Das Auto

By Compiled by CHRIS STANFORD, WILL DUDDING and ANNA SCHAVERIEN from NYT Briefing https://ift.tt/2UfZxgT via IFTTT

By JAMES GORMAN from NYT en Español https://ift.tt/37LpCIE via IFTTT

By THE NEW YORK TIMES from NYT World https://ift.tt/2teGbxA via IFTTT

By NANCY WARTIK from NYT Sunday Review https://ift.tt/2Sjc7tp via IFTTT

By LINDSAY CROUSE from NYT Opinion https://ift.tt/2OiwgP0 via IFTTT

By SHEILA KAPLAN from NYT Health https://ift.tt/37KwC8K via IFTTT

By DENISE GRADY and RONI CARYN RABIN from NYT Health https://ift.tt/2td1DTA via IFTTT

Three months. That’s as long as Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, is willing to wait to get a vaccine candidate against the latest coronavirus that he can start testing in people. Since the virus was identified for the first time in people who fell ill with pneumonia-like symptoms in Wuhan, China , last December, the World Health Organization has declared this coronavirus outbreak , named 2019n-CoV, a public health emergency of international concern. In just over a month, more 11,000 people have tested positive for the virus in 18 countries , and more than 250 have died. When it comes to infectious diseases like this one, vaccines are the strongest weapons that health officials have. Getting vaccinated can protect people from getting infected in the first place, and if viruses or bacteria have nowhere to go, they have no way to spread from person to person. The problem is, vacci

By ALICIA PARLAPIANO, WEIYI CAI, LAUREN LEATHERBY, BLACKI MIGLIOZZI, JUGAL K. PATEL, JOE WARD, JEREMY WHITE and KAREN YOURISH from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/38W1m6L via IFTTT

By RICHARD SANDOMIR from NYT Business https://ift.tt/36Gpl8z via IFTTT

Fox News Breaking News Alert Senate votes to approve final framework for Trump impeachment trial, scheduling final verdict vote for Wednesday of next week. 01/31/20 4:58 PM

Jon Favreau is on a mission to figure out how the Democratic Party can defeat President Donald Trump. So for the second season of his Crooked Media podcast, The Wilderness , Barack Obama’s former top speechwriter gathered the types of voters Democrats need to win in 2020 and asked them what they wanted. The goal was to learn what they thought of the Trump presidency, and what they wanted from a Democratic candidate. The top-line result: it’s hard to win over voters when they’re so thoroughly disgusted with politics that they’re tuning you out. In October, Favreau convened four different focus groups: Obama-Trump voters in Wisconsin who voted for Democrats in 2018; voters in Arizona who voted for Republican Mitt Romney in 2012 and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in 2016; voters in Florida who voted for Obama but stayed home or voted third party in 2016; and Democratic-leaning voters in Pennsylvania who don’t pay much attention to the news. The first thing Favrea

By ZOLAN KANNO-YOUNGS from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2Uc7EuO via IFTTT

The wreckage of a U.S. military plane that crashed and burned on a snowy mountain peak in Afghanistan on Monday was still fresh when Iranian state TV ran a story claiming a top CIA officer was among the dead. Like all good propaganda, the story was mostly false, but with a scintilla of truth. Two American service members had been killed when the U.S. Air Force jet slammed into the side of the mountain, but U.S. officials insist there was no CIA onboard. A combination of bad weather and Taliban gunfire kept U.S. and Afghan forces from reaching the site for more than a day. By the time the U.S. military put out a brief statement saying that the downed plane carried two U.S. Air Force pilots, the dubious story had spread around the globe. After a couple of fringy Iranian and pro-Kremlin news outlets reported that Michael D’Andrea, head of the CIA’s Iran Mission Center, was onboard the E-11A communications jet, the story was picked up in The Daily Mail, a major British tablo

By THE NEW YORK TIMES from NYT World https://ift.tt/2RHtjJF via IFTTT

Benjamin So was mid-way through a 36-hour shift at a Hong Kong hospital when an elderly couple from Wuhan, China was wheeled into the isolation ward at 3 a.m. After the nurse took their vitals and nasal samples to test for the novel coronavirus, he got to work. Inside the negative pressure chamber, So, a resident in internal medicine, asked the male patient about his symptoms, listened to his chest and reviewed an x-ray scan of his lungs. Then, he did the same with the female. Around nine hours later, both tests came back positive. The 72-year-old man and 73-year-old woman became the ninth and tenth confirmed coronavirus cases in Hong Kong. “I was a little shaken when I found out,” So told TIME. After he came off shift, he went and quarantined himself. He would rather have done so at the hospital, and many doctors have been calling for on-site accommodation to enable this, but with none available So has holed up in a local hotel. He may seem overcautious to some (inclu

As jubilant Brexit supporters gather to celebrate the U.K.’s departure from the European Union, Scotland is digging in to its position as the last bastion of political resistance . The EU’s royal blue flag with yellow stars will continue flying at the entrance of the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh. The legislature, dominated by the pro-independence Scottish National Party, voted again this week to try and force another referendum on breaking away from the rest of the U.K. and ultimately rejoining the continent’s single market. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon calls Brexit an “affront to democracy” because Scotland voted overwhelmingly to stay in the EU in 2016. As the country officially leaves at 11 p.m. U.K. time on Friday, Sturgeon is repeating her vow to give Scots the chance to choose their own future. Her problem is that Prime Minister Boris Johnson is refusing to grant the power she requires to hold a legal vote on independence. “Brexit and everything that will flo

