasingly bizarre conversation with some of their colleagues inside the Trump administration. The officials wanted to know if they could tell America’s longtime global health partners, like…
ALBANY, N.Y. — Six Northeast governors will form a working group to come up with a plan to restart the regional economy, they announced on Monday. Speaking on a conference call, the governors of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Rhode Island agreed that it was essential to work together in developing plans…
SAN FRANCISCO — In California’s Santa Clara County, which quickly shut things down as coronavirus descended, the county executive is warning that major sporting events may not resume by Thanksgiving. The San Francisco Bay Area was the nation’s first metro area to impose shelter-in-place orders 25 days ago, but the bellwether region for the U.S….