UNEWS, Top stories for U.S. Latinos in English

The White House makes a new push to combat vaccine hesitancy; Biden commits the US to slashing greenhouse gas emissions by 2030; today is the anniversary of Vanessa Guillen’s death.

Reaction after former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin found guilty for murdering George Floyd; the U.S. Justice Department announces an investigation into Minneapolis Police Department practices; and the U.S. approaches President Biden’s goal of 200 million people vaccinated in his first 100 days.

Nation braces for verdict as jury deliberates in Chauvin’s murder case; President Biden meets with leaders of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus; and a look at the role of “coyotes” or human smugglers in the rising number of migrants at the US border.

Closing arguments start on Chauvin’s trial; Biden backtracks on keeping Trump-era refugee caps; and “red flag” laws in Indiana failed to prevent deadly FedEx shooting.

Police are working to identify gunman in the Indianapolis shooting; anger in Chicago in the police killing of 13-year-old Adam Toledo; Biden speeds up refugee admissions but doesn’t raise Trump-era caps.

Biden announces restrictions on Russia over cyber spying and election interference; Texas GOP officials in Harris County are recruiting an “army” of poll watchers in Houston’s Black and Latino neighborhoods; a 12-year-old girl in Mexico is her helping her town’s elders get vaccinated.

The Minnesota police officer involved in the shooting of an unarmed Black man will be charged with second-degree manslaughter; Biden announcing his decision to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan; and Senate is expected to vote on the future of the anti-Asian hate crimes bill.

FDA recommends pausing rollout of Johnson and Johnson vaccine after 6 reported cases of blood clots; the officer who killed Daunte Wright says she mistook her weapon for a taser; and “O’ Miami” poetry festival is offering made-to-order poems for people grieving loved ones during the pandemic.

New protests in Minneapolis after the police shooting of an unarmed Black man just miles away from where the Chauvin murder trial is taking place; the family of a 10-year-old Nicaraguan boy who was found wondering alone in the desert described his ordeal crossing the border exclusively to Univision; and a look at opening day at Dodger Stadium after one year of covid shutdowns.

Floyd died of a lack of oxygen according to forensic pathologist on tenth day of Chauvin’s trial; 168,000 migrants were apprehended at the US-Mexico border in March alone; and New York creates a pandemic relief fund for undocumented people.