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WASHINGTON — PresidentBiden, under pressure to ag-gressively address the global co-ronavirus vaccine shortage, willannounce as early as Thursdaythat his administration will buy500 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and donatethem among about 100 countriesover the next year, according topeople familiar with the plan.

The White House reached thedeal just in time for Mr. Biden’seight-day European trip, which ishis first opportunity to reassertthe United States as a worldleader and restore relations thatwere badly frayed by PresidentDonald J. Trump.

“We have to end Covid-19, notjust at home, which we’re doing,but everywhere,” Mr. Biden toldAmerican troops after landing atR.A.F. Mildenhall in Suffolk, Eng-land. “There’s no wall highenough to keep us safe from thispandemic or the next biologicalthreat we face, and there will beothers. It requires coordinatedmultilateral action.”

People familiar with the Pfizerdeal said the United States wouldpay for the doses at a “not for prof-it” price. The first 200 milliondoses will be distributed by theend of this year, followed by 300million by next June, they said.The doses will be distributedthrough Covax, the internationalvaccine-sharing initiative.

Mr. Biden is in Europe for aweek to attend the NATO andGroup of 7 summits and to meetwith President Vladimir V. Putinof Russia in Geneva. He is likely touse the trip to call on other nationsto step up vaccine distribution.

In a statement on Wednesday,Jeffrey D. Zients, the White Houseofficial in charge of devising aglobal vaccination strategy, saidMr. Biden would “rally the world’sdemocracies around solving thiscrisis globally, with America lead-ing the way to create the arsenalof vaccines that will be critical inour global fight against Covid-19.”

The White House is trying tospotlight its success in fightingthe pandemic — particularly itsvaccination campaign — and usethat success as a diplomatic tool,especially as China and Russiaseek to do the same. Mr. Biden hasbeen insistent that, unlike Chinaand Russia, which have beensharing their vaccines with doz-ens of countries, the United Stateswill not seek to extract promisesfrom countries receiving Ameri-can-made vaccines.

The 500 million doses still fallfar short of the 11 billion the WorldHealth Organization estimatesare needed to vaccinate the world,but significantly exceed what theUnited States has committed toshare so far. Other nations havebeen pleading with the UnitedStates to give up some of its abun-dant vaccine supplies. Less than 1percent of people are fully vacci-

PRESIDENT TO SEND500 MILLION DOSESTO NATIONS IN NEED

U.S. Is Said to Be Planning to Buy PfizerVaccine at a ‘Not for Profit’ Price

This article is by Sharon LaFra-niere, Sheryl Gay Stolberg and NoahWeiland.

“There’s no wall high enough to keep us safe from this pandemic,” President Biden told U.S. troops Wednesday in Suffolk, England.DOUG MILLS/THE NEW YORK TIMES

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WASHINGTON — CNN se-cretly fought an attempt by theJustice Department to seize tensof thousands of email logs of one ofits reporters, the network dis-closed on Wednesday, adding thatthe government imposed a gag or-der on CNN’s lawyers and itspresident, Jeff Zucker, as part ofthe legal battle.

The disclosure — including thatCNN ultimately agreed to turnover “a limited set of email logs”involving the reporter, BarbaraStarr — was the latest to recentlycome to light in a series of ag-gressive steps that federal pros-ecutors secretly took in leak in-vestigations late in the Trump ad-ministration.

It is also the second suchepisode known to have spilled

over into the early Biden adminis-tration. CNN struck a deal withprosecutors to settle the matter onJan. 26, it said, and the govern-ment only recently lifted the gagorder.

Last week, a New York Timeslawyer revealed a similar fight —and a gag order imposed inMarch. The government aban-doned its battle for the Times re-porters’ email logs on June 2 with-

out having obtained any, asking ajudge to quash a Jan. 5 order forthem.

In recent weeks, the Justice De-partment has also disclosed sepa-rate Trump-era seizures of phonerecords of the same Times andCNN reporters, along with sev-eral reporters at The WashingtonPost. In the fallout, President Bi-den barred the department from

CNN Lawyers Silenced as Justice Dept. Sought Reporter’s EmailBy CHARLIE SAVAGE

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Eric Adams, who is consideredthe leading candidate for mayor ofNew York City, came under in-tense fire on Wednesday fromDemocratic rivals who ques-tioned whether he lived in NewJersey or the city and cast doubton his honesty.

Mr. Adams, the Brooklyn bor-ough president, says that anapartment in a multiunit town-house he owns on Lafayette Ave-nue, in the Bedford-Stuyvesantsection of Brooklyn, is his primaryresidence.

But he also co-owns a co-op inFort Lee, N.J., with his partner,who lives there, and has said pub-licly that he moved into BrooklynBorough Hall for a time after thepandemic hit because he wasworking such long hours. On Tues-day, Politico New York reportedthat Mr. Adams used conflictingaddresses in public records andthat he was still spending nightsat Borough Hall, based on surveil-lance by the publication and rivalcampaigns.

