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The new HHS office will be responsible for creating and implementing a department-wide strategy on environmental justice and health.

Health and Human Services announces new office focused on the environmental risks to underserved communities

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

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Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann was acquitted Tuesday of lying to the FBI

Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann found not guilty of lying to FBI, in blow to Durham investigation

By Marshall Cohen, CNN Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann was acquitted Tuesday of lying to the FBI, in the first trial of special counsel John Durham’s investigation. The verdict is a major defeat for Durham and his Justice Department prosecutors, who have spent three years looking for wrongdoing in the Trump-Russia probe. He claimed

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The Supreme Court

Supreme Court paves way for DOJ to subpoena Texas lawmakers in Voting Rights Act challenge to redistricting maps

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

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Despite warnings that ditching voting machines would delay election results

‘The horse and buggy era’: Attacks on voting machines set off fresh worries about election subversion

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

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Supreme Court officials are escalating their search for the source of the leaked draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade

Exclusive: Supreme Court leak investigation heats up as clerks are asked for phone records in unprecedented move

By Joan Biskupic, CNN legal analyst & Supreme Court biographer Supreme Court officials are escalating their search for the source of the leaked draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade, taking steps to require law clerks to provide cell phone records and sign affidavits, three sources with knowledge of the efforts have told CNN.

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