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2020 was literally off the charts. Data journalists saw changes that typically take months instead happening in weeks — numbers that will be breaking the y-axis for years to come.

The Biden administration announced Saturday it has directed the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to go to the southern border and help care for increasing numbers of unaccompanied child migrants arriving there.

Why it matters: The record number of child migrants crossing the border has been overwhelming the administration's stretched resources, Axios' Jonathan Swan and Stef Kight note.

Hundreds marched in Louisville, Kentucky, on Saturday to mark one year since the police killing of Breonna Taylor, an unarmed Black woman.

The big picture: The families of other Black and Brown people shot by police, including Jacob Blake, Danny Ray Thomas and Sean Monterrosa, joined Taylor's family in Louisville to remember the 26-year-old and renew their calls for justice.

The U.S. is playing a "whole new ballgame" in terms of controlling the coronavirus now that variants are spreading across the country, Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, told CBS News on Friday.

Why it matters: Osterholm said the U.S. could face another surge from the B.1.1.7 variant, which was first identified in the United Kingdom and has since been detected throughout the U.S. Multiple studies have suggested that it likely spreads more easily than the original strain of the virus.

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) said in an interview on The Joe Pags show that he didn't feel threatened during the Jan. 6 Capitol riots, but if Black Lives Matter protesters or members or Antifa had stormed Congress instead of Trump supporters, he would have been "a little concerned."

Why it matters: Johnson, who promoted false claims of widespread election fraud in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, has repeatedly sought to downplay the severity of the riot, which left five people dead.

America's wealthiest are finding ways to access the vaccine ahead of those who qualify for it.

Why it matters: The pandemic has already widened existing health inequities and underserved communities continue to lag in vaccinations compared to the white and rich.

1. Politics: Ron Klain recalls the night the U.S. shut down over COVID-19 — Biden says states must designate all adults eligible for vaccine by May
2. Health: COVID lockdowns exposed more kids to toxic lead — CDC updates coronavirus guidance for child care providers — The pandemic in four charts.
3. Vaccines: Native American tribes lead the way on coronavirus vaccinations.
4. Education: Schools bet on pool testing to keep classrooms safe.
5. World: Italy imposes Easter lockdown amid COVID-19 spike.
6. 🎧Podcast... Fauci's "most difficult decision" in March of 2020

Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, a U.S. Army reservist and a security contractor for the Navy who was arrested for allegedly breaching the Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot, was a known white supremacist, federal prosecutors said Friday, as first reported by Politico.

Why it matters: "Not only is Defendant's White Supremacist and Nazi Sympathizer ideology obvious from the evidence, that same ideology drives Defendant's enthusiasm for another Civil War," prosecutors said.

An occasional adviser who has known Andrew Cuomo for nearly 40 years tells me that the New York governor — after a career of playing hardball, including over-the-line threats — has "no net of good will" to catch him.

The state of play: After a cascade of harassment accusations, his resignation is being demanded by both of the state's U.S. senators (Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand), almost the whole 29-member congressional delegation, and a majority of Democrats in the state legislature.

White House chief of staff Ron Klain recalls being live on TV on the evening of March 11, 2020, as news on the newly declared pandemic seemed to break in waves: Then President Trump went on television to address the nation, actor-director Tom Hanks and wife Rita Wilson were hospitalized in Australia with the virus, and the NBA announced it was shutting down.

Why it matters: In an interview on Axios Re:Cap, Klain discussed how he advised then-presidential candidate Joe Biden in the weeks leading up to the World Health Organization's declaration and what he wishes had been done differently to address the pandemic.

Protests over the killing of George Floyd generated a racial reckoning across the U.S. that also helped Native Americans and Latinos bring attention to their fight against systemic racism.

Why it matters: Native Americans say the resurgent Black Lives Matter movement in response to Floyd's death helped push sports teams to change their names and logos. Latino activists say it also drew attention to their own long-ignored experiences with police abuse.

Software bots are getting smarter and more capable, enabling them to automate much of the work carried out in offices.

Why it matters: Bots can make digital work more efficient by taking on onerous and repetitive white-collar tasks, but the better they get, the more competition they pose to skilled workers who might have thought themselves exempt from the job-disrupting effects of automation.