Carol Rosenberg, The New York Times
Published: 19 Dec 2020 05:14 PM BdST
Updated: 19 Dec 2020 05:14 PM BdST A person stands at the 9/11 Memorial in New York, on Friday, Sept 11, 2020, the 19th anniversary of the Sept 11 terror attacks. The start of the trial of the accused mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four accused co-conspirators will now start on Nov 7, 2021, at the earliest. Todd Heisler/The New York Times
The military judge overseeing the Sept 11 case at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba delayed litigation deadlines again on Friday, postponing the start of the trial of the accused mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four accused co-conspirators until after the 20th anniversary of the attacks next year.
People handing out hand sanitizer on the streets in São Paulo, Brazil, on Friday.Credit.Victor Moriyama for The New York Times
As the coronavirus continues its surge across the United States and Europe, where vaccinations recently began, total infections around the world have now topped 75 million.
In the United States, more than 128,000 people had been vaccinated as of Friday, according to a New York Times database tracking vaccinations. But that total is just slightly more than half the number of new cases reported across the country the same day.
The United States, the world’s largest coronavirus hot spot with more than 17.6 million people who have been infected over all, on Friday reported its first single-day caseload of more than 250,000 new infections.
This article was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
The military judge overseeing the Sept. 11 case at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba delayed litigation deadlines again on Friday, postponing the start of the trial of the accused mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four accused co-conspirators until after the 20th anniversary of the attacks next year.
“The coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic has continued to worsen,” the judge, Col. Douglas K. Watkins of the Army, wrote in a two-page order that extended deadlines for another 30 days, for a total of 300 days of delay since the start of the pandemic.