Folders with COVID vaccine plans for various states are stacked on a table as Xavier Becerra, President Joe Biden's nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services, testifies during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee at the U.S. Capitol in Washington DC, on Tuesday, February 23, 2021. Photo by Leigh Vogel/UPI - Permalink
Residents displaced by this week's severe winter weather take shelter in a junior high school in Wylie, Texas on Thursday, February 18, 2021. Record cold temperatures along with snow and ice caused power outages resulting in frozen water pipes. May parts of the state are under a boil water order due low water pressure. Photo by Ian Halperin/UPI - Permalink
The Trump Plaza hotel and casino falls to the ground when it is demolished in Atlantic City, New Jersey on Wednesday, February 17, 2021. The former president's Trump Plaza casino was demolished after shuttering its doors to the public in 2014 amid a wave of bankruptcies and financial hardships for all establishments along the city's iconic boardwalk. Photo by John Angelillo/UPI - Permalink
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris during a meeting with a bipartisan group of House and Senate members on U.S. supply chains, in the Oval Office, at the White House in Washington, DC on Wednesday, February 24, 2021. Pool Photo by Doug Mills/UPI - Permalink
This is the first high-resolution, color image to be sent back by the Hazard Cameras (Hazcams) on the underside of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover after its landing on February 18, 2021. A key objective for Perseverance's mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life. The rover will characterize the planet's geology and past climate, paving the way for human exploration of the Red Planet and be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith (broken rock and dust). In cooperation with ESA (the European Space Agency), subsequent NASA missions would send spacecraft to Mars to collect these cached samples from the surface and return them to Earth for in-depth analysis. NASA/UPI - Permalink
A small group of people perform a dance with Chinese paper fans under the FDR drive with a view of the Manhattan Bridge in New York City on Monday, February 22, 2021. Photo by John Angelillo/UPI - Permalink
Economist Adewale O. Adeyemo testifies before the Senate Finance Committee during his confirmation hearing to be Deputy Secretary of the Treasury in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on February 23, 2021. Pool Photo by Jim Lo Scalzo/UPI - Permalink
Los Angeles Lakers' forward LeBron James puts up a shot in front of Miami Heat guard Kendrick Nunn during the first half of the Lakers' 96-94 loss at Staples Center in Los Angeles on Saturday, February 20, 2021. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI - Permalink
The Trump Plaza hotel and casino falls to the ground when it is demolished in Atlantic City, New Jersey on Wednesday, February 17, 2021. The former president's Trump Plaza casino was demolished after shuttering its doors to the public in 2014 amid a wave of bankruptcies and financial hardships for all establishments along the city's iconic boardwalk. Photo by John Angelillo/UPI - Permalink
Former U.S. Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund is sworn in before a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs & Senate Rules and Administration joint hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, February 23, 2021, to examine the January 6th attack on the Capitol. Pool Photo by Andrew Harnik/UPI - Permalink
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki speaks during a press briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, in Washington, DC on Monday, February 22, 2021. Photo by Jim Lo Scalzo/UPI - Permalink
President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (virtually) make statements in the East Room of the White House about their virtual bilateral meeting in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, February 23, 2021. Pool Photo by Pete Marovich/UPI - Permalink
Markings on the pavement of Hawthorne Blvd. as part of the police investigation of golf legend Tiger Woods' car crash are seen in Rolling Hills Estates, California on Tuesday, February 23, 2021. Woods was involved in a serious car crash Tuesday morning that resulted in significant injuries to both his legs, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI - Permalink
Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi addresses attendees at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) 2021 hosted by the American Conservative Union at the Hyatt Regency Orlando in Orlando, Florida on Friday, February 26,2021. Photo by Joe Marino/UPI - Permalink
Committee chairman Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) questions witnesses during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on Tuesday, February 23, 2021. The hearing focused on the 2020 cyberattack that resulted in a series of data breaches within several agencies and departments of the U.S. federal government. Pool Photo by Drew Angerer/UPI - Permalink
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris attend a meeting with a bipartisan group of House and Senate members on U.S. supply chains in the Oval Office on Wednesday, Febuary 24, 2021 in Washington, DC. Pool Photo by Doug Mills/UPI - Permalink
Members of NASA's Perseverance rover team react in mission control after receiving confirmation the spacecraft successfully touched down on Mars, on Thursday, February 18, 2021, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. A key objective for Perseverance's mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life. The rover will characterize the planet's geology and past climate, pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet, and be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith. NASA Photo by Bill Ingalls/UPI - Permalink
This wind-carved rock seen in first 360-degree panorama taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument shows just how much detail is captured by the camera systems. The panorama was stitched together on Earth from 142 individual images taken on Sol 3, the third Martian day of the mission (February 21, 2021). A key objective for Perseverance's mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life. The rover will characterize the planet's geology and past climate, paving the way for human exploration of the Red Planet and be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith. NASA/UPI - Permalink
Senator Bernie Sanders, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, speaks during a U.S. Senate Budget Committee hearing regarding low wages at large corporations on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, February 25, 2021. Pool Photo by Stefani Reynolds/UPI - Permalink
