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The White House says President Joe Biden will nominate federal appeals court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to be the first Black woman on the Supreme Court. In selecting Jackson, Biden delivers on a campaign promise, moving to further diversify a court that was made up entirely of white men for almost two centuries.

In Pittsburgh Friday, President Joe Biden said the collapse of a bridge in the city’s Frick Park early Friday morning exemplified in stark and regrettable terms the need for historic investments in the nation’s infrastructure.

The collapse of the Fern Hollow Bridge on Friday morning had local officials loudly emphasizing the need for investment in regional infrastructure and touting the future dollars of President Joe Biden's infrastructure package.

President Joe Biden will be in Pittsburgh Friday, and local officials say residents should prepare for traffic disruptions and restricted parking throughout the day. The president is expected to tout his economic record while in town, according to officials.

President Joe Biden plans to "discuss strengthening the nation’s supply chains, revitalizing American manufacturing, creating good-paying, union jobs, and building a better America," in a visit to Pittsburgh on Friday, according to the White House.

The Census Bureau also estimates the poverty rate in Scranton is nearly double that of Pennsylvania’s.

The White House is floating new plans for ways to pay for President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion proposal for expanding social services and tackling climate change. The ideas include shelving a proposed big increase in corporate tax rates though also adding a new billionaires’ tax on the investment gains of the very richest Americans. The abrupt changes in suggested “pay-fors” on Wednesday came as Biden returned to his hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania, to highlight what he says are the middle class values in the plan.

President Joe Biden will travel to Scranton on Wednesday, the White House says, as the Democrat works to rally support in Congress for a social services and climate change package that had been a 10-year, $3.5 trillion proposal.

Once-a-week COVID-19 testing can cost more than $6,000 a year.

President Biden announced sweeping new vaccine mandates for the workplace late last week. Pro-business groups in Pennsylvania are still digesting the news.