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Nurses hold vigil at White House, demanding safer COVID working conditions
joe daniel price/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Health care workers held a vigil across from the White House Thursday night, lighting 481 candles, saying each represented the life of a nurse lost to COVI...
Jan 14, 2022
Why Spanish-language voting ballots are critical for democracy, advocates say
EVA MARIE UZCATEGUI/AFP via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- As the midterm elections approach later this year, some states and jurisdictions have required voting ballots to be made available in other langua...
Jan 14, 2022
President Biden to announce new investment in nation's bridges
Alex Wong/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden will announce a nearly $27 billion investment Friday to fund repairs and replace bridges in need. The Department of Transportation will launch...
Jan 14, 2022
Supreme Court blocks Biden vaccine-or-test mandate for large businesses
Alex Wong/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Supreme Court on Thursday issued a stay of the OSHA vaccine-or-test requirement on private businesses of 100 or more workers, dealing a setback to the Biden a...
Jan 13, 2022
RNC threatens to 'prohibit' future nominees from participating in presidential debates
Bridget Bennett/BLoomberg via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Republican National Committee says it plans to make a major change heading into the 2024 election that would "prohibit" Republican nominee...
Jan 13, 2022
FBI arrests Oath Keepers leader on charge of seditious conspiracy involving Jan. 6 attack
Jon Hicks/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Justice Department has unsealed a major indictment charging the leader of the Oath Keepers militia group along with multiple other members with seditious cons...
Jan 13, 2022
1 million expired COVID tests sitting in Florida warehouse OK to use after FDA grants extension
Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has extended the shelf life of up to 1 million rapid COVID-19 tests that had expired in a Fl...
Jan 13, 2022
Sinema, Manchin reject Biden push to change filibuster for voting rights
MELINA MARA/POOL/AFP via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- As President Joe Biden headed to Capitol Hill on Thursday in an attempt to persuade Democratic lawmakers to back a major change to the Senate's rul...
Jan 13, 2022
Rep. Gaetz's ex-girlfriend spotted entering Florida courthouse where grand jury is meeting
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images(ORLANDO, Fla.) -- A former girlfriend of Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, who is potentially a key witness in the ongoing federal sex trafficking investigation into the congressma...
Jan 13, 2022
Jan. 6 committee asks GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy to cooperate with probe
Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- In a major development, the House Jan. 6 select committee on Wednesday asked GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy to voluntarily cooperate with its ...
Jan 12, 2022
