The company’s headquarters in Gaithersburg, Md.Samuel Corum for The New York Times Robert Kramer, the chief executive of Emergent BioSolutions, has told investors that “extensive relationships across multiple agencies within the federal government” have helped build a business that last year posted
Vaccine inequality The pandemic has disproportionately harmed low-income communities of color, yet people from wealthier, largely white neighborhoods are taking an outsize share of vaccines. In Washington D.C., a clinic that serves a largely Black population noticed an influx of white people
When the new player appeared on the semipro football team made up of emergency workers, he simply went by Tim or Timmy. He was noticeably bad at football, said Randy Knight, a lineman on the team, who took Tim under his wing
It did not take long for Keith Reed, a deputy health commissioner in Oklahoma, to spot a big logistical problem with the state’s vaccination rollout. Week after week, Oklahoma was allocating thousands of precious doses to a federal program for nursing home
WASHINGTON — Republicans fighting over their party’s future face a turning point on Wednesday as House leaders confront dueling calls to punish two members: one for spreading conspiracy theories and endorsing political violence, and the other for voting to impeach former President
The rapper Silentó, whose hit “Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)” was a viral phenomenon in 2015, has been arrested and charged in the shooting death of his cousin outside Atlanta last month, the authorities said. Silentó, whose real name is Ricky Hawk, was
A Los Angeles woman and five friends carried out an elaborate stunt on Monday afternoon to transform the fabled sign overlooking Hollywood. For about an hour, it said not Hollywood, but “Hollyboob.” Julia Rose, the 27-year-old organizer, and five others were arrested
WASHINGTON — Toyota, Fiat Chrysler and several other major automakers said Tuesday they would no longer try to block California from setting its own strict fuel-economy standards, signaling that the auto industry is ready to work with President Biden on his largest
A powerful winter storm is making its way through New England on Tuesday, after hammering much of the Northeast the day before.
On Tuesday, the Senate confirmed Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Ind., as transportation secretary for the Biden administration.
“This confirmation breaks through a barrier that has existed for too long; where L.G.B.T.Q. identity served as an impediment to nomination or confirmation at the highest level of government,” Alphonso David, the president of the Human Rights Campaign, a group dedicated to
