The super-contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus is now responsible for about one in every five Covid-19 cases in the United States, and its prevalence has doubled in the last two weeks, health officials said on Tuesday. First identified in India, Delta is one of several “variants of concern,” as designated by the Centers for…
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NEWARK — There were only six tiny vials of coronavirus vaccine in the refrigerator, one Air Force nurse on duty and a trickle of patients on Saturday morning at a federally run mass vaccination site here. A day before its doors shut for good, this once-frenetic operation was oddly quiet. The post-vaccination waiting room, with…
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You’ve madly clicked through Apple device deals. You’ve perused the coolest tech that’s currently on sale. You’ve scooped up some new summer reading material, as well as some new summer wardrobe items. Now, in day two of Amazon’s Prime Day 2021 event—the last day, we should mention—you’re wondering what else you might get cheap. We’ll…
Questioning her father’s role Confidential court records reveal Ms. Spears’s concerns that her father was hardly the person to be setting, and enforcing, the rules that governed her life. Ms. Spears’s first tour under the conservatorship, The Circus Starring Britney Spears, was designed to be a dry one, with cast and crew forbidden from drinking…
WASHINGTON — The White House publicly acknowledged on Tuesday that President Biden did not expect to meet his goal of having 70 percent of adults at least partly vaccinated by July 4 and instead would reach that milestone only with people older than 26. It would be the first time that Mr. Biden has failed…
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Ei-ichi Negishi, who shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2010 for developing techniques now ubiquitous in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals, died on June 6 in Indianapolis. He was 85. His death, at a hospital, was announced by Purdue University, where Dr. Negishi was a professor for four decades. No cause was given. Dr. Negishi’s…
LOS ANGELES — On Saturday evening, over 250 people crowded into a midcentury modern mansion in the Hollywood Hills for a party at the end of LA Tech Week, a six-day event series held across the city. The party was hosted by House.ai, a collective for entrepreneurs, and Mirra, a telehealth start-up. “We incubate companies,…