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Cuba is going it alone. No contracts with big drug makers, no support from WHO’s vaccine program. If successful, Cuba will be producer of the first vaccine developed in Latin America. (Image credit: Yamil Lage/AFP via Getty Images)

President Joe Biden says he’s committed to making progress on overhauling the U.S. immigration system, bolstering gun laws and strengthening voting rights.

The president appears likely to reopen the majority of K-8 schools within his first 100 days in office, but many families are still opting out. (Image credit: Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)

Thursday evening Zoom event with Kamala Harris, Doug Emhoff will include taped remarks from president and first lady; Biden expected to hold in-preson seder over weekend

Envoy delivers news in her 1st address at Security Council monthly briefing on Israeli-Palestinian conflict, during which she laments that same attention not given to other issues

The number of bald eagles in the lower 48 states has quadrupled since 2009, according to a new survey. The findings are a bright spot in an otherwise troubling picture for American birds. (Image credit: Prisma Bildagentur/Universal Images Group via

Prosecutors Are Lining Up Witnesses to Explain Donald Trump’s Many Alleged Crimes to a Jury  Vanity Fair

President Joe Biden said Thursday the United States will “respond accordingly” if North Korea escalates its missile testing. “We are consulting with our partners and allies,” Biden said at his first White House press conference. “And there will be responses

Biden says Senate filibuster is being ‘abused’ and must be changed  NBC News Al Sharpton threatens to accuse Manchin, Sinema of ‘supporting racism’ if they don’t kill filibuster  Fox News Manchin pushes Dems for voting rights compromise amid talk of killing filibuster  POLITICO

The Bank of England unveiled the new £50 note on Thursday, nearly two years after saying it would honor the pioneering mathematician who died an outcast because of his homosexuality. (Image credit: Bank of England)