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

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

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

replaced outdated
barriers already in place
along that stretch.

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

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

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

guarantees enough vaccine
for first and second doses.

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

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

off of manufacturing lines
with quality control.

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

second doses, and then cover
additional first vaccinations.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

the Biden administration
takes office.

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

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

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

that today's court
action is not enough.

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

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

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

because we demand the
repeal of the laws.

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

a solution.

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

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

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

potential to lead
to offline harm."

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

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

point.

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

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

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

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

Sheldon Adelson
was 87 years old.

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

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

economic hardships wrought by
the pandemic disproportionately
affect college students

of color.