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To reach vaccine holdouts, California tries a flashy lottery, while Hong Kong offers apartments. The C.D.C. says children are more likely to be hospitalized for Covid than for the flu.

Many employers report having trouble finding applicants. Economists say the labor market may simply need time to get sorted out.

President Biden and Senator Shelley Moore Capito, Republican of West Virginia, discussing the administration’s infrastructure plan last month.Credit...T.J. Kirkpatrick for The New York Times President Biden is scheduled on Friday to have another discussion with Senator Shelley Moore Capito, Republican of West Virginia, about his push for $1 trillion in spending on roads, bridges, broadband and more as he tries to seize on a positive monthly jobs report. Ms. Capito is the lead negotiator for a...

The pandemic death toll in such facilities has plummeted from a peak of 5,000 a week to less than 300. And a global vaccination effort for low-income nations got a $2.4 billion boost.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signaled early Thursday that he would not go down without a struggle. He called on lawmakers to oppose “this dangerous left-wing government.”

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito spoke about the Republican counteroffer to President Biden’s infrastructure plan last week at the Capitol in Washington.Credit...J. Scott Applewhite/Associated Press President Biden told the lead Republican negotiator on an infrastructure package on Wednesday that her party must embrace $1 trillion in new spending as part of any bipartisan deal, highlighting the wide gulf that remains between the two parties as talks on a potential compromise reach a critical stage. ...

The automaker said its financial results in the first half of the year would be “significantly better” than it had previously forecast.

Cases are surging in parts of Asia and South America. And experts are monitoring a human case of an avian flu amid a continued risk of pandemic flus.

President Biden met with survivors of the 1921 attack in Oklahoma, one of the worst outbreaks of racist violence in American history. The Biden administration said it would suspend oil drilling leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge that were issued in the waning days of the Trump presidency.

Source: Factset Homebuilding in Delaware last month. Significant growth in employment is expected to start in the second half of 2021, the U.N. labor organization said. Credit...Alyssa Schukar for The New York Times Global employment will take years to return to prepandemic levels, the United Nations’ labor organization said on Wednesday in a report that urged governments to build social protection systems to avoid the destabilizing effects of deepening economic and social inequality. The pa...