Maria and Julio talk about President Biden’s press conference to mark his first year in office, and they get into the latest on voting rights. They also discuss a new plan to resolve Puerto Rico’s bankruptcy and give an update on the COVID-19 pandemic.

ITT Staff Picks:

• For Latino Rebels, correspondent Pablo Manríquez reports from the Senate chamber on the debate over the John L. Lewis Voting Rights Act.

• “Pandemics do not end ‘individually,’ and vaccines aren’t meant to work only as individual protection,” writes Abdullah Shihipar in this piece for Teen Vogue.

• Nicole Acevedo breaks down the history, context, and next steps for the debt restructuring plan aimed at ending Puerto Rico’s nearly five-year-long bankruptcy in this piece for NBC News.

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