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Despite some GOP lawmakers' false claims, officials from Arizona's so-called 'audit' acknowledge Biden's win
Lokibaho/iStock(MARICOPA COUNTY, Ariz.) -- There was no significant 2020 election fraud in Arizona's Maricopa County, partisan election reviewers again acknowledged in testimony before Congress on Thu...
Oct 07, 2021
Biden touts vaccine mandates for large businesses: 'These requirements work'
Chris Kleponis/CNP/Bloomberg via Getty Images(ELK GROVE VILLAGE, Ill.) -- President Joe Biden renewed his call for private employers to require their workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19, saying...
Oct 07, 2021
Biden admits historic low number of refugees, outside of Afghan evacuees
(File photo) - vichinterlang/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- With the fall of the Afghan government, the Biden administration has so far brought roughly 60,000 Afghans to the U.S., with plans for tens of thousa...
Oct 07, 2021
Senate votes to raise debt limit after 11 Republicans join Democrats to break filibuster
uschools/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- After weeks of brinkmanship, the Senate voted Thursday night to raise the debt limit by $480 billion until Dec. 3. The procedural move to break the GOP filibuster, which...
Oct 06, 2021
Supreme Court justices gripped by case of 9/11 detainee: 'We want a clear answer'
Timothy Epple/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- A U.S. Supreme Court case about state secrets and brutal CIA black-site interrogations after 9/11 took an abrupt turn Wednesday when a trio of justices demanded ans...
Oct 06, 2021
Supreme Court takes up secret CIA black sites in 9/11 detainee's case
zodebala/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday will wrestle with the limits of the government state secrets privilege in a high-stakes case brought by the first al-Qaida suspect de...
Oct 06, 2021
Climate change provisions remain crucial piece of reconciliation debate
oonal/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- Asked last week what the biggest sticking points were in the ongoing negotiations over the partisan budget reconciliation bill, California Rep. Ro Khanna, a member of the p...
Oct 06, 2021
As Republicans play debt limit brinksmanship, nation barrels toward default
Alex Wong/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- As the nation barrels toward default, Republicans are poised to sink a Democratic effort to suspend the federal borrowing limit. Republicans in the Senate are fil...
Oct 05, 2021
Florida trying to block money Biden sent to school districts fined for mask mandates
Pink Omelet/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- Days after the Biden administration reimbursed two Florida school districts whose board members lost their salaries for mandating masks for students, the state's top ...
Oct 05, 2021
Black woman in rural Texas unable to obtain ID needed to vote, advocates say system is unfair
Art Wager/iStock(OAKWOOD, Texas) -- As voters across Texas submitted voter registration applications on Monday, Oct. 4, ahead of the Nov. 2 statewide election, 82-year-old Elmira Hicks was left out. T...
Oct 05, 2021
