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WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 02: White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha speaks alongside White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre during the daily press briefing at the White House on June 02, 2022 in Washington, DC. Jha spoke on COVID-19 vaccinations for children and highlighted Pfizer's recent request for FDA authorization for its vaccine for use in children five and under.

US without ‘adequate’ Covid-19 tests this winter due to congressional inaction, White House says

Supreme Court to take critical eye to Andy Warhol’s silkscreens of Prince

US Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, speaks during a press conference following the weekly Republican caucus luncheon at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, September 28, 2022. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Exclusive: McConnell ignores Trump’s attacks and says ‘I have the votes’ in quest to make history

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA - JULY 23: Actor Dwayne

Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson leaves the door open to future presidential run, but focusing on fatherhood right now

President Joe Biden speaks with CNN's Jake Tapper during an interview in the Map Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., October 11, 2022. Photo by Sarah Silbiger for CNN

Biden acknowledges a ‘slight recession’ is possible, even if he doesn’t think it’ll happen

From left, US Reps. Tom Emmer, Paul Gosar and Ashley Hinson

Republicans called Biden’s infrastructure program ‘socialism.’ Then they asked for money.

COPENHAGEN, DENMARK - JUNE 10: Barack Obama, former President of the United States, speaks at the Copenhagen Democracy Summit on June 10, 2022 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The fifth edition of the Copenhagen Democracy Summit hosted civil society members, business partners and governments to participate in the two-day conference on June 9-10. (Photo by Ole Jensen/Getty Images)

Democrats won’t get as much Obama as they want in the midterms. But he has some other plans.

United States Postal Service Postmaster General Louis DeJoy speaks during a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing on Legislative Proposals to Put the Postal Service on Sustainable Financial Footing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on February 24, 2021. (

Changes made by Postmaster General DeJoy before 2020 election harmed US Postal Service, judge rules

Storage tanks and oil processing facilities operate at Saudi Aramco's Ras Tanura oil refinery and terminal in Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia, on Monday, Oct. 1, 2018.

White House left looking for answers after OPEC+ announces oil production cuts

US President Joe Biden speaks in a neighborhood impacted by Hurricane Ian at Fishermans Pass in Fort Myers, Florida, on October 5, 2022 as Florida Governor Ron DeSantis looks on. (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY / AFP) (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)

Biden and DeSantis put political rivalry aside — for now — as President tours hurricane damage

90% of US adults say the United States is experiencing a mental health crisis, CNN/KFF poll finds

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the companys Crew Dragon spacecraft rests at launch pad 39A as preparations continue for the Crew-5 mission at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on October 3, 2022. NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 mission is the fifth crew rotation mission of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agencys Commercial Crew Program. NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina are scheduled to launch on 12:00 p.m. EDT on October 5 from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center.

SpaceX, NASA launch 3 astronauts and 1 cosmonaut to the ISS. Here’s everything you need to know

Former President Donald Trump speaks during a Save America rally on October 1, 2022 in Warren, Michigan.

Trump goes to Supreme Court over Mar-a-Lago search and seizure of documents

The last issue of The Onion from early June 2005, is photographed Sept. 27, 2005, in Denver. Brothers, Dave and Jeff Haupt, in May sold the satirical newspaper's Colorado operations for roughly $400,000 to The Onion Inc., after working for a decade to build one of the paper's most profitable editions. (AP Photo/Denver Post, John Leyba)

The Onion tells the Supreme Court — seriously — that satire is no laughing matter

U.S. Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson meets with U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) on Capitol Hill March 29, 2022 in Washington, DC. Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson continued to meet with Senate members on Capitol Hill ahead of her confirmation vote.

