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Court upholds order for Dakota Access pipeline environmental review

By Dave Kolpack, Associated Press

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ruled last year that a more extensive review was necessary than the one already conducted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Vaccine ramp-up squeezes COVID testing and tracing

By Bernard J. Wolfson, Kaiser Health News

Balancing vaccinations with testing and other COVID-related tasks is a significant challenge for public health officials across California and the nation, because those functions draw on many of the same resources.

U.N. chief says world faces ‘existential threats,’ fragilities

By Edith Lederer, Associated Press

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is warning global leaders that the world not only faces a COVID-19 emergency and the worst economic crisis in nearly a century.

Mexican president tests positive for COVID-19

By Christopher Sherman, Associated Press

Mexico's director of epidemiology, said the 67-year-old had a "light" case of COVID-19 and was "isolating at home." Interior Secretary Olga Sanchez Cordero says he's still working as president.

WATCH: Jen Psaki holds White House briefing

By Associated Press

White House press secretary Jen Psaki says the Biden administration will provide public briefings on the coronavirus pandemic starting Wednesday.

California lifts coronavirus stay-at-home orders and curfew statewide

By Associated Press

The order had been in place in the San Francisco Bay Area, San Joaquin Valley and Southern California, covering the majority of the state's counties.

Biden to reinstate COVID travel rules, add South Africa

By Aamer Madhani, Associated Press

The decision to reverse the order is not surprising, but the addition of South Africa to the restricted travel list highlights the new administration’s concern about mutations in the virus.

Biden rolls back Trump-era climate policies, commits to tackling crisis

By Ivette Feliciano

In his first hours in office, President Biden signed executive orders aimed at tackling the climate crisis and rolling back Trump-era policies, some of which denied the science of human-caused climate change. NewsHour Weekend’s Ivette Feliciano spoke with May Boeve,…

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Israel targets flights, religious scofflaws, as virus rages

By Josef Federman, Associated Press

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said Israel will be closing its international airport to nearly all flights, while Israeli police clashed with ultra-Orthodox protesters in several major cities and the government raced to bring a raging coronavirus outbreak under…

UK vaccination drive expands as virus toll nears 100,000

By Jill Lawless, Associated Press

Health Secretary Matt Hancock said Sunday that three-quarters of the U.K.’s over-80s have received a vaccine shot. He said three-quarters of nursing home residents have also had their first jab.