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The Senate has confirmed Merrick Garland to run the Justice Department. He's vowed to crack down on violent domestic extremists and reduce racial disparities in the justice system.

Bakersfield, California and Memphis, Tennessee came in second and third place respectively for pedestrian fatalities.

The bill will deliver a new round of aid to Americans almost a year after the pandemic first upended daily life in the United States.

After the shooting at the Capital Gazette newspaper, the surviving staff resolve to rebuild their paper.

Florida's education commissioner told the Monroe school district last week that he wasn't happy with the way they were handling middle and high school classes in the pandemic. The district will change its approach in a couple weeks.

The colossal package allocates money for COVID-19 vaccines, schools, small businesses and anti-poverty programs like the child tax credit. Here are the highlights, including what the Senate changed.

The monthly checks would mark a big shift in the federal government's approach to child poverty. One study estimates they could cut the number of poor children by half.

If passed, Biden's relief bill would significantly expand the number of people eligible for federal help in paying their health plan premiums, and would boost the size of those subsidies.

Two more of President Biden's nominees to lead the Justice Department will be questioned by the Senate this week as Merrick Garland prepares for confirmation as attorney general.

In Selma, Ala., the reenactment of the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge was scaled down because of COVID-19. It was also the first without civil rights icon John Lewis who died last year.