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Biden administration restores protections for Alaska’s Tongass forest

By Zoe Sottile, CNN The Biden administration has restored protections for Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, the world’s largest intact temperate rainforest, sometimes called, “America’s Amazon.” The new protections, announced on January 25, repeal the 2020 Alaska Roadless Rule that opened the doors for road construction and timber harvest in the forest and also restore “longstanding roadless protections to 9.37

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Republicans elevate ‘parental rights’ as top issue while looking to outflank each other heading into 2024

By Gabby Orr and Steve Contorno, CNN Republican presidential hopefuls have begun casting themselves as impassioned defenders of “parental rights,” turning schoolbooks and curricula, doctors’ offices, and sports leagues into a new political battleground as they work to distinguish themselves ahead of the 2024 GOP primary. The issue had already emerged as a major vein

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Exclusive: Supreme Court justices used personal emails for work and ‘burn bags’ were left open in hallways, sources say

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter Long before the leak of a draft opinion reversing Roe v. Wade, some Supreme Court justices often used personal email accounts for sensitive transmissions instead of secure servers set up to guard such information, among other security lapses not made public in the court’s report on the

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What to know about the suspected Chinese spy balloon

By Sonnet Swire, CNN A suspected Chinese surveillance balloon in the skies over the continental United States has sparked national security and diplomatic concerns, adding to already tense Washington-Beijing relations. The incident prompted Secretary of State Antony Blinken to postpone his highly anticipated trip to China, saying Friday that the high-altitude Chinese balloon entering US

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What to know about the suspected Chinese spy balloon

By Sonnet Swire, CNN A suspected Chinese surveillance balloon in the skies over the continental United States has sparked national security and diplomatic concerns, adding to already tense Washington-Beijing relations. The incident prompted Secretary of State Antony Blinken to postpone his highly anticipated trip to China, saying Friday that the high-altitude Chinese balloon entering US

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Biden rallies Democrats around accomplishments and against ‘extreme’ GOP ahead of possible 2024 bid

By Arlette Saenz and Sam Fossum, CNN President Joe Biden rallied Democrats ahead of a possible reelection bid Friday evening, leaning into the accomplishments of his first two years in office and revving up his attacks on “extreme MAGA Republicans.” “We have more to do,” Biden said at the Democratic National Committee’s winter meeting in

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Apparent cyberattack forces Florida hospital system to divert some emergency patients to other facilities

By Sean Lyngaas and David Rind, CNN An apparent cyberattack has forced a network of Florida health care organizations to send some emergency patients to other facilities and to cancel some non-emergency surgeries, the health care network said Friday. Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare, which operates a 772-bed hospital and multiple specialty care centers, said an “IT

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Jim Jordan issues first subpoenas targeting Biden administration’s response to school board threats

By Annie Grayer, Sara Murray, Zachary Cohen and Marshall Cohen, CNN House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan on Friday subpoenaed the Department of Justice, the FBI and the Department of Education for documents as part of its investigation into whether a Justice Department strategy to address threats against teachers and school officials was abused to target

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