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White House gives GOP 1 week to reach deal on infrastructure

White House gives GOP 1 week to reach deal on infrastructure

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Sunday that time is running short for a bipartisan deal on infrastructure, indicating that President Joe Biden will look to act without Republican support if there is no consensus when Congress returns from its Memorial Day break.
by The Associated Press

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Texas GOP's new voting restrictions on verge of approval

Texas GOP's new voting restrictions on verge of approval

Republicans in the Texas Senate muscled one of the most restrictive new voting laws in the U.S. to the cusp of the governor's desk early Sunday, approving fewer ways to cast a ballot and more criminal penalties after rushing the bill to the floor in the middle of the night.
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Defense for some Capitol rioters: election misinformation

Defense for some Capitol rioters: election misinformation

Falsehoods about the election helped bring insurrectionists to the Capitol on Jan. 6, and now some who are facing criminal charges for their actions during the riot hope their gullibility might save them or at least engender some sympathy.
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More than 200 bodies found at former Indigenous school in Canada

More than 200 bodies found at former Indigenous school in Canada

The remains of 215 children, some as young as 3 years old, have been found buried on the site of what was once Canada's largest Indigenous residential school — one of the institutions that held children taken from families across the nation.
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Biden's $6T budget: Social spending, taxes on business

Biden's $6T budget: Social spending, taxes on business

President Biden is proposing a $6 trillion budget for next year that’s piled high with new safety net programs for the poor and middle class but that depends on taxing corporations and the wealthy to keep the nation’s spiking debt from spiraling totally out of control.
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Minnesota candidate backs move to block COVID shots for kids

Minnesota candidate backs move to block COVID shots for kids

Minnesota Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott Jensen signed onto a lawsuit seeking to stop COVID-19 vaccinations for 12- to 15-year-olds that, among other things, compares such inoculations to Nazi experimentation on imprisoned Jews.
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What we know about the apparent Russian hack exploiting a U.S. Aid agency

What we know about the apparent Russian hack exploiting a U.S. Aid agency

News of the attack, which targets emails made to look like they came from USAID, comes less than three weeks before President Joe Biden is slated to hold a summit with President Vladimir Putin.
by Bill Chappell, Dina Temple-Raston and Scott Detrow

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GOP blocks bipartisan probe of deadly Jan. 6 riot at Capitol

GOP blocks bipartisan probe of deadly Jan. 6 riot at Capitol

Senate Republicans on Friday blocked the creation of a bipartisan panel to study the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, refusing to back down on their opposition to the independent investigation even amid emotional appeals from those who fought with and fled from the rioters that day.
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Minnesota lawmakers face another budget deadline Friday

Minnesota lawmakers face another budget deadline Friday

Working groups of legislators have until the end of Friday to agree on details of a new two-year state budget, ahead of a special session next month. And even if they agree on numbers, there are still areas of policy that could hold things up. 
by Tim Pugmire

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