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First lady Jill Biden expected to take active role in immigrant family reunification

January 27, 2021 12:35 PM CNN Newsource

The Biden administration’s planned task force aimed at reuniting children who were separated from their parents at the border under the Trump-era…

Sen. Patrick Leahy home from brief hospitalization after presiding over opening of Trump’s impeachment trial

January 26, 2021 6:50 PM CNN

Sen. Patrick Leahy returned home Tuesday night from the hospital after seeking treatment out of an abundance of caution, according to a…

Judge temporarily blocks Biden’s plan to halt deportations

January 26, 2021 1:54 PM CNN Newsource

A federal judge in Texas temporarily blocked the Biden administration’s pause on deportations Tuesday, delivering a blow to one of the…

Rand Paul test vote sidelined but offers early look at Republican opposition for Trump impeachment trial

January 26, 2021 2:02 PM CNN Newsource

The Senate tabled an effort by Sen. Rand Paul Tuesday to force a vote on the constitutionality of former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial,…

Biden to sign executive orders related to ‘equity’

January 26, 2021 5:38 AM CNN Newsource

President Joe Biden is slated to sign a series of executive actions revolving around “equity” policy on Tuesday, focusing on policing…

‘Carrying Tommy in my heart’: Amid personal tragedy, Raskin leads House’s impeachment case

January 25, 2021 3:45 PM CNN Newsource

Rep. Jamie Raskin fled the House chamber on January 6 alongside his colleagues as a mob was gaining on the Capitol, but his mind was focused on the…

Judge asks Biden administration to clarify deportation pause order

January 25, 2021 3:55 PM CNN Newsource

A federal judge in Texas on Monday asked the Biden administration to clarify its 100-day pause on deportations as he considers a lawsuit to block the…

Here’s what you need to know about impeachment

January 25, 2021 4:34 PM CNN Newsource

The overall impeachment process laid out in the Constitution is relatively simple: President commits “high Crime or Misdemeanor,” House votes to…

House to send impeachment article to the Senate on Monday

January 25, 2021 10:39 AM CNN Newsource

The second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump gets in motion Monday when the House impeachment managers will walk the impeachment…

Biden reverses Trump ban on transgender people in military

January 25, 2021 10:36 AM The Associated Press

Biden’s order says that gender identity should not be a bar to military…

House sending Trump impeachment to Senate

January 25, 2021 5:08 AM The Associated Press, Dominique Newland

One of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s nine impeachment managers said Trump’s encouragement of his loyalists before the riot was “an…

Biden to reinstate Covid travel restrictions Trump rescinded, impose new ban on South Africa

January 25, 2021 5:02 AM NBC News, Dominique Newland

The limits would also affect non-U.S. citizens traveling from the United Kingdom, Ireland and much of…

38 Capitol Police officers test positive for Covid-19 after Capitol riot

January 24, 2021 4:18 PM CNN Newsource

More than three dozen Capitol Police officers have tested positive for coronavirus since the Capitol riot on January 6, the union representing the…

Biden to reinstate COVID-19-related travel restrictions lifted by Trump

January 24, 2021 3:04 PM CNN Newsource

President Joe Biden on Monday will reinstate the Covid-19 travel restrictions on non-US citizens who have been in Brazil, Ireland, the United…

GOP congressman who voted to overturn election results admits 2020 race not fraudulent

January 24, 2021 10:34 AM CNN

Republican Rep. Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina said Saturday that he accepts Joe Biden as president and that the 2020 election was not conducted…

Biden to sign orders that include moves toward $15 minimum wage for federal workers and contractors

January 22, 2021 5:12 AM CNN, Gabriel Salazar

Biden included a call to raise the national hourly minimum wage to $15 as part of the $1.9 trillion relief package he outlined last week before…

Republicans position themselves for 2024 with Trump’s future looming large

January 21, 2021 3:39 PM CNN Newsource

Republicans are already making moves toward the 2024 election, jockeying to succeed former President Donald Trump now that he has departed…

Jaime Harrison officially elected Democratic National Committee chair

January 21, 2021 4:26 PM CNN Newsource

Former South Carolina Democratic Party Chair Jaime Harrison has officially been elected the next chair of the Democratic National Committee, winning…

Biden bets big on immigration changes in opening move

January 21, 2021 5:07 AM The Associated Press

Biden starts fast on immigration by halting border wall and travel ban while embracing…

Arizona dispensaries begin applying to sell recreational marijuana

January 20, 2021 11:55 AM CNN, Jenny Day

Click here for updates on this story PHOENIX (KPHO/KTVK) — Arizonans are one step closer to buying legal recreational…