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• US Rep. Glenn Thompson released from Walter Reed following Covid-19 diagnosis

  23-10-2021 22:27 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Rep. Glenn Thompson was released from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Friday evening following his positive Covid-19 diagnosis.
  
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• White House makes massive change to resettlement program to help Afghan refugees

  23-10-2021 22:13 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The Biden administration is taking an unprecedented step to resettle the 55,600 Afghan evacuees from the US military bases where they've been living for weeks and into permanent homes, an official leading the effort told CNN.
  
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• Why Biden is flailing

  23-10-2021 22:12 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden's popularity is at the lowest point of his administration. He's averaging about a 43% approval rating, with recently released polls from Gallup (42%) and Grinnell College (37%) coming in even lower.
  
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• Deal On Biden’s $2T Plan Edges Closer; Harris Is `Confident’

  23-10-2021 21:19
  
  “I am confident, frankly ― not only optimistic, but I am confident that we will reach a deal," Vice President Kamala Harris said.
  
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• Virginia Democrats sue USPS over delayed delivery of election-related material

  23-10-2021 20:06 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The Virginia Democratic Party filed a lawsuit against the US Postal Service on Friday, alleging local branches failed to deliver and process election-related material ahead of its gubernatorial race, thereby "threatening to disenfranchise thousands of Virginia voters."
  
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• Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Asks Buffalo To Elect ‘Badass’ India Walton As Mayor

  23-10-2021 20:04
  
  At a rally, the New York congresswoman also framed a Walton victory as important for American democracy.
  
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• Buffalo's India Walton won the Democratic primary for mayor. Now she has to defeat incumbent Byron Brown -- again

  23-10-2021 19:41 via rss.cnn.com
  
  On paper, India Walton is a shoo-in to become Buffalo's next mayor. The Democratic nominee, who defeated incumbent Mayor Byron Brown in a June primary, is the only name on the general election ballot for the city's top job.
  
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• Why Ron Wyden Is Still Optimistic About Prescription Drug Legislation

  23-10-2021 17:47
  
  A deal on prescription drugs may be closer than it seems, although the big question is what would be in it.
  
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• The asylum changes Sessions tucked into the footnotes

  23-10-2021 15:25 via rss.cnn.com
  
  When Attorney General Jeff Sessions ruled that domestic violence and gang victims are not likely to qualify for asylum in the US, he undercut potentially tens of thousands of claims each year for people seeking protection.
  
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• Sessions announces religious land-use initiative

  23-10-2021 15:25 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced an initiative on Wednesday aimed at boosting the Justice Department's role protecting religious institutions from cumbersome zoning rules.
  
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• Senators unhappy with judiciary's response to harassment in courthouses

  23-10-2021 15:25 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Senators from both parties expressed frustration and concern on Wednesday about the US judiciary's response to sexual harassment in federal courthouses.
  
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• Republicans take message from Sanford's loss

  23-10-2021 15:25 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Republicans in Congress said the message came in loud and clear Tuesday night: Oppose President Donald Trump and it could cost you your seat.
  
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• Most Americans want changes to US democracy; see Maine, California

  23-10-2021 15:25 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Voters in California will have the opportunity in November to say the state should be carved up into three parts.
  
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• Lingering questions from the Trump-Kim summit

  23-10-2021 15:25 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un undeniably deserved the overused epithet "historic."
  
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• How Donald Trump won bigly on Tuesday

  23-10-2021 15:25 via rss.cnn.com
  
  As President Donald Trump jetted back from a historic summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore, he got some more very good news in Tuesday's primaries: A prominent Trump critic lost in a GOP primary in South Carolina and a one-time Trump acolyte secured the Senate nomination in Virginia.
  
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• House DACA deal in final stages

  23-10-2021 15:25 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Republican negotiations on a House immigration bill that would fix the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program are in the final stages, key lawmakers said as they left a secretive meeting in the House basement on Wednesday.
  
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• Donald Trump's fake-it-until-you-make-it strategy on North Korea

  23-10-2021 15:25 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump has ended the nuclear threat from North Korea!
  
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• Daniels files new suit against Cohen and her old attorney

  23-10-2021 15:25 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Adult film actress Stormy Daniels on Wednesday launched a new lawsuit against her former attorney, Keith Davidson, as well as President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, saying the two men "colluded" and "acted in concert" to "manipulate" Daniels and to benefit Trump.
  
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• January 6 defendant spoke at far-right rally attended by Proud Boys, despite court order against associating with the group

  23-10-2021 14:16 via rss.cnn.com
  
  An Arizona political commentator charged in the US Capitol riot spoke at a small right-wing rally in Phoenix last month that was attended by over a dozen Proud Boys, even though a federal judge had ordered him not to associate with any members of the extremist group.
  
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• Biden escapes his White House 'gilded cage' at a faster pace than Trump

  23-10-2021 14:09 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden decamped to Wilmington on Friday, escaping the White House he's likened to a "gilded cage" for a weekend at his Delaware home. It's yet another weekend away from Washington as the President has spent a noteworthy portion of his first year in office at one of his two Delaware homes or at Camp David, working remotely.
  
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• Right-Wingers Want You To Believe Environmentalists Did Another Jan. 6

  23-10-2021 14:00
  
  Conservative lawmakers and media are equating a mostly peaceful climate protest to the pro-Trump mob that tried to thwart the 2020 presidential election.
  
