The Supreme Court turned away two emergency requests Monday from health care workers, doctors and nurses in New York to block the state’s vaccine mandate.
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Democratic governors worry about threat to democracy but don’t see it as a winning message for 2022
Democratic governors are facing a messaging conundrum: they say American democracy may hinge on their elections in 2022, but they’re not sure they can get most voters to care.
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December’s child tax credit payment will be the last one unless Congress acts
Parents are set to get their last monthly infusion of the expanded child tax credit starting Wednesday — unless Congress acts to extend it for another year.
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Meadows said National Guard would be ready to ‘protect pro Trump people’ before riot, investigators say
The House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol has issued a resolution recommending that the House of Representatives find Mark Meadows, former President Donald Trump’s chief of staff, in contempt of Congress.
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This is the crisis of our generation, FEMA chief says
Powerful storms like the ones that tore through parts of the central United States this weekend are the “new normal” in an era of climate change, the top federal emergency management official said on Sunday.
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‘More and more convergence’ with allies on costs to Russia if they invade Ukraine, says State Department official
Each day there has been “more and more convergence” between the US and European allies about the costs that would be inflicted on Russia if they invade Ukraine, a senior State Department official said in a briefing with reporters after Secretary of State Tony Blinken met with G7 allies.
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Lawyer says Meadows received, but did nothing, with document that detailed ways to undermine the 2020 election, per New York Times
A lawyer for Mark Meadows says the former Trump White House chief of staff was the recipient of a PowerPoint document detailing ways to undermine the count of the 2020 election but did nothing with it, according to the New York Times.
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Biden talks Washington partisanship in first late-night interview as president
President Joe Biden lamented hyper-partisanship in Washington in his first late-night interview since taking office, saying that while he used to have a cordial relationship with Republicans, “the Big Lie … makes it awful hard.”
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Security breach on Capitol Hill included missteps, such as giving officers wrong description for the suspect
A security breach at an office building on the US Capitol complex on Thursday included a number of missteps, such as Capitol Police failing to notice a handgun on the X-ray security screen and erroneously telling officers to look for a White woman instead of a Black man, sources familiar with the situation told CNN.
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CBO issues score on how much Build Back Better would cost if programs were permanent
The Congressional Budget Office has released a revised score on the Democrats’ social safety net plan based on a Republican request to see how much the bill would cost if a series of provisions — including the child tax credit expansion — were extended for the full 10 years.
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