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BY SOPHIE DORF-KAMIENNY | Rep. Deb Haaland has promised to "be fierce for all of us, for our planet and all of our protected land" as the first Indigenous Secretary of the Interior, in the incoming Biden administration.

BY MICHELLE LYNN WRIGHT, BRENNA MORSE, CAROLYN PHILLIPS, K. JANE MUIR, KIRSTIN MANGES, ADAM WHITE & SAMANTHA BERNSTEIN | Nurses—and all frontline workers—are being applauded as heroes during the pandemic. Yet that praise doesn't matter if it's not backed up by actions to protect nurses so they can safely do their jobs.

BY CORINNE AHRENS & GISELLE HENGST | In the past six months, the COVID-19 pandemic has forced nearly 8 million Americans into poverty—the largest increase in more than 60 years. In June, the nation’s poverty rate was at 9.6 percent and has since jumped to 11.7 percent in November.