By Tami Luhby, CNN The latest round of monthly child tax credit payments were distributed to tens of millions of families on Monday. Parents may receive only one more installment next month unless Congress acts. More than $15 billion was sent to families of roughly 61 million children, the Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service
Continue Reading By Hannah Rabinowitz, Jessica Schneider, Evan Perez, Paula Reid and Zachary Cohen, CNN A federal grand jury has returned an indictment against former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon for contempt of Congress, the Justice Department announced Friday. Attorney General Merrick Garland had been under tremendous political pressure to indict Bannon since the House referred the
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) says that since 2016 Uber has been overcharging disabled people for taking too long to load into vehicles.
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Ten House Democrats say they will introduce a House resolution to censure Republican Rep. Paul Gosar for tweeting a video that included altered animation showing him striking Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with a sword.
Continue Reading By Sam Fossum and Shawna Mizelle, CNN President Joe Biden will sign the bipartisan infrastructure bill on Monday during a ceremony that will include members of Congress, governors and mayors from both parties, the White House announced on Wednesday. “At the signing ceremony, the President will highlight how he is following through on his commitment
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The Biden Administration announced Tuesday new actions to alleviate supply-chain issues at U.S. ports, waterways and freight networks.
Continue Reading By Nicole Chavez, CNN Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has directed state education officials to create new standards that would keep “pornography” and “obscene” content out of public schools after Republican lawmakers have recently targeted LGBTQ books. In a letter sent Monday, Abbott urged leadership at the Texas Education Agency (TEA), Texas State Library and Archives
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A federal appeals court has temporarily blocked the Biden Administration’s vaccine rules for employers with one hundred or more employees.
Continue Reading Rep. Adam Kinzinger is weighing his political future after announcing last week he was retiring from the House.
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A gun safety group is suing two groups affiliated with the National Rifle Association.
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Under fire for jettisoning plans to address prescription drug prices in the Democrats’ sweeping spending package, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Tuesday that an agreement has been reached to lower drug costs.
Continue Reading CNN By Chandelis Duster, CNN Winsome Sears, a conservative Republican, will be Virginia’s next lieutenant governor, breaking barriers as the first female and the first woman of color in the office in the commonwealth’s 400-year legislative history. CNN projected Sears’ win over Democrat Del. Hala Ayala, also a woman of color, on Wednesday. Sears will
Continue Reading By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice Donald Trump’s lawyers are defending his ability to assert executive privilege, even as an ex-President, in a reply brief in his lawsuit against the National Archives and the House select committee over January 6-related documents. This is the last written argument scheduled to come in before a
Continue Reading CNN By Annie Grayer, Melanie Zanona and Kristin Wilson, CNN Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia has been fined $48,000 for not wearing a mask on the House floor, according to a letter from the House Sergeant at Arms, obtained by CNN. Greene has been fined 20 times for not wearing a mask. After
Continue Reading By Maeve Reston, CNN Republican Glenn Youngkin defeated Democrat Terry McAuliffe in the Virginia governor’s race Tuesday night, CNN projects, rolling back progressive gains in Virginia as he became the first Republican to win statewide office in the commonwealth since 2009. McAuliffe’s loss in a state that President Joe Biden won by double digits last
Continue Reading By Tami Luhby, CNN Under fire for jettisoning plans to address prescription drug prices in the Democrats’ sweeping spending package, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Tuesday that an agreement has been reached to lower drug costs. The deal would empower Medicare to negotiate prices of certain costly medications administered in doctors’ offices or purchased
Continue Reading By Clare Foran, Manu Raju and Ali Zaslav, CNN Sen. Joe Manchin said he won’t support the $1.75 trillion social safety net expansion bill Democrats are negotiating until there is “greater clarity” about the impact it will have on the country’s national debt and the economy, casting major doubt about whether President Joe Biden can
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Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema held a hearing regarding the nation’s energy infrastructure and how it can be improved.
Continue Reading Leaders from the world’s 20 leading economies are meeting in Rome this weekend for their first in-person G20 summit since the COVID-19 pandemic.
Continue Reading By Donald Judd The Biden administration reached an agreement with the European Union on Saturday to ease Trump-era sanctions on aluminum and steel, officials announced, another step in deescalating tensions with European allies as Biden is in Rome for the G20 summit. “The President has said that one of the key goals of his presidency
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