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Biden Takes First Tentative Steps to Address Global Vaccine Shortage

WASHINGTON — President Biden, under intense pressure to donate excess coronavirus vaccines to needy nations, moved on Friday to address the global shortage...

Georgetown Law Fires Professor for ‘Abhorrent’ Remarks About Black Students

Georgetown University Law Center said on Thursday that it had fired an adjunct professor who made “abhorrent” remarks about Black students on a...

With a Rose Garden celebration, Biden takes a victory lap.

One day after President Biden gave a televised address promising that his $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan would help lift up an economy...

George Floyd’s Family Settles Suit Against Minneapolis for $27 Million

The family of George Floyd, the Black man whose death set off a wave of protests after a video showed a white police...

Jaime Herrera Beutler Is Undaunted

Ms. Herrera Beutler’s parents, a white mother and a Mexican-American father, made politics part of her life from the start.Raising her in southwest...

Fred Figa, Who Helped Expose a Drug’s Dangers, Is Dead at 65

This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others here.In late 1983, a...

Man Sues Hertz Over Lost Receipt That Was His Murder Alibi

A Michigan man has sued Hertz, the car rental company, saying it failed to produce a receipt that would have proved his innocence...

The U.S. Is Sitting on Tens of Millions of Vaccine Doses the World Needs

“If we have a surplus, we’re going to share it with the rest of the world,” Mr. Biden told reporters on Wednesday, speaking...

Sale of Mansion Builds on a Myth Born of the Great Chicago Fire

Historians point to a number of obvious problems with the cow story: If a cow had, in fact, kicked over a lantern while...

Hope as a Public Health Tool

The early coronavirus mistakes were mostly mistakes of excessive optimism. Many scientists, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, did not immediately grasp the threat. Neither...

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