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House passes sweeping voting rights bill over GOP opposition
WASHINGTON - House Democrats passed sweeping voting and ethics legislation over unanimous Republican opposition, advancing to the Senate what would be the largest overhaul of...
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India Downgraded to ‘Partly Free' for First Time Since 1997
India was downgraded to “partly free” for the first time since 1997 in an annual ranking of democracies by the U.S.-government funded research group Freedom House, which cited...
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Police uncover ‘possible plot' by militia to breach Capitol
WASHINGTON - Capitol Police say they have uncovered intelligence of a “possible plot” by a militia group to breach the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, nearly two months after a mob...
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US-China tensions threaten global climate change efforts
WASHINGTON - The world's hopes for curbing climate change hinge on action by two giant nations whose relations are deteriorating: China and the United States. The two countries...
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Takeaways: What hearings have revealed about Jan. 6 failures
WASHINGTON - Many questions remain unanswered about the failure to prevent the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. But after six congressional hearings, it's clear that...
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Eager to act, Biden and Democrats leave Republicans behind
WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden and Democrats in Congress are jamming their agenda forward with a sense of urgency, an unapologetically partisan approach based on the...
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Mask war flares; Biden rips 'Neanderthal thinking'
Biden condemned some states' plans to end their mask and other COVID-19 rules for ignoring science as the U.S. is at a crossroads while vaccinations are stepped up.
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Critics question China's right to host Winter Olympics
Some lawmakers in the Netherlands, Canada and the U.S. say China should be stripped of 2022 Games over human rights abuses.
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Biden Agriculture Chief Signals Increase in Food Aid Beyond Covid Crisis
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is signaling a push to increase food assistance for the poor beyond the Covid-19 economic crisis.
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Blinken Says Only China Can Truly Challenge Global System
Secretary of State Antony Blinken called the U.S.'s dealings with China the defining test of the century, as he set out a broad agenda that he said would do more to ensure that...
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The House passed a police reform bill named for George Floyd that would ban...
Summary List Placement The US House of Representatives passed the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act late Wednesday, in a party-line vote on the most ambitious policing... Read more ...
House Passes Landmark Voting Rights Bill, Setting Up First Major Filibuster...
The sweeping reform bill would nullify the new wave of voter restrictions that Republicans are pushing at the state level. Read more ...
A wealthy Florida Keys community received vaccines before the rest of the...
Summary List Placement Nearly every eligible resident of a gated community in the Florida Keys was vaccinated by mid-January as the rest of the state struggled to get doses... Read more ...
House Approves Major Election And Campaign Finance Reform Bill
The "For the People Act" would dramatically overhaul the U.S. voting system and seek to limit the amount of dark money in politics. (Image credit: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images) Read more ...
Biden administration curtails drone strikes amid major policy review
Summary List Placement There has been a steep drop in reported drone strikes since President Joe Biden took office, as Insider reported last month. Now The New York Times is... Read more ...
White House weighs minimum wage negotiations with Republicans
The White House is weighing whether to engage in talks with Republicans on a minimum wage hike once Congress passes its Covid relief bill, two sources with knowledge of their... Read more ...
Watchdog says Elaine Chao, ex-transpo secretary and Mitch McConnell's wife...
Summary List Placement Elaine Chao, the former transportation secretary under Trump and wife of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, was cited by the Inspector General for... Read more ...
House Cancels Thursday Session Over Attack Fears
The House of Representatives has canceled its Thursday session over reports of a possible plot by an “identified militia group” to attempt a repeat of the Jan. 6 attack on the... Read more ...
Cuomo's office accused of violating its own sexual harassment policy
ALBANY, N.Y. - A high-ranking Democrat in the New York Legislature and a lawyer representing one of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's accusers say the governor's office flouted its own rules... Read more ...
Alleged Proud Boy leader wins pretrial release
A federal judge in Washington has ordered the release of an alleged Proud Boys leader after declaring that the government had presented only “weak” evidence tying him to... Read more ...