BY HANNA TRUDO AND JULIA MANCHESTER |
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Midwestern states are battling to be bumped up to a coveted early slot in the Democratic presidential nominating calendar, jumpstarting what election watchers say could be a big shakeup ahead of the 2024 election. Michigan, Minnesota and Illinois are among the states hoping to exert more influence and help diversify a lineup — led by the largely rural and predominantly white states of Iowa and New Hampshire — that many Democrats say doesn't represent the party's true strength. |
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Tensions between the Justice Department and the House Jan. 6 select committee have slipped into public view amid the panel's first public hearings for its investigation. |
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky backed an advisory committee's recommendation on Saturday that will allow children under the age of 5 years old to receive the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines, capping off the last step needed before children can start getting inoculated. |
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President Biden on Saturday called the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) approval of Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines for children under five a "monumental step." |
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President Biden's American Rescue Plan is perhaps his most significant legislative accomplishment in his first year and a half in office. |
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Former President Trump spoke at the Road to Majority Policy Conference of the Faith and Freedom Coalition, a conservative advocacy organization, in Nashville, Tenn., on Friday. |
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Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), a vocal critic of former President Trump, said that some churches have changed from institutions that worshiped God to institutions that worshipped Trump. |
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is escalating his feud with the White House over the COVID-19 response as he positions himself for a possible presidential campaign in 2024. |
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Videos of two American military veterans who went missing in Ukraine appeared on Russian television on Friday. |
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More than 2,000 flights within, into or out of the United States that were scheduled to take place between Friday and Sunday have been canceled and nearly 14,000 more have been delayed ahead of Juneteenth and Father's Day, which both fall on Sunday this year, according to data from FlightAware. |
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BY CHRISTOPHER RICHARDSON |
OPINION | Four years ago this month, on June 26, 2018, the Supreme Court upheld Trump v. Hawaii. The court ruled, despite evidence to the contrary, that President Trump's travel ban was neutral and that it was a matter of national security. |
BY MICHAEL S. POLLARD AND CHARLES P. RIES | OPINION | Ambassador Bridget Brink took up her new post in Kyiv on May 30 as the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine. There, she will reopen a U.S. embassy in a nation still under attack and act as a key, on-the-ground representative of American interests to the government and people of Ukraine. Before her appointment to this critical job, few Americans will have heard the name Ambassador Brink, although she has served in Cyprus, Serbia, Uzbekistan, Georgia and Slovakia, among other assignments in her 26 years of service. |
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BY WILL WEISSERT AND ZEKE MILLER |
Democrats are going to hold onto the House after November's midterm elections. They will pick up as many as four seats in the Senate, expanding their majority and overcoming internal dissent that has helped stifle their agenda. As the challenges confronting President Joe Biden intensify, his predictions of a rosy political future for the Democratic Party are growing bolder. The assessments, delivered in speeches, fundraisers and conversations with friends and allies, seem at odds with a country that he acknowledged this week was "really, really down," burdened by a pandemic, surging gas prices and spiking inflation. |
BY MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT AND MAGGIE HABERMAN |
As House hearings highlighted testimony that could create more pressure to pursue a criminal case, the former president tried out a defense that strained credulity. |
BY ANN E. MARIMOW AND SHAYNA JACOBS |
If the justices strike down New York's century-old restrictions on carrying concealed firearms, similar regulations in California, New Jersey, Maryland, Hawaii and Massachusetts could quickly fall, too. |
The war in Ukraine could last for years, the head of NATO said on Sunday, calling for steadfast support from Ukraine's allies as Russian forces battle for territory in the country's east. |
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