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Voting rights groups led bus tours, knocked on 1 million doors and gave out food at community events to achieve an unprecedented Black voter turnout in Georgia. The organizations have been credited with helping Democrats win both the White House and control of the US Senate in the last election cycle. Their efforts, however, could

Lawyers for former President Donald Trump sent out cease-and-desist letters Friday to the Republican National Committee, the National Republican Congressional Committee, and the National Republican Senatorial Committee for using his name and likeness on fundraising emails and merchandise, a Trump adviser tells CNN. The three entities are the largest fundraising organizations within the GOP that

The Senate on Saturday passed its version of the Democrats’ massive coronavirus relief package, after the House passed its package last week. Lawmakers made several changes throughout the legislation, but three were particularly notable — narrowing eligibility for the stimulus checks, trimming the federal boost to unemployment benefits and nixing an increase in the federal

Former President Barack Obama on Saturday congratulated President Joe Biden on the successful passage of the Covid-19 relief bill through the Senate, the administration’s top legislative priority as millions of Americans continue to struggle financially amid the coronavirus pandemic. In series of tweets following the Senate’s approval of the bill, Obama said that Biden’s $1.9

The Senate passed President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion Covid relief plan on Saturday, after an all-night “vote-a-rama” and a 12-hour struggle to get one Democrat to support the party’s plan on a critical issue. The vote was 50 to 49 on a party-line vote. The House will vote Tuesday on the bill to approve changes

The Biden administration is increasingly sounding the alarm over a series of newly discovered cyber intrusions that Microsoft said this week were linked to China. “This is an active threat,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Friday. “Everyone running these servers — government, private sector, academia — needs to act now to patch them.”

Millions of Americans will start running out of pandemic unemployment benefits in just two weeks, putting increased pressure on the House to quickly pass a final version of President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package. The jobless payments are among the first federal lifelines from December’s $900 billion stimulus package set to expire, with

The $1.9 trillion coronavirus package passed by the Senate contains a wide range of proposals to help Americans still struggling with the economic fallout of the pandemic. The legislation differs in at least three major ways from the bill that passed the House of Representatives last week. The final Senate package will have to be