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The global health agency set a target for countries to inoculate 10 percent of their populations by September, but without help soon, most on the continent are likely to fall short.

Democrats said they were opening an inquiry into the Trump-era Justice Department’s seizure of data from the accounts of at least two House lawmakers and their aides during a leak investigation.

Meat processor paid $11 million in ransom to hackers. A billboard in Brazil for the meatpacking giant JBS. The chief executive said the decision to pay a ransom to hackers was “very difficult.”Credit...Paulo Whitaker/Reuters The world’s largest meat processor said on Wednesday that it paid an $11 million ransom in Bitcoin to the hackers behind an attack that forced the shutdown last week of all the company’s U.S. beef plants and disrupted operations at poultry and pork plants. The compa...

With the world reeling from the pandemic, President Biden and Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain will aim to build on the World War II agreement that laid the foundation for the allies’ “special relationship.”

The move gives states extra time to figure out how to use up excess supply of the single-dose vaccine. Local officials have struggled to use up stockpiles of the shot, which has lately faced sagging demand.

Maya Wiley and Kathryn Garcia said tobacco cigarettes and marijuana needed to be treated equally, as the leading Democratic contenders outlined their positions on marijuana laws.

The coronavirus is receding in much of the United States, but spreading in communities with low vaccination rates, where contagious variants pose a new threat.

Ahead of meetings with Group of 7, NATO and European Union leaders, and Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, President Biden will announce plans to supply 500 million vaccine doses to other countries.

Jeff Zucker, CNN’s president, was under a gag order related to a legal fight stemming from a leak investigation, the network said. A judge recently lifted the order.Credit...John Lamparski/WireImage CNN disclosed on Wednesday that the Justice Department had fought a secret legal battle to obtain the email logs of one of its reporters — and that as part of the fight the government imposed a gag order on the network’s lawyers and its president, Jeff Zucker. The news network’s disclosure c...

India’s capital will ease some restrictions on Monday. And Miami hosts the first major in-person business conference since the pandemic began.