By Joan Biskupic, CNN legal analyst & Supreme Court biographer The University of North Carolina and civil rights advocates urged the US Supreme Court on Monday to steer clear of a case designed to end racial affirmative action at state colleges and universities. Lawyers for North Carolina, led by state Solicitor General Ryan Park, contend
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By Ella Nilsen, CNN Multiple independent analyses have found President Joe Biden simply can’t hit his goal of cutting greenhouse gases by 50% by the end of the decade without the clean energy provisions in Build Back Better, the President’s signature economic and climate legislation. After West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin torpedoed the bill, experts
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By Ella Nilsen, CNN Multiple independent analyses have found President Joe Biden simply can’t hit his goal of cutting greenhouse gases by 50% by the end of the decade without the clean energy provisions in Build Back Better, the President’s signature economic and climate legislation. After West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin torpedoed the bill, experts
Continue Reading By Sean Lyngaas, CNN In nearly two years of the coronavirus pandemic, the US Secret Service has seized more than $1.2 billion in relief funds obtained by fraudsters. Now, the agency is stepping up its efforts to claw back the billions more that Covid-19-related fraud has cost the economy by tapping a senior official to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) At the Columbia City Council on Monday night, several people expressed their frustrations to the council members over the benefits and pay of temporary workers for Columbia’s Solid Waste. Charles Holden, a temporary worker for Columbia Solid Waste, said he’s worked for the city for around eight months. He asked the city
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By Sean Lyngaas, CNN In nearly two years of the coronavirus pandemic, the US Secret Service has seized more than $1.2 billion in relief funds obtained by fraudsters. Now, the agency is stepping up its efforts to claw back the billions more that Covid-19-related fraud has cost the economy by tapping a senior official to
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By Kevin Liptak, Nikki Carvajal, Jeremy Diamond and Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden aimed to reassure vaccinated Americans that they can still proceed with their holiday plans without fear of becoming seriously ill, announcing a number of new efforts to combat a surge of Covid-19 cases in the United States. “I know some Americans
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The benefit of up to $300 per child paid directly to families has expired but an extension is part of President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better plan. The bill is hung up in the Senate, making the future uncertain for the tax credit that supporters say has helped lift families out of poverty.
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By Kevin Liptak and Jeff Zeleny, CNN After months of careful cultivation — and even a nickname — the most important relationship in Washington is narrowly weathering its stormiest moment to date. “The Two Joes” — President Joe Biden and Sen. Joe Manchin — spoke by phone on Sunday evening after their tenuous alliance blew
Continue Reading By Kevin Liptak and Jeff Zeleny, CNN After months of careful cultivation — and even a nickname — the most important relationship in Washington is narrowly weathering its stormiest moment to date. “The Two Joes” — President Joe Biden and Sen. Joe Manchin — spoke by phone on Sunday evening after their tenuous alliance blew
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Andrea Lisenby is seeking one of the two seats up for election.Â
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By Katelyn Polantz, CNN A federal judge has ruled against a notable attempt to throw out the felony charge that’s the backbone of January 6 criminal prosecutions, bolstering the government’s case against 17 Oath Keeper defendants accused of conspiring to overtake the US Capitol. “The court is persuaded by none of their contentions,” Judge Amit
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By Shawna Mizelle, CNN Democratic Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard of California announced on Monday that she would not run for reelection next year, becoming the latest House Democrat to decide not to seek another term. The congresswoman called representing 40th Congressional District constituents “the single most distinguished honor of (her) life” in a statement announcing her
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) On Monday, the Columbia City Council will hear the request from John Glascock and city staff on where to spend $2 million of the $25 million American Rescue Plan Act funds that would address development inequalities that were exposed by the COVID-19 Pandemic. City staff recommends funding three workforce development programs –Â Moberly Area Community
Continue Reading By Annie Grayer and Zachary Cohen, CNN Republican Rep. Scott Perry on Tuesday declined the House January 6 committee’s request to speak with him, a move that could set up a showdown between a staunch Trump supporter and the committee. Perry, a member of the House Freedom Caucus, was the first known lawmaker to whom
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By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN A group of Haitian migrants is suing the Biden administration over its treatment of migrants, recounting in detail squalid conditions at a makeshift camp in Del Rio, Texas, this year and confrontations with officers on horseback, according to a lawsuit filed Monday. In September, an influx of migrants — primarily Haitian
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By Manu Raju, Chief Congressional Correspondent It’s exactly the scenario Democrats had worked for months to avoid — but now find themselves confronting. Vulnerable members were forced to cast a tough vote in an already daunting election year. And now, they are left with nothing to show for it. With Sen. Joe Manchin effectively wielding
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By Zachary Cohen and Annie Grayer, CNN The House select committee investigating the deadly January 6 riot has asked GOP Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania to voluntarily sit down for an interview — the first known effort by the panel to talk to a lawmaker about helping former President Donald Trump in his efforts to
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By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN The Department of Homeland Security plans to close small gaps in the border wall, make adjustments to prevent flooding and complete prior construction of access roads, the department announced Monday. In one of his first actions in office, President Joe Biden ordered a pause on wall construction and called for a
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The Columbia City Council unanimously chose De’Carlon Seewood as the next city manager, Mayor Brian Treece said in a news conference Monday.
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