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By Manu Raju, Lauren Fox and Alex Rogers, CNN Senate Republican leaders threatened on Monday to block a vote later this week advancing the bipartisan infrastructure bill unless the negotiators strike a deal on it. “We need to see the bill before voting to go to it,” said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. “I think

By Donie O’Sullivan and Paul LeBlanc, CNN Twitter on Monday evening temporarily suspended Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene after she shared misinformation about Covid-19 and vaccines, a company spokesperson told CNN. The Georgia Republican, who has a track record of incendiary rhetoric, will not be able to tweet for 12 hours due to Twitter’s policy against

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN The Biden administration may delay winding down a Trump-era border policy tied to the pandemic due to increasing concerns about Covid-19 variants, according to a source familiar with the matter. The administration — under fire from both conservatives and liberals on immigration — had been considering ending the public health order

By Annie Grayer and Melanie Zanona, CNN House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has made his selection of five Republicans to join the select committee investigating January 6, ensuring that Republicans will have input in the investigation run by Democrats. Republican Reps. Jim Banks of Indiana, Jim Jordan of Ohio, Rodney Davis of Illinois, Kelly Armstrong

By Kevin Liptak and Paul LeBlanc, CNN President Joe Biden has directed his administration to examine remittances to Cuba in the wake of protests on the island to determine ways for those residing in the US to send money to the country, a senior administration official told CNN. “At President Biden’s direction, the United States

By Natasha Bertrand, Kevin Liptak and Brian Fung, CNN The Biden administration has been debating internally whether and how to impose sanctions on China for its malfeasance in cyberspace, according to people familiar with the matter, as experts question why the White House has not gone further in penalizing China for its alleged hack of

By Devan Cole and Jennifer Hansler, CNN The State Department is warning Americans against traveling to the United Kingdom as the country grapples with a rise in Covid-19 cases. The department on Monday raised its travel advisory level for the UK to “Level 4: Do not travel” due to Covid-19. The decision, which aligns with

By Tami Luhby, CNN The Biden administration is doubling down on a Trump-era rule that requires hospitals to disclose the rates they privately negotiate with insurers. A large number of hospitals have yet to comply with that historic rule, which went into effect January 1 and also requires them to provide in an online, searchable

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter A high school football coach who was banned from taking a knee for a brief personal prayer after football games is taking his challenge back to the Supreme Court, the latest such dispute to reach a conservative court that has moved to expand greater protections for religious

By Kevin Liptak, CNN The White House declined Monday to commit to reopening its northern border to Canadians after Canada’s government said vaccinated US citizens would be able to enter on August 9. “We are continuing to review our travel restrictions and any decisions about reopening travel will be guided by our public health and

By Tierney Sneed, CNN Frank Caporusso, a Long Island man who left a threatening voicemail last year for the judge presiding over the Michael Flynn case, was sentenced Monday to 18 months in prison. Caporusso was arrested last August and reached a deal with the government in April in which he pleaded guilty to one

By Marshall Cohen, CNN The leader of the far-right Proud Boys pleaded guilty Monday to two misdemeanors stemming from his conduct in Washington, DC, amid violent pro-Donald Trump protests in December. Enrique Tarrio appeared in DC Superior Court to plead guilty to property destruction for burning a Black Lives Matter banner that belonged to a

By Tami Luhby, CNN Blocked from boosting revenues through enhanced Internal Revenue Service enforcement, congressional Democrats are turning to reducing drug spending as a possible way to salvage their $600 billion bipartisan infrastructure deal. Negotiators are looking for billions of dollars in revenue for the infrastructure package now that Republicans have nixed the idea of

By Tierney Sneed, CNN The Justice Department is declining to prosecute former Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross for misrepresentations he made to Congress about the origins of the Trump administration’s failed push to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. The decision not to prosecute Ross was revealed in letter made public Monday from Commerce

By Jasmine Wright, CNN Vice President Kamala Harris tested negative for Covid-19 following a meeting with Texas state House Democrats, several of whom later tested positive, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Monday. An official in the vice president’s office said that Harris’ testing occurred before her “routine doctor’s appointment” at Walter Reed Hospital,

By Betsy Klein, Maegan Vazquez and Kaitlan Collins, CNN President Joe Biden continued to put pressure on Facebook on Monday over the online dissemination of Covid-19 vaccine information, but backed off his recent accusation that the company was directly responsible for “killing people” and suggested it was merely allowing misinformation to spread. Asked by CNN