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GOP grapples with how to control Trump -- again

3 years 7 months ago
GOP leaders are sending warnings that they want former President Donald Trump to play by the rules and put his party above his own interests as he embarks on a third campaign -- that is, to behave in a way he rarely, if ever, has before.

Democrats have been doing well in special elections in 2023

3 years 7 months ago
Democrat Jennifer McClellan easily won the special election for Virginia's 4th Congressional District last week. She outperformed Joe Biden's 2020 margin by 13 points. It's part of a pattern in special elections this year that suggests that the national environment may be friendlier to Democrats than Biden's sub-50% job approval rating would indicate.

US Energy Department assesses Covid-19 likely resulted from lab leak

3 years 7 months ago
The US Department of Energy has assessed that the Covid-19 pandemic most likely came from a laboratory leak in China, according to a newly updated classified intelligence report. The assessment further adds to the divide in the US government over whether the pandemic began in China in 2019 as the result of a lab leak or whether it emerged naturally.

A new bipartisan push for paid family and medical leave

3 years 7 months ago
It's been 30 years since the Family and Medical Leave Act became law. It guaranteed workers the right to unpaid, job-protected time off. But the US is one of only seven countries in the world without some form of universal paid family and medical leave. A bipartisan congressional duo is trying to change that.

Media organizations ask Congress for access to January 6 footage

3 years 7 months ago
CNN, along with a group of other media organizations, has signed on to a letter calling for congressional leaders to grant access to security footage from inside the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy gave Fox News' Tucker Carlson access to the material earlier this month.

First Black woman to serve as USDA's No. 2 set to leave department

3 years 7 months ago
Jewel Bronaugh, the No. 2 person at the US Department of Agriculture and the first Black woman in the position, will leave the department on Tuesday after a two-year tenure in which she led agency efforts to diversify its workforce and provide relief to farmers of color who say they have been discriminated against over the years.
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