(L-R) FireEye CEO Kevin Mandia, SolarWinds CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna and Microsoft President Brad Smith testify during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on Tuesday, February 23, 2021. The hearing focused on the 2020 cyberattack that resulted in a series of data breaches within several agencies and departments of the U.S. federal government. Pool Photo by Drew Angerer/UPI - Permalink
Capitol Police Capt. Carneysha Mendoza speaks at a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs & Senate Rules and Administration joint hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, February 23, 2021, to examine the January 6th attack on the Capitol. Pool Photo by Andrew Harnik/UPI - Permalink
FireEye CEO Kevin Mandia testifies during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on Tuesday, February 23, 2021. The hearing focused on the 2020 cyberattack that resulted in a series of data breaches within several agencies and departments of the U.S. federal government. Pool Photo by Drew Angerer/UPI - Permalink
The seat for McDonald's Corporation President and Chief Executive Officer Chris Kempczinski is empty during a Senate Budget Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, February. 25, 2021. The hearing is examining low wages at large profitable corporations. Committee Chairman Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said Kempczinski declined to testify at the hearing. Pool Photo by Susan Walsh/UPI - Permalink
Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert is called for a foul on Los Angeles Clippers' forward Kawhi Leonard during the second half at Staples Center in Los Angeles on Friday, February 19, 2021. The foul was overturned on a challenge. The Clippers defeated the Jazz 116-112. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI - Permalink
Perseverance flight director Magdy Bareh moves the final marble from the Perseverance Mars rover Earth launch jar to the Mars landing in a conference room of the Mission Support Area (MSA) on Thursday, February 18, 2021, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The Perseverance Mars rover team has been moving one marble a day since launch from jar to jar. A key objective for Perseverance's mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life. The rover will characterize the planet's geology and past climate, pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet, and be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith. NASA Photo by Bill Ingalls/UPI - Permalink
Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer, D-NY, speaks at a press conference on the Equality Act, in Washington, DC on Thursday, February 25, 2021. The Equality Act is a bill that aims to amend the Civil Rights Act to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI - Permalink
Snow covers the Jewish cemetery on the Mt. of Olives with a view of the Dome of the Rock in the Al Aqsa Mosque Compound in the Old City of Jerusalem , on Thursday, February 18, 2021. Photo by Debbie Hill/UPI - Permalink
Senator Ted Cruz (TX) addresses attendees at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) 2021 hosted by the American Conservative Union at the Hyatt Regency Orlando in Orlando, Florida on Friday, February 26,2021. Photo by Joe Marino/UPI - Permalink
Vice President Kamala Harris swears-in United Nations Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, during a ceremony in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, DC on Wednesday, February 24, 2021. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI - Permalink
Judge Merrick Garland is sworn-in before testifying before his Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on his nomination to be U.S. Attorney General, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on February 22, 2021. Photo by Drew Angerer/UPI - Permalink
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., holds her weekly press conference in Washington, DC on Thursday, February 25, 2021. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI - Permalink
House and Senate leadership participate in a moment of silence for the more than 500,000 American lives lost to COVID-19 at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, February 23, 2021. Congressional leaders held a candlelight ceremony to mark the more than half million U.S. deaths. Photo by Leigh Vogel/UPI - Permalink
Judge Merrick Garland arrives to testify before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on his nomination to be U.S. Attorney General on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on February 22, 2021. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI - Permalink
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) gives an elbow bump to Attorney General nominee Merrick Garland (R) as they arrive for Garland's confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on Monday, February 22, 2021. Pool Photo by Drew Angerer/UPI - Permalink
The Trump Plaza hotel and casino falls to the ground when it is demolished in Atlantic City, New Jersey on Wednesday, February 17, 2021. The former president's Trump Plaza casino was demolished after shuttering its doors to the public in 2014 amid a wave of bankruptcies and financial hardships for all establishments along the city's iconic boardwalk. Photo by John Angelillo/UPI - Permalink
President Joe Biden particpates in a virtual roundtable with Black essential workers, in the South Court Auditorium of the New Executive Building adjacent to the White House in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, February 23, 2021. Pool Photo by Pete Marovich/UPI - Permalink
Judge Merrick Garland testifies during his Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on his nomination to be U.S. Attorney General on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on Monday, February 22, 2021. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI - Permalink
This high-resolution still image is part of a video taken by several cameras as NASA's Perseverance rover touched down on Mars on February 18, 2021. A camera aboard the descent stage captured this shot. A key objective for Perseverance's mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life. The rover will characterize the planet's geology and past climate, paving the way for human exploration of the Red Planet and be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith (broken rock and dust). In cooperation with ESA (the European Space Agency), subsequent NASA missions would send spacecraft to Mars to collect these cached samples from the surface and return them to Earth for in-depth analysis. NASA/UPI - Permalink
Judge Merrick Garland is sworn-in before testifying before his Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on his nomination to be U.S. Attorney General on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on February 22, 2021. Photo by Drew Angerer/UPI - Permalink
United States Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a visit to a COVID-19 vaccination facility in an effort to promote the administration's plan to promote vaccinations in areas hit hard by the virus, on Thursday, February 25, 2021 in Washington, DC. Photo by Chris Kleponis/UPI - Permalink
