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By Betsy Klein, CNN More Americans are getting their Covid-19 updated booster shots, new data show, but Biden administration officials caution the recent uptake is still not enough as the winter months and the threat of new outbreaks approach. Data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention expected to be posted later Thursday

By Dan Merica, CNN After weeks of avoiding the abortion allegations against Georgia Republican Senate nominee Herschel Walker, Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock is putting money behind the accusations that have roiled the key race. Warnock’s campaign released a new television ad on Thursday that highlight the allegations that Walker paid for a woman’s abortion and

By Weslan Hansen and Casey Gannon, CNN A former US Capitol police officer on trial for allegedly telling a January 6, 2021, rioter to delete evidence related to the attack also told the rioter he thought some of the “agitators” that day were Antifa, according to prosecutors. A day after the attack, officer Michael Riley

By Shawna Mizelle, CNN Former Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday declined to say whether he would vote for former President Donald Trump if he secured the 2024 GOP presidential nomination. “Mr. Pence, if Donald Trump is the Republican nominee for president in 2024, will you vote for him?” Pence was asked while taking questions

By Paul LeBlanc, CNN North Carolina voters can head to the polls on Thursday morning when early, in-person voting officially kicks off in the Tar Heel State. According to the State Board of Elections, 359 early voting sites will open across the state Thursday through 3 p.m. ET on Saturday, November 5. That’s a 17%

By Kevin Liptak, MJ Lee and Jeremy Diamond, CNN When President Joe Biden visited Pennsylvania on Thursday, he touted infrastructure investments that helped rebuild a collapsed bridge and raised campaign cash away from cameras with the state’s Democratic Senate candidate. Where he didn’t appear was a campaign rally stage. Three weeks before November’s elections, Biden’s

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN The Department of Homeland Security put together a plan months ago to deal with thousands of migrants arriving at the border: flying some of them to cities deeper inside the US for processing. But the plan is dead for now, officials tell CNN, in part after the White House grew hesitant

By Kyung Lah, CNN The Arizona Secretary of State’s Office has referred to the US Department of Justice and Arizona Attorney General’s Office a report of voter intimidation, Murphy Hebert, spokeswoman for the secretary of state’s office, confirmed to CNN on Wednesday. The unidentified voter reported that they were approached and followed by a group

By Andy Rose, CNN With less than a week to go before the beginning of early voting, officials in Harris County, Texas, were notified in a letter Tuesday that the secretary of state’s office will send “inspectors” to observe vote counting for the general election. “These inspectors will perform randomized checks on election records, including

By Kylie Atwood and Paul LeBlanc, CNN The United States has “abundant evidence” that Russia is using Iranian drones to strike Ukraine, State Department spokesperson Ned Price said Wednesday. “The United States began warning in July that Iran was planning to transfer UAVs to Russia for use in Russia’s brutal war against Ukraine, and we

By Hannah Rabinowitz and Holmes Lybrand The Justice Department announced charges on Wednesday against nearly a dozen people and two companies in connection with illegal schemes to send military technology to Russia, some of which has allegedly been recovered from battlefields in Ukraine. The department said in a statement that some of the defendants also

By Sara Murray, Kristen Holmes and Gabby Orr, CNN Donald Trump‘s legal team is weighing whether to allow federal agents to return to the former President’s Florida residence, and potentially conduct a supervised search, to satisfy the Justice Department’s demands that all sensitive government documents are returned, sources tell CNN. In private discussions with Trump’s

By Tami Luhby, CNN The US Department of Agriculture is awarding $53 million in grants to beef up outreach efforts, improve technology and enhance the shopping experience for families receiving the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, known as WIC. The funding, which comes from the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021,

By Whitney Wild, CNN US Capitol Police officers on Wednesday arrested an 80-year-old man from Georgia after he admitted he had guns in his vehicle, according to the agency. Tony Payne, of Tunnel Hill, Georgia, was charged with unregistered firearm, unregistered ammunition, and carrying a pistol without a license, US Capitol Police said in a

By Manu Raju and Alex Rogers, CNN Tom Nelson can hardly believe it. In just a matter of two months, Democrats went from expecting to knock off the unpopular GOP incumbent, US Sen. Ron Johnson, to seeing their party’s nominee, Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, scrambling to catch up. Already, the finger pointing has begun.