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• One More Voting Rights Filibuster Will Soon Cause A Final Showdown In The Senate

  23-10-2021 14:00
  
  Senate Democrats are calling for a return to original principles as the push to change the filibuster approaches its climax.
  
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• ‘New Democrats’ Break With Their Anti-Welfare Past And Back Biden’s Agenda

  23-10-2021 14:00
  
  Rep. Suzan DelBene of Washington state is the centrist Democrat at the center of everything.
  
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• Tyranny Expert Sounds The Alarm On 2024 Election: It’s Happening

  23-10-2021 10:58
  
  Yale history professor Timothy Snyder pointed out the worrying ways the next election could differ from 2020.
  
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• Chris Hayes Exposes The 'Cruelty At The Core' Of The GOP

  23-10-2021 09:56
  
  The MSNBC anchor spotted the superpower that "ostentatious jerk" Republicans are desperate to develop.
  
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• White House further postpones disclosure of JFK assassination documents, citing Covid

  23-10-2021 09:19 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The White House announced late Friday that it would further postpone the release of more documents related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, pointing to the "significant impact" of the Covid-19 pandemic.
  
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• Biden has new chance to rein in pandemic at vaccine turning point

  23-10-2021 09:19 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Tens of millions of Americans who see vaccines as a passport back to normal life are craving clear, jargon-free advice about boosters for themselves and first-time shots for their kids as another pandemic winter looms.
  
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• Rep. Eric Swalwell Shares Chilling Voicemail Sent To Him By Tucker Carlson Fan

  23-10-2021 09:08
  
  "Tucker attacks me. His fans respond with threats to kill my family. And Tucker knows exactly what he’s doing," said the California Democrat.
  
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• GOP Vultures Chillingly Quip About Prop-Gun Death To Attack Alec Baldwin

  23-10-2021 08:22
  
  “Someone died, you a**hole,” snapped J.D. Vance's Senate rival after the Ohio candidate posted an insensitive joke about the tragedy.
  
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• What Biden's sweeping social safety plan might include -- and what it likely won't

  23-10-2021 04:43 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Democrats in Congress are negotiating a sweeping budget reconciliation package that is the centerpiece of President Joe Biden's domestic agenda.
  
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• 'We're getting all kinds of threats': Judge says defiant US Capitol rioters are fueling anger from disgruntled Trump supporters

  23-10-2021 04:43 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A federal judge said Friday that defiant US Capitol rioters, who are still defending their role in the January 6 insurrection, are fueling threats against judges from people who falsely believe the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump.
  
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• US nearing a formal agreement to use Pakistan's airspace to carry out military operations in Afghanistan

  23-10-2021 04:43 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The Biden administration has told lawmakers that the US is nearing a formalized agreement with Pakistan for use of its airspace to conduct military and intelligence operations in Afghanistan, according to three sources familiar with the details of a classified briefing with members of Congress that took place on Friday morning.
  
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• US kills senior al Qaeda leader in Syria airstrike

  23-10-2021 04:43 via rss.cnn.com
  
  An airstrike in northwest Syria Friday killed senior al Qaeda leader Abdul Hamid al-Matar, according to the US Central Command.
  
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• Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick pays out $25,000 to Democrat who reported Republican voter fraud

  23-10-2021 04:43 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A week after the 2020 election, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick announced that he was offering up to $1 million -- paid from his campaign account -- "to incentivize, encourage and reward people to come forward and report voter fraud."
  
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• READ: Supreme Court's order on Texas abortion law and Sotomayor dissent

  23-10-2021 04:43 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The Supreme Court allowed a Texas law that bars most abortions after six weeks to remain in place for now.
  
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• Justice Sonia Sotomayor criticizes colleagues for allowing Texas abortion ban to remain in effect

  23-10-2021 04:43 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Justice Sonia Sotomayor sent a strong reminder Friday that she is not a justice looking to carve out compromises with a conservative majority.
  
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• Former DOJ official who pushed baseless election fraud claims expected to testify before January 6 committee

  23-10-2021 04:43 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The House select committee investigating the US Capitol insurrection is planning for former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark to testify next Friday -- teeing him up to be the first Trump administration official to comply with a subpoena for an interview with the panel, two sources familiar with the committee's inquiry told CNN.
  
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• Biden's looming European high-wire act

  23-10-2021 04:43 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden heads to Europe next week for a series of high-stakes meetings and summits. Here's a primer on what to know:
  
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• Jake Tapper Says Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Has 'Issues' After Her Rant On Bannon Vote

  23-10-2021 03:46
  
  "Her behavior suggests somebody that ... is not tethered to reality or basic standards of decent behavior," the CNN host said of her fight with Liz Cheney.
  
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• Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick pays out $25,000 to Democrat for Republican voter fraud

  23-10-2021 03:09 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A week after the 2020 election, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick announced that he was offering up to $1 million -- paid from his campaign account -- "to incentivize, encourage and reward people to come forward and report voter fraud."
  
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• Trump Lashes Out At Meghan McCain, Calling Her An Ungrateful 'Lowlife' Bully

  23-10-2021 01:51
  
  The former president was responding to McCain's criticism of him as she promotes her new memoir.
  
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