July 28, 2021: Jan. 6 committee hearing, CDC says masks for vaccinated, Biden, North Korea, Haiti

July 28, 2021: Officers recall Jan. 6, Masks indoors, federal workers, North and South Korea, Haiti

1. Four police officers told lawmakers they were beaten, taunted with racial insults, heard threats including "kill him with his own gun" and thought they might die as they struggled to defend the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

2. Americans fully vaccinated against COVID-19 should go back to wearing masks in indoor public places in regions where the coronavirus is spreading rapidly, U.S. health authorities said.

3. President Joe Biden said his administration is considering whether to require U.S. federal employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19. "That's under consideration right now," Biden told a reporter who asked whether the administration was weighing such a requirement.

4. North and South Korea are in talks to reopen a joint liaison office that Pyongyang demolished last year and hold a summit as part of efforts to restore relations, three South Korean government sources said.

5. A top security official of slain Haitian President Jovenel Moise was arrested by police on suspicion of involvement in the assassination plot, his lawyer said, as another aide's apparent account of the event was leaked on social media.

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