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By Arlette Saenz President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will visit a Washington, DC, vaccine clinic offering Covid-19 vaccinations to children under the age of 5 on Tuesday, a White House official told CNN, in an effort to highlight the rollout of the newly authorized vaccines for the youngest Americans. The White House

By Allie Malloy and Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden said Monday he is “not likely” to visit Ukraine when he travels to Europe for the Group of Seven summit and a meeting of NATO leaders later on this week. The President told reporters a stop in Ukraine is “not likely” on the upcoming trip,

By Chandelis Duster, CNN The Republican Party of Texas over the weekend adopted a resolution at its state convention that rejects President Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 election, further aligning the state party establishment with former President Donald Trump in pushing false election claims. “We reject the certified results of the 2020

By Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden said Monday he hopes to decide soon whether to support a temporary pause in the federal gasoline tax and is nearing a decision on student loan relief as he looks to ease the burden of high prices on Americans. “I hope to have a decision based on the

By Katie Lobosco, CNN Lifting Trump-era tariffs is one of the few things President Joe Biden could do to slow inflation — but that doesn’t mean Americans would immediately notice a drop in prices if he took that action. So far, Biden has resisted pressure from many in the American business community to lift the

By Camila Moreno Lizarazo, CNN This year marks the second year Juneteenth will be observed as a federal holiday. June 19 commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Texas were told by Union Army Gen. Gordon Granger that they had been liberated. Granger’s announcement came almost three years after the Emancipation Proclamation. President

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN In the roaring waters of the canal, first responders train for the worst: migrants who have been swept away while trying to cross the US-Mexico border. The canal, which runs for miles along the international border, is intended to get water to farmers during the summer months. But as migrants try

By Edward-Isaac Dovere Homeland and national security officials are worried about how Russia could significantly exploit US divisions over the November midterms, considering scenarios like Russia staging smaller hacks of local election authorities — done with the deliberate purpose of being noticed — and then using that to seed more conspiracies about the integrity of

By Jasmine Wright, CNN The White House said Sunday that President Joe Biden‘s upcoming meeting with Saudi officials will “include” the kingdom’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, hours after Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm suggested there would be a one-on-one meeting. Granholm said Sunday on CNN’s ‘State of the Union’ that it was her “understanding” that

By Daniella Diaz and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN The House January 6 committee will show evidence at its upcoming hearing about then-President Donald Trump’s involvement in a scheme to submit fake slates of electors in the 2020 presidential election, US Rep. Adam Schiff, a member of the panel, said Sunday. “Yes, we’ll show evidence of the