Pandemic

The songwriter makes a subtle but powerful return... 20 · 03 · 2026 Mathilda Homer has shared her new single ‘Pretty In Blue’. The songwriter first caught our ear during the pandemic, sharing a pair of riveting EPs. Since then, Mathilda Homer has embarked on a new challenge – becoming…

The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Monday over what the phrase “Election Day” means and whether states can accept ballots in federal elections that arrive after that date. Republicans challenged a Mississippi state law, passed amid the COVID-19 pandemic, that allows officials to count ballots that arrive up…

In a single year, the secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK Jr.), has done such comprehensive damage to the extraordinarily successful HIV prevention program as to leave the country almost defenseless against a brewing HIV pandemic, right when elimination seemed possible . These unprecedented…

A regional war filled with missiles and drones flying overhead has dismantled the Middle Eastern airspace. The blockage of the Strait of Hormuz has sent oil costs skyrocketing. A partial government shutdown has left 50,000 TSA agents working without pay for more than a month. It’s everything, everywhere, all at…

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There can be few businesses with a more wholesome origin story than Meghan’s lifestyle brand, As Ever. During the pandemic, the former actress started making jam. After a gift basket including the jam reached Netflix boss Bela Bajaria, Meghan was asked: ‘Is there a show here?’ Speaking at the Time100…

A structural shift in memory supply driven by AI infrastructure demand is pushing device costs sharply higher. Here's what CIOs need to know right now – and what they need to do. Datacom Enterprise IT leaders building 2026 budgets face a hardware procurement challenge unlike anything since the pandemic-era chip…

Photo: AFP / William West The cost of running a farm in New Zealand is more than a quarter higher than it was before the Covid pandemic. ANZ's latest Agri Insights report, which analysed financial performance across more than 4000 dairy, red meat, kiwifruit, arable and pipfruit customers over five…

Finance of America (FOA) has expanded access to its HomeSafe Second product into Indiana, Ohio and Michigan, giving senior homeowners more options for tapping record levels of home equity without giving up their low post-pandemic mortgage rates, the company announced Tuesday. Reintroduced in 2023 as what the company called the…

James Ross/EPA Published: March 12, 2026 4.54pm CET Six years ago, as countries around the world went into COVID lockdowns, the air got cleaner. Factories slowed down, roads emptied and aeroplanes were grounded. As people stayed home, the world burned fewer fossil fuels and so carbon dioxide emissions dropped –…