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The pandemic has unmoored us from time. In September, I bought a visual timer for Bert, my 8-year-old son. It's just like a clock, but instead of hands, it has [...]

As coronavirus deaths rose, museums and galleries have rolled out new shows. The socialite Libbie Mugrabi is planning a dinner for the ages. Is Miami's art world clueless? Call it [...]

Byline: Jennifer Jolly, Special to USA TODAY Everything really is different heading into this Holiday Season. The United States has been setting news records for daily coronavirus cases. Add to [...]

Nov. 26'Tis the gift to be simple. 'Tis the gift to be free We often think of Thanksgiving in terms of the visuals. A Norman Rockwell kind of festivity with [...]

Byline: DAVID PARKINSON, Staff Lead A big, second-wave-of-pandemic shoe is about to fall on Canada's remarkable labour-market recovery. We just won't know it - at least, not from official statistics [...]

Byline: BRAD WHEELER, Staff Lead Is there online loot in the lute? The Toronto Consort believes so. The ensemble has launched Early Music TV, a subscriptionbased video streaming service dedicated [...]

Excessive screen time can be harmful to our well-being, but we can free ourselves from tech's hooks with goals, rules and boundaries. When is enough enough? Even though the presidential [...]

I'm trying to find ways to fend off the sadness of not being with extended family. I'll never live it down: how I walked up to Kathleen's seat at the [...]

Byline: Jerry DiPaola Nov. 25West Virginia's game against No. 11 Oklahoma, scheduled for Saturday at Milan Puskar Stadium in Morgantown, W.Va., has been postponed, Big 12 Conference officials announced Wednesday. [...]

Byline: Patrick Varine Nov. 25When art teacher Brenda Christeleit attended Greater Latrobe High School, she and other students had a chance to appreciate the district's Art Conservation Trust. Established in [...]

Byline: Steven Zeitchik On ABC's 'Black-ish,' lead doctor character Rainbow encounters scary realities at the hospital. On NBC's 'This Is Us' the Pearson family contends with the many effects of [...]

Byline: Chester E. Finn Jr. For Print Use Only. President-elect Joe Biden's yet-to-be-named education secretary will immediately face a difficult question once in office: Should states, for the second year [...]

Byline: THE CANADIAN PRESS Lead Alberta's nurses union says the province's health delivery agency has rejected a call for a settlement similar to one reached with nurses in Saskatchewan that [...]

It was a July morning that began as ordinarily as any other day: Make breakfast. Feed the dogs. Take vitamins. Find that missing sock. Pick up the rogue crayon that [...]

Byline: Michael DiVittorio Nov. 24Donations and volunteers are needed for a food relief program designed to help Quaker Valley area families affected by the coronavirus pandemic. Sewickley Valley YMCA launched [...]

Byline: Paul Schwartzman WASHINGTON - In any given year, Stephanie Coleman can recite reasons she is thankful on Thanksgiving, a list that includes her three children, her husband, friends, extended [...]

Byline: Nick Penzenstadler and Josh Salman, USA TODAY Cash-strapped renters nationwide say their landlords tried to skirt COVID-19 eviction moratoriums by changing locks, removing trash containers so waste piled up [...]

Byline: Grace Hauck, USA TODAY More than 200,000 dead since March. Cities in lockdown. Vaccine trials underway. And a holiday message, of sorts: 'See that Thanksgiving celebrations are restricted as [...]

Byline: Allyson Chiu In the roughly eight years since she left treatment for alcohol-use disorder, Amy Durham has been to countless recovery group meetings. At first, she went every day, [...]

Byline: William Wan He visits the grave every day. And every day, Ted Robbins asks himself the questions that have plagued him since the night his 16-year-old son killed himself, [...]

Byline: Julia Pelly Kelly Morse entered her 4-year-old son's pretend doctor's office one day last April and asked him how she was doing. She was taken aback when he examined [...]

If you're forgoing the treadmill and want to keep logging miles, here's what you need to keep in mind. Running became the thing to do this year as the pandemic [...]

Moving to a new place is never easy. It's even harder, and lonelier, when no one is supposed to come within six feet of you. Bhumika Choudhary, 24, knew that [...]

Musicians are playing al fresco all over the city to earn money and boost morale. Every night after her shift this spring, Bridget Queral would leave the hospital where she [...]

