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By Tami Luhby, CNN Peggy Matthews-Forney cannot believe that, unlike private insurers, Medicare is not reimbursing senior citizens for the home Covid-19 tests they buy at retailers. “As a Medicare enrollee, I am enraged,” said the retired industry strategist from Denver, noting that more than three-quarters of Covid-19 deaths in the US are among the

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN Election officials in a rural Georgia county are weighing plans to close all but one polling place ahead of this year’s elections, alarming local voting and civil rights groups. But the deliberations by the Lincoln County elections board have reverberated far beyond this Georgia community of roughly 7,700 northwest of Augusta.

By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Everytown for Gun Safety endorsed Democratic Reps. Lucy McBath and Marie Newman on Wednesday over the Democratic incumbents they’re challenging in two pivotal primaries of the 2022 election cycle. Both House lawmakers decided to run in 2022 in different districts than they currently represent due to their states’ redrawn congressional maps.

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN The Biden administration defended the use of a controversial Trump-era policy that’s resulted in the expulsion of more than 1 million migrants at the US-Mexico border during a court hearing Wednesday, arguing that it was necessary to avoid the transmission of Covid-19 in border facilities. The public health authority, known as

By Gabe Cohen, CNN The new government website where people can order free Covid-19 at-home rapid antigen tests is up and running. With just names and addresses, families can go to COVIDtests.gov and request up to four free tests to be delivered to their homes. The website comes online as the Biden administration faces growing

By Ariane de Vogue and Fredreka Schouten, CNN Conservatives on the Supreme Court seemed open Wednesday to Sen. Ted Cruz’s challenges to a federal cap on candidates using political contributions after an election to recoup personal loans they made to their campaigns. A high court ruling in the Texas Republican’s favor could further erode the

By Jeremy Diamond and Paul LeBlanc, CNN The Biden administration will make 400 million N95 masks available to Americans for free starting next week, a White House official told CNN, the latest federal step aimed at reining in the US’ Covid-19 surge. The masks — which are coming from the Strategic National Stockpile — will

By Kara Scannell, CNN New York Attorney General Letitia James’ office says it needs the testimony of former President Donald Trump and two of his adult children to determine their knowledge of what investigators say they have identified as numerous “misleading statements and omissions” in tax submissions and financial statements used to obtain loans. In

By Tierney Sneed A group of parents of public school students in Chesapeake, Virginia, filed a lawsuit Tuesday asking Virginia’s Supreme Court to block a new executive order issued by Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin that makes masks voluntary for children in the state’s public schools. The lawsuit, obtained by CNN affiliate WTKR, points to guidance

By Jeff Zeleny, Kevin Liptak and Kaitlan Collins, CNN As he walked through the front gate of the White House complex last year for the first time as President, Joe Biden declared it felt like “going home.” If the presidency seemed then like a natural fit for a 50-year creature of Washington, today its limits

By Carma Hassan and Joe Sutton, CNN The Texas Secretary of State’s Office says it has only a limited amount of voter registration applications due to supply chain issues increasing the cost of paper. The office ordered its first bulk supply of 128,000 voter registration forms on November 8 and received that shipment just last