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Key Democratic House Committee chairs asked the Biden administration to require N95 masks at meatpacking plants, prisons and risky workplaceshttps://trib.al/e83z01Z 

New York prosecutors investigating the Trump Organization have questioned witnesses about the two sons of the company’s longtime chief financial officerhttps://trib.al/KNYsHid 

Electric-vehicle maker Workhorse, reeling from the loss of a U.S. Postal Service contract, will meet with agency officials Wednesday as the company weighs options to challenge the decisionhttps://trib.al/Pl3OBA7 

Elizabeth Warren says her proposed wealth tax on households worth more than $50 million could help pay for investments in infrastructure, childcare and health reformshttps://trib.al/zz5JSOL 

Hong Kong security hearing adjourned after activist collapses in courthttps://trib.al/iFbiLyK 

Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Biden's new UN ambassador, vows to re-energize diplomatic efforts to help end the world’s worst humanitarian disasters, citing crises in Yemen and Ethiopiahttps://trib.al/eAbMwBX 

Biden’s approach to Saudi Arabia represents a “recalibration” and not a break in historically close ties, a State Department spokesman sayshttps://trib.al/14TqAst 

For U.S. politicians, China’s potential to dominate sensitive cutting-edge tech poses a top geopolitical threat. Xi is similarly worried the U.S. will block China’s rise, and this week will unveil plans for greater self-sufficiencyhttps://trib.al/9ISzTgW 

Trump privately received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine while still in office, aides say, at a time when other public officials took shots on-camera to boost public confidence in the vaccineshttps://trib.al/3nNlDav 

Cuomo administration retains criminal defense lawyer over allegations the governor covered up Covid-19 deaths among nursing-home residentshttps://trib.al/5ruLYyT 

California Governor Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders say they’ve struck a deal that would push school districts to reopen by Aprilhttps://trib.al/Dky12PH 

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack predicts farms will provide “early wins” for Biden's efforts to counter climate changehttps://trib.al/szIvAKS 

Biden’s trade policy priorities include climate change, social impact and global cooperation, a stark contrast with Trump’s “America First” mantrahttps://trib.al/VN09KBg 

YouTube suspends Rudy Giuliani again after he posted videos falsely claiming the 2020 election was stolen from Trumphttps://trib.al/WlCZZFF 

Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick calls on the state’s top grid manager and its public-utilities regulator to resignhttps://trib.al/xVLAPDI 

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is staying out of the spotlight as he heads off scandals sparked by allegations of sexual harassment and a coverup over Covid deaths in nursing homeshttps://trib.al/dn32Mkz 

A new Covid-19 variant detected in NYC is being watched “very, very closely” by U.S. health officials, Fauci sayshttps://trib.al/VIpbU1Z 

Allies of a Trump critic have launched a super-PAC to defend Republicans who voted to impeach or convict the former presidenthttps://trib.al/Y43LNFn