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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., meets with reporters before the House votes to pass a $1.9 trillion pandemic relief package, during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Feb. 26, 2021. Pelosi is flanked by Rep. Katherine Clark, D-Mass., left, and Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Biden hails House passage of $1.9T virus bill, now to Senate

By ALAN FRAM - Associated Press

President Joe Biden speaks during an event to commemorate the 50 millionth COVID-19 shot, in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Don’t underestimate Joe Biden in putting America last

By L. Scott Lingamfelter

A man wearing a protective mask looks at an electronic stock board showing Japan's Nikkei 225 index at a securities firm Friday, Feb. 26, 2021, in Tokyo. Asian shares skidded Friday after rising bond yields triggered a broad sell-off on Wall Street that erased the markets gain for the week and handed the Nasdaq composite index its steepest loss since October. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

A bumpy day leaves stocks mostly lower; bond yields ease

By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021, file photo, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby speaks during a media briefing at the Pentagon, in Washington. Kirby announced late Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021, that the U.S. military conducted airstrikes against facilities in eastern Syria that the Pentagon said were used by Iran-backed militia groups, in response to recent attacks against U.S. personnel in Iraq. Kirby said the action was authorized by President Joe Biden. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Biden: Strikes in Syria sent warning to Iran to ‘be careful’

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and ROBERT BURNS and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA - Associated Press

President Joe Biden speaks during an event to commemorate the 50 millionth COVID-19 shot, in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden surveys Texas weather damage, encourages virus shots

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021 file photo, Trump supporters gather outside the Capitol in Washington. A faction of local, county and state Republican officials across the country is pushing lies, misinformation and conspiracy theories online that echo those that helped inspire the violent Capitol insurrection, forcing the GOP into an internal reckoning. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Some local GOP leaders fire up base with conspiracies, lies

By GARANCE BURKE, MARTHA MENDOZA and JULIET LINDERMAN and LARRY FENN - Associated Press

In this Jan. 6, 2021, photo, Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough, left, works beside Vice President Mike Pence during the certification of Electoral College ballots in the presidential election, in the House chamber at the Capitol in Washington. Shortly afterward, the Capitol was stormed by rioters determined to disrupt the certification. MacDonough has guided the Senate through two impeachment trials, vexed Democrats and Republicans alike with parliamentary opinions and helped rescue Electoral College certificates from a pro-Trump mob ransacking the Capitol. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House passes $1.9T pandemic bill on near party-line vote

By ALAN FRAM - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 16, 2018, file photo, Honduran asylum seekers are taken into custody by U.S. Border Patrol agents after the group crossed the U.S. border wall into San Diego, in California, seen from Tijuana, Mexico. The state of California is freeing up to $28 million to help asylum-seekers released in the U.S. with notices to appear in court with hotels, medical screenings, and transportation. California's generosity is a stark contrast to Arizona and Texas, where border state officials have challenged and sharply criticized President Joe Biden's immigration policies. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo, File)

California to spend $28M to help arriving asylum-seekers

By ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021 file photo, President Joe Biden visits the Viral Pathogenesis Laboratory at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Md. At bottom center is a model of the COVID-19 virus. On Friday, Feb. 26, 2021, The Associated Press reported on stories circulating online incorrectly asserting Biden restored taxpayer funding for the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Social media users are falsely claiming the Biden administration is bankrolling the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a Chinese lab which has faced unproven allegations that the coronavirus leaked from the facility leading to the global COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week

By ALI SWENSON and ARIJETA LAJKA - Associated Press

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., speaks during a news conference at the Capitol, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Highlights of the COVID-19 relief bill advancing in Congress

By KEVIN FREKING - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 17, 2021, file photo, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby speaks during a media briefing at the Pentagon in Washington. A U.S. airstrike targeting facilities used by Iran-backed militias in Syria appears to be a message to Tehran delivered by a new American administration still figuring out its approach to the Middle East. Kirby said the operation in Boukamal, Syria, sends an unambiguous message: “President Biden will act to protect American and coalition personnel. At the same time, we have acted in a deliberate manner that aims to deescalate the overall situation in eastern Syria and Iraq.” (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

EXPLAINER: US airstrike in Syria sends message to Iran

By ZEINA KARAM and BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Xavier Becerra testifies during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on his nomination to be secretary of Health and Human Services on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021. (Greg Nash/Pool via AP)

Tanden and Becerra confirmations have nothing to do with their color

By Kelly Sadler - The Washington Times

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., walks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

COVID-19 bill must drop minimum wage hike, arbiter decides

By ALAN FRAM - Associated Press

United States Ambassador to the United Nations nominee Linda Thomas-Greenfield testifies during for her confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021, in Washington. (Greg Nash/Pool via AP)

New US envoy starts challenge to restore US on world stage

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

A doctor, right, assists nurses as they treat a patient delivered by emergency medical personnel from a nursing home showing symptoms of COVID-19 at a hospital in Yonkers, N.Y., April 20, 2020. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Biden marks 50M vaccine doses in first 5 weeks in office

By ZEKE MILLER and DARLENE SUPERVILLE - Associated Press

In this Oct. 27, 2011, file photo, then U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, right, offers his condolences to then Prince Salman bin Abdel-Aziz upon the death of his brother Saudi Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, at Prince Sultan palace in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. President Joe Biden is expected to speak to Saudi King Salman for the first time in Biden’s just over a month-old administration. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar) ** FILE **

Ties with Saudis at stake as U.S. releases findings on Khashoggi killing

By Ellen Knickmeyer - Associated Press

President Joe Biden speaks about the coronavirus in the State Dinning Room of the White House, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021, in Washington. Experts say Biden's pledge to undo his predecessor's anti-regulatory policies on the environment won't be accomplished easily, despite a fast start. After taking office last week, Biden returned the U.S. to the Paris climate accords, revoked the Keystone oil pipeline’s federal permit and halted oil and gas leasing in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

A failing report card for Joe Biden

By David Bossie

Katherine Tai, nominee for U.S. trade representative, testifies before a Senate Finance Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021. (Tasos Katopodis/Pool via AP)

Biden’s trade pick vows to work more closely with allies

By PAUL WISEMAN - Associated Press

In this Feb. 11, 2021, photo, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., speaks during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington. The Democratic-led House is poised to pass a bill that enshrines protections in the nation’s labor and civil rights laws for LGBTQ people, a top priority of President Joe Biden, though the legislation faces an uphill battle in the Senate. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

House poised to vote on legal safeguards for LGBTQ people

By KEVIN FREKING - Associated Press

In this March 29, 2012, file photo author and political consultant Naomi Wolf speaks to reporters during a news conference in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) ** FILE **

Naomi Wolf: Too little, too late — too disingenuous

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times