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  2. The Supreme Court will review a lower court's decision from last summer that vacated the death sentence of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The lower court had said the original trial judge did not secure an impartial jury for the trial.

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  3. How's the distribution of the coronavirus vaccine going in your state? Use our tracker to find out how your state is doing:

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  4. Marty Walsh was confirmed by the Senate to serve as the next Labor Secretary, making him the first former union leader to run the Labor Department in over four decades.

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  5. Two members of President Biden's National Security Council are traveling to Mexico as the administration continues facing a surge of unaccompanied minors at the U.S. border.

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  6. The current situation at the U.S. border follows the Trump administration dramatically reducing the size of the HHS shelter system for unaccompanied migrants and changing policy on sharing information on potential sponsors with immigration authorities.

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  7. AstraZeneca said it will seek emergency use authorization from the FDA for its coronavirus vaccine after a U.S. clinical trial found it was 79% effective at preventing symptoms and 100% effective at preventing serious disease and hospitalization.

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  8. For the first time since the Senate sergeant-at-arm's office was created in 1789, its leaders are now all women.

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  9. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton's bill for D.C. statehood would reduce the size of the federal district and admit the State of Washington, Douglass Commonwealth — in honor of the abolitionist Frederick Douglass — into the union.

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  10. The Supreme Court will review a lower court's decision that vacated the death sentence of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

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  11. Mary Walsh, the two-term mayor of Boston who once led the Boston Building Trades Council, has been confirmed as the next Secretary of Labor.

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  12. More than 124 million coronavirus doses have been administered in the U.S., fully vaccinating over 44 million people or 13.3% of the total U.S. population. The latest data:

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  14. President Biden is sending top National Security Council officials to Mexico and Guatemala this week to discuss the growing numbers of U.S.-bound migrants from Central America.

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  16. Walsh becomes the head of the Labor Department at a critical time, as the coronavirus pandemic has left millions unemployed and raised concerns about workplace safety.

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  17. GOP Rep. Tom Reed says he won't seek reelection after he was accused of sexual misconduct by a former lobbyist. Reed apologized for his behavior and said he was struggling with alcoholism at the time, and has since received treatment.

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  18. NEW: Marty Walsh, the two-term mayor of Boston, was confirmed as the next Labor Secretary by the Senate in a 68-29 vote.

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  19. It's been clear that more migrant children were coming since two hurricanes devastated Central America late last year — and thousands had amassed in border towns in Mexico where the Trump administration had expelled them, and were desperate to get out.

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  20. The U.S. trial of AstraZeneca's coronavirus vaccine shows it is 79% effective at preventing symptoms of the virus and 100% effective at preventing serious disease and hospitalization.

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