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Biden administration to spend $1.6 billion to expand testing, address supply shortages
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Biden says country may be back to normal by 'next Christmas' - CNN Top Stories

'I will not make that happen': Biden declines Democrats' call to cancel $50K in student debt - NBC Top Stories

Biden says teachers should move up in the 'hierarchy' to receive Covid-19 vaccines - CNN Top Stories

Biden administration says SolarWinds probe could take 'several months' - CNN Top Stories

Biden continues to push $15 federal minimum wage - CNN Top Stories

Biden opposes defunding the police. Here's what that means - CNN Top Stories

These voters pressed Biden on key issues. Here's what they said about his answers. - CNN Top Stories

Analysis: Biden brings centrism and a big-time vaccine promise - CNN Top Stories

Second grader asks Biden about risk of virus. See his response - CNN Top Stories

'Five days a week': Biden recommits to his goal for reopening K-8 schools - USA Today Top Stories

Opinion: Biden shows he is the voice of presidential sanity - CNN Top Stories

Biden wants K-8th grade schools open five days a week - CNN Top Stories

'Now is the time we should be spending': Biden pitches $1.9 trillion COVID relief - USA Today Top Stories

COVID fallout: Biden wants to stop, not stoke, racism against Asian Americans like me - USA Today Top Stories

Biden administration to spend $1.6 billion to expand testing, address supply shortages - NBC Top Stories

Policy, not personal insults: Biden uses Twitter to sell his agenda, with a few pooch pics thrown in - USA Today Top Stories

The Point: Biden maps a return to normal - CNN Top Stories

Column: How the pandemic is helping Biden advance his broader economic agenda - LA Times US News

Column: How the pandemic is helping Biden advance his broader economic agenda - LA Times World News

Joe Biden postpones visit to Pfizer facility in Michigan until Friday - USA Today Top Stories

Watch the entire CNN Presidential Town Hall with Joe Biden - CNN Top Stories

Joe Biden pushes teacher vaccinations; UK to urge 'vaccine ceasefires'; Mexico surpasses 2M cases, 175K deaths. Latest COVID-19 updates - USA Today Top Stories

Biden wants to put a Black woman on the Supreme Court. That's underscored a lack of diversity in lower courts - USA Today Top Stories

The first Biden-era vaccine against Covid-19 is moving toward market, but new bumps could trip up the big launch - CNN Top Stories

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Analysis: Who's actually to blame for the Texas power disaster?
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Long Grocery Lines Form After Winter Storm Causes Power Outages Across Texas - USA Today Top Stories

Winter storm leaves millions without electricity in Texas - BBC World

Texas power crisis points to challenges of renewable energy future - NBC Top Stories

'An electrical island': Texas has dodged federal regulation for years by having its own power grid - USA Today Top Stories

How a winter storm walloped my Texas - LA Times World News

How a winter storm walloped my Texas - LA Times US News

'Massive failure': Why are millions of people in Texas still without power? Rolling blackouts, explained. - USA Today Top Stories

Texas weather: Are frozen wind turbines to blame for power cuts? - BBC World

How one Texas storm exposed an energy grid unprepared for climate change - NBC Top Stories

Texas mayor tells residents to fend for themselves during power outage: ?Only the strong will survive? - Washington Post US

Volunteers In Texas Are Saving Thousands Of Cold-Stunned Sea Turtles From The Storm - NPR News

Analysis: Who's actually to blame for the Texas power disaster? - CNN Top Stories

Long lines form at Texas grocery stores as food demand soars amid historic storm - Fox News US

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott blames wind turbines, Green New Deal policies for outages. Critics call that ?a lie.' - Washington Post US

Texas woman, child dead from carbon monoxide poisoning; 13 kids treated overnight in state - Fox News US

Volunteers race to save thousands of cold-stunned turtles washing up in Texas - Washington Post US

Texas rolled by winter storms: A dispatch from my frozen living room - USA Today Top Stories

Icicles hanging from a ceiling fan, a frosted cactus: Texas is frozen in surreal photos - USA Today Top Stories

Fact check: Renewable energy is not to blame for the Texas energy crisis - NBC Top Stories

This Texas family is rationing oxygen for their premature baby - CNN Top Stories

Some blame Texas' wind turbines for the outages ? but wind accounts for just a tenth of the winter power - CNN Top Stories

Why snow and blackouts in Texas are a preview for all of us - CNN Top Stories

Animals are freezing to death at this sanctuary in Texas - CNN Top Stories

Panic ensues as Texas drivers struggle to control vehicles in icy conditions - USA Today Top Stories

Texas shivers as furious officials call for answers over utility outages - CNN Top Stories

