Rep. Jeffries: Texas voting law a ‘shameful’ part of voter suppression epidemic
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) says he believes the voting law recently passed by the Texas Senate is a “shameful” attempt by Republicans to make it…
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Democratic lawmaker calls Texas voting bill ‘shameful’ and says GOP wants to make it ‘easier to steal an election’
By Chandelis Duster, CNN New York Rep. Hakeem Jeffries on Sunday criticized the restrictive voting bill moving through the Texas Legislature as…
Continue ReadingButtigieg wants ‘clear direction’ on infrastructure talks by next week
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg tells CNN’s Jake Tapper that there needs to be “a clear direction” on infrastructure talks by the time…
Continue ReadingButtigieg: There needs to be ‘a clear direction’ on infrastructure talks by June 7
By Devan Cole, CNN Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Sunday that there needs to be “a clear direction” on infrastructure talks…
Continue ReadingBiden’s been taking Amtrak for more than 30 years (2020)
The Democratic National Convention shares the story of how Joe Biden took the train to work for more than 30 years in a video featuring Amtrak…
Continue ReadingFor Biden, the White House is ‘a Monday-through-Friday kind of place’
By Kate Bennett, CNN Beginning in 1973, when he was a United States Senator from Delaware, Joe Biden had a ritual: nearly every evening he would hop…
Continue ReadingTexas Legislature close to adding new restrictions to voting process
By Dianne Gallagher, Jade Gordon and Wesley Bruer, CNN The Texas legislature is one step closer to adding a host of new restrictions to the voting…
Continue ReadingEducation Department rescinds Trump-era policy restricting state oversight of student loan servicing companies and debt collectors
The Department of Education under the Biden administration is rescinding a Trump-era policy that restricted states’ access to records and…
Continue ReadingRising crime in New York has gripped the mayoral race. Eric Adams says he alone can fix it.
For the first few months of New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary, the campaign seemed to be trundling along in search of a defining…
Continue ReadingNew Covid-19 origination intelligence push aimed at elevating scientific analysis
The intelligence community’s push to uncover the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic has largely relied on traditional intelligence-gathering…
Continue ReadingMarjorie Taylor Greene may be politically safe, but her conservative Georgia constituents have concerns about her tactics
Marjorie Taylor Greene has turned herself into one of the most visible Republicans in the country — stoking an endless stream of controversies…
Continue ReadingLongtime White House butler retiring after 47 years of service
After four decades, William “Buddy” Carter — one of the longest serving White House butlers — is set to retire at the end of…
Continue ReadingAmerican detained in Russia with Covid-19 has not been able to speak to family, they say
The parents of Trevor Reed, an American imprisoned in Russia who recently tested positive for Covid-19, said Friday that neither they nor the US…
Continue ReadingBorder arrests show no sign of slowing in May, preliminary data indicate
US Customs and Border Protection has continued to encounter around 40,000 migrants a week at the US-Mexico border, continuing a pace similar to that…
Continue ReadingIdaho governor rescinds ban on mask mandates issued while he was out of state
Idaho Gov. Brad Little on Friday repealed an executive order banning mask mandates by state entities that Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin had issued a day…
Continue ReadingPoll suggests QAnon as popular in US as some major religions
Most Americans reject QAnon-linked conspiracy theories and believe that Donald Trump lost legitimately in 2020, a set of new polling finds. But a…
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Polls find most Republicans say 2020 election was stolen and roughly one-quarter embrace QAnon conspiracies
Most Americans reject QAnon-linked conspiracy theories and believe that Donald Trump lost legitimately in 2020, a set of new polling finds. But a…
Continue ReadingJudge Amy Berman Jackson strikes again
Trial-level federal Judge Amy Berman Jackson has handled some of the most politically significant court cases of the Trump era and its aftermath and…
Continue ReadingJudge Amy Berman Jackson’s record of taking on Trump and allies
CNN’s Tom Foreman reports on federal Judge Amy Berman Jackson’s history of taking on former President Donald Trump and his…
Continue ReadingPostal Service wants to raise cost of mailing a letter to 58 cents
The US Postal Service on Friday proposed raising the cost of mailing a letter to 58 cents, an increase that’s within the range of recent years…
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