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

The House is voting tomorrow on Biden’s nearly $2 Trillion covid relief bill; the CDC puts out new guidelines for fully vaccinated people but some health experts say the travel restrictions are unnecessary; jury selection starts in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd’s death; and Meghan Markle’s revelations about her mental health struggles reverberate a day after Oprah’s tell-all interview.

The CDC releases guidelines for fully vaccinated people; the House of Representatives votes today on Biden’s nearly $2 Trillion covid relief bill; top NY Democrat says Gov. Andrew Cuomo must resign; and Mexican authorities dismantle migrant camp in Matamoros.

The Senate is debating President Biden’s $1.9 Trillion covid relief package, voting on amendments is expected to drag through the weekend; Police wants to keep 5,000 National Guard troops at the Capitol until mid-May because of extremist threats; the Biden Administration is facing a growing influx of migrants at the border; a Guatemalan woman lost her life in the deadly SUV crash in California; and Alabama’s GOP governor extends mask mandate.

The US Capitol on high alert over fears of a possible militia plot to storm the building; President Biden blasts lifting of restrictions and mask mandate in Texas; and immigrant families are getting tested for covid-19 at the border before being released into the US.

Investigators looking into a California SUV crash that killed 13 passengers; Senate expected to take up Biden’s nearly $2 Trillion covid relief bill as the president now agrees to target direct payments; Senate hearing examines security failures at the Capitol; President Biden says the US will have enough vaccines for all Americans by end of May; farm workers in some California counties start getting vaccinated despite undocumented status.

FBI Director Christopher Wray calls Capitol Hill insurrection “domestic terrorism” during Senate hearing into Jan. 6th security failures; 4 million doses of Johnson and Johnson’s vaccine to be administered as soon as today; a third woman has alleged unwanted advances by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo; Biden and Lopez Obrador discuss border security during virtual meeting as the number of migrants at the border is growing; and twin sisters in Maryland are among the first girls to become Eagle Scouts, an achievement only previously reserved for boys.

First Johnson and Johnson cvodi-19 vaccines to be shipped out today; former President Trump makes first remarks since leaving the White House at CPAC; President Biden to meet with virtually Mexico’s Andrés Manuel López Obrador to discuss security and immigration; NY’s Governor Cuomo asks for independent lawyer to review sexual harassment claims against him; childhood cancer survivor becomes part of first all-civilian space mission to be launched later this year.

President Biden ordered airstrikes in Syria in retaliation for a rocket attack in Iraq earlier this month; the House is set to vote on a nearly $2 Trillion coronavirus relief package, but the Democratic-led wage hike is ruled out from the bill; a third covid-19 vaccine is on the verge of getting FDA authorization; Biden’s immigration policies get a reality check after backlash over his reopening of migrant facilities for children; and a family is reunited with their long-lost dog after turning out alive hundreds of miles away from home.

Johnson and Johnson’s vaccine on the verge of FDA approval just as a new variant is identified in New York City; the White House lifts a Trump-era ban blocking legal immigration to the US; immigrant rights groups file a complaint describing the mishandling of the covid outbreak at the Glades Detention Center in Florida; asylum seekers who had been waiting in migrant camps in Matamoros, Mexico are allowed in the US; and last week’s deadly winter storm shows how unprepared some states are for climate change.

Emma Coronel, wife of Mexican drug lord El Chapo Guzman, spends her second night in a Virginia jail charged with drug trafficking; FDA may authorize Johnson and Johnson’s single dose vaccine by Friday as White House announces distribution of 25,000,000 masks to the country; Biden’s minimum wage hike proposal faces make or break moment in congress as unions demand higher wages; and golf superstar Tiger Woods recovering after a serious car accident.