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Biden’s agenda imperiled as priorities stall in Congress The Washington Post

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Isabelle Guerra, left, and Kaitlin O’Donnell will be the first two Solano women to earn their Eagle Scouting awards.

WASHINGTON — In his first formal address to Congress last month, President Joe Biden implored lawmakers to act expeditiously on an ambitious to-do list. On expanding access to voting, Biden pushed for legislation to be sent for his signature “right away.” On immigration, he urged Republicans and Democrats to at least “argue over it” and “debate it,” but mostly, “let’s act.” Biden told Congress that he wants to sign legislation overhauling controversial policing practices by May 25, the first anniversary of the

murder of George Floyd. And while he pledged to do everything in his power to counteract the rash of gun violence, Biden added: “It’s time for Congress to act as well.” Yet the burst of legislating that characterized the first few months of the Biden administration – from the signing of $1.9 trillion in coronavirus relief into law to swift passage of several Democratic priorities in the House – has slowed dramatically. The White House’s hopes for meaningful policy achievements hinge on a handful of critical ongoing negotiations, centered See Biden, Page A7

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President Biden makes his way to Marine One at the White House, Wednesday.

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Isabelle Guerra and others work on her Eagle Scout project.

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Solar storms are back, threatening life as we know it on Earth A few days ago, millions of tons of super-heated gas shot off from the surface of the sun and hurtled 90 million miles toward Earth. The eruption, called a coronal mass ejection, wasn’t particularly powerful on the space-weather scale, but when it hit the Earth’s magnetic field it triggered the

strongest geomagnetic storm seen for years. There wasn’t much disruption this time – few people probably even knew it happened – but it served as a reminder the sun has woken from a yearslong slumber. While invisible and harmless to anyone on the Earth’s surface, See Solar, Page A7

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A large solar flare erupts off the sun, June 7, 2011, in space. A large cloud of particles flew up and then was pulled back down to the sun’s surface.

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Federal Health officials are ramping up their surveillance of the highly transmissible Covid-19 variant first identified in India as experts warn that undervaccinated areas in the U.S. could become hot spots for the mutation. While U.S. cases attributed to the B.1.617 variant currently sit below 1%, the growth rate remains unclear due to the small sample size. Meanwhile, one science group said the strain could be as much as 50% more transmissible

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than B.1.1.7, the variant that emerged from the U.K. That mutation was first seen in the U.S. in late December, and is now dominant nationally. A just-released U.K. study found the Pfizer Inc.-BioN Tech SE vaccine was “highly effective” against a form of the B.1.617 variant two weeks after the second dose, affirming preliminary data from Phase 3 clinical trials. Still, the mutation has arrived in the U.S. at a time when anti-pandemic measures See CDC, Page A7

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