Johnson & Johnson on Wednesday didn’t say how many doses it discarded or how it would delay shipments when a batch of its vaccines failed to meet quality standards due to what it said was a faulty ingredient produced by Emergent BioSolutions. The drugmaker is using 10 companies to make components of its vaccine, but the Food and Drug Administration had not yet approved the Emergent factory to participate. The FDA repeatedly cited Emergent in the past for poor employee training and mold growth in a facility.

Police identified Brandon Elliot, 38, as the man seen on surveillance video kicking and shouting at a 65-year-old Asian American woman in front of a luxury apartment complex on Monday. Authorities arrested Elliot around midnight on Tuesday at a hotel serving as a homeless shelter. He was on lifetime parole after 16 years in prison for killing his mother in 2002. Police charged him with assault as a hate crime, attempted assault as a hate crime, assault, and attempted assault. The most serious charge could send him back to prison for 25 years.

Less than 24 hours after Robert Aaron Long’s arrest, sheriff’s deputies noted the connection between the Atlanta-area massage parlors he targeted and commercial sex, though not international trafficking. Cherokee County Sheriff Frank Reynolds said Long told them he “has some issues, potentially sexual addiction” and he might have frequented some of the businesses in the past.

A COVID-19 vaccine for children could speed efforts to reopen schools normally, but the available shots are so far only authorized for adults. Pfizer on Wednesday announced early results from a study showing its vaccine is safe for people as young as 12. Among 2,260 volunteers, ages 12 to 15, no COVID-19 cases appeared among the fully vaccinated. The company will submit results to the Food and Drug Administration ahead of the coming school year.

Teenager Darnella Frazier filmed the viral video of police officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on George Floyd’s neck on May 25, 2020. Frazier, now 18, testified Tuesday in Chauvin’s trial, describing the scene and saying the officers ignored a woman who said she was a firefighter and asked to check Floyd’s pulse. Frazier and several other witnesses testified off-camera because they were minors when they witnessed the incident.

New reports of unusual blood clots in people who got shots from the Anglo-Swedish company prompted Germany and Canada to impose new limitations. All but two of the 31 reported cases of blood clots were women between 20 and 63, and nine people died. German health officials announced on Tuesday that only people ages 60 and over can get AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine in Berlin, Munich, and Brandenburg. Canada is limiting distribution to those 55 and older.

In 2018, Kentucky’s Republican-controlled legislature passed a law protecting unborn babies from the dilation and evacuation procedure, or dismemberment abortion, commonly used during the second trimester. Abortion providers sued, and a trial court and an appellate court panel blocked the law. When Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear’s administration dropped the case, Attorney General Daniel Cameron asked to intervene and defend the law. The appeals court said no, but on Monday, the Supreme Court agreed to hear Cameron’s appeal this fall.