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After Stimulus, Biden to Tackle Another Politically Tricky Issue: Infrastructure

WASHINGTON — President Biden’s two immediate predecessors had ambitious goals to rebuild the country’s infrastructure, but both left office having made little progress in fixing the nation’s bridges, roads, pipes and broadband. President Donald J. Trump announced so many meaningless infrastructure weeks that the term became a running joke of his administration.

Intervención de Ana Esther Ceceña en el Tributo a Immanuel Wallerstein, organizado en el marco del Cuarto Foro de Sociología de la Asociación Internacional de Sociología, Porto Alegre, Brasil, 26 de febrero de 2021

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How Pro-Trump Forces Pushed a Lie About Antifa at the Capitol Riot

On social media, on cable networks and even in the halls of Congress, supporters of Donald J. Trump tried to rewrite history in real time, pushing the fiction that left-wing agitators were to blame for the violence on Jan. 6.

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Live Updates: House to Keep Minimum-Wage Increase in Stimulus Bill Over Official’s Ruling

The House is expected on Friday to vote on President Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus plan with an increase to the federal minimum wage still in it, a day after a key Senate official ruled that the provision would need to be removed before the package could become law.

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Candidate Biden Called Saudi Arabia a ‘Pariah.’ He Now Has to Deal With It.

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Texas freeze casts renewable energy as next battle line in US culture wars

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Live Updates: Senators to Begin Inquiry Into Capitol Riot

Two Senate committees are scheduled to begin an investigative hearing Tuesday to scrutinize the security breakdowns that failed to prevent the deadly rampage by Trump supporters.

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UE aprueba nuevas sanciones contra Venezuela

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Live Updates: Power Comes Back in Texas, but Water Systems Are Crippled

The end of frigid conditions across Texas is in sight on Friday, but many residents who fled their homes this week in search of warm beds and showers of any temperature are only now discovering the extent of the winter storm’s destruction.

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Live Updates: Misery Deepens in Texas as a New Storm Threatens the East Coast

The lack of power and safe water for millions of people in Texas may be compounded on Thursday by a band of foul weather stretching from the Rio Grande to New York. Days of glacial weather have left at least 38 people dead nationwide, made many roads impassable, disrupted vaccine distribution and blanketed nearly three-quarters of the continental United States in snow.