By Kate Sullivan, CNN The Biden administration on Thursday announced steps it’s taking to deploy funds from the $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief law passed earlier this year to help offset rising home heating costs for Americans this winter. The White House on Thursday also called on utility companies that receive public funding to prevent utility
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By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday unanimously voted to require text messages sent to the number 988 be routed to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline by next year, expanding access to the critical 24/7 national hotline. Phone carriers are in the process of nationwide implementation of 988 as the easy-to-remember number
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By Betsy Klein, CNN President Joe Biden on Friday will gobble up his first opportunity to participate in a time-honored White House tradition: The annual Thanksgiving turkey pardon. Justice, and perhaps a side of cranberry sauce, will be served in the Rose Garden as Biden roasts two pardon contenders — turkeys Peanut Butter and Jelly
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By Betsy Klein, CNN President Joe Biden on Thursday signed three bipartisan bills into law aimed at supporting the nation’s law enforcement and first responders, as well as the communities they serve. “Today’s investment and the bills I’m about to sign share goals of law enforcement and first responders: be the protectors and the partners
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By Jeremy Herb and Dianne Gallagher, CNN A conservative lawyer who helped Donald Trump try to overturn the 2020 election was named to a federal election advisory board this month, a move that illustrates how the former President still casts a long shadow over the federal government even after leaving office. Cleta Mitchell, who was
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By Kate Sullivan and Betsy Klein, CNN Vice President Kamala Harris said Thursday she does not feel misused or underused in her role as vice president, following CNN reporting that many in the vice president’s circle believe she is being sidelined and that key West Wing aides are exasperated by what they see as entrenched
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By Kate Sullivan and Betsy Klein, CNN Vice President Kamala Harris said Thursday she does not feel misused or underused in her role as vice president, following CNN reporting that many in the vice president’s circle believe she is being sidelined and that key West Wing aides are exasperated by what they see as entrenched
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By Christina Carrega and Evan Perez, CNN The FBI is working to assess the number of threats made against school board members and teachers, using a tracking tool that it says will help implement a directive from Attorney General Merrick Garland that has come under criticism from Republicans. An internal memo to the FBI’s counterterrorism
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By Kylie Atwood and Jennifer Hansler, CNN The Biden administration is considering sending some of the Afghan evacuees at a US military base in Kosovo back to Afghanistan if they cannot clear the intense vetting process to come to the United States, according to three US officials familiar with the matter. A return to Afghanistan
Continue Reading By Chandelis Duster, CNN China’s test of a hypersonic missile over the summer “went around the world,” the second most senior US general said in an interview released Tuesday, shedding new details on the test and warning that China might one day be able to launch a surprise nuclear attack on the United States. “They
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By Tierney Sneed, CNN More than a decade before he was assigned the criminal contempt case brought against Steve Bannon, Judge Carl Nichols was a top Justice Department lawyer deeply involved in pushing sweeping arguments in favor of shielding an ex-presidential adviser from congressional testimony. Nichols — who was appointed to the bench in 2019
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By Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden, reconvening a summit of North American leaders at the White House on Thursday, sought cross-border agreement on migration, Covid-19 and economic integration, even as his guests voiced concerns over what they say are protectionist trade policies left over from Biden’s predecessor. “We can meet all of the challenges
Continue Reading By Gabe Cohen, CNN Watching from her home in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Clarice Schillinger wasn’t surprised when Glenn Youngkin — riding parents’ fears and frustrations with schools — won the Virginia governor’s race. She says she saw the writing on the wall. “I hope that the race in Virginia really woke a lot of
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By Ali Zaslav and Devan Cole, CNN The Senate on Wednesday unanimously passed a bill that would award the Congressional Gold Medal to 13 US service members killed in a terrorist attack outside Kabul’s airport in August, sending the bill to President Joe Biden’s desk for his signature. The bill was unanimously passed by the
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By Michael Warren, CNN Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin, fresh off his victory in Virginia, got a hero’s welcome at a gathering of the country’s Republican governors on Wednesday. The attendees at the Republican Governors Association meeting could not stop gushing about the newest member of their club, who defeated a longtime Democratic politician in a state
Continue Reading By Ariane de Vogue, Kaitlan Collins and Paul LeBlanc, CNN The Biden administration’s vaccine mandate targeting businesses with more than 100 employees is now before the conservative-leaning Ohio-based 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals, which could soon decide its fate. Late Wednesday, the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals, which has blocked the mandate, transferred
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By Ariane de Vogue, Kaitlan Collins and Paul LeBlanc, CNN The Biden administration’s vaccine mandate targeting businesses with more than 100 employees is now before the conservative-leaning Ohio-based 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals, which could soon decide its fate. Late Wednesday, the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals, which has blocked the mandate, transferred
Continue Reading By Paul LeBlanc, CNN Republican Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger broke ranks on Wednesday to join all Democrats in voting for a resolution that both censured Republican Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona and stripped him of his two committee assignments. The vote came after Gosar posted of a photoshopped anime video to his Twitter
Continue Reading By Gloria Borger, CNN Chief Political Analyst Sometimes, during a busy week in Washington, a recap is in order. So let’s take stock of the Trump GOP for a moment: GOP Rep. Liz Cheney, a diehard conservative, daughter of a diehard conservative vice president, has been excommunicated from the Wyoming Republican Party. GOP Rep. Paul
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By Gloria Borger, CNN Chief Political Analyst Sometimes, during a busy week in Washington, a recap is in order. So let’s take stock of the Trump GOP for a moment: GOP Rep. Liz Cheney, a diehard conservative, daughter of a diehard conservative vice president, has been excommunicated from the Wyoming Republican Party. GOP Rep. Paul
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