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FILE – In this March 25, 2021 file photo, a box of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine is shown in a refrigerator at a clinic in Washington state. A batch of Johnson & Johnsonâ€™s COVID-19 vaccine failed quality standards and canâ€™t be used, the drug giant said late Wednesday, March 31, 2021. The drugmaker didnâ€™t say how many doses were lost, and it wasnâ€™t clear how the problem would impact future deliveries. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) NY376 NY376

March 31, 2021 at 9:05 pm

Company producing J&J vaccine had history of violations

Emergent BioSolutons was a key to Johnson & Johnson’s plan to deliver 100 million doses of its vaccine to the U.S. by the end of...

Business

March 31, 2021 at 3:59 pm

Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine batch fails quality check

A batch of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine failed quality standards and can’t be used, the drug giant said late Wednesday. J&J said the Emergent...

Business

March 20, 2021 at 2:04 pm

Biden’s top aides unlikely to qualify for relief payments

WASHINGTON (AP) — At least one group in America is unlikely to get any money from President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion economic rescue plan —...

January 17, 2021 at 11:02 am

Records: Trump allies behind rally that ignited Capitol riot

WASHINGTON (AP) — Members of President Donald Trump’s failed presidential campaign played key roles in orchestrating the Washington rally that spawned a deadly assault on...

January 8, 2021 at 11:26 pm

Videos show fatal shooting during rampage at the Capitol

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force veteran killed during the storming of the Capitol was shot as she began to climb through the broken part...

January 8, 2021 at 3:49 pm

Videos show fatal shooting during rampage at the Capitol

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force veteran killed during the storming of the Capitol was shot as she began to climb through the broken part...

November 25, 2020 at 4:25 am

Ga. Sen. Perdue boosts wealth with well-timed stock trades

WASHINGTON (AP) — As the ravages of the novel coronavirus forced millions of people out of work, shuttered businesses and shrank the value of retirement...

Business

November 1, 2020 at 5:13 am

Trump admin funds plasma company based in owner’s condo

WASHINGTON (AP) — When the Trump administration gave a well-connected Republican donor seed money to test a possible COVID-19-fighting blood plasma technology, it noted the...

Business

FILE — Drs. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, during a House Committee hearing about the coronavirus pandemic, on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 11, 2020. Pressure is mounting on the leaders of the CDC — from inside and outside the agency — to speak publicly against the White House’s manhandling of their research and public health decisions, with career scientists so demoralized they are talking of quitting if President Donald Trump wins re-election. (Pete Marovich/The New York Times) XNYT14 XNYT14

October 15, 2020 at 9:43 pm

White House puts ‘politicals’ at CDC to try to control info

Two new appointees with no public-health experience arrived at the CDC over the summer with the task of helping control the messaging coming from the...

Nation & World

In a since-deleted Facebook post, Michael Caputo,top spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services in Trump administration accused U.S. government scientists of “sedition” and claimed left-wing hit squads are gearing up to kill him and other supporters of the president. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images/TNS)
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September 15, 2020 at 12:38 pm

Apology, no firing: Official said US scientists hurt Trump

A Trump health appointee who is accused of trying to muzzle an important scientific publication in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic apologized Tuesday for...