Coronavirus: Over the past month, virus cases have increased tenfold in Buffalo and its surrounding suburbs. “The second wave is here, and it is here with a vengeance,” Mark Poloncarz, the county executive, said.
The pandemic has displaced millions of migrants. The Times followed a Venezuelan mother and her 6-year-old son as they traveled more than 1,500 miles into Colombia and back, nearly all of it on foot.
Lamar Jackson, the Baltimore Ravens quarterback, tested positive — one of more than a dozen players on the team to do so.

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A church in Brooklyn.James Estrin/The New York Times

A 5 to 4 Supreme Court ruling this week that rejected New York’s coronavirus restrictions on religious services exposed new dividing lines at the court. Justice Amy Coney Barrett cast the decisive vote — and it was almost certainly a taste of things to come.
An Algerian couple who survived the capsizing of a boat on its way from Libya to Europe last month will be reunited with their wedding rings, which rescuers found in a backpack floating in the Mediterranean.
The annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York was confined to a single city block, only a snippet of its traditional 2.5-mile route. There were no high school bands, and about 130 balloon handlers instead of the usual 2,000.
Archaeologists found a grave and more than 12,000 artifacts, including an ink bottle, doll fragments and coins, at the site of a historic Black church in Colonial Williamsburg.
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