The New York Times
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Jonathan Martin
– Nov 26, 2020, 2:00 AM
An unlikely fight is breaking out over President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s choice for agriculture secretary, pitting a powerful Black lawmaker who wants to refocus the Agriculture Department on hunger against traditionalists who believe the…
The New York Times
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Glenn Rifkin
– Nov 24, 2020, 2:07 PM
This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others here. Honestie Hodges, who was handcuffed by the police outside her home in Grand Rapids, Mich., when she was 11, a frightening incident…
sc is the classic UNIX spreadsheet, written by James Gosling. It's public domain, and available in most linux distributions. Perhaps the most interesting thing about sc is that spreadsheets are saved as sequences of commands, and a.sc file is a…
“As we sit down for Thanksgiving this week, a lot of us, thanks to the pandemic, are farther from our families than we would like. But while we prepare smaller meals this year, it is important to remember where all that food comes…
The New York Times
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Adam Liptak
– Nov 25, 2020, 9:36 PM
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court late Wednesday night barred restrictions on religious services in New York that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo had imposed to combat the coronavirus. The vote was 5 to 4, with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and the…