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On Tuesday, a day before the site was set to go live, the Biden administration stealthily unveiled its website for Americans to seek free at-home Covid-19 tests. People can order four at-home tests per residential address using the website CovidTests.gov, which is managed by the US Postal Service. Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary, said the website was in "beta testing" and was only available in "restricted capacity" until it was officially launched. According to Psaki, the website will go live in the middle of the morning on Wednesday. The site's popularity skyrocketed almost immediately, but it wasn't without its flaws. Some customers complained on social media that they couldn't order tests since the application didn't seem to account for apartment blocks with different households. One Twitter user stated, "I live in an apartment complex, thus it's a bitter race with my neighbors to see who gets those free tests." According

Boris Johnson will try to shore up his sagging authority during prime minister's questions today, despite reports that at least ten Conservative MPs elected in 2019 had submitted letters of no confidence in his leadership this morning. More than 20 Conservatives who gained seats in the previous general election met yesterday to discuss how to settle their worries about Johnson's premiership, which has sparked a growing dissent among the party's newest MPs. After prime minister's questions this afternoon, a number of MPs are planning to submit letters of no confidence, but approximately half of them were so enraged by the government's attempt to quell the rebellion that they submitted theirs in this morning, according to one of the MPs.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has thrown in the towel.  Texas' abortion law has been appealed to the state Supreme Court, extending the state's stringent restrictions. On Monday, a divided panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit agreed with Texas, sending a challenge to the state's privately enforced stringent abortion legislation to the Texas Supreme Court, where it is expected to languish as long as the law remains in existence. On Twitter, University of Texas law professor Steve Vladeck commented, "This judgment now maintains the case in limbo — and abortion after 6 weeks in the nation's second-largest state — a dead-letter, indefinitely." The abortion clinics in Texas who are contesting the law had asked for their case to be referred to a federal district judge in Austin who had previously halted the bill before the conservative 5th Circuit appellate court reversed it. Judge Stephen A. Higginson, a Democ

As a beleaguered Boris Johnson signals to his backbenchers that he is willing to let the UK live with the virus, No 10 is working up measures to take off England's remaining pandemic restrictions as early as March. A senior government source revealed that the government was considering abolishing obligatory self-isolation for positive Covid cases, claiming that keeping the policy in place would be "perverse" in the long run. Guidance might take its place. The legal need to self-isolate, which carries fines of up to £10,000 if broken, is one of six pieces of Covid law set to expire in March, and the government is debating whether any of it is still essential. Giving your address to NHS test and track and listing members of your household are two more clauses that will expire or require renewal. Powers over government funding for sick pay, inquests, and emergency registration of medical workers are all still in place. Most of Plan B will be phased out. Working from home gui

According to her brother, a body has been discovered in the search for a British woman who was swept away by the tsunami in Tonga. Angela Glover died trying to save her dogs, and her family was "devastated," according to Nick Eleini. Her body was discovered by her husband James, who had managed to cling to a tree when the tsunami hit after an undersea volcano erupted, he claimed. "Angela and James enjoyed the Tongan people and loved their life in Tonga," Mr Eleini added. Mr Eleini, speaking outside their mother's home in Hove, said that Angela, 50, was born in Brighton and had lived in Tonga since marrying James. They were "well-loved by locals and ex-pats alike," he claimed, because he ran the Happy Sailor tattoo parlour, which employed and trained Tongans, and she started the Tongan Animal Welfare Society. Mr Eleini said Angela had a "strong love of dogs" and that her organization harbored and treated stray animals before trying to find the