By Donald Judd The Biden administration will unveil its “Trucking Action Plan” on Thursday in an effort to address supply chain challenges that have plagued the White House for months. The plan is the product of the administration’s Supply Chain Disruptions Task Force, a group chaired by Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg
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By Kevin Liptak and Kate Sullivan, CNN Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday announced a new administration push to eliminate lead from water pipes and homes in the next decade using billions in new funding allocated through the new bipartisan infrastructure law. “Here’s the truth, and it’s a hard truth: Millions of people in our
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By Tierney Sneed, CNN The US Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday that it is lifting a requirement that patients seeking medication abortion had to pick up the medication in-person, instead allowing pills to be sent by mail. The move comes as the Supreme Court is poised to undo its abortion rights precedent. Relaxing the
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By Gabe Cohen, CNN A hiring crisis is closing classrooms at Nurtury Early Education in Boston. The nonprofit, which serves mostly low-income families, has seen its staff shrink 30% during the coronavirus pandemic. “We cannot find enough educators who are willing to come into our classrooms,” CEO Laura Perille said. “Because they can earn a
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By Gabe Cohen, CNN A hiring crisis is closing classrooms at Nurtury Early Education in Boston. The nonprofit, which serves mostly low-income families, has seen its staff shrink 30% during the coronavirus pandemic. “We cannot find enough educators who are willing to come into our classrooms,” CEO Laura Perille said. “Because they can earn a
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By Joan Biskupic, CNN legal analyst & Supreme Court biographer The country is not ready for what’s coming next from the Supreme Court. Individual justices themselves say it. The court’s message to the country in recent months has smacked of politics. Most conspicuously, the justices have repeatedly rejected requests to prevent a Texas abortion law
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President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better plan includes a provision that could save parents a lot of money — universal pre-K.
Continue Reading By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN The Justice Department has informed attorneys representing separated migrant families that it will cease settlement negotiations and is ready to go back to court, according to an attorney representing families. The news comes after the White House came under political pressure following news of the talks and potential payments — of
Continue Reading By Katie Bo Lillis, CNN Frustrated JFK researchers say there is little new to learn in Wednesday’s release of previously classified documents collected as part of the government review into the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The vast majority of the almost 1,500 documents released by the National Archives as new appear to
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The estimated cost for a family to send their child to preschool in Missouri is $8,600 a year, according to a White House study, and only 14% of Missouri families have access to publicly funded preschool. State and federal lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have floated proposal about how to make preschool more accessible to those who can’t afford it.
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By Oren Liebermann, CNN The US Navy will begin discharging sailors who refuse to get vaccinated against Covid-19, just as the Air Force announced earlier this week that they had discharged service members for failing to get vaccinated. On Wednesday, the Navy put out its updated guidance that sailors who fail to follow the lawful
Continue Reading By Oren Liebermann, CNN The US Navy will begin discharging sailors who refuse to get vaccinated against Covid-19, just as the Air Force announced earlier this week that they had discharged service members for failing to get vaccinated. On Wednesday, the Navy put out its updated guidance that sailors who fail to follow the lawful
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By Maegan Vazquez, CNN On nearly any other day in Washington, Republican Congressman James Comer would likely be calling for oversight investigations into the Biden administration. But on Wednesday, Comer — who represents Kentucky’s 1st District and is the top Republican on the House Committee on Oversight and Reform — accompanied President Joe Biden throughout
Continue Reading By Maegan Vazquez, CNN On nearly any other day in Washington, Republican Congressman James Comer would likely be calling for oversight investigations into the Biden administration. But on Wednesday, Comer — who represents Kentucky’s 1st District and is the top Republican on the House Committee on Oversight and Reform — accompanied President Joe Biden throughout
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By Annie Grayer, CNN Rep. Jamaal Bowman, a progressive freshman Democrat from New York, is calling on Congress to pass another Covid-19 relief package as the country marks 800,000 deaths from the virus and the threat of the Omicron variant only grows. In a letter to House Democratic leadership, shared first with CNN, Bowman laid
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By Sean Lyngaas, CNN More than a dozen Democratic lawmakers have called on the Biden administration to sanction four cyber surveillance firms for “enabling human rights abuses” by “selling powerful surveillance technology to authoritarian governments.” The letter, led by Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon and House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff of California, asks the Treasury
Continue Reading By Priscilla Alvarez and Anna-Maja Rappard, CNN Under the shadow of the border wall, dozens of migrants raced to get in line as they spotted the glimmer of vehicle lights down the road. US Border Patrol agents were on the way. For hours, migrants, primarily of the middle-class in South America, had waited to turn
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By Priscilla Alvarez and Anna-Maja Rappard, CNN Under the shadow of the border wall, dozens of migrants raced to get in line as they spotted the glimmer of vehicle lights down the road. US Border Patrol agents were on the way. For hours, migrants, primarily of the middle-class in South America, had waited to turn
Continue Reading By Maegan Vazquez, Kate Sullivan, Betsy Klein and Nikki Carvajal, CNN President Joe Biden traveled to Kentucky on Wednesday in the wake of deadly tornadoes and severe storms that devastated the area, announcing that the federal government would cover 100% of costs of emergency work for the first 30 days after the extreme weather event.
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By Ryan Nobles and Zachary Cohen, CNN Rep. Jim Jordan forwarded a text message to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows on January 5, outlining a legal theory that then-Vice President Mike Pence had the authority to stand in the way of the certification of the 2020 election. A portion of that message was
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