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- Amount of people hesitant to get Covid-19 vaccine dropping rapidly
Saturday - 03/06/2021 - 04:19 PMThe release of Johnson & Johnson's Covid-19 vaccine and its partnership with Merck means that President Joe Biden expects the US to have enough Covid-19 vaccines delivered to cover every adult by the end of May.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Obama congratulates Biden on Senate passage of his Covid relief bill
Saturday - 03/06/2021 - 04:12 PMFormer President Barack Obama on Saturday congratulated President Joe Biden on the successful passage of the Covid-19 relief bill through the Senate, the administration's top legislative priority as millions of Americans continue to struggle financially amid the coronavirus pandemic.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - There's a lot of misinformation around what's happening at the border. Here are the facts.
Saturday - 03/06/2021 - 09:21 AMThe Biden administration is facing an increasing number of unaccompanied migrant children crossing into the United States, placing added strain on a system operating under limited capacity due to the coronavirus pandemic.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Task force examining Capitol security calls for installment of mobile fencing among host of other changes
Saturday - 03/06/2021 - 01:17 AMA task force established to review security at the US Capitol following the violent insurrection on January 6 is calling for mobile fencing around the complex, a quick reaction Capitol Police force on standby when Congress is in session and an overhaul of how members are protected in their home districts, according to an executive copy of the report obtained by CNN.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Progressives grapple with path forward as hopes of passing minimum wage fade
Friday - 03/05/2021 - 04:47 PMThe Senate dealt progressives a blow they have been trying to prevent but knew was coming by voting down an amendment to include a $15 minimum wage in President Joe Biden's Covid relief package.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - White House warns of 'active threat' from Microsoft email hackers
Friday - 03/05/2021 - 04:54 PMThe Biden administration is increasingly sounding the alarm over a series of newly discovered cyber intrusions that Microsoft said this week were linked to China.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trump State Department official charged for attacking police in Capitol riot
Friday - 03/05/2021 - 06:03 PMA former Trump State Department political appointee appeared in Washington, DC, federal court Friday after being charged for pushing against police in the Capitol building during the January 6 insurrection.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- White House and Detroit officials seek to limit fallout after mayor initially declines Johnson & Johnson vaccine
Friday - 03/05/2021 - 02:10 PMWhite House and Detroit officials tried to limit fallout after Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan initially declined to accept a distribution of Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Last hours of the relief bill tick down in the Senate
Friday - 03/05/2021 - 09:29 AMIn a matter of hours (big caveat on how many hours exactly), the Senate will vote to pass President Joe Biden's first major legislative agenda item through its chamber, sending it back to the House of Representatives.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - GOP lawmakers facing backlash after misleading House about skipping votes to attend CPAC
Friday - 03/05/2021 - 01:26 PMAs he darted down to Florida last week and skipped crucial House votes, Republican Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona neglected to tell GOP Rep.
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- Trump wants top Republican fundraising organizations to stop using his likeness
Saturday - 03/06/2021 - 12:44 PMLawyers for former President Donald Trump sent out cease-and-desist letters Friday to the Republican National Committee, the National Republican Congressional Committee, and the National Republican Senatorial Committee for using his name and likeness on fundraising emails and merchandise, a Trump adviser tells CNN.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - What Matters: Detroit's mayor and Covid vaccine roulette
Saturday - 03/06/2021 - 08:00 AMDetroit's Democratic mayor, Mike Duggan, caused a major headache for the White House and public health officials when he declined an allotment of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine for his city, arguing that Detroiters would be better off for now with Moderna and Pfizer vaccines.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Latest news on the stimulus bill
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More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 'Dripping in the blood of Jim Crow': Voting rights groups say GOP-backed bills in Georgia target Black voters
Saturday - 03/06/2021 - 06:02 AMVoting rights groups led bus tours, knocked on 1 million doors and gave out food at community events to achieve an unprecedented Black voter turnout in Georgia.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The week in 15 headlines
Friday - 03/05/2021 - 06:32 PMThis week, pressure mounted in Washington to pass the long-awaited Covid relief package, including a fresh round of stimulus checks. Republican delay tactics persisted as President Biden scrambled to address infighting among Democrats.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Capitol Hill has picked Shalanda Young to lead OMB -- but Biden hasn't yet
Friday - 03/05/2021 - 05:14 PMCongressional Democrats are pushing President Joe Biden to nominate Shalanda Young to lead the Office of Management and Budget after Neera Tanden withdrew her nomination amid opposition in the Senate.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- New York Times and Wall Street Journal: Top Cuomo aides rewrote nursing home report from state health officials to hide higher d
Friday - 03/05/2021 - 11:21 AMSome top aides for New York Democratic Gov.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Beto O'Rourke is criss-crossing Texas, igniting Democratic hopes he'll run for governor
Friday - 03/05/2021 - 01:55 PMBeto O'Rourke is on the road again, criss-crossing Texas and broadcasting his stops in small towns live.
