#BREAKING US House advances Biden's historic social welfare expansion
#UPDATE US lawmakers voted Friday to elevate President Joe Biden's giant social welfare bill to the Senate, in a major step forward for his vision for a more equitable society that is the centerpiece of his domestic agenda
#BREAKING Biden hails key vote on social spending bill as 'giant step'
##UPDATE President Joe Biden on Friday hailed the passage of his giant social spending bill in the House of Representatives as a "giant step forward."
VIDEO: US lawmakers vote to elevate President Joe Biden's giant social welfare bill to the Senate
#UPDATE Though Biden's Build Back Better plan has passed the House of Representatives, it faces a far bumpier ride in the Senate - @frankietaggart explains u.afp.com/wUhe
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#BREAKING Covid protests erupt for second night in Netherlands: AFP correspondent
Fresh rioting broke out late Saturday over the Dutch government's coronavirus measures, with rioters throwing stones and fireworks at police, and setting fire to bicycles as protests turned violent for a second night in the Netherlands u.afp.com/wUu6
VIDEO: 🇳🇱 Rioting broke out in the #Netherlands for a second night late on Saturday over the government's coronavirus measures, with officers in riot gear charging groups of demonstrators in #TheHague where a water cannon was used to put out a pile of blazing bicycles
#BREAKING US 'deeply concerned' about case of missing Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai: White House
#UPDATE White House press secretary Jen Psaki said President Joe Biden's administration wants China to "provide independent, verifiable proof" of the whereabouts of Peng, who went missing after making sexual assault allegations against a top Communist Party official
#UPDATE The US and the UN are demanding that China provide proof of Peng Shuai's whereabouts and well-being amid rising concern for the Chinese tennis star u.afp.com/wU7N#AFPSports
President Joe Biden will transfer power to Vice President Kamala Harris during the "brief" time Friday he is under anesthesia for a colonoscopy as part of a regular health check, the White House said u.afp.com/wUh3
#BREAKING Biden resumes duties after brief power transfer during medical tests: White House
#BREAKING Biden exits hospital, says health check was 'great'
#BREAKING EU watchdog reviews Pfizer Covid pill for emergency use
#BREAKING EU regulator backs Merck Covid pill for emergency use
#UPDATE The EU's medicines watchdog said on Friday that countries can use Merck's anti-Covid pill in emergencies caused by rising cases, ahead of the treatment's formal approval across the bloc
Georgia's government said Friday it was open to moving ex-leader Mikheil Saakashvili, who has been on hunger strike for 50 days, to a military hospital after doctors warned he risked death in his current prison clinic u.afp.com/wUei
#BREAKING#UPDATE Georgia moves hunger-striking ex-leader Mikheil Saakashvili to military hospital: lawyer
#UPDATE Doctors had warned that Saakashvili, a pro-Western reformer and the country's opposition leader, risked death after a 50-day hunger strike u.afp.com/wU8N