Since the coronavirus outbreak, more couples are choosing to get married during the week. For one thing it's less expensive. It's also easier for rescheduling. With one day blurring into [...]

Byline: Steven Petrow A friend and I were chatting about the pandemic (it was Day 214, but really who's counting?) when she asked, 'How do you think we'll adjust to [...]

Byline: Tom Jackman In Greensboro, N.C., the violence has gotten so extreme that a shootout erupted in front of the county courthouse the other day, across the street from the [...]

Byline: DAVE McGINN, Staff Lead Tamar Sahakian had only ever played chess casually, years ago. It was something to pass the time on her phone while her children took piano [...]

It is unclear when in-person instruction will restart, but the number of children who will return to classrooms has fallen short of the mayor's predictions. Several weeks before Mayor Bill [...]

Byline: Tony Martins Lead 'I'm doing about as well as you could expect.' 'It could definitely be worse.' 'In many ways, I'm one of the lucky ones.' These are some [...]

The art of making connection even in a time of dislocation. After all we've been through this year, wouldn't it be nice, even during a distanced holiday season, to be [...]

Byline: Chris Harlan Nov. 19The PIAA is encouraging winter sports teams to 'set the foundation' by starting preseason practice Friday, if possible. With covid-19 making the future uncertain, PIAA executive [...]

Byline: Petula Dvorak The story of the pandemic is written on our bodies, from our eyes to our brains, on our teeth and our skin, all the way down to [...]

Byline: Shannon McMahon Since the coronavirus pandemic began in March, many states have implemented rolling travel restrictions that change often. The coronavirus case rates in a traveler's origin and destination [...]

Byline: Shannon McMahon With the coronavirus surging again in the United States, many people are rethinking their holiday travel plans this year. But one thing making that easier is that [...]

Byline: ROBERT FIFE, STEVEN CHASE OTTAWA -- Lead Canada's electronic spy agency for the first time named countries such as China and Russia as the greatest 'strategic threat' to this [...]

Byline: Teresa Waddington Lead I recently returned to Calgary after living in Scotland for three years and was busy looking up the bylaws for keeping chickens in the backyard. In [...]

A utilitarian jacket designed for 19th-century laborers, the chore coat has become a new uniform for multitaskers. Does anyone truly need a chore coat in a world where thought workers [...]

Byline: Jerry DiPaola Nov. 18Perhaps Pitt wide receiver D.J. Turner captured best what it means to play, coach and follow college football this season. 'This is the year you have [...]

Byline: Alyssa Rosenberg For Print Use Only. American audiences spent more than a decade spent worshiping at the big-screen altar of comic book characters. But the tumult of 2020 demanded [...]

It's rough for adolescents during the pandemic. Here's what they're going through and how you can help. I have long thought that when it comes to being a parent in [...]

On TikTok, Gen Z ''Harry Potter'' fans edit themselves into the movies in a quest for escapism, representation and community. Caroline Chou, 19, pins a green screen to the goldenrod [...]

Paula Madrid, a trauma psychologist specializing in resiliency training in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, thought she had mastered the art of working, parenting and tending to her parents. Then [...]

EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. -- Ina Garten's house, on a side street in the stately, manicured village of East Hampton, was just the way you'd want it to be on a [...]

Byline: Dan Wolken, Columnist, USA TODAY We already knew it, but the NCAA's announcement Monday that its entire men's basketball tournament will be held in a single city in March [...]

Byline: Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY You'd struggle to find another November weekend with as little impact on the College Football Playoff. With several game matchups featuring many of the best [...]

Byline: Tawnya Panizzi Nov. 17Shaler 'Lite Up Night' is canceled, township officials announced Tuesday. A post on the township website said the decision was made after consideration of covid-19 concerns [...]

Byline: Patrick Varine Nov. 17New York City jazz musician Jon Irabagon was in the process of stringing together dates for an April 2021 tour with a brand-new ensemble when the [...]

Islamabad -- Under Corporate Social Responsibility, Pak Suzuki has donated Items for protection against COVID-19 (Latex Gloves, KN 95 Masks, Shoe Covers, Liquid Dettol, Sanitizer, Temperature Guns), Water Coolers with [...]

Byline: Cathy Free Chris Penny figures that his mail carrier must have spectacular biceps by now. Most every day for the past seven months, when the carrier arrives at Penny's [...]