To mark Biden’s first 100 days in office, @Cmkahn, @TrevorNews and @benkellerman_ had a live discussion about public opinion of the president so far. Listen to this thread for highlights.
First off – why use 100 days as a milestone for new presidents? reut.rs/3nyUiWk 1/6
Biden had a higher approval rating in his first 100 days than Trump. But how much credit can a new president take so early on? 2/6
The Biden administration plans to tax the rich to pay for trillions of dollars in spending – and Americans are mostly on board 3/6
President Biden has tried to model himself after FDR to remake society with spending, and his 100-day address to Congress was a part of that 4/6
Back in the primary race, Biden didn't always stir up enthusiasm among more progressive Democrats. How do those voters feel about the president now? 5/6
You can find the results of the recent @Reuters/Ipsos poll tracking support of President Biden here: reut.rs/3aQ75yA 6/6
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A forum of scientific advisers set up by the government warned Indian officials in early March of a new and more contagious variant of the coronavirus taking hold in the country, five scientists who are part of the forum tell Reuters reut.rs/33ixn8x 2/6
Despite the warning, four of the scientists said India did not try to impose major restrictions to stop the spread, allowing mass religious and political gatherings reut.rs/33ixn8x 3/6
The world's longest pedestrian suspension bridge opened near Arouca in northern Portugal, a see-through metal grid pathway that is 516 meters-long reut.rs/3nMirsJ 1/4
Hidden between rock-strewn mountains covered with lush greenery and yellow flowers inside the UNESCO-recognized Arouca Geopark, the bridge hangs 175 meters above the fast-flowing River Paiva 2/4
The landscape is calm but the crossing is not for the faint-hearted. Held up by steel cables and two massive towers on each side, it wobbles a little with every step. The bridge opened only to local residents on Thursday, but from Monday everyone can book a visit 3/4
On the train to Elga, the miners killed time over card games and sips of chefir, a drink brewed using eight tea bags per cup, its heady, nauseating kick a common replacement for alcohol in Russian prisons.
No one on the train knew what time it would arrive at its destination.
For hour after hour it snaked through the snow-covered forests of far eastern Siberia without passing a single settlement 2/10
Despite its forbidding terrain, Elga is geographically lucky in one respect.
The Kuzbass, Russia’s traditional coal-mining heartland in western Siberia, faces a European market that is rapidly ditching coal on climate concerns 3/10
'We have been out of the house since 2 a.m. There is no oxygen anywhere in Delhi. Finally we reached here. I kept telling them Mummy is serious...' Shruti Saha said, weeping.
Her desperate search for oxygen in Delhi ends in grief reut.rs/3sXcV7q 1/5
Saha had spent hours searching for somewhere in New Delhi to refill an oxygen canister when she heard that her frantic efforts had been in vain: Her mother had died of COVID-19 2/5
A ferocious second wave of coronavirus in New Delhi has overwhelmed hospitals and caused a shortage of oxygen, leaving many helpless as they try to treat their sick relatives at home 3/5
President Biden's address to Congress broke a historic glass ceiling as two women - Vice President Kamala Harris and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi - sat behind the president for the first time in U.S. history reut.rs/2Pwdjfo
‘America is ready for a takeoff’: Biden argued that a new spending and tax-credit package, which together with an earlier infrastructure and jobs plan, totals around $4 trillion – is a once-in-a-generation investment reut.rs/3e10u6b
Francois Mayor nudged back on the power and made a subtle adjustment on the wheel as he coaxed his cargo vessel through a narrow point in the Suez Canal — not the Egyptian one, but a replica in the middle of a French forest reut.rs/3en36dA 1/5
This stretch of water was built to train ship captains and maritime pilots how to navigate the Suez Canal — a skill now in the spotlight after the Ever Given cargo ship got wedged in the Egyptian waterway last month in high winds and a sandstorm 2/5
The channel is built to one twenty-fifth the scale of a section of the real Suez Canal. Trainees have to steer through scale models of massive container ships without getting stuck 3/5