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By Gabe Cohen, CNN A hiring crisis is closing classrooms at Nurtury Early Education in Boston. The nonprofit, which serves mostly low-income families, has seen its staff shrink 30% during the coronavirus pandemic. “We cannot find enough educators who are willing to come into our classrooms,” CEO Laura Perille said. “Because they can earn a

By Maegan Vazquez, CNN On nearly any other day in Washington, Republican Congressman James Comer would likely be calling for oversight investigations into the Biden administration. But on Wednesday, Comer — who represents Kentucky’s 1st District and is the top Republican on the House Committee on Oversight and Reform — accompanied President Joe Biden throughout

By Annie Grayer, CNN Rep. Jamaal Bowman, a progressive freshman Democrat from New York, is calling on Congress to pass another Covid-19 relief package as the country marks 800,000 deaths from the virus and the threat of the Omicron variant only grows. In a letter to House Democratic leadership, shared first with CNN, Bowman laid

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN More than a dozen Democratic lawmakers have called on the Biden administration to sanction four cyber surveillance firms for “enabling human rights abuses” by “selling powerful surveillance technology to authoritarian governments.” The letter, led by Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon and House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff of California, asks the Treasury

By Priscilla Alvarez and Anna-Maja Rappard, CNN Under the shadow of the border wall, dozens of migrants raced to get in line as they spotted the glimmer of vehicle lights down the road. US Border Patrol agents were on the way. For hours, migrants, primarily of the middle-class in South America, had waited to turn

By Katie Lobosco and Tara Subramaniam, CNN Soaring inflation has become a political problem for President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better bill, with critics pointing to the rise in prices as a reason why it’s the wrong time for Congress to authorize some $1.75 trillion in new spending. Many Republicans argue that injecting more federal

By Jeff Zeleny, Chief National Affairs Correspondent President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced his intention to nominate Michelle Kwan, a former Olympic figure skater and longtime Democratic activist, to serve as ambassador to Belize. Biden also picked Caroline Kennedy to serve as ambassador to Australia, her second high-profile diplomatic position, after serving as ambassador to

By Geneva Sands, CNN The United States is committing for the first time to defining “statelessness” and increasing protections for stateless people in the US, the Department of Homeland Security announced Wednesday. A stateless person is someone who does not have the nationality of any country, according to the United Nations, but the US doesn’t