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The CDC Extends Its Mask Mandate on Planes, Trains, and Buses…Again

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Democrats revel in history during Supreme Court confirmation vote

WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris couldn’t hold back a broad smile and a crack in her voice as she guided the Senate’s final steps to confirming the first Black woman to the Supreme Court Thursday.

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Crowd, cheers, history as Senate confirms Supreme Court pick

Moments before the Senate began Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation vote to become the first Black woman on the Supreme Court, the chamber filled with the swell of history

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Democrats revel in history during Supreme Court confirmation vote - Roll Call

Democrats marked Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation to the Supreme Court with smiles, tears and cheers.

Roll Call

Biden signs federal anti-lynching bill into law

President Joe Biden has signed legislation to finally define lynching as a federal hate crime.

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U.S. senators try to avoid weeks-long delay in Russia trade measure

U.S. senators scrambled on Tuesday to reach a compromise to avoid further delays before passing legislation revoking "most favored" trade status for Russia and Belarus over the invasion of Ukraine, after Republican lawmakers blocked efforts to pass it quickly.

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Biden signs federal anti-lynching bill into law - Roll Call

Hate crime conspiracies leading to serious injury or death would be subject to federal sentences of up to 30 years under the new law.

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Republicans seize on Biden’s cheat notes as sign of cognitive decline despite Trump doing the same

‘When you’re around somebody who’s in cognitive decline, you find yourself trying to help them with a sentence, trying to help them complete it’

The Independent UK

Rand Paul’s latest legislation would kill an entire federal agency to get rid of Dr Fauci

Kentucky senator has repeatedly clashed with public health expert

The Independent UK

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Once a lone objector, Rand Paul’s name is now on the Emmett Till Anti-lynching Act

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Once a lone objector, Rand Paul’s name is now on the Emmett Till Anti-lynching Act

WASHINGTON — Nearly two years after Sen. Rand Paul objected to legislation that would make the brutal act of lynching a federal hate crime, the Kentucky Republican signed on as a co-sponsor of a revised version that is now set to become law.

McClatchy Washington Bureau

Ex-Rand Paul aide pardoned by Trump is charged with funneling Russian money into 2016 election

Jesse Benton faces between 5 and 20 years in prison if convicted

The Independent UK

Congress nears passing antilynching bill after more than a century of failed attempts

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is co-sponsoring a Senate version of the antilynching bill after holding up a previous proposal.

Axios

Coronavirus came from Wuhan market and not Chinese lab, twin studies say

Two major studies released by scientists but yet to be published in journals say virus did not emerge from Wuhan Institute of Virology

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Republicans who opposed racial justice protests hope truckers ‘clog up’ US cities

Lawmakers including Rand Paul and Ron DeSantis say they would back disruption of a Canadian-style trucker convoy

The Independent UK

Rand Paul says airlines are treating people ‘like crap’ by forcing them to wear masks

Face masks are ‘a joke’ says senator ‘there’s no reason to be wearing them on the planes’

The Independent UK

Senator Rand Paul says he’s ‘all for’ American truckers blockading the Super Bowl and DC

‘It’d be a nice change. We’d actually have some traffic’

McClatchy Washington Bureau

Rand Paul: ‘We can be respectful and adults’ on Biden’s Supreme Court nominee

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden hasn’t yet settled on a nominee to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.

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Kentucky's Rand Paul crashes Ohio Senate race with another attack on Fauci

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Kentucky's Rand Paul crashes Ohio Senate race with another attack on Fauci

WASHINGTON — Rand Paul is on television – but not in Lexington or Louisville.

The Independent UK

Rand Paul vows Fauci investigation if GOP wins the Senate

‘We’ll have an investigator go through this piece-by-piece because we don’t need this to happen again,’ Paul says

Salon

Fox spins lockdown study to attack masks

Conservatives think a study casting doubt on lockdowns proves they're right about vaccines and masks. It doesn't

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New poll says Beshear’s approval rating is on the rise. Paul has big lead over Booker

A poll released this week showed that Gov. Andy Beshear’s approval rating is on the rise in Kentucky.

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