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The positive results should reassure the public after concerns about the vaccine’s side effects

"It will take courage to confront what we see."

This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. For anyone who has been in Washington for more than a minute, the arguments for statehood are well-worn territory. Residents of Washington, D.C., pay the highest per capita tax…

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The day Françoise Brougher was fired from Pinterest began like so many of her workdays. It was April 2, 2020, and the company’s chief operating officer—with her rescue dog Dogbert nearby—was a few weeks into the pandemic and remote work, managing her team of 750 from her home in Silicon Valley. The gentlest social media…

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Black communities have a long history of fighting to make America real. Daring to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., to secure our right to vote, taking to the streets to defend our lives from police violence, bringing our protest to the polls, Black communities boldly advance an equitable economy and just democracy.…

What the country can learn from companies and municipalities that have tried it

Plenty of drama in Europe this past week as the AstraZeneca vaccine—a crucial component of the continent’s vaccination plans—was paused by more than a dozen European countries after a few reports emerged of blood clots in people after receiving the vaccine. Europe’s FDA equivalent, the European Medicines Agency (EMA), says that it is still “safe…

The U.S. study comprised 30,000 volunteers, 20,000 of whom were given the vaccine while the rest got dummy shots

“This is a disheartening step backward for the international movement to end violence against women globally,” Biden said

Beijing is seen as using the Canadians as leverage to obtain the release of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou

Some 247 people have been killed in anti-coup protests since Feb. 1

The Biden Administration issued an open threat on March 8 to several Russian media outlets. Over the last few months, the U.S. had been monitoring their campaign of “disinformation” about COVID-19 vaccines, and it now intended to push back “with every tool we have,” the White House said. But that statement did little to deter…