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Biden’s pick for key Cabinet job loses nomination over mean tweets
Longtime Democratic policy adviser Neera Tanden will not become Biden’s budget director, in the administration’s first defeat in filling a Cabinet post.
- by Eli Stokols and Jennifer Haberkorn
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More than a dozen killed in California when truck hits four-wheel drive
A Ford Expedition typically seats eight people legally. Authorities did not immediately know why 25 people had been crammed into the truck.
- by Elliot Spagat
Enough coronavirus vaccine for all US adults by end of May, Biden says
In a surprise, Biden’s administration also announced that drugmaker Merck will help produce rival Johnson & Johnson’s newly approved shot.
- by Zeke Miller and Linda A. Johnson
Analysis
Coronavirus pandemic
Why Trump’s secret COVID jab was a massive missed opportunity
Donald Trump’s status as a Republican folk hero makes him the perfect person to sell the vaccine to sceptical conservatives. It’s a role he has rejected.
- by Matthew Knott
US announces sanctions on Russia over opposition leader’s poisoning
The Biden administration has announced sanctions of Russian officials and businesses for a nearly fatal nerve-agent attack upon opposition leader Alexei Navalny and his subsequent jailing.
- by Ellen Knickmeyer
Six Dr Seuss books will no longer be published due to racist images
The books – including And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street and If I Ran the Zoo – will stop being published because of racist and insensitive imagery, Dr Seuss Enterprises said.
- by Mark Pratt
‘Can I kiss you?’: Third woman accuses NY governor Cuomo
The governor was working the room after toasting newlyweds when he came upon Ruch, whom he hadn’t met. What happened next instantly unsettled her.
- by Matt Flegenheimer and Jesse McKinley
Split from royal life ‘unbelievably tough’, Prince Harry says
In an interview with Oprah Winfrey, Harry invoked the memory of his late mother, Princess Diana, who had to find her way alone after she and Prince Charles divorced.
- by Lynn Elber
Analysis
Trump's America
Donald Trump cannot be consigned to the history books just yet
Trump fatigue is real but he remains easily the brightest star in the galaxy of American conservatism.
- by Matthew Knott
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Workplace culture
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo acknowledges behaviour seen as ‘flirtation’
The crisis now enveloping Cuomo’s office developed rapidly after a second woman on Saturday went public with a story about being harassed by the governor in the workplace.
- by Karen Matthews
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US politics
Donald Trump hints he could run again for presidency
In first speech since leaving office, Trump revived his false claims that he was the true victor of the November election - a lie that inspired his supporters to storm the Capitol on January 6.
- by Matthew Knott