FRONT PAGEAn article on Saturday about the relationship between Barack Obama and Joseph R. Biden Jr. misstated the role that Mr. Biden had on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 2005 when Mr. Obama arrived in Congress. He was the committee’s ranking Democrat, not its chairman. INTERNATIONALBecause of an editing error, a picture caption with an article on Saturday about saffron as an alternative to traditional crops in Afghanistan misidentified the province where workers were harvesting saffron flowers. It was Balkh Province, not Herat Province. NATIONALAn article on Tuesday about the ongoing measles outbreak in the United States misidentified one of the states permitting exemptions from vaccination only on medical grounds.

Source: International New York Times April 30, 2019 00:56 UTC