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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replaced outdated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.