NATIONAL

An article on Wednesday about five candidates under consideration to serve as President Trump’s national security adviser misspelled the surname of a former director of national intelligence. He is Dan Coats, not Dan Coates. It also misstated the name of a foundation. It is the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, not the Foundation for Defense of Democracy.

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An article on Sept. 9 about Maggy Hurchalla, an environmental activist in Florida who was successfully sued by a mining company, referred incorrectly to studies on a mine project. Several studies had been done, but not the full, peer-reviewed assessment Ms. Hurchalla was urging the county commissioners to conduct; it is not the case that there had been only a preliminary study done on the mine project.

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An article on Wednesday about President Trump’s focus on California’s homelessness problem misstated the proportion of people in the United States who live in California. The state is home to 12 percent of the country’s population, not one-twelfth, which is a little more than 8 percent.

BUSINESS

An article on Wednesday about Amazon offering improved audio for 50 million songs referred incorrectly to FLAC files, which Amazon uses to stream music. FLAC files are a compressed, not an uncompressed, format.