Supreme Court investiture marks another historic first for Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

COPENHAGEN, DENMARK - JUNE 10: Barack Obama, former President of the United States, speaks at the Copenhagen Democracy Summit on June 10, 2022 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The fifth edition of the Copenhagen Democracy Summit hosted civil society members, business partners and governments to participate in the two-day conference on June 9-10. (Photo by Ole Jensen/Getty Images)

Obama warns ‘a lot of mischief’ is possible if Republicans win back House

Chairs of U.S. Supreme Court justices sit behind the courtroom bench in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, July 9, 2019. At the end of its term, the Supreme Court agreed to hear President Donald Trump's bid to end deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants, taking up a politically explosive issue likely to be resolved in the heat of next year's election campaign. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Supreme Court rearranges its seating chart as Jackson takes the bench

Supreme Court Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson stands outside the Supreme Court with Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts, following her formal investiture ceremony at the Supreme Court in Washington, Friday, Sept. 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson takes ceremonial oath at Supreme Court

President Joe Biden speaks during the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health, at the Ronald Reagan Building, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden to Florida: ‘We’re gonna pull together as one team’ following Hurricane Ian

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 26: The U.S. Supreme Court building on the day it was reported that Associate Justice Stephen Breyer would soon retire on January 26, 2022 in Washington, DC. Appointed by President Bill Clinton, Breyer has been on the court since 1994. His retirement creates an opportunity for President Joe Biden, who has promised to nominate a Black woman for his first pick to the highest court in the country. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Analysis: Trust in the Supreme Court is at a record low

US national (top) and rainbow flags are pictured on the US embassy in Moscow on June 30, 2022. - Moscow officials changed the official address of the US embassy building in the Russian capital to one named after pro-Kremlin separatists in Ukraine on June 22. (Photo by Natalia KOLESNIKOVA / AFP) (Photo by NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP via Getty Images)

US Embassy warns Americans to leave Russia

‘The violence was you’: January 6 rioter who assaulted Michael Fanone sentenced to over 7 years in prison

‘Let’s get right to the violence’: New documentary film footage shows Roger Stone pre-Election Day

Rep. Andy Levin, D-Mich., holds his news conference on Recognizing Congressional Workers Right to Organize on Wednesday, February 9, 2022.

Staffers in Michigan Democratic lawmaker’s office vote to form union, first of its kind on Capitol Hill

Mark Meadows, left, and Phil Waldron.

Meadows texts reveal direct White House communications with pro-Trump operative behind plans to seize voting machines

GOP Rep. Liz Cheney said at the Texas Tribune festival that if former President Donald Trump becomes the Republican party's nominee for president in 2024, she will not remain a Republican. (CNN)

Liz Cheney says she will not remain a Republican if Donald Trump is GOP nominee in 2024

Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., speaks during the House Armed Services Committee hearing on the conclusion of military operations in Afghanistan, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Olivier Douliery/Pool via AP)

DOJ prosecutors recommend against charging Rep. Gaetz in sex-trafficking probe

Jim Marchant, candidate, for the Secretary of State of Nevada, right, attends a conference on conspiracy theories about voting machines and discredited claims about the 2020 presidential election at a hotel in West Palm Beach, Fla., Saturday, Sept. 10, 2022. The event featured Republicans running for statewide offices that oversee elections in some of the most important battleground states. (AP Photo/Jim Rassol)

Nevada’s GOP nominee for top election post wants to eliminate mail voting but voted by mail multiple times

Breyer warns justices that some opinions could ‘bite you in the back’ in exclusive interview with CNN’s Chris Wallace

President Joe Biden, with Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh, left, speaks about a tentative railway labor agreement in the Rose Garden of the White House, Thursday, Sept. 15, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden tells the United Nations that Putin’s attempts to ‘extinguish’ Ukraine should ‘make your blood run cold’

WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 21: (L-R) Associate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas sits with his wife and conservative activist Virginia Thomas while he waits to speak at the Heritage Foundation on October 21, 2021 in Washington, DC. Clarence Thomas has now served on the Supreme Court for 30 years. He was nominated by former President George H. W. Bush in 1991 and is the second African-American to serve on the high court, following Justice Thurgood Marshall. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

First on CNN: Ginni Thomas agrees to January 6 committee interview

President-elect Donald Trump along with his children Eric, left, Ivanka and Donald Jr. arrive for a press conference January 11, 2017 at Trump Tower in New York.

New York attorney general files civil fraud lawsuit against Trump, some of his children and his business

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 21: Rep. Bennie Thompson, chairman of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol, delivers opening remarks via video due to being positive for COVID-19 in the Cannon House Office Building on July 21, 2022 in Washington, DC. The bipartisan committee, which has been gathering evidence on the January 6 attack at the U.S. Capitol, is presenting its findings in a series of televised hearings. On January 6, 2021, supporters of former President Donald Trump attacked the U.S. Capitol Building during an attempt to disrupt a congressional vote to confirm the electoral college win for President Joe Biden.

