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Senate Democrats approve $3.5 trillion budget resolution in key step toward passing major economic package without GOP votes

By Clare Foran and Ali Zaslav, CNN Senate Democrats approved a $3.5 trillion budget resolution early Wednesday morning, setting the stage in the weeks and months to come for the party to craft and attempt to pass a sweeping economic package expanding the social safety net that President Joe Biden has made a signature agenda

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Some US governors say Covid hospitalizations are going down but warn of what could come next if more people don’t get vaccinated

By Madeline Holcombe and Christina Maxouris, CNN Some governors are beginning to report encouraging signs in their state’s Covid-19 numbers, but warn of what could come next if more people don’t get vaccinated. Covid-19 hospitalizations and ICU utilization have decreased over the past week in Kentucky, Gov. Andy Beshear announced at a Thursday news conference.

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Tennessee parents say some books make students ‘feel discomfort’ because they’re White. They say a new law backs them up

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Meridith Edwards, CNN Robin Steenman pulled her daughter out of public school over a mask mandate last year. She’s now in private school and misses public school. But Steenman is keeping her out not because of masks, but because of lesson plans she says make students feel bad about their race.

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A North Carolina hospital system fired 175 employees who failed to follow its Covid-19 vaccination rule. Over 99% of its workers complied

By Rebekah Riess, CNN Novant Health, a North Carolina not-for-profit system of 15 medical centers with more than 2,300 physicians, said this week it had terminated roughly 175 employees for non-compliance with its mandatory Covid-19 vaccination program. More than 99% of Novant Health team members chose compliance, company President and CEO Carl Armato said in

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Fact Check: Military testimony on Afghanistan appears to contradict Biden’s previous statements on troop levels

By Tara Subramaniam and Holmes Lybrand, CNN During a Senate hearing on Tuesday over the frenzied US withdrawal from Afghanistan, top generals seemingly contradicted earlier claims from President Joe Biden on the administration’s plan to remove troops. In a mid-August interview, Biden repeatedly disputed that military advisers had told him he should keep troops in

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California’s second-largest school district votes to mandate vaccines for eligible staff and students

By Aya Elamroussi and Alexandra Meeks, CNN The board of California’s second-largest school district unanimously approved a mandate Tuesday that all eligible students and staff must be vaccinated against Covid-19 by late December. The measure impacts students ages 16 and older and employees of the San Diego Unified School District and says they must be

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DeSantis announces lawsuit against Biden administration over immigration policy

By Paul LeBlanc, CNN Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday announced a new lawsuit against the Biden administration over its so-called catch and release immigration policy. The Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement are among the defendants named in the complaint. The lawsuit, while unlikely to bring

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Trump’s former press secretary details his mysterious 2019 hospital visit in behind-the-scenes look at his White House

By Kate Bennett, CNN Former President Donald Trump’s secret visit to Walter Reed in 2019 appeared to be for a routine colonoscopy, according to Stephanie Grisham, Trump’s former press secretary and first lady Melania Trump’s chief of staff. Grisham served as White House press secretary, chief of staff to Melania Trump and East Wing communications

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‘A constitutional amendment and a time machine’: Fact-checking calls to decertify the 2020 election

By Holmes Lybrand and Tara Subramaniam, CNN A partisan report reviewing millions of ballots cast in Arizona’s Maricopa County during the 2020 presidential election is being used by a number of Republicans to call for decertifying the results of last year’s election in the state. Even though the results of Arizona’s sham audit reaffirmed Biden’s

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GOP enthusiasm for prosecuting Capitol rioters has fallen, Pew poll finds

By Marshall Cohen and Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN Republicans’ appetite for seeing January 6 rioters prosecuted has fallen sharply over the course of the year, according to a Pew Research Center survey released Tuesday. A sizable majority of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents, 57%, still say it’s at least somewhat important that federal law enforcement agencies find

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Car stocks are surging as sales fall. Here’s why

By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business Car sales at major automakers are plunging due to a shortage of computer chips that’s forced factory shutdowns and crimped supply. But that’s not fazing Wall Street, which remains laser-focused on investment in electric vehicles that could power future growth. What’s happening: General Motors, Chrysler-owner Stellantis and Honda all recently

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Booster dose side effects were similar to second dose, with brief, mild-to-moderate effects, study says

By Jen Christensen, CNN New data suggests booster doses of Covid-19 vaccines were well-tolerated, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said Tuesday. “The frequency and type of side effects were similar to those seen after the second vaccine doses and were mostly mild or moderate and short-lived,” Walensky said during

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Concerns about Delta transmission, overburdened hospitals and Covid-19 deaths drove recent rise in vaccinations, poll says

By Virginia Langmaid, CNN A new Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) poll found that the highly transmissible Delta variant, overburdened hospitals and knowing someone who has died or become seriously ill from Covid-19 drove recent increases in vaccination. Among those vaccinated since June 1, 39% said they were motivated by transmission of the Delta variant, 38%

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Biden receives his Covid-19 booster shot: Vaccines ‘can save your life and … can save the lives of those around you’

By Kate Sullivan and Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN President Joe Biden received his Covid-19 vaccine booster shot on Monday afternoon at the White House just days after booster doses were approved by federal health officials. “We know that to beat this pandemic and to save lives … we need to get folks vaccinated,” Biden said during

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Alive with 13,000 ‘floating’ orchids, this is a garden like no other

Dan Hodge, CNN and Amanda Sealy, CNN Patience. Understanding. Tranquility. This is what Tokyo-based “ultra-technologists” teamLab wants visitors to experience when they enter its new artwork, entitled “Floating Flower Garden; Flowers and I are of the Same Root, the Garden and I are One.” But this immersive installation marks a departure for the world-renowned collective,

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Cheryl Burke and Cody Rigsby will compete on ‘Dancing with the Stars’ virtually as they recover from Covid

By Marianne Garvey, CNN “Dancing with the Stars” contestant Cody Rigsby has tested positive with a breakthrough case of Covid-19. Rigsby’s diagnosis comes days after his partner Cheryl Burke revealed she had tested positive and would be unable to perform live since she would be in quarantine. The two appeared on “Good Morning America” on

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More than 300 people are involved in manhunt for a suspect after a Florida sheriff’s deputy was shot during a traffic stop

By Deanna Hackney, Melissa Alonso and Susannah Cullinane, CNN More than 300 people are hunting for a suspect accused of shooting and killing a Florida sheriff’s deputy during a traffic stop. Nassau County Deputy Josh Moyers was shot twice during a traffic stop in Callahan early Friday and died from his injuries Sunday, officials said.

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The road to Aduhelm: What one ex-FDA adviser called ‘probably the worst drug approval decision in recent US history’ for an Alzheimer’s treatment

By Jeffrey Toobin, CNN Dr. Aaron Kesselheim had been on an advisory committee for the US Food and Drug Administration for a half-dozen years, but he had never been to a meeting like this one. The FDA establishes advisory committees to assist the federal agency with one of its most important duties: deciding whether to

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Police say they shot and killed an armed man near where crowds had gathered for the US Open of Surfing event

By Keith Allen and Susannah Cullinane, CNN Police fatally shot an armed man at Huntington City Beach in Southern California on Saturday afternoon, the Huntington Beach Police Department (HBPD) said. It happened as crowds were gathered for the U.S. Open of Surfing being held at the Huntington Beach Pier. Police received a call at approximately

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