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Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker speaks during a news conference in Springfield

Illinois becomes first state to ban police from lying to minors during interrogations

By Chris Boyette, Veronica Stracqualursi and Harmeet Kaur, CNN Illinois this week became the first state in the nation to ban law enforcement from using deceptive tactics when interrogating minors. Under the law, confessions made by juvenile suspects who were deceived by law enforcement officers during the interrogation process will be deemed “inadmissible as evidence.”

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A report by a Senate committee found that a little-known security unit within the Department of Commerce abused its power and oftentimes monitored employees of color without any evidence of wrongdoing.

Report finds little-known security unit in Commerce abused power and investigated employees of Chinese or Southeast Asian ancestry for years

By Daniella Diaz, CNN A report by a Senate committee found that a little-known security unit within the Department of Commerce abused its power and oftentimes monitored employees of color without any evidence of wrongdoing. The report, involving more than two dozen whistleblowers with allegations dating to the mid-2000s, found that the Investigations and Threat

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Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) speaks at the Senate Finance Committee hearing at the US Capitol on February 25

Key lawmaker pushes US airlines to explain worker shortages and flight delays after billions in federal aid

By Veronica Stracqualursi and Aileen Graef, CNN The head of a key congressional committee overseeing the aviation industry is pushing six US airlines to explain worker shortages, flight cancellations and delays after the government supplied billions in federal aid to the airline industry amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Sen. Maria Cantwell, a Democrat from Washington and

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Republican candidates are lining up to take on Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona.

2020 election becomes early dividing line for Republicans in crucial 2022 Senate race in Arizona

By Alex Rogers and Michael Warren, CNN In one of next year’s most consequential Senate races, the Republican primary to take on Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona is turning on a question: Who won the 2020 presidential election? Former President Donald Trump’s false claims of widespread voter fraud, including his promotion of a controversial,

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A Texas federal judge ruled that Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals

Federal judge blocks new DACA applications and says program is illegal

By Priscilla Alvarez, Tierney Sneed and Rachel Janfaza, CNN A federal judge in Texas on Friday ruled that Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the Obama-era program shielding certain undocumented immigrants from deportation, is illegal and blocked new applicants. The ruling from Judge Andrew Hanen would bar future applications. It does not immediately cancel current permits

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Former Vice President Mike Pence

Pence says he’s ‘had enough’ of Biden as he looks to escape Trump’s shadow in Iowa

By Eric Bradner, CNN Former Vice President Mike Pence crisscrossed Iowa on Friday, assailing President Joe Biden’s administration for unleashing “a tidal wave of left-wing policies that threaten to wipe out all the progress that we made” in speeches that could preview his potential 2024 message. The trip to the first presidential nominating state offered

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‘I keep subscribing to live in the United States’: Two generations of DACA remain frustrated by a dream deferred

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN Undocumented immigrants who arrived to the United States as children have been banking on an Obama-era program to shield them from deportation for years, living in a state of perpetual limbo and waiting for either legislation that will give them permanence or a court decision that could take away any protection

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The week in 14 headlines

By Lauren Dezenski, CNN As Texas Democratic legislators fled the state to try to block a voting measure in the state Capitol in Austin, President Biden made an impassioned pitch for voting rights, but it’s not clear his words alone will break Capitol Hill’s impasse over the filibuster. Biden’s administration later reversed a particularly noteworthy

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