February 27, 2021

Even as the House passed President Biden’s pandemic aid plan with a minimum wage increase included, Democrats were searching for a Plan B for the wage hike, which was ruled out in the Senate.

“Now is not the time to relax restrictions,” the C.D.C. director, Rochelle Walensky, said, pointing to a leveling of coronavirus infections as governors move to lift pandemic restrictions.

The celebrated editor is ending his tenure at the helm of a very different newspaper than the one he originally signed on to run.

A year of pandemic restrictions has meant some friends are flush and others foundering.

The Biden administration is trying to make the health care law more generous and closer to its original design, but may disappoint progressive allies hoping for more.

Republican legislators want big changes to the laws for elections and other aspects of governance. A fight over the ground rules for voting may follow.

Temperature-taking robots, scanning codes for contact tracing, and generous refund policies are helping shows like “Frozen,” “Come From Away” and “Hamilton” get back onstage.

At a federal compound in Connecticut, inmates in precarious health “are like sitting ducks,” one lawyer said.

The woman, 25, said that when they were alone in his office, Gov. Andrew Cuomo asked if she “had ever been with an older man.”

New York’s rental market has been turned upside down by the pandemic, making it hard to tell a good deal from one that’s too good to be true.

Adam Neumann was said to be selling $480 million of his shares to the Japanese conglomerate, which aims to take WeWork public.

Quotation of the Day for Saturday, February 27, 2021.