Deputy Washington Bureau Chief Caren Bohan reports. Plus, Washington correspondent Maureen Groppe talks about a Biden administration racial equity initiative, patient safety reporter Karen Weintraub explains the science behind mRNA vaccines, personal finance and markets reporter Jessica Menton gives some tax advice and Hank Aaron will be buried in Atlanta. (Audio: Associated Press)

White House effort to boost vaccine supplies. Precious vaccine doses stolen. California deluge. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.

Many awesome athletes were on the ballot for the National Baseball Hall of Fame this year, including Curt Schilling, Roger Clemens, and Barry Bonds. But none got into Cooperstown. Perhaps, that’s a good thing. Also: today’s stories, including what Joe Biden has inherited in Afghanistan, what happens when polarizing politics enter the classroom, and how a San Antonio educator is making a difference. Join the Monitor's Dave Scott and Eva Botkin-Kowacki for today's news. For more information, visit csmonitor.com/daily.

This week's episode covers four MMWR COVID-19 reports. The first describes the rise of new variants of the virus that causes COVID-19. The second report highlights U.S. vaccination coverage data among kindergarteners during the 2019‒2020 school year. The third report evaluates the performance of an antigen test and highlights how antigen tests can be an important tool in an overall community testing strategy. The last report describes baseline health department data metrics for assessing case investigation and contact tracing efforts.

Joseph R. Biden Jr. was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States today. The day culminated a lifetime of work for President Biden to get to the White House. He wasted no time once in office signing several executive orders. Vice President Kamala Harris made history becoming the first woman, first African American, and first Asian American to become Vice President. ABC News' Aaron Katersky anchors our recap of today's inauguration from the nation's capital.

Press conference from the Harvard School of Public Health with Michael Mina, assistant professor of epidemiology. This call was recorded at 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Friday, January 22nd.

Biden administration to buy enough doses to vaccinate most Americans by end of summer, most Republican Senators reject constitutionality of impeachment, and New Jersey policeman adopts abandoned pit bull found by officers.

Acts of anti-Semitism jumped nearly 124% from 2015 to 2019, according to the ADL. Nazi symbols appearing during the assault on the U.S. Capitol are just the latest example of anti-Semitic incidents. CBS News senior national correspondent Jim Axelrod spoke with the Anti-Defamation League's CEO Jonathan Greenblatt about the recent rise in hatred against Jews.

In a special two-part episode, we look at the landscape of vaccine hesitancy and what can be done to address it. In part one, Hopkins vaccine safety expert Dr. Dan Salmon talks with Stephanie Desmon about his new and ongoing research on acceptability of COVID-19 vaccines in minority communities and the importance of listening to understand hesitancy to help people feel more confident. In part two, Dr. Rupali Limaye, a Hopkins expert in vaccine behavior and decision-making talks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about misinformation, why hesitancy around COVID-19 vaccines is different from anti-vax groups like measles, and creative strategies like "prebunking" to address misinformation.

This episode is part 2 in the trauma-informed assessment mini-series with Dr. Julia Strait. If you didn’t catch the first episode last week, definitely go back and check that one out – we talked last time about how to define trauma: complex, developmental, acute, and everything in between. In the current episode, we dive deep into the actual assessment process. ... Read More The post 179. Trauma-Informed Assessment, Part 2 w/ Dr. Julia Strait appeared first on The Testing Psychologist.

Democrats are returning to the White House and the Senate majority with a long health policy to-do list. Reporter Jonathan Cohn says the battle over Obamacare offers lessons and clues as to where the party’s “unfinished crusade for universal coverage” may head next. Guest: Jonathan Cohn, HuffPost senior national correspondent and author of "The Ten Year War: Obamacare and the Unfinished Crusade for Universal Coverage" You can find a complete transcript of this conversation on our website: https://tradeoffs.org/2021/01/21/the-ten-year-war-over-obamacare/ Sign up for our weekly newsletter to see what research health policy experts are reading right now, plus recommendations from our staff: bit.ly/tradeoffsnewsletter Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tradeoffspod   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Author and brand expert, Martin Lindstrom, shares his best tips for helping leaders build a team where common sense is the rule rather than the exception. If today’s podcast resonates with you and you haven’t read The Small Firm Roadmap yet, get the first chapter right now for free! Looking for more tips on successfully managing your team? Learn more here. Thanks to Lawmatics, CosmoLex, TextExpander, ESQ.Marketing, and Postali for sponsoring this episode.

Shares of the videogame retailer GameStop are up more than 600% in the past two weeks, driven by individual investors encouraging each other to buy in on social media. But GameStop itself has been struggling for years, so why all the interest? Reporter Caitlin McCabe explains what is going on, and how the trend could impact the broader market. Amanda Lewellyn hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://megaphone.fm/adchoices

President Biden says the government will soon buy another 200 million vaccine doses. The goal is to get 300 million Americans vaccinated by fall, which is the bulk of the country's population. The U.S. isn't the only country dealing with a vaccine shortage, the competition to secure doses is now threatening to create conflict in Europe and with the developing world. Nearly all the Republicans in the U.S. Senate have made it clear they are not ready to convict former President Trump in his impeachment trial. People in Alabama who survived a deadly tornado say they're amazed the death toll wasn't higher. In California, a powerful storm system is moving onshore. There are new allegations of racist, sexist and homophobic behavior against two longtime CBS executives who oversee the network's local TV stations.

One of my New Year’s resolutions is to record more episodes of The Jewish History Podcast in 2021. If you may indulge me, I would like to suggest to the audience to sample my Parsha Podcast in 2021. In this episode which covers Parshas Shemos, you can take it for a test drive to see […]

The deportation moratorium was part of a package of immigration-reform measures the new administration proposed on Inauguration Day.