People run through the New York Stock Exchange. Spencer Plot | Getty Images Stock futures traded slightly higher overnight on Monday, following a record-setting rally by promising news about the coronavirus vaccine. The S&P 500 futures gained 0.2% and the Nasdaq 100 futures rose 0.3%, a 30-point improvement in futures …

Armenian Prime Minister Nicole Pashinyan has signed a “painful” deal with the leaders of Azerbaijan and Russia to end the military conflict in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region after more than a month of bloodshed. After six weeks of heavy fighting in the declaration on Tuesday morning, in which the Azerbaijani …

Fox News on Monday fired President Trump’s press secretary Kylie McKennie for pursuing unsubstantiated allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 election. “I can’t show you in this good condition,” Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto told a news conference. There is no evidence of mass voter fraud in the election, …

Updated at 6:10 p.m. In its biggest one-day report, Martha’s Vineyard Hospital reported 20 new cases of COVID-19 over the weekend as a sign of trouble for the island as it saw an increase in confirmed cases. In a phone call with the Times, Tisbury health agent and health spokeswoman …

This example of Jupiter’s moon Europa shows how the icy surface can glow on its nocturnal shore, away from the side sun. The variation in glow and the color of the glow itself can reveal information about the formation of ice on the surface of Europa. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech …