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Biden administration approves controversial Willow oil project in Alaska, which has galvanized online activism

By Ella Nilsen, CNN The Biden administration has approved the massive Willow oil drilling project in Alaska, angering climate advocates and setting the stage for a court challenge. The Willow Project is a decadeslong oil drilling venture in the National Petroleum Reserve, which is owned by the federal government. The area where the project is

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House Oversight Chair Comer quietly subpoenas bank records for Hunter Biden business associates

By Zachary Cohen, Alayna Treene, Sara Murray and Annie Grayer, CNN House Oversight Chairman James Comer has quietly subpoenaed Bank of America asking for records relating to three of Hunter Biden’s business associates, the committee’s ranking Democrat, Rep. Jamie Raskin, disclosed in a letter sent to Comer on Sunday. The subpoena was broad and called

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Manhattan DA says ‘focus is on the evidence and the law’ in probe of Trump hush money scheme

By Samantha Beech, CNN New York City prosecutors probing former President Donald Trump’s alleged role in a hush money scheme and cover-up are focused “on the evidence and the law,” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said this weekend. Speaking on MSNBC’s “PoliticsNation,” Bragg did not go into detail about what he called the “active investigation”

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GOP 2024 hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy says US experiencing a ‘national identity crisis’

By Andrew Millman, CNN Republican presidential candidate and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy said Sunday he is “running distinctively on my vision for this country” and not his biography or business credentials when asked why he believes he can win the party’s nomination as a political outsider and relatively unknown figure to most Americans. “We’re in the

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White House calls on Pence to apologize for ‘homophobic joke’ about Buttigieg

By Veronica Stracqualursi, Nikki Carvajal and Jack Forrest, CNN The White House on Monday called on Mike Pence to apologize for his remark that Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg had gone on “maternity leave,” saying that the former vice president’s “homophobic joke” at the Gridiron Club dinner on Saturday was “offensive and inappropriate.” “The former vice

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Biden vows to hold those responsible for Silicon Valley Bank failure ‘fully accountable’

By Sam Fossum, Ramishah Maruf, Alayna Treene, Phil Mattingly, Ted Barrett and Arlette Saenz, CNN President Joe Biden said Sunday that at his direction US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and his top economic adviser Lael Brainard worked with financial regulators to ensure households and businesses affected by the Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank failures

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