A lengthy hand recount of ballots conducted as part of the Arizona GOP-led Senate’s review of Maricopa County’s 2020 ballots and election equipment affirmed the results certified nearly 10 months ago: President Joe Biden won Arizona. That outcome appears in a draft copy of the report about the ballot review, …
Read More »Washington — Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett argued Sunday that decisions by the high court aren’t driven by political views and said she and her colleagues on the court are not a “bunch of partisan hacks,” according to reports. Barrett told an audience at a lecture hosted by the …
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One of the tens of thousands of Afghan nationals who managed to make it out of Afghanistan in the airlift carried out by the U.S. and its allies was a 47-year-old man named Ghader Heydari, a convicted felon who had previously been deported from the U.S. Heydari was arrested on …
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A group of progressive lawmakers led by Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is calling on President Biden to replace Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, whose term expires early next year. The lawmakers said Powell, who has served as head of the Central Bank since 2018, has not done enough to address the …
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is issuing a new, “temporary” moratorium on evictions, the agency announced Tuesday. The new moratorium, which CBS News confirmed earlier Tuesday would be announced, will be separate from the CDC’s prior eviction moratorium that expired over the weekend. The new order, which expires …
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Washington — Democratic senators announced late Tuesday that they reached a deal on a $3.5 trillion infrastructure bill that they will attempt to pass through reconciliation, a process that will allow the legislation to be approved without any Republican votes. The bill is expected to include President Biden’s “human” infrastructure priorities …
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