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House passes Democrats’ health care and climate bill, clearing measure for Biden’s signature

By Clare Foran and Kristin Wilson, CNN The House of Representatives voted Friday to pass Democrats’ $750 billion health care, energy and climate bill, in a significant victory for President Joe Biden and his party. The final vote was 220-207, along party lines. Four Republicans did not vote. Now that the Democratic-controlled House has approved

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The Washington Post: FBI searched Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence for classified nuclear documents

By Paul LeBlanc, CNN The FBI sought to locate classified documents related to nuclear weapons, among other items, when agents searched former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, this week, people familiar with the investigation told The Washington Post. The people did not offer additional details to the Post about “what type

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The Washington Post: FBI searched Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence for classified nuclear documents

By Paul LeBlanc, CNN The FBI sought to locate classified documents related to nuclear weapons, among other items, when agents searched former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, this week, people familiar with the investigation told The Washington Post. The people did not offer additional details to the Post about “what type

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Detailed accusations of Secret Service impeding Jan 6 investigation were scrapped from report to Congress

By Whitney Wild and Zachary Cohen, CNN A memo detailing how federal investigators believed the Secret Service was impeding them from obtaining key information about the agency’s response to January 6, 2021, was significantly altered to remove reference to nearly all those efforts before a final report was presented to lawmakers in June. The memo’s

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First on CNN: Elaine Chao, Trump’s former Transportation Secretary, met with Jan. 6 committee as other Cabinet members engage with panel

By Zachary Cohen, Jamie Gangel, Sara Murray and Pamela Brown, CNN The House select committee investigating January 6, 2021, has recently interviewed former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao and has been in talks with former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos as well as former National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien, multiple sources tell CNN. Chao and DeVos, both

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Merrick Garland says DOJ filed motion to unseal Trump Mar-a-Lago warrant and property receipt

By Tierney Sneed, Evan Perez, Hannah Rabinowitz and Zachary Cohen, CNN In his first public statement since federal agents searched former President Donald Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago earlier this week, Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday said that the Justice Department had filed in court a request that the search warrant and property receipt from

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Political campaign emails can bypass Google’s spam filters under a newly approved pilot project

By Fredreka Schouten Federal election regulators voted Thursday to allow Google to proceed with a plan to make it easier for campaign emails to bypass spam filters. Google’s proposal to run a pilot project changing the filters for political emails came after intense Republican criticism that spam filters were biased against conservatives, a charge the

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