INTERNATIONAL

An article on Wednesday about Boris Johnson, the new Conservative Party leader and incoming prime minister of Britain, referred incorrectly to Frans Timmermans, the European Commission vice president. Mr. Timmermans is a man.

NATIONAL

An article on Wednesday about North Carolina’s approval of a settlement that prohibits the state government from banning transgender people from using bathrooms in state buildings that match their gender identity misidentified the part of the North Carolina “bathroom bill” case that is on hold until the Supreme Court addresses whether a federal ban on sex discrimination includes gay and transgender people. It is the part dealing with whether people can claim damages, not the portion dealing with limits on local anti-discrimination laws.

SCIENCE

An article on Wednesday about the deployment of the solar sail LightSail 2 misstated the source of propulsion for a solar sail. It is photons from the sun, not solar winds. The error was repeated in the headline.

OBITUARIES

An obituary on Tuesday about Christopher C. Kraft Jr., the founder of NASA’s mission control, erroneously credited the American astronaut Edward H. White 2d with a distinction. He was the first American to walk in space, not the first person to do so. The Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov holds that distinction.