Before that story was pub-lished, Mr. Adams said that hewould skip a debate among the topcandidates scheduled for Thurs-day and would instead attend avigil for a 10-year-old killed in gunviolence in Queens.

Amid the attacks from othercampaigns, Mr. Adams invited re-porters to the townhouse, wherehe plied them with vegan pastries,offered a tour of what he said washis apartment — pointing out the“small, modest kitchen” and“small, modest bathroom” — andsought to dismiss residency ques-tions in a news conference duringwhich he at times grew emotional.

“How foolish would someone

New Yorker?Adams VowsCity Is Home.

This article is by Katie Glueck, Jef-fery C. Mays and Michael Rothfeld.

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NASHVILLE — Public healthdepartments have held vaccineclinics at churches. They have or-ganized rides to clinics. Gone doorto door. Even offered a spinaround a NASCAR track for any-one willing to get a shot.

Still, the country’s vaccinationcampaign is sputtering, especiallyin the South, where there aremany more doses than peoplewho will take them.

As reports of new Covid-19cases and deaths plummet, and asmany Americans venture outmask-free into something ap-proaching normalcy, the slow-down in vaccinations presents anew risk. As coronavirus variants

spread and restrictions are eased,experts fear that the virus couldeventually surge again in stateslike Alabama, Louisiana and Mis-sissippi, where fewer than half ofadults have started the vaccina-tion process.

“A lot of people have the sense,‘Oh, dodged that bullet,’” said Dr.Jeanne Marrazzo, the director ofthe Division of Infectious Dis-eases at the University of Ala-bama at Birmingham. She added,“I don’t think people appreciate

that if we let up on the vaccine ef-forts, we could be right backwhere we started.”

A range of theories hasemerged about why the South,which as of Wednesday was hometo eight of the 10 states with thelowest vaccination rates, lags be-hind the rest of the country: hesi-tancy from conservative whitepeople, concerns among someBlack residents, longstandingchallenges when it comes tohealth care access and trans-portation.

The answer, interviews acrossthe region revealed, was all of theabove.

“It’s kind of a complex brew,and we’re teasing apart the indi-vidual pieces,” said Dr. W. Mark

South Lags in Vaccinations, Risking New SurgesBy RICK ROJAS

and MITCH SMITH

A vaccination site in Forest, Miss. The state has the lowest vaccination rate in the United States.ELIJAH BAYLIS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

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WASHINGTON — The Penta-gon is considering seeking au-thorization to carry out airstrikesto support Afghan security forcesif Kabul or another major city is indanger of falling to the Taliban,potentially introducing flexibilityinto President Biden’s plan to endthe United States military pres-ence in the conflict, senior officialssaid.

Mr. Biden and his top nationalsecurity aides had previously sug-gested that once U.S. troops leftAfghanistan, air support wouldend as well, with the exception ofstrikes aimed at terrorist groupsthat could harm American inter-ests.

But military officials are ac-tively discussing how they mightrespond if the rapid withdrawalproduces consequences with sub-stantial national security implica-tions.

No decisions have been madeyet, officials said. But they addedthat one option under considera-

Pentagon Eyes Future Strikes

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Eric Schmitt and Thomas Gibbons-Neff.

Security forces on a road inKabul, Afghanistan, this year.

JIM HUYLEBROEK FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

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MOSCOW — A Russian court onWednesday designated Aleksei A.Navalny’s political movement asan extremist network, a remark-able move that sent a message toPresident Biden ahead of hismeeting next week with PresidentVladimir V. Putin: Russian do-mestic affairs are not up for dis-cussion.

The court decision — taken al-most certainly with Mr. Putin’sblessing — is bound to push themovement further underground,after several months in which theKremlin’s yearslong effort to sup-press dissent had entered a new,more aggressive phase. Under thelaw, Mr. Navalny’s organizers, do-nors, or even social-media sup-porters could now be prosecutedand face prison time.

The ruling heightened thestakes of the summit in Genevafor Mr. Biden, who has promisedto push back against violations ofinternational norms by Mr. Putin.But the Russian president hassaid that, while he is prepared todiscuss cyberspace and geopoli-tics with Mr. Biden, he will not en-gage in talks over how he runs hiscountry. The question is howmuch Mr. Biden accepts those de-mands.

“Views on our political systemcan differ,” Mr. Putin told theheads of international news agen-cies last week. “Just give us theright, please, to determine how toorganize this part of our life.”

The Geneva meeting on June 16will come after months in whichMr. Putin has dismantled much ofwhat remained of Russian politi-cal pluralism — and made it clearthat he would ignore Western crit-

In Ban of GroupTied to Navalny,A Sign to Biden

By ANDREW E. KRAMERand ANTON TROIANOVSKI

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