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The last states expanded eligibility on Monday. The administration is now turning to persuading more Americans to get vaccinated.

Cassius Caldwell, 16, receiving a Covid-19 vaccine at the Chief Andrew Isaac Health Center in Fairbanks, Alaska, last month. Fairbanks International Airport will offer vaccines to travelers starting June 1.Credit...Nathan Howard/Reuters To some, Alaska’s announcement that it would try to entice travelers by offering Covid-19 vaccinations at its airports might signal the state’s plucky resolve and determination to revive a tourism industry that has been devastated by the pandemic. To others,...

A funeral procession for a Covid-19 victim at Jardim da Paz cemetery in Porto Alegre, Brazil, last month. The United States, Brazil and Mexico have the world’s highest death tolls in the pandemic. Credit...Mauricio Lima for The New York Times More than three million people have died from Covid-19 since the first cases surfaced more than 14 months ago and upended life for people across the globe. Global deaths reached that toll on Saturday, according to a New York Times database, as the numbe...

Indianapolis Shooting Live Updates: Victims Are Remembered At least four of the people killed were Sikh, putting the religious community on high alert. It was one man’s first week working at the FedEx warehouse. Image A gunman opened fire at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis on Thursday night, killing eight people and himself.Credit...A J Mast for The New York Times Here’s what you need to know: -0:00 Gunman in Indianapolis Shooting Was Former Employee, Police Say The police identified Brand...

A nurse preparing vaccine doses at a medical office in Los Angeles this month.Credit...Allison Zaucha for The New York Times Scientists have long said that giving people a single course of a Covid-19 vaccine might not be sufficient in the long term, and that booster shots and even annual vaccinations might prove necessary. In recent days, that proposition has begun to sound less hypothetical. Vaccine makers are getting a jump-start on possible new rounds of shots, although they sound more certa...

After Ex-Officer Is Charged in Daunte Wright Shooting, Demonstrators Gather Last Updated April 15, 2021, 12:51 a.m. ETApril 15, 2021, 12:51 a.m. ET Kim Potter, who fatally shot Mr. Wright in Brooklyn Center, Minn., has been charged with second-degree manslaughter. Video Protesters gathered outside the police station in Brooklyn Center, Minn., for a fourth night to protest the killing of Daunte Wright, a Black man shot by a police officer during a traffic stop on Sunday.CreditCredit...Nicholas P...

Philonise Floyd, center, the brother of George Floyd, passes through security upon arrival at the Hennepin County Government Center earlier this month.Credit...Jim Mone/Associated Press With a verdict in the trial of Derek Chauvin set to come as early as next week, the city of Minneapolis is already preparing for protests and civil unrest. The plan, which includes nine state and local agencies, called Operation Safety Net, is one of the biggest in the state’s history, likely only trailing the...

Six people were rescued after a 175-foot liftboat capsized eight miles off Grand Isle, La., on Tuesday afternoon, a Coast Guard spokesman said. Rescue efforts continued into the night.

President Biden is the fourth president to have had to make decisions about the United States troop presence in Afghanistan.Credit...Pool photo by Andrew Harnik President Biden formally ended the 20-year, largely unsuccessful American effort to remake Afghanistan, declaring from the White House on Wednesday afternoon that he would withdraw the remaining few thousand United States troops in the country by Sept. 11 and refocus American attention elsewhere. “It’s time to end America’s lon...

Officer Kim Potter in 2007.Credit...Bruce Bisping/Star Tribune, via Getty Images Minnesota officials on Monday identified the police officer who shot Daunte Wright as Kim Potter, a 26-year veteran of the Brooklyn Center Police Department, and said she had been placed on administrative leave. The state’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said in a brief statement that Officer Potter had been placed on “standard administrative leave.” The statement did not elaborate, citing an active investig...