January 6 committee will hold hearing on September 28, chairman says

Newly obtained surveillance video shows a Republican county official and a team of operatives working for Trump 2020 attorney Sidney Powell inside a restricted area of the elections office in Coffee County Georgia. Portions of this image were obscured to protect the identity of people unnamed in the report.

New footage confirms fake Trump elector spent hours inside Georgia elections office day it was breached

The Department of Justice building is seen in Washington, DC, on August 9, 2022.

DOJ charges 47 people with stealing $250 million from pandemic program meant to provide meals to needy children

Florida paid aviation company under migrant relocation program, records show

WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 26: U.S. President Joe Biden takes off his mask as he walks towards members of the press prior to a Marine One departure from the White House to Maryland August 26, 2022 in Washington, DC. President Biden will travel to Wilmington, Delaware for the weekend after his stop in Maryland. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Biden: ‘The pandemic is over’

U.S. President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden arrive at the Westminster Abbey on the day of Queen Elizabeth II funeral, in London Monday, Sept. 19, 2022. (Phil Noble/Pool Photo via AP)

Biden and world leaders attend state funeral for Queen Elizabeth II

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) greets Energy Justice Law and Policy Center Executive Director Raya Salter and University of Massachussetts Amherst Professor of Economics Isabella Weber after a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing on alleged oil industry greenwashing and the impacts of climate change on Capitol Hill Sept. 15, 2022.(Francis Chung/EENews/POLITICO via AP Images)

Ocasio-Cortez calls out GOP lawmaker for ‘disrespect’ shown to environmental lawyer in heated exchange

U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) passes through the basement of the U.S. Capitol prior to a Senate Democratic Policy Luncheon January 17, 2018 in Washington, DC. Senate Democrats held the weekly luncheon to discuss Democratic agenda. Alex Wong/Getty Images

Senate to punt on same-sex marriage vote until after midterms as GOP asks for more time

President Joe Biden meets with people in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, Sept. 15, 2022, in Washington. Biden said Thursday that a tentative railway labor agreement has been reached, averting a strike that could have been devastating to the economy before the pivotal midterm elections. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

‘Failure wasn’t an option here’: How Biden navigated a political and economic minefield at a critical moment in rail negotiations

WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 31: U.S. President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump walk on the South Lawn while returning to the White House on December 31, 2020 in Washington, DC. President Trump and the First Lady returned to Washington, DC early and will not be in attendance at the annual New Years Eve party at his Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

‘You’re blowing this’: New book reveals Melania Trump criticized her husband’s handling of Covid

TOPSHOT - US President Donald Trump looks on during a ceremony presenting the Presidential Medal of Freedom to wrestler Dan Gable in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on December 7, 2020. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Justice Department criminal investigation now touches nearly all efforts to overturn 2020 election for Trump

Karoline Leavitt proclaims victory in the New Hampshire Republican primary in U.S. House District 1 at The Community Oven restaurant in Hampton Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022.

Gen Z candidate Karoline Leavitt will win GOP primary in New Hampshire’s 1st District, CNN projects

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 22: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) listens as Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) speaks at a press conference at the U.S. Capitol to discuss immigration at the southern border on June 22, 2022 in Washington, DC. Cruz spoke alongside Graham and the National Border Patrol Council President Brandon and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) to discuss what they see as a worsening crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border caused U.S. by President Joe Biden's administration's policies. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Graham proposes 15-week abortion bill, dividing Republicans ahead of midterm elections

President Joe Biden stops and speaks to members of the media as he walks on the beach with his granddaughter Natalie Biden and daughter Ashley Biden, in Rehoboth Beach, Del., Monday, June 20, 2022.

Biden’s Delaware vacation home faces ‘extreme’ flood risk as climate change leads to rising seas

President Joe Biden speaks on the cancer moonshot initiative at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum, Monday, Sept. 12, 2022, in Boston. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden makes a passionate plea: ‘Beating cancer is something we can do together’

TOPSHOT - US President Donald Trump looks on during a ceremony presenting the Presidential Medal of Freedom to wrestler Dan Gable in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on December 7, 2020. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Exclusive: ‘I’m just not going to leave’: New book reveals Trump vowed to stay in White House

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