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As the U.S. death toll from COVID-19 tops 560,000 and Brazil records over 4,200 deaths in a single day, we look at how Cuba has successfully fought the pandemic despite the U.S. embargo and is on track to release two new COVID-19 vaccines; How the pandemic has exacerbated inequality across the hemisphere; President Biden announces new executive actions to curb gun violence. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

The U.S. and Iran prepare for more indirect talks to revive the 2015 nuclear deal after President Trump withdrew from the agreement three years ago; We speak to Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jody Williams about the Biden administration leaving in place a Trump-era policy to allow military commanders to use landmines across the globe; ACLU policy analyst Jay Stanley on the growing controversy over "vaccine passports." Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Members of the Minneapolis police testify at Derek Chauvin's murder trial and say he violated department policy; We speak with Victoria Law, author of "'Prisons Make Us Safer': And 20 Other Myths About Mass Incarceration"; Unions reach an agreement with Rutgers University to preserve thousands of jobs at the school. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Essential workers in New York who have been denied government relief during the pandemic enter their third week on hunger strike to demand assistance; A new report reveals rampant pandemic profiteering in the U.S. medical system; We look at President Joe Biden's $2.25 trillion infrastructure proposal. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Why the world's poorest countries are at India's mercy for vaccines; A new investigation reveals rape is being used as a weapon of war in Ethiopia's military offensive in the Tigray region; We remember Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who was assassinated 53 years ago this week. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Calls are growing to boycott Georgia-based companies after Republican Governor Brian Kemp signed what many describe as the worst voter suppression legislation in decades; Oregon Governor Kate Brown on the historic efforts to expand vote-by-mail and automatic voter registration in the state; We look at the political crisis in Brazil with a former foreign minister. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

We air excerpts of the third day of the murder trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin for killing George Floyd last May in Minneapolis; COVID-19 cases in Brazil continue to rise as the country faces a growing political crisis under the leadership of Jair Bolsonaro. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Resistance to the military coup in Burma continues despite a bloody crackdown; We mark International Trans Day of Visibility with activist Raquel Willis and ACLU lawyer Chase Strangio; How states are excluding people held in prisons and jails from accessing COVID-19 vaccines. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

We speak with Minneapolis-based civil rights lawyer Nekima Levy Armstrong after the first day in the murder trial of Derek Chauvin; Journalist Roberto Lovato on the humanitarian crisis at the border and what's pushing so many people to flee Central America. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Hopes rise that the Suez Canal in Egypt may soon reopen after a 200,000-ton container ship blocking the canal was partially refloated; Historian Robin D.G. Kelley on the historic union drive of Amazon workers and the history of radical Black organizing in Alabama; Opening statements begin in the murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe