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- Joe Biden signed an executive order to reopen federal health insurance marketplaces. He also axed the “global gag rule”, which ends a ban on US funding of overseas groups that offer healthcare advice on abortions.
- There were 164,665 new coronavirus cases yesterday and it was another day with a high death toll – 3,872. Hospitalizations dropped to 104,303, their lowest level since 7 December.
- Nancy Pelosi said yesterday that Democrats would push ahead to get a coronavirus economic relief plan through Congress, even without Republican support.
- The Biden administration is expected name Robert Malley, a former top adviser in the Obama administration, as special envoy for Iran.
- Democratic representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has rejected a message of support from Ted Cruz, adding the Texas senator “almost had me murdered three weeks ago”.
- Russia cultivated Trump as an asset for 40 years, a former KGB spy has told the Guardian.
- There’s still a lot of eyes on GameStop stock – overnight Facebook shut a popular Robinhood Stock Traders group. Facebook says the group, which had 157,000 members, was taken down for allegedly violating policies unrelated to stock price surges.
- The Chicago home of Emmett Till has gained landmark status and will be turned into a museum.
- The former White House press secretary, Sarah Sanders, has raised more than $1m in the first four days of her bid for Arkansas governor.
- Joe Biden will visit wounded service members at Walter Reed Army Medical Center this afternoon. Earlier he and vice president Kamala Harris will receive the president’s daily brief and also an economic briefing from secretary of the treasury Janet Yellen. Jen Psaki will give a press briefing at 10am EST (3pm GMT).
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