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The simple reality undermining Mitch McConnell's faux Trump outrage
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Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City implodes with help from dynamite - USA Today Top Stories

See the implosion of Trump's Atlantic City casino - CNN Top Stories

Wednesday's Trump Plaza implosion signals end of an era in Atlantic City - USA Today Top Stories

Leading House Democrat sues Donald Trump under a post-Civil War law for conspiracy to incite US Capitol riot - CNN US

Explainer: What is the Ku Klux Klan Act cited in lawsuit against Trump - CNN Top Stories

A Black Lives Matter activist was accused of burning books by Trump and Ann Coulter. He was then fired from his job. - Washington Post US

The simple reality undermining Mitch McConnell's faux Trump outrage - NBC Top Stories

Brutal winter weather, Trump Plaza, pandemic job losses: 5 things you need to know Wednesday - USA Today Top Stories

Biden says prosecuting Trump will be up to the DOJ - CNN Top Stories

McConnell's reverse Watergate road map is the last hope for Trump accountability - USA Today Top Stories

Keilar: Trump used to love McConnell, until this happened - CNN Top Stories

Trump has a lot of money problems - CNN Top Stories

Why the new lawsuit against Trump over the Capitol riot has the best chance of success - NBC Top Stories

Opinion: The man who created President Donald Trump - CNN Top Stories

'Too early to say': Donald Trump stays mum on 2024 campaign (but promotes his polls) - USA Today Top Stories

Rush Limbaugh taught me to love the conservatism that he betrayed for Donald Trump - USA Today Top Stories

New York Times: Trump Pentagon officials delayed promotions of female generals due to fear over Trump's reaction - CNN Top Stories

Rush Limbaugh: Trump leads tributes to divisive US radio host - BBC Top Stories

Analysis: McConnell's plan to deal with Trump is to ignore him - CNN US

Here are the weapons Trump supporters brought to DC on the day of the riot - CNN Top Stories

New York Times: Trump Pentagon officials delayed promotions of female generals due to fear over Trump's reaction - CNN US

How the 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act is being used in this latest Trump lawsuit - NBC Top Stories

'Bunch of baloney': After Trump's acquittal, some supporters eager to see him on the ballot in 2024 - NBC Top Stories

Analysis: The most ridiculous claim in Trump's statement slamming McConnell - CNN Top Stories

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One-third of military service members have opted not to receive Covid-19 vaccinations
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Biden says teachers should move up in the 'hierarchy' to receive Covid-19 vaccines - CNN Top Stories

Commercial TV channels unite to screen Covid vaccine myth-busting video - BBC Top Stories

COVID fallout: Biden wants to stop, not stoke, racism against Asian Americans like me - USA Today Top Stories

Covid shows need for bigger government role, says Starmer - BBC Top Stories

Democrat says Cuomo vowed to 'destroy' him for criticizing nursing home Covid response - NBC Top Stories

Your friend got the COVID vaccine first and you're jealous. How not to hate them. - USA Today Top Stories

Cities have permanently lost 400,000 jobs during COVID pandemic as many shift to suburbs. Will they come back? - USA Today Top Stories

An American family stuck in Gaza for months due to Covid restrictions finally leaves - CNN Top Stories

Covid deaths: If the news leaves you numb, you're not alone - BBC Top Stories

Seattle woman, 90, walks 6 miles through snow to get Covid vaccination - NBC Top Stories

Biden: Covid vaccines will be widely available by end of July - CNN Top Stories

U.S. still hasn't ruled out lab accident origin for Covid because China hasn't been transparent - NBC World News

SAT testing continues this spring: How testing sites are adapting to COVID restrictions - USA Today Top Stories

Apple revamps syringe emoji for Covid vaccines - BBC Top Stories

Covid and suicide: Japan's rise a warning to the world? - BBC World

The COVID pandemic has given us a road map to transform education for the better - USA Today Top Stories

'Somewhere in there, the vaccine got overpromised': How the COVID-19 vaccination process turned chaotic and confusing - USA Today Top Stories

US attorney's office in Brooklyn and FBI scrutinizing Cuomo administration's handling of data surrounding Covid nursing home deaths - CNN Top Stories

One-third of military service members have opted not to receive Covid-19 vaccinations - CNN Top Stories

The Papers: '£4,500 to get Covid' and 'parents test children' - BBC Top Stories

Up to 90 healthy volunteers to be exposed to Covid-19 in world first trial - CNN Top Stories

Covid-19: 'Data not dates' to drive lockdown easing, and £500k raised for injured rescuer - BBC Top Stories

Covid: Boris Johnson to focus on 'data, not dates' for lockdown easing - BBC Top Stories

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