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The president’s speech will look very different than typical addresses to joint sessions of Congress because of the pandemic. The United States will send vaccine components to India.

A pop-up Covid-19 vaccination center in Newark on Friday. The United States is vaccinating fewer people on a daily basis than earlier this month, though coronavirus cases remain stubbornly high.Credit...James Estrin/The New York Times Vaccination rates are falling in the United States, despite the spread of highly contagious virus variants that are fueling the country’s alarmingly high caseload. More than 50,000 new U.S. cases were reported on Saturday, and case rates are similar to those of ...

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, whose agency is planning to reinstate tougher fuel economy standards on passenger vehicles, will speak on Day 2 of the climate change summit.Credit...Drew Angerer/Getty Images After President Biden kicked off the first day of his climate change summit by declaring that the United States would cut its global warming emissions at least in half by the end of the decade, Day 2 of the virtual gathering on Friday will in large part focus on what it would take ...

Transporting oxygen cylinders to a filling station at a Covid-19 hospital in Ahmedabad, India, on Monday.Credit...Amit Dave/Reuters NEW DELHI — A catastrophic second wave of the coronavirus is battering India, which is reporting the world’s highest number of new infections as hospitals and patients beg for fast-diminishing oxygen supplies and other emergency aid. Canada has joined Britain, Hong Kong, Singapore and New Zealand in barring travelers coming from India. And the U.S. State Depart...

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President Biden hopes the new targets convince other nations to do more to combat global warming.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times President Biden will announce Thursday that the United States intends to cut planet-warming emissions nearly in half by the end of the decade, a target that would require Americans to transform the way they drive, heat their homes and manufacture goods. The target, confirmed by three people briefed on the plan, is timed to a closely watched global summit meetin...

Canadian Rivals in Bidding War for U.S. Railroad: Live Updates RIGHT NOW The railroad barons are at it again. Canadian National Railway on Tuesday offered to buy Kansas City Southern for $33.7 billion, topping a $29 billion bid put forward last month by a rival railroad operator, Canadian Pacific. The competing offers underline the riches expected to come from trade flows after the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement was passed into law last year. A merger with either suitor would create a ra...

An effort to vaccinate older people in New York in February.Credit...James Estrin/The New York Times The United States has come a long way since Covid-19 vaccines first arrived at hospitals and long-term care facilities in December. More than 209 million doses have been administered. But the next phase of the rollout will bring new challenges, and some scientists and health officials worry that some of the most vulnerable people — including those 65 and older — may have trouble competing fo...

Derek Chauvin Trial Live Updates: Jury Resumes Deliberations The jurors, who deliberated for four hours on Monday then returned to the task at 8 a.m. Central on Tuesday, are deciding whether to convict Mr. Chauvin of murder. Image Demonstrators marched through downtown Minneapolis on Monday as the jury began deliberations in the trial of Derek Chauvin for the death of George Floyd.Credit...Victor J. Blue for The New York Times April 20, 2021, 11:06 a.m. ETApril 20, 2021, 11:06 a.m. ET The New ...

Shaila DewanReporting from Minneapolis Much of Eric Nelson’s defense case has rested on hypotheticals, like whether the prone position is dangerous if you’re sunbathing in Florida; whether George Floyd was feigning a need for medical attention to avoid arrest; and whether a reasonable police officer might have thought that Floyd had “excited delirium” — though multiple experts testified that he did not show the symptoms of excited delirium, itself a controversial medical diagnosis. A...