Miguel Cardona confirmed as education secretary
The Senate voted 64-33 on Monday to confirm Miguel Cardona, a former public school teacher, as secretary of education.
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Category: Politics
Fact-checking Psaki's claim that there 'have not been sanctions put in place' on foreign leaders even in recent past
President Joe Biden has faced criticism, including from some Democratic lawmakers, for deciding not to impose direct sanctions on Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia for what US intelligence has concluded was his central role in the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a permanent resident of the US.
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Garland nomination advances out of committee, setting up floor vote
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted on Monday to advance President Joe Biden’s nomination of Judge Merrick Garland for attorney general, setting up his confirmation before the full Senate.
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Senate Democrats drop proposal to penalize companies for not providing $15 minimum wage
Senate Democrats decided Sunday to abandon an alternative proposal to penalize companies for not providing a $15 minimum wage to their employees, the latest indication that boosting the federal minimum wage in this Congress remains an extremely tall order, according to a person involved in the talks.
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Three names mysteriously removed from Khashoggi intelligence report after initial publication
Shortly after the US intelligence community published its long-awaited report on Friday afternoon on the Saudis who were responsible for the death of Jamal Khashoggi, it was taken down without explanation and replaced with another version that removed the names of three men it had initially said were complicit.
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Stimulus negotiations: Pressure turns to the Senate to close deal on Covid relief
The Senate could move as soon as this week to pass their own version of President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion Covid relief bill.
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Cuomo says he's 'truly sorry' for workplace comments he says were 'misinterpreted as an unwanted flirtation' following sexual harassment claims
“a bit more lift on how big this is + the deepening controversy.”
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Fact check: Trump delivers lie-filled CPAC speech
Former President Donald Trump returned to the public stage on Sunday with a familiar kind of Trump speech — a speech filled with debunked lies.
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Trump unleashes new threat to American democracy
Donald Trump has no remorse about the deadly violence he incited with his lies about a stolen election in his uprising against the US Congress.
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6 takeaways from the Trump-dominated CPAC
Former President Donald Trump turned the Conservative Political Action Conference into his first post-presidential rally Sunday evening, pledging in a speech riddled with falsehoods to purge his enemies from the Republican Party and hinting repeatedly at another run for the White House in 2024.
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