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Virus alert apps have been downloaded more than 90 million times. But researchers don't yet know whether the apps’ potential to accurately alert users of virus exposures outweighs potential drawbacks — like falsely warning unexposed people.https://nyti.ms/3vtEeIC 

If rebuilding cities is done right, highway removal projects could make life better for local residents as well as the planet. But reconnecting neighborhoods is more complicated than breaking them apart.https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/05/27/climate/us-cities-highway-removal.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur …

The coronavirus is now spreading faster in the Canadian province of Manitoba than any other province or state in Canada, the U.S. or Mexico. The surge has overwhelmed ICUs, forcing some patients to be airlifted to other provinces for care.https://nyti.ms/3oY05VT 

In Opinion “President Jair Bolsonaro apparently intended to lead the country to herd immunity by natural infection,” writes Vanessa Barbara in a guest essay. “Mr. Bolsonaro effectively planned for at least 1.4 million deaths in Brazil.”https://nyti.ms/3oVX7Bh 

Meet the Ohio vaccine lottery’s $1 million winner: a 22-year-old who thought the whole thing was "a prank."https://nyti.ms/34nkvOL 

"There's something so freeing about it," Emma Stone said of playing antiheroines. "I’ve really loved this phase of playing these women who are much less concerned with what people think about them, and simultaneously working on that myself in my life."https://nyti.ms/3fsLezX 

Read Katrin Bennhold’s investigation of the case of Franco A., and Germany’s complacency in fighting far-right extremism. Then listen to our new podcast.https://nyti.ms/2RSDfDd 

In Deutschland bereiten sich Rechtsextremisten in der Bundeswehr und Polizei auf den Tag vor, an dem die Demokratie stürzen soll. Diesen Tag nennen sie Tag X. In unseren neuen Podcast beschäftigen wir uns mit der Frage: Wie gefährlich ist das?https://nyti.ms/3fSXd8C 

Our audio documentary series explores how extremists in Germany, many of them soldiers, police officers and like-minded civilians are planning for the day they believe democracy will end in Germany — “Day X.”https://nyti.ms/3vt1Mxf 

A man known only as Franco A. represents the rise of a new brand of extremism in Germany. A military officer who was caught posing as a Syrian refugee, he is now accused of plotting political murder. His story is part of our new podcast series.https://nyti.ms/3vFiXff 

With a sweeping voting rights bill facing slim odds in the Senate, President Biden has encouraged compromise. But his long history of deal making across the aisle is crashing into the realities of a more sharply partisan time.https://nyti.ms/3oTArSi