The Biden administration is working to distribute several billion dollars in aid for winter heating and utility bills through its $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package, Gov. Tim Walz announced Wednesday that the Department of Defense will send medical teams to two major Minnesota hospitals, and St. Thomas students will now be required to scan their ID’s at the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library after 10 p.m. Meg Goltzman has today’s News in :90.
Joe Biden signed his one-trillion-dollar infrastructure deal into law Monday, Minnesota reported another 5,266 coronavirus infections and a 9.7% positivity rate the past seven days, and St. Thomas has introduced new initiatives to reduce the university’s carbon footprint. Rori West has today’s News in :90.
President Joe Biden proposed a $555 billion plan for climate change spending and the University of Minnesota is participating in a new $25 million project that will reduce uncertainties in climate change projections using artificial intelligence technology. Reporter Anh Nguyen has today’s News in :90.
Sequoia National Park’s massive trees survived wildfires Tuesday, President Joe Biden is set to announce that the United States will be doubling its purchase of Pfizer vaccines, and a judge found Jerome Spann guilty of shooting and injuring others. Casey Eakins has today’s News in :90.
President Joe Biden will ease foreign travel restrictions into the U.S. beginning in November, Pfizer said its COVID-19 vaccine works for children ages 5 to 11 and fire restrictions have been lifted for the entire Superior National Forest in Northern Minnesota. Reporter Natalie Hoepner has today’s News in :90.
St. Thomas has maintained normal international enrollment numbers this spring semester, opposing universities’ averages across the country, but St. Thomas international students struggle with travel restrictions, time difference problems, visa delays and COVID-19 anxiety.
Opponents of the Enbridge Replacement Line 3 pipeline, which will cover 300 miles of northern Minnesota land, gathered for a march and rally March 11 in St. Paul near the Mississippi River where they called on President Joe Biden to halt construction on the controversial project.
One year after the nation was brought to a near-standstill by the coronavirus, President Joe Biden pledged in his first prime-time address Thursday night to make all adults eligible for vaccines by May 1 and raised the prospect of “independence from this virus” by the Fourth of July. He offered Americans fresh hope and appealed anew for their help.
The Biden Administration plans to allow an estimated 25,000 asylum seekers waiting in Mexico into the U.S. as immigration court hearings proceed, and authorities charged a Minnesota man with murder after an attack on an Allina Health clinic left a medical assistant dead. Studio Producer Kayla Mayer has today’s News in :90.
Joe Biden became the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday, declaring that “democracy has prevailed” as he took the helm of a deeply divided nation and inherited a confluence of crises arguably greater than any faced by his predecessors.
