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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.

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Rio Tinto to pay out record $9bn in dividends for 2020

The world’s second largest mining company reported a 20% rise in underlying profit to $12.4bn. The better-than-expected profits followed an increase in commodity prices, particularly iron ore and copper, amid interruptions to global supply partly caused by the pandemic.

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Live Updates: Biden Plans to Promote Stimulus Proposal and Vaccinations

President Biden is set to seize the spotlight this week after weeks of attention on former President Donald J. Trump’s impeachment trial. Mr. Biden is beginning a more public sales pitch for his domestic agenda, with his first set of work trips outside Washington.

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Biden Takes Center Stage With Ambitious Agenda as Trump’s Trial Ends

WASHINGTON — President Biden’s allies say that with the distraction of the impeachment trial of his predecessor now over, he will quickly press for passage of his $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief plan before moving on to an even bigger agenda in Congress that includes infrastructure, immigration, criminal justice reform, climate change and health care.