President Joe Biden will direct the Department of Labor to develop a rule that companies with more than 100 employees will require vaccinations or once-per-week testing for their workers, potentially affecting tens of millions of U.S. private-sector employees, according to the White House. The administration’s rule will require that “all

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The White House on Thursday withdrew the controversial nomination of David Chipman to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), releasing a statement explaining the decision. President Joe Biden accused congressional Republicans of “us[ing] gun crime as a talking point instead of taking serious steps to address it.” These

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President Joe Biden’s on Thursday mandated federal workers get a COVID-19 vaccine. The new executive order removes the option for workers and contractors to choose not to get vaccinated. The White House said in a document that Biden had signed the order. The text of the order has not yet

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President Joe Biden’s newest executive order will mandate federal workers get a COVID-19 vaccine, the White House announced Thursday. White House press secretary Jen Psaki confirmed the order while speaking to reporters in Washington. The mandate will have “limited exceptions for legally recognized reasons such as disability or religious objections,”

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White House press secretary Jen Psaki defended the Biden administration’s move to oust several Trump-era appointees from military academy boards. “We’re confident in our legal abilities here,” Psaki told CNN on Thursday in the wake of several of the appointees’ threatening to file a lawsuit against the administration. The administration

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The Biden administration has forced out nearly a dozen Trump administration appointees from their positions on the advisory boards of U.S. military service academies, the White House confirmed on Wednesday. White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters at a press briefing that the administration was seeking to ensure that

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Ahead of President Joe Biden’s announcement Thursday about new COVID-19 measures, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said that there may be new measures that will be imposed on unvaccinated people. “There are six steps the president’s announcing, there will be new components,” Psaki told reporters on Wednesday. “Some of

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The White House on Tuesday asked Congress to approve billions in spending to address the ongoing crises created by the disastrous Category 4 Hurricane Ida and the Afghan refugee crisis in the aftermath of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. The request came after a bipartisan delegation of Louisiana congressmen asked the

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President Joe Biden will outline a “six-step plan” to curb the COVID-19 Delta variant and increase U.S. vaccinations, said a White House spokesperson on Tuesday. White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters traveling with Biden aboard Air Force One that he will unveil the plan that will span “the public

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The Department of Justice (DOJ) is looking into ways it can challenge a new law in Texas that makes abortion illegal if a fetal heartbeat is detectable, according to Attorney General Merrick Garland. Garland disclosed the effort as he emphasized that federal authorities will crack down on anybody who seeks to use

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