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Azmi Haroun
National charity RIP Medical Debt just wiped out $278 million of medical debt for over eighty thousand Americans, Wall Street Journal reports
It is the first time the national charity has struck a deal with a healthcare system to abolish outstanding medical debt, with some bills being over 10 years old.
Eliza Relman
The Senate voted unanimously to make Juneteenth a national holiday celebrating the end of slavery
The bill was only able to pass after Sen. Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican, ended his efforts to unilaterally block it.
Azmi Haroun
Biden nominates 'Miracle on the Hudson' pilot Sully Sullenberger to aviation ambassador post
Sullenberger, whose actions helped save the lives of those aboard US Airways Flight 1549 in 2009, would represent the US at the International Civil Aviation Organization.
Kelly McLaughlin
An Alabama Republican who is trying to ban critical race theory was stumped when asked to define it
Alabama State Rep. Chris Pringle is among several Republicans trying to get critical race theory banned from schools.
John Haltiwanger
Fiona Hill says Russia's hackers 'already declared war' on the US and want to prove they're a 'major cyber force'
Hill said Russia was ruthless in terms of its pursuit of intelligence and indifferent to any damage inflicted in the process.
Eliza Relman
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he's soliciting donations to build the US-Mexico border wall
This comes after the governor announced last week that Texas would begin building its own border wall and step up arrests of migrants.
Kelly McLaughlin
Florida Gov. DeSantis signed a new law mandating a daily moment of silence in schools for students to 'reflect and be able to pray as they see fit'
DeSantis spoke about the law in religious terms at the bill signing, railing against the "idea that you can just push God out of every institution."
Sonam Sheth
'Can you believe this?': Emails show how alarmed DOJ leaders were by Trump officials' obsession with overturning the election
One request from Trump's chief of staff Mark Meadows was so concerning that the acting AG contemporaneously documented it.
Eliza Relman
Biden is hosting a July 4th 'independence from virus' celebration although the US is on track to narrowly miss his vaccination goal
The US is expected to fall short of the administration's goal to have at least 70% of adults partially vaccinated by July 4.
Oma Seddiq,John Haltiwanger
Kevin McCarthy won't let go of the GOP's smear campaign against Ilhan Omar, but Democrats have moved on
McCarthy called for Omar's removal from the House Foreign Affairs committee, adding to the GOP's latest attacks on the Minnesota lawmaker.
Jake Lahut
New York lifts 'virtually all' COVID-19 restrictions effective immediately, Gov. Cuomo announces
Greeted by a raucous crowd at One World Trade Center, Gov. Andrew Cuomo reflected on the heydays of his pandemic briefings.
Sinéad Baker
New emails show the Trump White House's brazen efforts to use the DOJ to overturn the election results
The House Oversight Committee released hundreds of pages of documents on Tuesday showing Trump's efforts to use the DOJ for his own political ends.
Grace Panetta
Major publishers are refusing to offer a book deal to a 'radioactive' Trump, report says
One literary agent told Politico that any publisher seeking a Trump book would be signing up for "a fact-checking nightmare."
Jake Lahut
Fox News has mentioned 'critical race theory' nearly 1300 times since March, according to watchdog study
Media Matters for America, a left-leaning nonprofit, tracked the buzzword on Fox News going back to last June. Mentions are rising exponentially.
John L. Dorman
Louie Gohmert says $5,500 'donation' to a Holocaust-denying pastor was an accident: report
Gohmert's chief of staff told The Daily Beast that the action was a misunderstanding, and the result of a botched internet search for an address.
Oma Seddiq
Marjorie Taylor Greene apologizes for comparing mask mandates to the Holocaust, insisting she's 'very much a normal person'
"There are words that I have said, remarks that I've made, that I know are offensive. And for that I want to apologize," Greene said.
Kate Duffy
Melinda French Gates is reportedly meeting with White House officials and lawmakers to discuss paid leave for workers and other issues
Melinda French Gates is set to meet with lawmakers on Tuesday, a day after meeting White House officials, to discuss paid leave, Axios reported.
Ashley Collman
A Capitol rioter agreed to a plea deal after posting extensively on Facebook about her time at the insurrection with her husband
Joshua and Jessica Bustle pleaded guilty in court on Monday. Jessica's lawyer said the couple wanted to get on with their lives.
Bill Bostock
In interview ahead of Biden meeting, Putin called a US Marine veteran imprisoned in Russia a 'drunk' who 'got himself s---faced'
Trevor Reed was sentenced to nine years in prison last July after being convicted of assaulting two Moscow police officers while drunk.
Tom Porter
House panel investigating the Trump DOJ's secret seizure of data from Democrats could compel Barr and Sessions to testify under oath
Democrats say the data seizure targeting lawmakers and journalists was an attempt by the Trump administration to pursue political opponents.
Thomas Colson
Trump is furious with Republican candidates who are falsely claiming they have his endorsement
The former US president's team has reportedly sent cease-and-desist letters to candidates falsely claiming he endorsed them.
Mia Jankowicz
A man who bragged about chugging wine at the Capitol riot is campaigning for office. He learned mid-interview he's running for the wrong seat.
Jason Riddle was arrested after admitting to joining the Capitol riot. Now he's entered politics but seems confused as to which race he's running in.
Sinéad Baker
Fiona Hill, the Russia expert who testified during Trump's first impeachment, is helping Biden prep for his first meeting with Putin, report says
President Joe Biden is preparing to meet Wednesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin for the first time as commander in chief.
Tom Porter
Putin compared his crackdown on dissent to the US prosecution of Capitol rioters and the killing of Ashli Babbitt ahead of his summit with Biden
"Did you order the assassination of the woman who walked into the Congress and who was shot and killed by a policeman?" Putin said.
Brent D. Griffiths
10 Things in Politics: The Trump Org. figures on prosecutors' radars
And the Senate confirms a judge viewed as a contender for a Biden SCOTUS pick.
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