Looser regulations on who can develop tests for the virus will allow for a significant increase in the number of Americans likely to be screened, the F.D.A. commissioner said.

Close to a Million Coronavirus Tests Could Be Ready in U.S. This Week

And we won’t judge if you head back for a swim and a piña colada at the end of the day.

5 Caribbean Islands Where You Can Go Beyond the Beach

The Fed reduced rates to keep the effects of the outbreak from spreading to sectors not directly affected by the virus.

Will the Coronavirus Cause a Recession? Keep Your Eye on the Barbershops

The central bank cut interest rates by half a percentage point, its biggest single cut in more than a decade, as a pre-emptive move to protect the economy from the coronavirus.

Fed Makes Emergency Rate Cut, but Markets Continue Tumbling

The Dublin-based architects Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara have practiced together for 40 years.

Pritzker Architecture Prize Goes to Two Women for the First Time

A powerful storm system cut a path through the middle of Tennessee early Tuesday morning, toppling electrical lines and littering streets with debris.

Tornadoes Kill 25 in Tennessee, Shredding Buildings in Nashville Area

Iranian leaders once predicted the coronavirus epidemic ravaging China would not affect their country. Now Iran has among the most coronavirus deaths outside China, and Iranian medical workers have been told to keep quiet.

Iran’s Coronavirus Response: Pride, Paranoia, Secrecy, Chaos

You may have tried restaurant versions, but making them at home is another matter. J. Kenji López-Alt has tested them and offers practical advice.

How to Cook With Plant-Based Meats

François Girard’s ultimately frustrating production presents the story as taking place within its heroine’s fevered imagination.

Review: A New ‘Flying Dutchman’ Makes Landfall at the Met Opera

As leaders of the world’s wealthiest countries pledged to limit the damage from the coronavirus, they appeared to be operating with limited options.

Global Health Crisis 1, Economic Policymakers 0

At the start of “The Mirror and the Light,” the concluding volume of a trilogy that began with “Wolf Hall,” Cromwell is 50 years old, rich beyond all his imagining and very much alone.

Hilary Mantel’s Triumphant New Novel Brings Thomas Cromwell Across the Finish Line

Around the country, a “sanctuary city” movement is growing on the right and the left, as people seek to keep out views they don’t agree with, legal or not.

The Wall Some Texans Want to Build Against Abortion

Companies that rely on people traveling around the globe for business and pleasure are struggling to predict exactly how the coronavirus will ultimately affect them.

What Happens in Vegas if No One Stays in Vegas?

Alphabet’s self-driving unit, a pioneer in autonomous vehicle research, has been expanding its commercial efforts.

Waymo Includes Outsiders in $2.25 Billion Investment Round

There is a rising interest around the world in events that connect authors with bibliophiles.

The Literary Festivals to Hit This Year, From Brooklyn to Singapore

When everything is “curated,” what does the word even mean?

Everyone’s a Curator Now

Here are some tips for cleaning your area of a plane and keeping healthy on a flight.

How to Disinfect Your Space on an Airplane

A solo stage adaptation of Paul Muldoon’s poem considers whether making art can offer solace in the wake of grief.

‘Incantata’ Review: An Elegy in Words, Video and Potatoes

Prebble won the annual prize for female playwrights, for her work about a Russian assassination on British soil.

Lucy Prebble’s ‘A Very Expensive Poison’ Wins the Blackburn Prize

Quotation of the Day for Monday, March 2, 2020.

Quotation of the Day: These Oddballs Get Sideways Glances

Quotation of the Day for Tuesday, March 3, 2020.

Quotation of the Day: The Party Establishment Kept Stumbling as Sanders Surged

With Yeezy Season 8, a choir of car horns, a special guest appearance by North and, oh yeah — clothes. Also Kanye-isms.

Kanye West Returns to Paris Fashion Week

A new play by Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, the creator of the 1980s and ’90s sitcom, will bring the show’s characters into the present day.

‘Designing Women’ Play Will Debut This Year

Though panned by critics, a show based on the songs of the pop producer Max Martin is up for nine awards at Britain’s equivalent of the Tonys.

‘& Juliet,’ a Jukebox Musical, Leads Olivier Award Nominations

The lawsuit concerns two opinion articles that tied the 2016 Trump election campaign to Russia. A week ago, the campaign filed a similar action against The New York Times.

Trump Campaign Sues The Washington Post for Libel

Charles Jordan Urstadt was an American real estate executive and investor. He was an important figure for the development of Battery Park City in Manhattan and for the elimination of rent control in New York.

March 3, 2020

Headlines from March 3, 2020

Close to a Million Coronavirus Tests Could Be Ready in U.S. This Week

5 Caribbean Islands Where You Can Go Beyond the Beach

Will the Coronavirus Cause a Recession? Keep Your Eye on the Barbershops

Fed Makes Emergency Rate Cut, but Markets Continue Tumbling

Pritzker Architecture Prize Goes to Two Women for the First Time

Billboard 200

Changes

Artist 2.0

The Slow Rush

Please Excuse Me For Being Antisocial

ALL ABOUT LUV

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for March 3, 2020