E.U. Set to Let Vaccinated U.S. Tourists Visit This Summer
Matina Stevis-Gridneff, The New York Times
American tourists who have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19 will be able to visit the European Union over the summer, the head of the bloc’s executive body said in an interview with The New York Times on Sunday, more than a year after shutting down nonessential travel from most countries to limit the spread of the coronavirus.
Millions Are Skipping Their Second Doses of Covid Vaccines
Rebecca Robbins, The New York Times
Millions of Americans are not getting the second doses of their Covid-19 vaccines, and their ranks are growing.
CEO of vaccine maker sold $10 million in stock before company ruined Johnson & Johnson doses
Jon Swaine, The Washington Post
The stock price of government contractor Emergent BioSolutions has fallen sharply since the disclosure at the end of March that production problems at the firm’s plant in Baltimore had ruined 15 million doses of Johnson & Johnson’s coronavirus vaccine. Since then, AstraZeneca moved production of its own vaccine out of the facility, and Emergent temporarily halted new production there altogether.
Iran’s Foreign Minister, in Leaked Tape, Says Revolutionary Guards Set Policies
Farnaz Fassihi, The New York Times
In a leaked audiotape that offers a glimpse into the behind-the scenes power struggles of Iranian leaders, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said the Revolutionary Guards Corps call the shots, overruling many government decisions and ignoring advice.
Breaking Point: How Mark Zuckerberg and Tim Cook Became Foes
Mike Isaac and Jack Nicas, The New York Times
At a confab for tech and media moguls in Sun Valley, Idaho, in July 2019, Timothy D. Cook of Apple and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook sat down to repair their fraying relationship.
Once-A-Decade Census Numbers to Redraw U.S. Political Landscape
Gregory Korte, Bloomberg
The once-a-decade battle to redraw the U.S. political map promises to be one of the most contentious ever when it kicks off this week, shadowed by the coronavirus pandemic and hindered by partisan divisions stoked during Donald Trump’s presidency.
Minutes before Trump left office, millions of the Pentagon’s dormant IP addresses sprang to life
Craig Timberg and Paul Sonne, The Washington Post
While the world was distracted with President Donald Trump leaving office on Jan. 20, an obscure Florida company discreetly announced to the world’s computer networks a startling development: It now was managing a huge unused swath of the Internet that, for several decades, had been owned by the U.S. military.
60 Minutes interviews the prosecutors of Derek Chauvin
Scott Pelley, CBS News
Derek Chauvin is in solitary confinement tonight awaiting sentencing for the murder of George Floyd. The former Minneapolis police officer was convicted this past Tuesday.