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For that boy, Tybre Faw, the civil rights icon was not only a hero, but a personal friend. The two met in Selma, Alabama, in March 2018. We were there covering the annual civil rights pilgrimage that Lewis led when we saw Tybre standing outside a church where Lewis was …

After the coronavirus pandemic forced closing concert halls and opera houses this spring, online performances proliferated. The Metropolitan Opera began streaming nightly operas from its extensive video archive, and in April it hosted a Home Gala, broadcast on smartphones from singer houses around the world. The classical and opera offerings …

A record number of new confirmed coronavirus cases were recorded worldwide on Saturday, with more than 250,000 cases reported, the World Health Organization said. It was the first time that the number of new infections in a single day exceeded a quarter of a million, the health agency added, with …

This NASA image of the Parker solar probe uses processed data to show the twin tails of Comet Neowise. NASA / Johns Hopkins APL / Naval Research Laboratory / Parker Solar Probe / Guillermo Stenborg NASA says Comet Neowise is the brightest a space ice ball to fly across Earth …

Phelan M. Ebenhack / Associated Press Legendary golfer Jack Nicklaus revealed Sunday that he and his wife Barbara were diagnosed with COVID-19 in March, but had only mild symptoms. “We were very lucky,” he said, according to Scott Rabalais of Lawyer. Nicklaus specified that Barbara was asymptomatic, while he had …