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JUDY WOODRUFF: In the 
day's other news: President 
Trump traveled to Texas 
to showcase his signature

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border wall eight days before 
he is due to leave office.

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He stopped outside the 
city of Alamo, touting 
the wall project. Most 
of the construction

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replaced outdated 
barriers already in place 
along that stretch.

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On the pandemic, the Trump 
administration now says that 
it's releasing all available

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vaccine to speed 
up inoculations. 
President-elect Biden had 
called for just that step.

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The secretary of Health and 
Human Services, Alex Azar, said 
today that faster production

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guarantees enough vaccine 
for first and second doses.

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ALEX AZAR, U.S. Health and 
Human Services Secretary: We 
can now ship all of the doses

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that had been held in physical 
reserve, with second doses 
being supplied by doses coming

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off of manufacturing lines 
with quality control.

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Going forward, each week, doses 
available will be released 
to first cover the needed

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second doses, and then cover 
additional first vaccinations.

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JUDY WOODRUFF: Federal officials 
also announced that, as of 
January 26, anyone flying to the

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U.S. will have to have a 
negative COVID test within 
three days of flying.

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We will focus on all of 
this after the news summary.

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Two men on federal death 
row have tested positive 
for COVID-19, and a 
federal judge has halted

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their executions set for 
this week. Separately, 
another judge stopped the 
first federal execution

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of a woman in nearly 70 years. 
He ordered a competency hearing. 
Federal executions resumed

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last year after 17 years without 
one. President-elect Biden 
is expected to oppose them.

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Late today, the U.S. Supreme 
Court upheld a federal rule 
that women must visit doctors

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or clinics in person 
to get abortion pills 
during the pandemic. 
By 6-3, the justice has

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granted a Trump administration 
appeal to enforce the rule. 
The rule could be reversed when

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the Biden administration 
takes office.

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The Supreme Court of India the 
Supreme Court of India today 
halted the implementation of

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agricultural laws that prompted 
farmers to blockade New 
Delhi. For weeks, thousands of

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farmers have camped on major 
highways, insisting the laws 
will cut their income. Some said

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that today's court 
action is not enough.

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KRISHAN PAL CHAUDHARY, 
Farmer (through translator): 
All farmers and all farmer 
organizations respect

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the Supreme Court, but I find 
the Supreme Court's policy 
wrong. They have put on hold

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the laws and they think the 
farmers will leave this protest 
site. This will never happen,

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because we demand the 
repeal of the laws.

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JUDY WOODRUFF: The court today 
ordered that a committee of 
experts be created to negotiate

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a solution.

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Back in this country, Twitter 
has suspended more than 70,000 
accounts linked to the far

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right QAnon conspiracy 
theory. That's in the wake 
of last week's assault 
on the U.S. Capitol.

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The social media giant 
says it is acting against 
online behavior that 
-- quote -- "has the

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potential to lead 
to offline harm."

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On Wall Street, stocks had a 
relatively quiet day. The Dow 
Jones industrial average gained

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60 points to close at 31068. 
The Nasdaq rose 36 points, 
and the S&P 500 added a single

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point.

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And casino magnate and 
Republican mega-donor 
Sheldon Adelson has died 
after a long illness.

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He was a billionaire who gave 
hundreds of millions of dollars 
to Republican politicians,

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including President Trump. He 
was also a strong pro-Israel 
voice, and pushed for relocating

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the U.S. Embassy in Israel 
to Jerusalem back in 2018.

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Sheldon Adelson 
was 87 years old.

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Still to come on the 
"NewsHour": the glacial 
pace of the U.S. vaccine 
campaign raises questions;

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the leaders of UNICEF and the 
World Food Program discuss a 
challenging year ahead; and the

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economic hardships wrought by 
the pandemic disproportionately 
affect college students

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of color.