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GOP Gov. DeSantis signs Florida election bill into law amid new controversy
Veronaa/iStock(WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.) -- Gov. Ron DeSantis created new controversy around Florida's already controversial new election law Thursday, apparently giving exclusive access to the signing c...
May 06, 2021
DHS secretary warns ransomware attacks on the rise, targets include small businesses
Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas warned that cyberattacks -- specifically ransomware attacks -- are on the rise and targets range from gov...
May 06, 2021
Restrictive Texas voting bill advances to floor vote
BDphoto/iStock(AUSTIN, Texas) -- After weeks of debate and political maneuvering, the nation's next showdown over state voting rights lands in Texas on Thursday, when the Republican-backed House Bill ...
May 06, 2021
In critical shift, US now backs patent protection waivers for COVID-19 vaccines
ridofranz/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- The Biden administration now says it supports waiving the intellectual property protections for COVID-19 vaccines, opening the door for their possible manufacturing by ...
May 05, 2021
Judge strikes down CDC's authority to uphold federal eviction freeze
kuzma/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- A D.C. district judge ruled Wednesday that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention does not have the authority to uphold a federal eviction moratorium, which ...
May 05, 2021
Biden visits taqueria as 186,000 restaurants apply for federal aid from newly opened program
Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- More than 186,000 restaurants flooded the federal government with applications for money in the first two days of a program set up to amelio...
May 05, 2021
Cheney not fighting, but not backing down in face of Trump, Republican backlash
uschools/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- As House Republican leaders actively kept trying Wednesday to oust a member of their own leadership team – No. 3 Rep. Liz Cheney – the congresswoman wasn't b...
May 05, 2021
US looks to take leadership role at first in-person G-7 summit in two years
Stefan Rousseau-WPA Pool/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Ahead of President Joe Biden’s first foreign trip to the United Kingdom in June, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in London this wee...
May 04, 2021
Caitlyn Jenner releases first ad seeking to recall California Gov. Newsom
Paul Archuleta/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Caitlyn Jenner, the former Olympic decathlete and reality TV personality now running for California governor, has branded herself as a "compassionate disrupter...
May 04, 2021
Families of fallen service members address Congress on 'preventable' AAV accident
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Gunnery Sgt. Ismael Pena(WASHINGTON) -- Ahead of a fatal training accident, Marine Pfc. Jack Ryan Ostrovsky shared his reservations about the safety of assault amphibious ve...
May 04, 2021
