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President Joe Biden, right, attends a virtual meeting with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Monday, March 1, 2021, in Washington. Also pictured is Secretary of State Antony Blinken, second from right, and White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan, third from right. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Biden’s Cabinet half-empty after slow start in confirmations

By ALEXANDRA JAFFE - Associated Press

In this Jan. 7, 2021, file photo, Associate Attorney General nominee Vanita Gupta speaks during an event with President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Del. More than 75 former U.S. attorneys are throwing their support behind Gupta for associate attorney general and urging congressional leaders to quickly confirm her to the post. Gupta has been nominated for the No. 3 position in the Justice Department. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) **FILE**

75 ex-top prosecutors endorse Biden’s pick for associate AG

By MICHAEL BALSAMO - Associated Press

Washington educators, childcare workers eligible for vaccine

By RACHEL LA CORTE - Associated Press

Tents used by migrants seeking asylum in the United States line an entrance to the border crossing, Monday, March 1, 2021, in Tijuana, Mexico. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) ** FILE **

Mexico president says meeting with Biden friendly, positive

By MARÍA VERZA - Associated Press

FILE - This September 2020, file photo provided by Johnson &amp; Johnson shows a pharmacist preparing to give an experimental COVID-19 vaccine. The U.S. is getting a third vaccine to prevent COVID-19, as the Food and Drug Administration on Saturday, Feb. 27, 2021 cleared a Johnson &amp; Johnson shot that works with just one dose instead of two. (Johnson &amp; Johnson via AP, File)

Biden vows enough vaccine for all US adults by end of May

By ZEKE MILLER and LINDA A. JOHNSON and JONATHAN LEMIRE - Associated Press

A German help worker tests a French resident working in Germany for COVID-19 at the German-French border near Saarbrucken, Tuesday, March 2, 2021. Germany announced Sunday that travelers from France's northeastern Moselle region will face additional restrictions because of the high rate of variant coronavirus cases there. Travelers from this area must produce a recent negative coronavirus test before entering Germany. The Moselle region in northeastern France includes the city of Metz and borders the German states of Saarland and Rhineland-Palatinate. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)

The Latest: Ontario seniors won’t get AstraZeneca vaccine

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Activists appeal for a $15 minimum wage near the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021. The $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill being prepped in Congress includes a provision that over five years would hike the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Minimum wage hike all but dead in big COVID relief bill

By ALAN FRAM - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 3, 2021, file photo, Education Secretary nominee Miguel Cardona testifies before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee during his confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Senate has confirmed him as Education Secretary on March 1. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool, File)

Senate confirms Cardona as Biden’s education secretary

By COLLIN BINKLEY - Associated Press

Racism of Planned Parenthood Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

If President Biden really wants to end racism, he should support the Hyde Amendment

By Rev. Dean Nelson

Michael Foster of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union holds a sign outside an Amazon facility where labor is trying to organize workers on Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021. President Joe Biden said workers in Alabama and across the country have the right to join a union without intimidation from their companies. His comments come as Amazon workers in the state are voting on whether they should unionize. In a two minute video posted to Twitter, Biden didn’t mention Amazon by name, or say how workers should vote. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves, file)

Biden says workers in Alabama have a right to vote on union

By JOSEPH PISANI - Associated Press

President Joe Biden steps off Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Monday, March 1, 2021. Biden is returning to Washington after spending the weekend at his home in Delaware. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Biden buyer’s remorse

By Kelly Sadler - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks on the economy in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Saturday, Feb. 27, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Democrats are undermining alliances

By Christian Whiton

FILE - Then-U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, left, poses for photos with then-Mexican presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in Mexico City, Monday March 5, 2012. President Biden is planning a virtual meeting with Mexican President Obrador. The meeting, on Monday, March 1, 2021, is a chance for the pair to talk more fully about migration, treating the coronavirus and cooperating on economic and national security issues. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini, File)

Biden tries to reset relationship with Mexican president

By MARK STEVENSON and ZEKE MILLER and AAMER MADHANI - Associated Press

This Monday, Feb. 22, 2021 photo shows Latoya Gipson's house on Perry County Road 1 in Uniontown, Ala. Disadvantaged communities in America are disproportionately affected by pollution from industry or waste disposal, but their complaints have few outlets and often reach a dead end. Hundreds of discrimination claims sent to the Environmental Protection Agency’s civil rights office since the mid-90s have only once resulted in a formal finding of discrimination. And some cases languished for years — or decades.(AP Photo/Vasha Hunt)

Biden administration promises focus on environmental justice

By TRAVIS LOLLER - Associated Press

There are multiple factors being cited as reasons for President Biden's delay in delivering the State of the Union address, including the virus. (Associated Press)

Inside the Beltway: So where’s the big Biden speech?

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting with lawmakers on investments in infrastructure, in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021, in Washington. From left, Biden, Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, on screen. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden team readies wider economic package after virus relief

By KEVIN FREKING and HOPE YEN and JOSH BOAK - Associated Press

In this Dec. 18, 2020, file photo, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gives his daily, morning news conference at the presidential palace, Palacio Nacional, in Mexico City. Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador says he has tested positive for COVID-19 and is under medical treatment, Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Mexico president, to propose immigrant labor program to Joe Biden

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President Joe Biden speaks with Rep. Sylvia Garcia, D-Texas, after stepping off Air Force One at Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base in Houston, Friday, Feb. 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Analysis: Biden ambitions run into reality of Senate’s rules

By JULIE PACE - Associated Press

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador gives his daily, morning press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021, with an Argentine flag in the background, right, as Argentine President Alberto Fernandez attends the event. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Mexican president says he’ll propose labor program to Biden

Associated Press

FILE - In this June 21, 2016, file photo, Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington to testify before the Senate Banking Committee. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Yellen’s encore: Lending economic heft to Biden’s virus plan

By JOSH BOAK - Associated Press