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WATCH: Congressional leaders hold moment of silence for 500,000 lives lost to COVID-19

By News Desk and Associated Press

The nation passed the grim milestone on Monday, just over a year after the first confirmed U.S. fatality of the pandemic.

Tiger Woods suffers leg injuries after California car crash

By Stefanie Dazio, Associated Press

Authorities and Tiger Woods' manager say the golf star has suffered leg injuries in a vehicle rollover in the Los Angeles area and is undergoing surgery.

Why Indigenous people in cities feel 'invisible' as pandemic wears on

By Casey Kuhn

14 states don’t publicly keep track of COVID-19 data for American Indians/Alaska Natives. “We know who we are, and these are our homelands, so to be rendered invisible is another incidence of historical trauma.”…

WATCH: Senate holds hearing on SolarWinds hack

By Associated Press

President Joe Biden has said that dealing with “Russian recklessness and hacking into computer networks in the United States and across Europe and the world has become critical to protecting our collective security.”…

Fed Chair Powell says recovery incomplete, higher inflation unlikely

By Christopher Rugaber, Associated Press

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell underscored the U.S. economy's ongoing weakness Tuesday in remarks that suggested that the Fed sees no need to alter its ultra-low interest rate policies anytime soon.

At least 160 Confederate symbols taken down in 2020, new count finds

By Aaron Morrison, Associated Press

A new count by the Southern Poverty Law Center finds at least 160 Confederate symbols were taken down or moved from public spaces in 2020.

WATCH: Capitol defenders cite missed intelligence for security failures

By Mary Clare Jalonick, Michael Balsamo, Lisa Mascaro, Associated Press

The former chief of the U.S. Capitol Police has told lawmakers that he learned only after the attack that his officers had received a report from the FBI that forecast, in detail, the chances that extremists could commit “war” in…

WATCH: Interior nominee Deb Haaland vows 'balance' on energy, climate

By Matthew Daly, Associated Press

Biden's agenda, including the possible creation of a Civilian Climate Corps, “demonstrates that America’s public lands can and should be engines for clean energy production" and “has the potential to spur job creation," Haaland said at her confirmation hearing.

U.S. reopens Texas tent facility to hold immigrant teenagers

By Nomaan Merchant, Associated Press

President Joe Biden's administration has reopened a tent facility to house up to 700 immigrant teenagers after they cross the U.S.-Mexico border unaccompanied by a parent, a sign of growing worries about how children are treated in government custody.

Wife of drug kingpin 'El Chapo' arrested on U.S. drug charges

By Michael Balsamo, Associated Press

She's accused of helping her husband escape from a Mexican prison in 2015 and participating in the planning of a second prison escape before Guzman was extradited to the U.S. in January 2017.