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< - Georgia's proposed weekend voting restrictions would strike at Black voters
Friday - 03/05/2021 - 01:27 PMBlack Georgians disproportionately cast their ballots on the weekend days that Republican lawmakers want to eliminate as options in future elections, according to a CNN analysis of voting data from last November's general election.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - On a frozen Minnesota lake, political antagonisms melt away
Friday - 03/05/2021 - 06:00 AMI took a walk on a frozen lake recently, worried less about thin ice and more about defrosting people, but I'm happy to report I was wrong.
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- Federal judge says deadline to ratify ERA 'expired long ago' in setback to advocates' efforts
Saturday - 03/06/2021 - 02:55 PMA federal district judge on Friday dealt a blow to advocates of the Equal Rights Amendment in ruling that the deadline to ratify the ERA "expired long ago" and three states' recent ratifications of the amendment arrived "too late to count."
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 70 years later, a US Army chaplain's remains are found
Saturday - 03/06/2021 - 10:13 AMSeventy years after renowned Army Chaplain Capt.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Analysis: Democratic divides sharpen even as Biden's Covid-19 relief package moves forward
Saturday - 03/06/2021 - 06:16 AMThe honeymoon is over for President Joe Biden and Senate Democrats, whose unified front has been thrown into doubt during the final stages of negotiations on the White House's $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief bill.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Attorney for Cuomo accuser asks NY AG to protect all documents and notes of conversations from 'potential spoilation' by governo
Friday - 03/05/2021 - 09:09 PMThe attorney for Charlotte Bennett, who is accusing New York Gov.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Fact-checking Detroit mayor's misleading statements on Johnson & Johnson vaccine
Friday - 03/05/2021 - 05:06 PMAs the demand for coronavirus vaccines continues to outpace the supply, the newly approved Johnson & Johnson vaccine came as encouraging and much needed news to cities and states across the US.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Biden administration considers opening additional tent facilities in Arizona amid influx of migrants
Friday - 03/05/2021 - 07:29 PMThe Biden administration is considering opening additional temporary border facilities in Arizona to manage the influx of migrants arriving at the US-Mexico border, marking the latest move to address capacity issues that have been exacerbated because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Bill to repeal Cuomo's emergency executive powers reaches governor's desk
Friday - 03/05/2021 - 07:51 PMThe New York State Senate passed a bill to repeal Gov.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Biden administration tells facilities for migrant children to reopen to pre-pandemic levels
Friday - 03/05/2021 - 02:17 PMThe Biden administration has notified facilities caring for migrant children that they can open back up to pre-Covid-19 levels, acknowledging "extraordinary circumstances" due to a rising number of minors crossing the US-Mexico border, according to a memo obtained by CNN.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Senate trims weekly unemployment benefits boost but adds a month of payments in stimulus bill
Friday - 03/05/2021 - 02:17 PMJobless Americans will get a smaller weekly boost to unemployment benefits but will receive those payments for an additional month under a last-minute revision of the Senate's $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package on Friday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - DEA suspends agent for standing outside the Capitol during the insurrection
Friday - 03/05/2021 - 08:37 AMA US Drug Enforcement Administration agent was suspended this week for his participation in the US Capitol riot, though he insists he never went inside the building, his lawyer said Thursday.
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