Pelosi invites Biden to deliver State of the Union address on March 1

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi invited President Joe Biden on Friday to deliver his State of the Union address to Congress on March 1, the latest the traditional speech has ever been given. Biden will address a joint session of the deeply divided Congress as he seeks to keep the economic recovery humming and keep a lid on the resurgent COVID-19 pandemic powered by the super-contagious omicron variant. There was no reason given for the late date of the presidential address, which is normally held in late January, but the White House may hope the current exponential surge of COVID-19 will have eased...