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Few states have received as much scrutiny throughout the pandemic as Florida, where Gov. Ron DeSantis has rejected many of the safety measures recommended by health officials while also downplaying the efficacy of vaccines.
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Biden promises 'extraordinary' Supreme Court nominee, 1st Black woman
President Biden marked the retirement of Justice Stephen Breyer from the Supreme Court to recommit to his campaign promise to nominate a Black woman to the high court.
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White House confirms that Biden will pick Black woman for Supreme Court seat
President Biden will stand by his campaign promise to nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said on Wednesday afternoon, just hours after news outlets reported that Justice Stephen Breyer is set to retire at the end of the current term.
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Fauci challenges Fox News vaccine falsehoods: 'The facts are stunningly obvious'
The top public health authorities in the Biden administration denounced misinformation about the coronavirus vaccines following an anti-vaccine rally in Washington, D.C., over the weekend and a falsehood-laden segment on Fox News on Tuesday night that has been widely shared on social media.
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DeSantis demands COVID treatments deemed ineffective by FDA
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is charging that the White House is withholding a COVID-19 treatment that could save lives in a state that has already lost 64,000 to the pandemic, even though medical experts have deemed the therapy ineffective against the variant currently dominant in the United States.
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Biden looks to navigate a 'moment of reckoning for Democrats' on crime
When he spoke to a conference of mayors last Friday, President Biden didn’t directly address an issue that has come to dominate many of those mayors’ agendas and could pose a major challenge for Democrats in November’s midterm elections: crime.
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The school mask wars come to northern Virginia
Virginia’s new Republican governor, Glenn Youngkin, is taking the debate over mask mandates in schools to the Washington suburbs that are home to much of the capital's power elite.
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'A job not yet finished': 5 takeaways from Biden's press conference
By turns blustery and defiant, reflective and hopeful, President Biden used just the second press conference of his presidency on U.S. soil to argue that his administration has hardly been the moribund and aimless affair depicted by Republicans and in some media reports.
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Schools open, and so does a political wedge for Republicans
School closures dropped markedly over the long weekend, as the Omicron-fueled coronavirus surge appears to have abated in many parts of the nation. Still, thousands of schools remain closed, prolonging a crisis that poses educational, economic and — increasingly — political challenges.
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Why Biden's presidential reset may come up short
The reset of the presidential agenda is among the most popular of Washington storylines, an unrealistic yet beloved portrayal of how much presidential storytelling can actually change the course of a presidency.
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Doctors defend Fauci from Republican attacks 'motivated by partisan politics'
Dozens of the nation’s leading medical experts have come to the defense of Dr. Anthony Fauci, who earlier this week complained during a tense Senate hearing that Republican attacks on his credibility have translated into harassment and misinformation and could lead to violence.
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'We're all frustrated': Biden addresses COVID-exhausted nation
A weary-sounding President Biden used his Thursday remarks on the state of the COVID-19 pandemic to charge unvaccinated Americans with needlessly prolonging a public health crisis now entering its third year.
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Omicron much weaker coronavirus variant than Delta, new study says — but some still urge caution
The Omicron variant of the coronavirus is much less likely to cause hospitalization and death than the earlier Delta variant, a study released by the CDC finds, confirming predictions some virologists have been making since Omicron first appeared in southern Africa.
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CDC director debunks viral falsehood about COVID deaths
Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, used an appearance before a Senate committee on Tuesday to counter misinformation about coronavirus deaths.
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Fauci accuses Rand Paul of playing politics with pandemic, fomenting violence
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Dr. Anthony Fauci sparred once more during a congressional hearing on the coronavirus pandemic, with Fauci bluntly accusing Paul of fomenting attacks against him that are dangerous, falsehood-laden and politically motivated.
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CDC Director Rochelle Walensky seeks to assert herself against critics
For the first time in six months, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky held a solo press briefing on the coronavirus pandemic on Friday.
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Trump loyalists push Jan. 6 fictions, but reality intrudes
Evidence of how contentious last year’s Jan. 6 riot remains in the public imagination could be found in a cramped room on the fifth floor of the Cannon House Office Building on Thursday afternoon.
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Officials: Variant found in France no reason to worry
A variant of the coronavirus recently discovered in France does not appear to be poised for a major breakout, at least partially quelling concerns that a new surge was imminent even as the earlier surges caused by the Delta and Omicron variants continued around the world.
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'We want schools to be open,' White House says as Chicago cancels classes
The challenge of reopening schools for in-person instruction amid a coronavirus surge fueled by the Omicron variant deepened on Wednesday, with Chicago teachers refusing to return to the classroom after a union vote Tuesday night.
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Biden tries to rally COVID-weary nation: 'We're all tired and frustrated'
Ahead of a meeting with his pandemic response team on Tuesday, President Biden acknowledged that the coronavirus he had promised to vanquish remains very much unvanquished.
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