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A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the Covid-19 vaccine requirement for federal contractors in Kentucky

Biden suffers string of court setbacks as administration’s vaccine mandates are put on hold

By Tierney Sneed The Biden administration has suffered three major court losses since Monday morning, with orders freezing key federal government Covid-19 vaccine rules in certain parts of the country and, in one case, nationwide. The latest blow came from a federal judge in Louisiana, whose order Tuesday afternoon halted across the country the administration’s

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White House Coordinator of the COVID-19 Response Jeffrey Zients participates in a virtual listening session at the South Court Auditorium at Eisenhower Executive Office Building on February 10 in Washington

Administration working with vaccine manufacturers to ‘develop contingency plans’ amid new variant

By Betsy Klein and Maegan Vazquez, CNN The Biden administration is coordinating with Covid-19 vaccine manufacturers to develop contingency plans in the event future coronavirus vaccines need to be modified, including to fight the Omicron variant, the White House’s Covid-19 response coordinator said Tuesday. In the first briefing from the White House’s Covid-19 team since

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Timothy Desjardins as seen at the US Capitol on January 6

Prosecutors charge man who allegedly assaulted police at the US Capitol and brought hatchets to FBI headquarters

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN Federal prosecutors unsealed charges against a Rhode Island man on Monday who allegedly attempted to hop over security chains behind the FBI headquarters in Washington, DC, with two hatchets just hours after the US Capitol riot on January 6. Timothy Desjardins, 35, was caught on video using a broken wooden table

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Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene attacked fellow House Republican Nancy Mace after Mace condemned inflammatory and anti-Muslim comments made by Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert.

GOP lawmaker defends her record from Marjorie Taylor Greene attack after criticizing Boebert

By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene attacked fellow House Republican Nancy Mace on Tuesday, after Mace condemned inflammatory and anti-Muslim comments made by Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert. On Twitter, Greene told Mace to “back up off” Boebert, while accusing Mace of not being conservative and attacking her as “the trash in the

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