By DAVE PHILIPPS and SARAH MERVOSH from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3aR9E1H via IFTTT

This review contains spoilers for the series finale of The Good Place. The Good Place rebooted itself so many times over the course of four seasons that we should’ve known it was never going to settle for just one ending. Finality started setting in at least two episodes before Thursday’s extra-long finale, when the four deeply flawed human souls we’d followed for, well, more Jeremy Bearemies than I can wrap my tiny mortal brain around boarded a balloon bound for the real Good Place, with their supernatural accomplices Janet and Michael in tow. Last week, they got their first taste of heaven—a place where even the brilliant Hypatia of Alexandria (Lisa Kudrow, in a truly divine guest appearance) was reduced to pounding endless stardust milkshakes and staring off into space, in a state of eternal ennui. Of course, Eleanor, Michael and the gang soon figured out how to build a better Good Place: just let people leave when they’ve exhausted their enthusiasm for the universe. (K

By JOYCE COHEN from NYT Real Estate https://ift.tt/37OC6iV via IFTTT

By MOTOKO RICH from NYT World https://ift.tt/36Jg27D via IFTTT

By LYNN VAVRECK from NYT The Upshot https://ift.tt/3aQHzY9 via IFTTT

By DAN WERB from NYT Opinion https://ift.tt/2t9nY4u via IFTTT

By LISA FRIEDMAN from NYT Climate https://ift.tt/2uH0OTF via IFTTT

By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. from NYT Health https://ift.tt/38QAxky via IFTTT

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — Jarred Evans, a professional football player in China, is used to wearing a helmet and shoulder pads. But in the wake of a deadly viral outbreak, he’s switched to a mask and medical gloves. “When you’re dealing with life and death, it’s a whole different ball game,” he said in a telephone interview Thursday. Evans, 27, was one of 195 Americans evacuated from the city of Wuhan and flown to March Air Reserve Base in Southern California until authorities confirm they don’t have the coronavirus that has sickened thousands and killed more than 170 people. Most cases are in China, but the outbreak has spread to more than a dozen countries, and the World Health Organization declared a global emergency Thursday. The U.S. on Thursday confirmed the country’s first case of person-to-person spread of the virus, a man who is married to a Chicago woman in her 60s who got sick after she returned from a trip to Wuhan. Evans and the other evacuees, including ch

President Donald Trump could be headed for a speedy acquittal in his Senate impeachment trial after Republicans secured assurances from a key lawmaker late Thursday night that he would not break with the party to request additional evidence and testimony. Lamar Alexander, the 79-year-old retiring Tennessee Senator and close ally of Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, announced his decision after the Senators had completed the 16-hour period allotted for written questioning. “There is no need for more evidence to prove something that has already been proven and that does not meet the U.S. constitutions high bar for an impeachable offense,” Alexander said in a statement. “The constitution,” he continued, “does not give the power to remove the president from office and ban him from this year’s ballot simply for actions that are inappropriate.” Alexander’s decision comes after a new revelation significantly raised the stakes for hearing from witnesses at the trial earlier this

Fox News Breaking News Alert Key senator comes out against impeachment trial witnesses 01/30/20 8:11 PM

(LOS ANGELES) — Ara Zobayan’s passion for helicopters began as a teenager and took flight years later after a life-changing trip soaring above the vast Grand Canyon. The freedom felt by the man who would become Kobe Bryant’s pilot was transformational, inspiring Zobayan to scrimp and save to take lessons and learn to pilot the aircraft himself. “It tapped into what he felt he was here on Earth to do: to fly and to teach, and to teach people to have this feeling that he had,” said an emotional Darren Kemp, a student pilot of Zobayan who became a close friend. Zobayan’s journey from pupil to pilot to the stars ended Sunday when the Sikorsky aircraft he was flying crashed into a hillside outside Los Angeles, killing him Bryant and the other seven aboard. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the accident, including any role heavy fog played. The 50-year-old Zobayan was the chief pilot for charter service Island Express and had more than 8,200 hours of

Over 100 million people tune in annually for the Super Bowl, the U.S.’s most-watched televised event . Most are in it for the football . Some for the commercials, and others for the nachos. But it can often feel like there’s just as much hype around the Halftime Show as the part involving sports. And for good reason: the Super Bowl Halftime Show is not only the pinnacle of pop stardom, but it also provides endless fodder for water-cooler conversation, a sub-15-minute spectacle that consistently spawns viral moments that live on well past the final touchdown. “It’s like winning the Oscar. It’s the biggest show that there is. It has the biggest audience,” Jennifer Lopez explained after she was announced as one of this year’s Super Bowl LIV stars. The other is Shakira , the Colombian entertainer and Grammy-winning artist who rose to fame in the 2000s with hits like “She Wolf” and “Hips Don’t Lie.” They’ll break up the action between the two teams competing this year, the San