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White House to ship more monkeypox vaccines to states as cases climb past 13,500
Mario Tama/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Starting Monday, an additional 360,000 vials of monkeypox vaccine will be available, potentially enough for 1.8 million shots in arms using the administration's ...
Aug 18, 2022
July border arrests decrease but expected to total a record 2 million by next month
Yuko Smith Photography/Getty Images, FILE(WASHINGTON) -- Customs and Border Protection encounters for the month of July dipped below 200,000 for the first time in months, according to statistics relea...
Aug 18, 2022
Treasury Department rejects GOP claims on new IRS agents
Zach Gibson/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Internal Revenue Service does not plan to use the nearly $80 billion it's set to receive in funding from the Inflation Reduction Act to hire 87,000 new agen...
Aug 18, 2022
Judge indicates portions of Mar-a-Lago search affidavit could be unsealed after redactions
Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- A magistrate judge in Florida heard in-person arguments Thursday on a request from a coalition of media outlets to make public the affidavit supporting ...
Aug 18, 2022
Weeks before Mar-a-Lago search, ex-Trump DOD official vowed to publish classified documents from National Archives
John Roca/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- In June of this year, seven weeks before the FBI raided former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in search of classified materi...
Aug 17, 2022
Prosecutor sues Florida governor over suspension, says 1st Amendment rights violated
David Taludkar/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Florida state attorney who was suspended by Gov. Ron DeSantis this month sued the governor on Wednesday, claiming his removal from office violated his Fi...
Aug 17, 2022
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp files motion to delay testifying in Fulton County election probe
Dustin Chambers/Bloomberg via Getty Images(ATLANTA) -- Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp filed a motion on Wednesday looking to delay a subpoena for his testimony in front of the special grand jury as part of t...
Aug 17, 2022
Mike Pence tells Republicans to stop attacking the FBI after Mar-a-Lago search
Scott Eisen/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Former Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday castigated Republicans who are attacking the FBI after the agency searched Donald Trump's residence in Florida. Th...
Aug 17, 2022
Liz Cheney teases presidential run, will form anti-Trump effort
Alex Wong/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Rep. Liz Cheney is looking to turn her landslide loss in Wyoming's Republican primary Tuesday night into a nationwide crusade to keep Donald Trump out of the Whit...
Aug 17, 2022
Trump-backed election denier wins GOP nod to be Wyoming secretary of state
adamkaz/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Wyoming's Republican voters got one step closer to picking their secretary of state on Tuesday in a primary matchup of candidates with opposing views on the 2020 el...
Aug 17, 2022
