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U.S. crash investigators are examining half a dozen accidents in which private turboprop planes built by Piper Aircraft experienced difficulties with steering on runways after touchdowns.

The listing clears the way for shipments of free vaccines to developing nations under a plan to vaccinate 20% of the people in the world’s 92 poorest countries.

Pandemic border closures and visa restrictions by the Trump administration last year were intended to curb coronavirus spread and keep more jobs open for Americans; many weren’t interested or qualified.

As Harvard, Stanford and other schools skip some rankings this year, European universities top lists, and lesser-known M.B.A. programs get a boost.

The Treasury secretary is considering an Obama administration veteran, Sarah Bloom Raskin, to lead the department’s climate efforts.

The decline was driven by downbeat expectations among lower-income households.

Employees who allege they contracted the coronavirus on the job can face a high bar to prove their cases.

U.S. workers have failed to return to the office in greater numbers this month, frustrating hopes that the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines and falling infection rates would start to lure employees back and help revitalize city economies.

Walmart is set to become one of the biggest distributors of the Covid-19 vaccine. The retailer gave out its first doses on Friday, many in medically underserved areas.

Britain recorded the largest economic contraction among the world’s major economies in 2020, highlighting the pandemic’s toll on a country that has also suffered one of the deadliest outbreaks.