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A woman wearing a colorful sweater and brimmed hat is shown from behind walking in a narrow path on a lawn filled with small white flags.
Coronavirus Conversations
Discussion: The year ahead in the coronavirus pandemic
Leah Weiss, who is also a medial clown named Rosie, has been working in the COVID-19 ward of a Jerusalem hospital most of this year.
COVID-19
To cheer up COVID-19 patients, Israeli hospitals send in the clowns
A Black American man wears glasses and a blue suit jacket and speaks via video with a blue background
Global Politics
International lawyers and activists organize independent inquiry into US police violence
A woman playin cello appears in an empty museum hall.
Coronavirus Art
‘Food for our soul’: Cellist Camille Thomas performs solo at Paris museums during lockdown
The US Treasury Department building is shown from above with its large Greek columns marking the entrance.
Top of The World
Treasury, Commerce departments hacked; Canada receives first COVID-19 vaccine shipment; Hong Kong court denied bail for Jimmy Lai
Emily Mao, second from left, joined a co-living community of students in Hangzhou, China, who are studying online — often overnight — at US and Canada-based colleges and universities.
Education
Kept from foreign universities during pandemic, Chinese students form ‘study pods’ in shared housing