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By Ella Nilsen, CNN The Department of Health and Human Services announced on Tuesday it is establishing an Office of Environmental Justice, putting a spotlight on environmental inequities in health. The new office will be led by interim director Sharunda Buchanan, a former official at the Centers for Disease Control specializing in environmental health issues

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter The Supreme Court on Tuesday denied an emergency request from three Texas state legislators seeking to quash subpoenas from the US Justice Department and voting rights groups related to a challenge to state legislative maps. There were no noted dissents to the Supreme Court order. The state’s

By Betsy Klein, Kate Sullivan and Nikki Carvajal, CNN Korean pop supergroup BTS appeared at the White House press briefing on Tuesday and will meet with President Joe Biden as part of a visit aimed at discussing Asian inclusion and representation and addressing anti-Asian hate crimes and disinformation. “While many of you may know BTS

By Kate Bennett, CNN First lady Dr. Jill Biden appears on the cover of the June/July issue of Harper’s Bazaar magazine, the first time in the magazine’s 155-year history a first lady has appeared on the cover, according to a release from the magazine. In the feature story, which was written earlier this spring, Biden

By Kaitlan Collins and Kevin Liptak, CNN Facing rising prices and deep voter dissatisfaction, the White House this week is launching a month-long effort to signal heavy focus on the economy as inflation worries become the top concern for the White House before this fall’s midterm elections. It’s not the first time President Joe Biden

By Steve Contorno, CNN Democrats in Florida, struggling to energize liberals while bleeding support among Latinos, have settled on a message to galvanize voters heading into the midterm elections: It’s too expensive here. Up and down the ballot, Democratic candidates have shifted their campaigns to focus on the soaring housing costs that are eating into

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN Despite warnings that ditching voting machines would delay election results and likely violate the law, county commissioners in a rural slice of western Colorado this year voted to stop paying the licensing fee on the county’s devices. Commissioners in Nye County, Nevada, meanwhile, want local election officials to begin hand-counting paper

By Paula Reid, CNN Former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro has been subpoenaed by the Justice Department — the first indication the department is acting on the criminal referral from the House of Representatives to hold Donald Trump’s one-time trade adviser in contempt of Congress for his refusal to cooperate with the House select

By Morgan Rimmer and Clare Foran, CNN A bipartisan group of senators hoping to find common ground on gun policy plans to continue talks this week in the wake of the tragic elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. The Senate is not in session this week during the Memorial Day recess period, but lawmakers plan

By Oren Liebermann, CNN The US is set to bring home and identify the remains of unknown World War II soldiers from the only American cemetery in Africa, the US Embassy in Tunisia said on Monday, Memorial Day. The announcement comes after the US and Tunisia signed a memorandum of understanding that will allow the

By Wayne Chang, Eric Cheung and Clare Foran, CNN A US delegation led by Sen. Tammy Duckworth, an Illinois Democrat, arrived in Taipei on Monday in a previously unannounced visit, Taiwan’s Foreign Ministry said. The delegation will meet with Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen on Tuesday, where they will discuss “regional security, economic and trade cooperation,

By Oren Liebermann, CNN For most of his life, Edward Salinas never knew he had a great uncle who served in World War II. The 26-year-old grew up in Edinburg, Texas, just north of the border with Mexico, thousands of miles away from where his relative was a crew member on one of the Navy’s

By Eric Bradner, Dan Merica and Gregory Krieg, CNN After the first month of multiple major primaries in the 2022 election season, both parties are facing uncertainty over their direction — and whose influence will dominate the next wave of nominating contests. For Republicans, the question of former President Donald Trump‘s power over the party