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FEMA announces $3 billion for climate resiliency as time runs low for Congress to replenish its disaster fund

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — In a record-breaking year of disasters, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is announcing nearly $3 billion Monday for communities to build resiliency against climate change-fueled extreme weather. The new money, which will come from Congress’s bipartisan infrastructure law passed last year, is being announced just as the agency is

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Who is Steve Jones, the judge who’ll decide whether to move Fulton County defendants’ cases to federal court?

By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — Federal district Judge Steve Jones of the Northern District of Georgia will hear requests from three of the 19 defendants hoping to move their Georgia election subversion cases out of state court. The group, which includes former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, is trying to

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Schools got $190 billion in pandemic aid, but the funds haven’t reversed learning loss

By Katie Lobosco, CNN Washington (CNN) — America’s K-12 schools received the largest-ever infusion of federal aid to help them address pandemic-related challenges, yet students are still struggling to catch up from the learning loss they experienced when during remote learning. Between March 2020 and March 2021, Congress authorized $190 billion in funding for K-12

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As young conservatives try to get climate on the agenda in 2024, denial takes the spotlight instead

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — During this week’s Republican primary debate on Fox News, a young voter notably asked about the climate crisis: How would these presidential candidates assuage concerns that the Republican Party “doesn’t care” about the issue? The question was all but unavoidable after weeks of extreme, deadly weather. Global temperature records

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