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The Food and Drug Administration authorized on Friday both the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccines for the nation’s youngest children, a relief to many parents anxious to protect their children 18 months after shots were first made available to adults. Regulators followed the recommendation of independent experts on an advisory…

BOLTON, Miss.— It was here, in this majority-Black town of 441 people, that Representative Bennie G. Thompson attended a segregated junior high school. It was where his father spent a lifetime working as a mechanic and paying taxes, but never enjoying the right to vote. And it was where the…

Despite President Volodymyr Zelensky’s pleas for Ukraine’s admittance into the European Union, the process requires a serious overhaul of a country’s political, judiciary and economic systems.Credit…Daniel Berehulak for The New York Times It was an impassioned plea: As war raged in his country, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine asked in…

Vince McMahon, a longtime executive for World Wrestling Entertainment who led professional wrestling from a sideshow curiosity into a mainstream phenomenon, has stepped down as chairman and chief executive while the company’s board investigates allegations of misconduct against him, the company said on Friday. Stephanie McMahon, his daughter, will take…

After months of delays, children under 5 are set to get vaccines next week. The F.D.A. and the C.D.C. are expected to clear Moderna’s and Pfizer’s vaccines for young children in the next few days. An F.D.A. panel recommended authorization of both vaccines on Wednesday. Vaccines for young children were…

GARDINER, Mont. — The ominous gray clouds have vanished after deluging Yellowstone National Park with floodwaters over the weekend, leaving sunshine and blue skies as the park’s eponymous river and its tributaries recede. The weather would have been perfect for the tens of thousands of tourists who normally kick off…

BOSTON — It turns out the dynasty had just been paused. Golden State has won the N.B.A. championship again, four seasons after its last one. It is the franchise’s seventh title and the fourth for its three superstars: Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green, who have spent the past…

The deal, which President Donald J. Trump abandoned in 2018, limited Tehran’s ability to install new centrifuges and forced it to ship 97 percent of its nuclear fuel out of the country. Mr. Biden’s refusal of Iran’s demand to remove the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps from the list of terrorist…

(Want to get this newsletter in your inbox? Here’s the sign-up.) Good evening. Here’s the latest at the end of Thursday. 1. Former President Donald J. Trump carried out a plan to overturn the 2020 election despite knowing the scheme was illegal, the Jan. 6 committee argued. In its third…

Finally, the researchers checked for lac-phe in other exercising creatures. They first found it in the bloodstreams of racehorses at much higher levels after a hard run than before. Then they asked eight healthy young men to exercise three times: once by cycling at a leisurely pace for 90 minutes,…