"Nonprofits"

U.S. pharmaceutical giant Merck has agreed to share its license for its experimental covid-19 drug, molnupiravir, with a nonprofit organization so that it can be manufactured widely around the world in a deal that would expand access to the treatment in more than 100 countries.

At a storage unit in Landover, Md., in late September, dozens of volunteers hustled furniture into moving trucks. Their goal was to furnish three apartments by the end of the day - two for a family of eight from Afghanistan, and the other for a family from El Salvador.

Faith Trznadel was born without a tibia bone, and when she was 10 months old, doctors had to amputate her lower leg.