We’re covering good news for children’s Covid-19 vaccinations, and President Biden’s huge infrastructure plan. Pfizer says its vaccine protects children The Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine is extremely effective in adolescents 12 to 15 years old, perhaps even more so than in adults, the companies reported. No infections were found among the children who received the vaccine […]

What does it mean to gather “verified” data on potential romantic partners? There’s something to be said for the idea that intimacy is based on having discretion to share information with others — on deciding how much of yourself to reveal to someone, and when, and how — as trust builds in a relationship. Match […]

The March 23 grounding of the giant vessel Ever Given (which was freed on Monday) in the Suez Canal may have been bad news for the world economy. Still, corks have been popping in the headquarters of the world’s container shipping lines. Carriers are having their best year since at least 2008: Ships are full, […]

To the Editor: Re “Stop It With ‘Gun Control.’ Enough Already” (column, March 28): Frank Bruni is right that the phrase “gun control” is incendiary, unnecessarily getting in the way of the kind of common-sense gun policies that could attract broad bipartisan support. The phrase he is searching for is “responsible gun ownership.” This phrase […]

We’re covering the U.S. race against the virus variants and China’s latest blow to Hong Kong’s electoral system. U.S. in a race against a potential new virus surge The United States is ramping up the pace of vaccinations, with most states rapidly expanding eligibility, but the spread of variants paired with loosening restrictions are threatening […]

Not so long ago, Republicans had one of the most ambitious legislative agendas of any political party in modern American history. Devised by the former House speaker, Paul Ryan, the so-called Ryan budget sought to reduce much of the nation’s social safety net to ashes. Congressional Republicans planned to slash Medicaid spending and food stamps. […]

In several accounts of anti-Asian racism collated by Stop AAPI Hate, a group which tracks racist incidents against Asian American Pacific Islanders in the United States, the conflation of opposition to China and racism against people of Asian descent is clear. One example from the Silicon Valley city of Milpitas, where over 60 per cent […]

Aleksei Navalny, the fiercest political opponent of Vladimir Putin, is in prison. He returned to Russia in January after recovering from a near-deadly poisoning in Siberia. After the police arrested him on charges that were widely seen as politically motivated, a wave of pro-Navalny protests swept the country. For today’s newsletter, Anton Troianovski, The Times’s […]

Produced by ‘Sway’ Senator Amy Klobuchar is trying to hold big tech to account and in the process “make antitrust cool again.” She believes that, because of their size and power, companies like Facebook, Google and Twitter have become a dangerous threat to American democracy. Of course, the chief executives of those companies tend to […]

The plague of misinformation — false rumors about the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election, the ineffectiveness of face masks and the safety of 5G, to name a few examples — is usually blamed on social media. But false and damaging information isn’t just available online. It’s also abundant in broadcast media, and as politicians […]