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  • This Dec. 2, 2020 photo provided by Johnson & Johnson shows vials of the COVID-19 vaccine in the United States. (Johnson & Johnson via AP)

    Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine gets emergency use authorization from FDA

  • President Joe Biden speaks on the economy in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Saturday, Feb. 27, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

    Biden hails House passage of $1.9T virus bill, now to Senate

  • The coffin of Captain Sir Tom Moore is carried by members of the Armed Forces during his funeral, at Bedford Crematorium, in Bedford, England, Saturday, Feb. 27, 2021. Tom Moore, the 100-year-old World War II veteran who captivated the British public in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic with his fundraising efforts died, Tuesday Feb. 2, 2021. (Joe Giddens/Pool Photo via AP)

    WWII plane fly-past honours Captain Tom Moore at funeral

  • This image from video made available by NASA shows the parachute deployed during the descent of the Mars Perseverance rover as it approaches the surface of the planet on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021. Systems engineer Ian Clark used a binary code to spell out “Dare Mighty Things” in the orange and white strips of the 70-foot (21-meter) parachute. He also included the GPS coordinates for the mission's headquarters at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP)

    'Dare mighty things': The man behind the secret message in the Mars rover's parachute

  • Police stand in formation blocking a main road in Mandalay, Myanmar, Saturday, Feb. 27, 2021. Myanmar security forces cracked down on anti-coup protesters in the country's second-largest city Mandalay on Friday, injuring at least three people, two of whom were shot in the chest by rubber bullets and another who suffered a wound on his leg. (AP Photo)

    Myanmar police deploy early to crank up pressure on protests

  • Some of the students that were not kidnapped from a Government Girls Junior Secondary School following an attack by gunmen in Jangebe, Nigeria, Friday, Feb. 26, 2021. Gunmen abducted 317 girls from a boarding school in northern Nigeria on Friday, police said, the latest in a series of mass kidnappings of students in the West African nation.(AP Photo/ Ibrahim Mansur)

    Official: 42 abducted from Nigerian school 2 weeks ago freed

  • President Joe Biden speaks during an event to commemorate the 50 millionth COVID-19 shot, in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

    Biden team considering a halt to 'offensive' arms sales for Saudis

  • A rose is placed next to the names of victims of the 1993 bombing World Trade Center during a ceremony marking the 28th anniversary of the attack, Friday, Feb. 26, 2021, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

    4 men convicted in 1993 WTC bombing have had sentences cut

  • In this image taken through scaffolding, President Joe Biden speaks at a FEMA COVID-19 mass vaccination site at NRG Stadium, Friday, Feb. 26, 2021, in Houston. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

    Biden: Strikes in Syria sent warning to Iran to 'be careful'