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By Liz Stark and Tami Luhby, CNN The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s funeral assistance program has distributed more than $1 billion to those who have lost loved ones to Covid-19 since the application process began in mid-April, the agency announced Friday. Matthew Redding, deputy director of FEMA’s Individual Assistance division, noted the “very somber milestone”

By Manu Raju and Alex Rogers, CNN It’s the Democrats’ doomsday scenario: California Gov. Gavin Newsom loses his recall race this fall, and a Senate vacancy is later filled by a GOP governor. And the 50-50 Senate, currently controlled by Democrats, is run again by Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell. It’s a scenario that Democrats

By Tierney Sneed and Ariane de Vogue, CNN A federal judge in Washington, DC, on Friday allowed the Biden administration’s revised eviction moratorium to remain in place, but acknowledged the moratorium faces an uncertain legal future. US District Judge Dabney Friedrich denied a request from various landlord associations that she block the moratorium. Though the

By Whitney Wild, CNN The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit on behalf of two photojournalists who say police hit them with chemical irritants and stun grenades while they covered racial justice protests in Washington, DC, last year. The lawsuit against the District of Columbia government and eight unnamed police officers alleges the

By Melanie Zanona and Manu Raju, CNN Sen. Rand Paul just got temporarily kicked off YouTube for an inaccurate tirade against masks. Sen. Mitch McConnell, meanwhile, has been airing ads that urge people to go out and get the vaccine. The two Kentucky Republicans now perfectly exemplify the national divide over how to handle a

By Manu Raju and Daniella Diaz, CNN Nine Democratic House moderates are threatening to withhold their support for their party’s must-pass budget resolution until Speaker Nancy Pelosi changes course and instead allows their chamber to first vote on the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure plan the Senate approved this week. The threat, outlined in a letter

By Tierney Sneed, CNN A “disgrace to our country.” “The tyranny we rejected.” “An embarrassment to every American.” In presiding over the cases of hundreds of people accused of breaching the US Capitol on January 6 in support of then-President Donald Trump, federal judges have not held back when describing the unprecedented nature of the

By Katie Bo Williams, Natasha Bertrand and Alex Marquardt, CNN The Biden administration is receiving regular intelligence reports indicating Russian efforts to interfere in US elections are evolving and ongoing, current and former officials say, and in fact, never stopped, despite President Joe Biden’s warnings to Russian President Vladimir Putin over the summer and a

By Phil Mattingly, CNN In touting the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill hours after it passed the Senate with 19 Republican votes on Tuesday, President Joe Biden took a moment to needle his critics. “From the time I announced my candidacy, bringing the country together and doing things in a bipartisan way was characterized as a

By Natasha Bertrand, Phil Mattingly, Kylie Atwood and Jennifer Hansler, CNN The security situation in Afghanistan has deteriorated faster than President Joe Biden and his most senior national security officials had anticipated, leaving the White House rushing to stave off the worst effects of a Taliban takeover. The Biden administration launched a dramatic series of

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By Paul P. Murphy and Jeremy Harlan, CNN In announcing the revoking of some Mesa County voting machines — their logins appeared in a video by an individual affiliated with QAnon — Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold on Thursday also accused the county’s clerk, Tina Peters, of assisting in the election system security breach.

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter A divided Supreme Court granted a request from a group of New York landlords to block a part of the state’s eviction moratorium that bars landlords from evicting certain tenants in the midst of the pandemic. The court’s three liberal justices dissented from the court’s order and

By Sara Murray, Jeff Simon and Alex Rogers, CNN While other Republicans garnered more attention in attempting to convince the country that the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump, Rep. Scott Perry made the critical connection linking the then-president to Jeffrey Clark, a little-known Department of Justice official open to debunked claims

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter Justice Amy Coney Barrett declined a request to block Indiana University’s vaccine mandate, signaling that similar policies going into effect amid a Covid-19 surge could pass legal muster. Barrett, who has jurisdiction over the appeals court involved in the case, acted alone without referring the matter to