Last week, India recorded almost 170,000 Covid-19 cases, a record for the country since the start of the pandemic. The day before, India crossed a different kind of milestone: Vaccinating 100 million people. It is this seesaw of despair and hope that India rides today, battling the outbreak with a healthcare system operating on the brink even as its pharmaceutical ...

The litany is shamefully familiar, but needs repeating until lawmakers finally pay attention. More than 100 Americans die from gun violence each day — some in massacres that seize the national headlines, most in quieter tragedies that don’t. No other country in the developed world endures gun carnage on such a scale. This drumbeat of senseless misery and the persistent ...

Bloomberg Boeing Co topped Airbus SE in quarterly jet sales for the first time since early 2019, when the US planemaker spiraled into crisis because of a global grounding of its 737 Max after two fatal crashes. Gross orders in the first quarter totalled 282 aircraft, according to sales data posted to Boeing’s website. Including cancellations and an accounting adjustment ...