Saturday, January 30, 2021

Today's Headlines: Johnson & Johnson’s Vaccine Offers Strong Protection but Fuels Concern About Variants

G.O.P. Quiet as Pressure Mounts to Address Lawmaker's Conspiracy Claims
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Saturday, January 30, 2021

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Johnson & Johnson's Vaccine Offers Strong Protection but Fuels Concern About Variants

Johnson & Johnson's Vaccine Offers Strong Protection but Fuels Concern About Variants

By Carl Zimmer, Noah Weiland and Sharon LaFraniere

The vaccine's efficacy rate dropped from 72 percent in the United States to just 57 percent in South Africa, where a highly contagious variant is driving most cases.

G.O.P. Quiet as Pressure Mounts to Address Lawmaker's Conspiracy Claims

G.O.P. Quiet as Pressure Mounts to Address Lawmaker's Conspiracy Claims

By Catie Edmondson

In a newly unearthed video from 2018, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene suggested that 9/11 was a hoax, President Barack Obama was a Muslim and the Clintons were guilty of murder.

The 'Roaring Kitty' Rally: How a Reddit User and His Friends Roiled the Markets

The 'Roaring Kitty' Rally: How a Reddit User and His Friends Roiled the Markets

By Nathaniel Popper and Kellen Browning

A Massachusetts man who goes by "Roaring Kitty" on social media helped fuel the frenzy around GameStop. His $53,000 investment in the company briefly reached $48 million in value.

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Editors' Picks

'Trump Just Used Us and Our Fear': One Woman's Journey Out of QAnon

U.S.

'Trump Just Used Us and Our Fear': One Woman's Journey Out of QAnon

By Sabrina Tavernise

During the political fallout after four years of Donald J. Trump, one question is what will happen with the followers of conspiracy theories that bend Americans' perceptions of reality.

What's Happening to Our Economy Is Like a Natural Disaster

Opinion

What's Happening to Our Economy Is Like a Natural Disaster

By Ezra Klein

Ezra Klein and Paul Krugman discuss Covid economics, cryptocurrencies and deficit delusions.

Today's Videos

Violence in Afghanistan May Delay U.S. Troop Withdrawal

Video Video: Violence in Afghanistan May Delay U.S. Troop Withdrawal

By The Associated Press

The Pentagon raised doubts on Thursday that the U.S. military would withdraw from Afghanistan by May 1 — the deadline set in a February 2020 agreement with the Taliban — after accusing the Taliban of failing to uphold its commitments under the deal.

'They're Great Americans': Biden Visits Walter Reed

Video Video: 'They're Great Americans': Biden Visits Walter Reed

By The New York Times

President Biden went to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., on Friday to visit privately with wounded soldiers. He also toured the facility's coronavirus vaccine distribution site.

W.H.O. Delivers Update on China Visit

Video Video: W.H.O. Delivers Update on China Visit

By The Associated Press

On Friday, the World Health Organization reviewed the details of its investigation into the origin of the coronavirus in China, and what it hopes to learn from the visit.

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