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IN THE BEGINNING When COVID-19 first emerged, doctors perceived it to be a respiratory illness, with patients reporting pronounced coughing, shortness of breath and symptoms akin to pneumonia. But as our global understanding of the disease…

Eagle-eyed readers will have spotted this reinterpreted baguette-meets-clutch in the brand's A/W 23 show, the first without former Creative Director Alessandro Michele at the helm—a sign of things to come for what fashion insiders…

<!-- -->Zoleka Mandela was an outspoken writer and activist for health care and justiceAuthor and activist Zoleka Mandela, granddaughter of South Africa's first democratically elected president Nelson Mandela, has died of cancer at…

Madeline Paldo is a 100-year-old who lives in Chicago and worked there for 81 years.Courtesy of Madeline PaldoIn a world where the desire for a long and healthy life is universal, one centenarian's story stands out as a testament to…

The list of New York officials who’ve abused the public trust could fill this column, and most have spent big chunks of their time in Albany: Sheldon Silver, Joe Bruno, Brian Benjamin, Joe Percoco, Malcolm Smith, John Sampson and on and on.…

Ask Patricia Anderson how she is doing, and you probably will not get a routine answer. “Today, I’m working and I’m fine,” she said on a recent Tuesday. “Saturday and Sunday, I was bedridden. Long Covid is a roller coaster.”Before the…

Since running shoes are serious business, this restructuring shouldn’t really be a surprise. Asics have, in the 30th generation of the shoe, undertaken a significant shift in approach to the tech and design for the Gel Kayano series. For…

Mortgage rates are running at a 22-year high, crimping a housing market already squeezed by high prices.Home buyers face an average rate of 7.23 percent on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage, the most popular home loan in the United States,…

While growing up in a small town on Louisiana’s Cajun prairie in the 1950s and ’60s, I longed to see the world. I read the National Geographic magazines that my brother received with a gift subscription every Christmas. We had Beatles…

For the second time in barely a week, Canadian Taylor Swift fans have bad blood about being shut out of buying tickets to what is so far the only Canadian stops on her world tour next year.Tickets for six shows at the Rogers Centre in…