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• Judge blocks Biden from rolling back Title 42

  20-05-2022 23:20 via thehill.com
  
  A federal judge in Louisiana on Friday temporarily stopped the Biden administration from ending Title 42, the Trump-era border management policy that allowed officials to quickly expel foreign nationals at the border under pandemic conditions.The policy was due to end Monday as part of the Biden administration's efforts to restructure border and immigration policy after the Trump administration's overhaul of the systemU.S. District Court Robert Summerhays granted a preliminary injunction to a gr
  
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• Trump calls NBC story on him giving up on Perdue 'a phony narrative'

  20-05-2022 23:15 via thehill.com
  
  Former President Trump disputed an NBC News story that indicated that Trump had given up on his endorsed candidate, former Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.), in the state’s gubernatorial race, saying the piece is “a phony narrative.”“The Kemp Campaign, together with Fake News NBC, has put out a phony narrative that I have given up on David Perdue in Georgia. That is completely FALSE!” he wrote on his Truth Social platform.“I am with David all the way because Brian Kem
  
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• Archbishop bars Pelosi from communion over support for abortion rights

  20-05-2022 21:52 via thehill.com
  
  The Archbishop of San Francisco barred Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) from receiving communion over her support for abortion rights.Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone said in a letter to Pelosi on Thursday that he had requested to speak to her after she vowed to codify Roe v. Wade, the landmark abortion rights case, in wake of Texas banning abortions after six weeks last September.
  He had warned Pelosi in an April 7 letter, he said, to either repudiate advocacy for abortion rights or to
  
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• Clyburn says 'the country is in danger of imploding'

  20-05-2022 21:43 via thehill.com
  
  House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) said “the country is in danger of imploding” while weighing in on the Buffalo, N.Y., shooting and the mood of Black voters in a wide-ranging interview published Friday.“It's just a mystery to me that we've become so tolerable of these kinds of incidents,” Clyburn told The Washington Post in an interview published in its Early 202 newsletter, referring to last weekend's shooting in a predominantly Black neighborhood that left 10
  
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• GOP resolution defines ‘woman’ on basis of biological sex

  20-05-2022 20:27 via thehill.com
  
  A resolution introduced by Republicans in both chambers of Congress on Thursday would define words like "woman," "man," "mother," and "father" on the basis of biological sex, a rebuke to transgender and inclusivity measures.Republicans call the measure a "Women's Bill of Rights," arguing that defining women on the basis of biological sex is necessary to protect women's rights in spaces like domestic violence centers, women’s sports, locker rooms, and bathrooms.“The Democrats are eras
  
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• Black Caucus leaders want Biden meeting on student debt

  20-05-2022 19:48 via thehill.com
  
  The Congressional Black Caucus is seeking a meeting with President Biden to discuss student loan debt, calling on the White House to approve broad-based cancellation of federal debt through executive action.“The $1.7 trillion student loan debt crisis is a racial and economic justice issue disproportionately impacting Black communities across the nation,” Black Caucus Chairwoman Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio) said in a written statement on Friday.“We are calling on the Biden Administrati
  
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• IRS to pay 5 percent interest to individuals with delayed tax refunds

  20-05-2022 18:06 via thehill.com
  
  The IRS will start paying 5 percent in guaranteed interest to individuals with delayed tax returns beginning in July, up a percentage point from the last interest rate hike that took effect in April.The agency will also pay 4 percent interest on delayed corporate tax returns, 5 percent on underpayments on tax returns and 7 percent for "large corporate underpayments," the IRS said Friday.The federal government regularly spends billions of dollars in interest on delayed returns. The IRS has paid o
  
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• Biden vows to deepen US-South Korea ties in first Asia stop

  20-05-2022 13:41 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden on Friday toured a Samsung factory in South Korea and vowed to strengthen ties between Washington and Seoul during his first stop on a trip to Asia.  “We’re standing at an inflection point in history where the decisions we make today will have a far-reaching impacts on the world we leave to our children tomorrow,” Biden said in remarks at the Samsung plant in Pyeongtaek. “This vibrant democracy has become a powerhouse of global innovation by investing
  
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• The Memo: Trump faces critical popularity test in Georgia

  20-05-2022 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  The stakes are growing higher by the day for former President Trump in advance of Georgia’s GOP primaries on Tuesday.The primaries will be the latest test of Trump’s muscle within the Republican Party. It’s a test he could fail.The elections come on the heels of key contests this week, particularly in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, where Trump-backed candidates met mixed fates.In Georgia, Trump has railed against incumbent Gov. Brian Kemp (R) again and again, backing his mai
  
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• GOP frustration builds with Freedom Caucus floor tactics 

  20-05-2022 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  Some GOP lawmakers are getting frustrated with the hard-line tactics of the conservative House Freedom Caucus.  Members of the group have forced recorded votes on normally non-controversial bills on the suspension calendar, forcing lawmakers to hang around the chamber for hours to get their votes in rather than conduct other business.It led to a confrontation on Tuesday night during a two-and-a-half-hour vote series on 13 separate measures between Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala
  
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• White House condemns restrictive Oklahoma abortion law

  20-05-2022 04:17 via thehill.com
  
  White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre condemned a law passed by Oklahoma lawmakers on Thursday that would ban abortions with very limited exceptions.“Today’s action by the Oklahoma legislature is the most extreme effort to undo these fundamental rights we have seen to date. In addition, it adopts Texas’ absurd plan to allow private citizens to sue their neighbors for providing reproductive health care and helping women to exercise their constitutional rights,” Je
  
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• Pentagon spokesman John Kirby moving into White House role: reports

  20-05-2022 03:46 via thehill.com
  
  Pentagon spokesman John Kirby is leaving his role at the Pentagon to take up a communications job at the White House, multiple outlets reported Thursday.The Washington Post was the first to report Kirby will take on a senior communications role at the White House, citing two sources familiar with the matter. CNN and The Associated Press reported, each citing a source familiar, that Kirby is expected to assume a role with the National Security Council (NSC). The Post also said the new positi
  
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• White House announces first government flights to deliver baby formula from Europe to US

  20-05-2022 00:56 via thehill.com
  
  The Biden administration on Thursday announced the first flights will take place in the coming days to deliver infant formula from Europe to the United States as part of a new government initiative to address the domestic formula shortage.The Pentagon is working to get planes in place to fly the equivalent of 1.5 million bottles of formula from Zurich, Switzerland, to Plainfield, Ind., to be distributed to areas of need. The flights are part of “Operation Fly Formula,” an initiative
  
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• Cawthorn says 'it's time for the rise of the new right' after primary loss

  20-05-2022 00:41 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.), who lost his primary race to state Sen. Chuck Edwards (R-N.C.) earlier this week, said in an Instagram post on Thursday that “it’s time for the rise of the new right.”“It’s time for the rise of the new right, it’s time for Dark MAGA to truly take command. We have an enemy to defeat, but we will never be able to defeat them until we defeat the cowardly and weak members of our own party. Their days are numbered. We are coming,&rdq
  
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