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May 21, 2020 at 10:14 pm

Lives Lost: At veterans’ home, towering legacies of the dead VIEW

Each of their stories was different, but common strains repeat: Of humility and generosity; of finding joy in the unpretentious; of a sharp mind disappearing...

May 20, 2020 at 7:26 am

NYC seniors find lighter side of pandemic in comedy class

Their city is under siege, their age group at particular risk and their lives increasingly isolated. But every Monday morning, one group of older New...

May 18, 2020 at 9:28 am

Lives Lost: An unassuming maestro of Sunday soundtracks

At funerals, he made the organ moan, and at weddings, it thundered in joy. On Christmas, bells twinkled; on Easter, trumpets blasted. He delivered victorious...

April 21, 2020 at 12:11 am

Cemetery races to keep up as New York virus deaths mount VIEW

NEW YORK (AP) — The streets are eerily quiet. Barely a soul walks by. But when Rabbi Shmuel Plafker arrives at the cemetery, it’s buzzing:...

A patient is loaded into the back of an ambulance by emergency medical workers outside Cobble Hill Health Center, Friday, April 17, 2020, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. The despair wrought on nursing homes by the coronavirus was laid bare Friday in a state survey identifying numerous New York facilities where multiple patients have died. Nineteen of the state’s nursing homes have each had at least 20 deaths linked to the pandemic. Cobble Hill Health Center was listed as having 55 deaths. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) NYJM101 NYJM101

April 20, 2020 at 8:55 am

’Under siege’: Overwhelmed Brooklyn care home tolls 55 dead VIEW

NEW YORK (AP) — As residents at a nursing home in Kirkland, Washington, began dying in late February from a coronavirus outbreak that would eventually...

President Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus, accompanied by Vice President Mike Pence, in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Thursday, April 16, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) DCAB121 DCAB121

April 16, 2020 at 10:59 pm

‘LIBERATE!’: Trump pushes states to lift virus restrictions VIEW

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump urged supporters to “LIBERATE” three states led by Democratic governors Friday, apparently encouraging protests against stay-at-home mandates aimed at...

A medical worker looks into a refrigerated truck being used as a morgue at the Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center in New York in April. (Demetrius Freeman/The New York Times, file)

April 9, 2020 at 11:02 pm

New York area walloped as global virus deaths pass 100,000 VIEW

NEW YORK (AP) — The worldwide death toll from the coronavirus surged past 100,000 Friday as the epidemic in the U.S. cut a widening swath...

April 6, 2020 at 10:00 pm

Lives Lost: A mismatched pair’s love story ends with virus

He was a by-the-book, buttoned-up conservative whose opinions could be quick and blunt. She was a free-thinking, authority-snubbing liberal who would draw stories out in...

April 6, 2020 at 8:56 am

Hugs and kisses, deferred: Pandemic cuts physical contact VIEW

To the lengthy, sorrowful list of losses from the pandemic, add these: hugs unexchanged, visits unmade, hands unheld. Just when many feel they need it...

FILE – In this March 23, 2020 file photo, coffins are placed on scaffolding in the Crematorium Temple of Piacenza, northern Italy, awaiting cremation due to the coronavirus emergency. Italy is seeing a slight stabilizing in its confirmed coronavirus infections two weeks into the worldâ€™s most extreme nationwide shutdown, but the virus is taking its silent spread south after having ravaged the health care system in the north. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms. For some it can cause more severe illness, especially in older adults and people with existing health problems. (Claudio Furlan/LaPresse via AP) ROM106 ROM106

March 26, 2020 at 10:48 pm

US eyes new outbreaks as infections worldwide top 590,000 VIEW

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans rushed to build a makeshift hospital in its convention center Friday as troubling new outbreaks bubbled in the United...