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• Boosters, masks and mandates: Biden's team sorts through options for containing Covid surge among unvaccinated Americans
  The Biden administration is debating a series of steps to further contain the Covid-19 pandemic, which, after 18 months, is again surging in parts of the country where vaccination rates are low.
• What the For the People Act would mean for veterans with disabilities
  Deployed to Iraq in 2003, US Marine Corps field radio operator Joanna Sweatt took cover in tight-spaced bunkers for hours at a time -- a tour of service laden with the stresses of being in a war zone that led to a blood clotting disease.
• NSA review finds no evidence supporting Tucker Carlson's claims NSA was spying on him, sources say
  A National Security Agency review of its intercepts did not find any evidence that Fox News host Tucker Carlson's communications were intercepted by the NSA, two sources familiar with the matter told CNN.
• Bumble match turns in January 6 suspect who allegedly whipped police
  Yet another US Capitol suspect was caught this week, all thanks to his Bumble match.
• Justice Department says it will not investigate Covid-19 nursing home deaths in several states
  The Department of Justice will not open a civil investigation into the Covid-19 response in state nursing homes in New York, Pennsylvania and Michigan, after the department was seeking to determine whether policies issued during the pandemic requiring Covid-19 patients to be admitted into the facilities may have contributed to deaths.
• Analysis: Trump supporters are a big reason why Canada and the UK are beating the US on vaccinations
  Poll of the week: A new Angus Reid poll from Canada finds that 86% of Canadians 18 and older have gotten or want a Covid-19 vaccine as soon as possible. The same poll shows that just 8% of Canadian adults do not want a Covid-19 vaccination.
• What happens if the Supreme Court throws out Roe v. Wade?
  In some alternate universe, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg retired during the Obama presidency and Democrats were able to push through a successor to the conservative Justice Antonin Scalia.
• As Covid cases rise, some conservatives make surprising course correction on vaccine ahead of 2022 midterms
  Alabama Republican Gov. Kay Ivey's blunt message that unvaccinated people are letting the nation down capped a week where some Republicans finally seemed ready to abandon their dangerous coddling of Covid-19 vaccine skeptics and push Americans to get the shot.