Thousands of public-sector employees in the U.S. territory, including teachers and firefighters, took to the streets to demand higher salaries, better working conditions and pension benefits.

Dr. Rochelle P. Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said her agency was working on new guidance for the states, but that it was not yet time to lift mask mandates across the nation.

Drew Dilkens, the mayor of Windsor, Ontario, requested additional resources and personnel from Canada's provincial and federal governments to deal with a protest by truckers on the Ambassador Bridge.

Nancy Pelosi of California, the speaker of the House, said she would agree to a ban on the ownership and trading of individual stocks by members of Congress if the ban also applied to members of the judicial branch.

Senator Mitch McConnell, the minority leader, said it was 'not the job' of the Republican National Committee to censure Representatives Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, and called the attack on Jan. 6 a 'violent insurrection.'

Antony Blinken, the secretary of state, said that the United States was seeking to fight Russia's disinformation campaign by exposing the country's plot to create a fake video depicting a Ukrainian attack.

The first lady said at a summit of community college leaders that a proposal to waive two years of tuition was no longer part of a social spending bill that Democrats were trying to salvage.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced that fully vaccinated international travelers can enter Australia starting Feb. 21, nearly two years after the country closed its borders to almost all noncitizens.

The Pentagon said its investigation found that a single Islamic State suicide bomber carried out the attack that killed 13 U.S. troops and as many as 170 civilians, contradicting initial assessments.

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia met with President Xi Jinping of China in Beijing in a move to strengthen ties between the two countries.