Justice Dept. to appeal decision lifting mask mandate on planes, trains if CDC deems rule necessary  —  WASHINGTON — The Justice Department announced Tuesday that it will appeal the ruling that lifted the federal mask mandate on planes, trains and transit systems, pending a decision by the Center …

The Biden administration says it may appeal a ruling that voided a mask mandate on public transport.  —  WASHINGTON — The Biden administration announced on Tuesday that it intends to appeal a Florida judge's ruling that struck down a federal mask requirement on airplanes, trains …

The Inside Man  —  Joe Kahn is the new, old-school editor of the Times.  But who is he?  —  Abe Rosenthal, the totemic New York Times editor who published the Pentagon Papers, used to say that there was one path to the executive editor's office — over the dead, burned, and maimed bodies of the ten other people who wanted the job.

Doubling down at the Times  —  Dean Baquet's departure as executive editor of the New York Times has been one of the worst-kept secrets in media.  Baquet turned sixty-five in September—"the traditional age when executive editors at the Times step down," the paper notes in its own coverage …