Europe Pushes New Rules Turning Gig Workers Into Employees
LONDON — In one of the biggest challenges yet to the labor practices at popular ride-hailing and food-delivery services, the European Commission …
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Omicron Threatens the Old. Nursing Homes Must Act Now.
Lab studies, genomic analysis, and data from Botswana, South Africa and Europe strongly suggest that the Omicron variant will cause a lot more …
Social Media Companies Want to Co-opt the First Amendment. Courts Shouldn’t Let Them.
In two cases that could have sweeping implications for free speech online, social media companies including Facebook, YouTube and Twitter are …
New NASA Telescope Will Provide X-Ray Views of the Universe
A brand-new space telescope will soon reveal a hidden vision of the cosmos, potentially transforming our understanding of black holes, supernovas …
Prime Minister of Finland apologizes for clubbing maskless after contact with an infected official.
Prime Minister Sanna Marin of Finland apologized late Wednesday after photographs surfaced of her dancing maskless in a nightclub on Saturday …
Europe Pushes New Rules Turning Gig Workers Into Employees
LONDON — In one of the biggest challenges yet to the labor practices at popular ride-hailing and food-delivery services, the European Commission …
Ukraine Commanders Say a Russian Invasion Would Overwhelm Them
KYIV, Ukraine — On the 30th anniversary of the founding of Ukraine’s armed forces this week, the country’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, donned …
Finding the Musical Spirit of Notre Dame
The singers were unseen, filling the grand darkened space of Paris’s Saint-Eustache Church with song, like disembodied angels. They moved slowly …
Your Thursday Briefing
Vaccinations in Hemmingen, Germany.Credit…Thomas Kienzle/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesPfizer-BioNTech boosters protect against Omicron …
Jailed Journalists Reach Record High for Sixth Year in 2021
Increased government intolerance of independent reporting pushed the number of imprisoned journalists worldwide to a record high of 293 this year …