Thursday, February 25th, 2021

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.