Citizens of Massachusetts: call on the Massachusetts legislature to pass a bill to regulate face recognition, and a bill to end the practice of suspending drivers' licenses because of debts.

Many people are too poor to pay their debts, and losing their drivers' licenses means they lose their jobs and get even further in debt. The fact that now half of all Americans are in poverty or close to it means that this harmful feedback loop does even more harm.

Iran's women's skiing team has gone to the world championship without its coach — her husband vetoed her travel.

The Republican governor of Texas says Republicans will somehow spare Texans from paying the thousands of dollars that they have been charged for electricity during the storm.

That's a step in the right direction, but it would have been better for Texans to have voted for Democrats and avoided both the gouging and the unreliability of the power grid.

The US must continue using masks, keeping distance, and avoiding/prohibiting activities that tend to spread Covid-19.

Otherwise the newer, more infectious strains are likely to spread and cause another surge in cases.

Oxfam says that the UK's arms sales to Salafi Arabia are helping it continue fighting in Yemen.