Politics

By Clare Foran, Ali Zaslav and Ted Barrett, CNN Senate Republicans blocked an effort on Tuesday to take up a $10 billion Covid relief deal over demands for votes on amendments — including one to target the Biden administration’s Title 42 immigration decision — a sign that more aid to deal with the pandemic could

By Melanie Zanona, Manu Raju and Lauren Fox, CNN Republicans had already been agitating over the Biden administration’s policies at the border — and then in came Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Early Tuesday morning in the Capitol, Mayorkas walked into the lion’s den, taking a meeting with House GOP members of the “border security

By Lauren del Valle, CNN Two Republican state lawmakers in Ohio have introduced a bill that in many ways mirrors Florida’s controversial law that critics have dubbed “Don’t Say Gay” legislation. House Bill 616 would ban the teaching or providing of “any curriculum or instructional materials on sexual orientation or gender identity” to students in

By Katelyn Polantz and Paul LeBlanc, CNN The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol has obtained a cache of emails that right-wing lawyer John Eastman had sought to keep secret. The 101 emails — exchanged between January 4 and January 7, 2021 — were released to the committee

By Betsy Klein, CNN US Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra unveiled a new push by the Biden administration Tuesday to accelerate its efforts to prevent, detect and treat long Covid. Long Covid is associated with a host of lingering symptoms from Covid-19 involving multiple body systems. Estimates of the frequency of long-term symptoms

By Phil Mattingly and Katie Lobosco, CNN The Biden administration is extending a pause on federal student loan repayments through August 31. The repayment freeze, which has been in place since the beginning of the pandemic, had been scheduled to expire on May 1. In a statement Wednesday, President Joe Biden acknowledged that the economy