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In new body camera footage shown to jurors on Tuesday in the trial of Derek Chauvin, George Floyd was seen handcuffed and sitting on the street near a Chinese restaurant, giving his name and birth date to one of the first police officers who arrived at Cup Foods after a clerk called to report that Mr. Floyd had used a fake $20 bill to buy cigarettes. The footage was from the body camera of Peter Chang, a Minneapolis Park Police officer who arrived to back up the two rookie officers who first re...

Dr. Jonathan Rich describing to the jury the function of the lungs during the 11th day of the trial of the former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.Credit...Court TV still image, via Associated Press Dr. Jonathan Rich, a cardiologist called to testify in the trial of Derek Chauvin, said Monday that George Floyd’s heart was not the main cause of his death. He also ruled out a drug overdose. “Mr. George Floyd died from a cardio pulmonary arrest. It was caused by low oxygen levels” in...

Pandemic Spending Pushes U.S. Budget Deficit to $1.7 Trillion: Live Updates RIGHT NOW Source: Factset Here’s what you need to know: The federal government continued to pump huge sums of money into the economy to help workers and businesses cope with the pandemic.Credit...Emily Elconin for The New York Times The United States budget deficit grew to a record $1.7 trillion in the six months since October, as the federal government continued to pump huge sums of money into the economy to help wor...

Chris Magnus, right, the police chief of Tucson, Ariz., speaking as Mayor Regina Romero listens during a press conference in Tucson, Ariz., in June.Credit...Josh Galemore/Arizona Daily Star, via Associated Press President Biden will nominate Chris Magnus, the police chief of Tucson, Ariz., and a critic of the Trump administration’s anti-immigration policies, to lead Customs and Border Protection, one of six new installments of leadership at the Department of Homeland Security. If confirmed, M...

The country has lived under the most strenuous level of government restrictions for the longest period of time in the world. On Monday, public life resumes in England as shops, gyms and some pubs reopen.

China says its vaccines may need extra doses to be effective. A top Biden administration official calls for more investigation of the origins of the coronavirus.

If Hideki Matsuyama can hold onto his advantage at Augusta National on Sunday, he will become the first Asian to win the Masters.

Creative 0 Add to collection Beautiful three-minute film for UNAIDS was directed by Shashank Chaturvedi UNAIDS releases a new spot The Mirror on international day for transgender visibility. Gender diversity is not a lifestyle choice but an inherent right of all people. Gender stereotypes especially towards LGBTIQ lead to stigma and discrimination. This is more pronounced in children and adolescents as diversity among them is not commonly understood and society puts massive pressure on them to...

Doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine being prepared in Houston last week.Credit...Go Nakamura for The New York Times Vaccinations against Covid-19 may be accelerating in the United States, but the Biden administration’s intervention at a troubled plant that ruined millions of vaccine doses, along with the continuing threat of dangerous variants of the coronavirus, suggest that the road to defeating the virus is likely to take many unpredictable twists and turns. Saturday marked the first ti...

The biopharmaceutical company Emergent BioSolutions, a contract manufacturer of coronavirus vaccine.Credit...Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA, via Shutterstock The Biden administration on Saturday put Johnson & Johnson in charge of a Baltimore contract plant that ruined 15 million doses of its Covid-19 vaccine, and moved to stop the facility from making another vaccine, developed by AstraZeneca, senior federal health officials said. The extraordinary move by the Department of Health and Human Services will l...