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By Daniel Dale, CNN The official White House Twitter account tweeted Thursday about the sharp decline in the unemployment rate during President Joe Biden‘s tenure — but the tweet began with a false claim about Covid-19 vaccinations. “When President Biden took office, millions were unemployed and there was no vaccine available,” the tweet said. On

By Oren Liebermann, CNN US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin spoke with his Russian counterpart for the first time since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Pentagon announced on Friday. The call lasted approximately an hour and was at the request of Austin, who used the first call between the two in 84 days to

By MJ Lee and Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden on Friday defended the White House’s response to a months-long shortage of infant formula in the United States and dismissed the idea that his administration should have acted sooner, saying they “moved as quickly as a problem became apparent to us.” Following remarks in the

By Maegan Vazquez, CNN Labor Secretary Marty Walsh met with companies on Friday to discuss how the private sector can improve job quality, as a record number of employees in the United States are quitting their jobs largely in search for better opportunities. Walsh met with a handful of companies across different industries to highlight

By Daniella Diaz, CNN A nationwide shortage of baby formula has spurred a response from several House committees in an effort to figure out what’s caused the issue and how the government can ease the problems causing the shortages. Two House committees announced this week they are looking into the issue, with a spokesperson telling

By Chandelis Duster, CNN Former Vice President Mike Pence will rally support for Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp as the Republican incumbent seeks to fend off a May 24 primary challenge from Donald Trump-backed former Sen. David Perdue. The decision by Pence to campaign for one of Trump’s top GOP targets marks yet another break with

By Daniel Dale, CNN A prominent Republican, Sen. Rick Scott of Florida, is still falsely describing what his own tax proposal says. President Joe Biden, meanwhile, is attacking Scott’s proposal by misleadingly describing a key number from a think tank’s analysis — an analysis based on rough assumptions about what Scott might mean — as

By Katie Bo Lillis and Natasha Bertrand, CNN The US intelligence community is carrying out a sweeping internal review of how it assesses the fighting power of foreign militaries amid mounting pressure from key lawmakers on Capitol Hill who say officials have failed twice in one year on the two major foreign policy crises faced

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN A federal judge in Louisiana grappled on Friday with whether the Biden administration can end a controversial Trump-era pandemic restriction, known as Title 42, later this month. The public health authority at the center of the case allows officials on the US-Mexico border to turn migrants back to Mexico or their

By Kaitlan Collins and Evan Perez, CNN Investigators issued a subpoena to the National Archives and Records Administration for access to classified documents that were taken to former President Donald Trump‘s home in Florida, according to two people familiar with the matter. The move is the first overt indication of an ongoing investigation into the