Nearly 40% of US Marines are declining Covid-19 vaccinations, according to data provided to CNN on Friday by the service, the first branch to disclose service-wide numbers on acceptance and declination.

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The House Ethics Committee said Friday it was opening an investigation into the allegations surrounding embattled Rep. Matt Gaetz, the Florida Republican facing a federal investigation into whether he violated sex trafficking laws.

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The Justice Department has been making public what they've learned about the Oath Keepers paramilitary organization -- which had at least a dozen of its affiliates amid the Capitol riot -- and this week revealed new details about the group's alleged discussions to arm themselves on January 6 or to arrange for others to back them up around the city.

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A senior State Department official said that questions remain about whether Iran seriously wants to return to compliance with the nuclear deal after talks in Vienna this week aimed at salvaging the landmark 2015 agreement.

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A Pennsylvania man accused of bear-spraying US Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who died after the January 6 riot, is in talks with the Justice Department for a possible deal to be released from jail as he awaits trial, according to a court hearing on Friday.

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The financial future of the National Rifle Association is playing out in a contentious battle in a Texas courtroom.

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Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger became the first congressional Republican to call on his colleague from Florida, Rep. Matt Gaetz, to resign in the face of a federal investigation into sex trafficking allegations.

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The Biden administration is spending at least $62 million a week to care for unaccompanied migrant children in the custody of the Department of Health and Human Services, according to government data.

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Federal prosecutors have arrested and charged Seth Aaron Pendley of Wichita Falls, Texas, with trying to blow up an Amazon data center.

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President Joe Biden's border coordinator is stepping down at the end of the month, the White House announced Friday -- an unusual time given the administration is dealing with record numbers of unaccompanied migrant children at the US southern border.

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Veteran Democratic operative James Carville blasted the "Defund the Police" movement — calling it a "terrible drag" on his party.

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A light display on an Albany skyscraper was temporarily changed from "NY Tough" to "NY Touch" in an apparent jab at New York's governor

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U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz on Friday mockingly said he wears former House Speaker John Boehner’s "drunken, bloviated scorn" proudly after Boehner’s latest cutting remark about the Texas Republican.

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The U.S. Supreme Court in a divided decision late Friday ruled in favor of lifting restrictions on in-home religious gatherings, overturning a lower court ruling that upheld Gov. Gavin Newsom’s limits on people from different homes.

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Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Friday called for school sports to halt games for two weeks -- but the head of the state’s high school sports association says the games will go on.

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Stephen Miller and Mark Brnovich sounded off on "Hannity" Friday, criticizing the Biden administration for "[shutting] down ICE," and creating a "disaster" at the southern border. 

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Don McLaughlin, mayor of Uvalde, Texas, joined "Tucker Carlson Tonight" to share his town's experience with the influx of migrants at the southern border, saying the situation is a "madhouse."  

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Embattled Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz vowed to fight the allegations of sex trafficking he is being investigated for, promising attendees at a conservative women’s event on Friday night that he is not “going anywhere.”

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott sent a letter to Vice President Kamala Harris Friday demanding the Biden administration shut down a child migrant housing facility, following accusations of child abuse.

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Upon the death of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, "Fox News Primetime" guest host Mark Steyn remarked he would hold back from speaking at length about the British Royal Family.

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With military flights, maritime militia patrols and sand dredging, China is pressuring Taiwan, the Philippines and other Southeast Asian neighbors.

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Many of the attempted conversions made in the period between Election Day and Joe Biden’s inauguration did not move forward, according to documents obtained by NBC News.

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The Brent Spence Bridge's much-needed makeover has bedeviled politicians from John Boehner and Mitch McConnell to Barack Obama and Donald Trump.

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Move puts Vice President Kamala Harris firmly in charge of U.S. diplomatic efforts in Central America.

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Both men have been accused of sexual misconduct within the last month.

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Secretary Lloyd Austin instructed senior officials to update the Defense Department’s definition of “prohibited extremist activities."

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The bipartisan commission will examine the length of service and turnover of justices on the court as well as its membership and size, the White House said.

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Several scientists questioned the use of masks by kids at Gov. Ron DeSantis' roundtable discussion last month.

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Current and former U.S. leaders honor the service, wit of Queen Elizabeth II's longtime consort, who died Friday at age 99.

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The Wichita Falls man was arrested Thursday after receiving a fake bomb from an FBI undercover employee.

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Fast food workers across the country staged protests Tuesday, asking for an increase in the minimum wage. Ben Tracy has been following the story.

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Donald Trump and Ben Carson are tied in the national polls and hope to use the fourth Republican presidential debate to gain an edge while their opponents look to catch up. Major Garrett has a preview of round four.

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While the GOP candidates turn attacks to one another, who has the most at stake and what issues will be covered during tonight's debate? Rebecca Berg, national political reporter for Real Clear Politics, joins CBSN with insight as the Republican rivals prepare to rumble.

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GOP candidates are preparing for a high-stakes debate in Milwaukee. What do they need to do to get ahead? Washington Post political reporter Ed O'Keefe joins CBSN with answers.

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Donald Trump and Ben Carson remain tied in the polls leading up to the fourth GOP presidential debate. CBS News Chief White House Correspondent Major Garrett joins CBSN to discuss how the debate is expected to play out.

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A federal appeals court has blocked President Obama's immigration plan. The plan would have shielded five million people from deportation. CBS News Correspondent Jan Crawford joins CBSN with the details.

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GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson insists all the stories he tells about his past are true. Reporters who've dug into his biography say they cannot confirm some of the details, but one scientist says the way people remember events from long ago could explain the difference. Jan Crawford reports

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During a campaign rally in Springfield, Illinois, Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump suggested a boycott of Starbucks over their red cups. CBSN's Contessa Brewer has his remarks.

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After anti-racism protests at the University of Missouri led to its presidents' resignation, a national conversation is growing about diversity on college campuses. CBS Affiliate KCTV's Sports Director Michael Coleman spoke to CBSN about what the resignation will mean for the future of the school.

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A "60 Minutes" investigation that pointed out potential flaws in how federal employees and contractors with security clearances are screened has drawn attention from federal lawmakers. Scott Pelley has more.

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Whether the largest antipoverty effort in a generation produces lasting change or becomes a cautionary tale about the limits of governmental largesse will play out in communities such as Cuney Homes.

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The collapse of the effort to organize Amazon workers comes after the president embraced it in an unusual video. Biden is now associated with a losing cause, but some labor leaders applaud him for siding with them at an important moment.

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The crosscurrents could turn the coming weeks into a make-or-break moment for some of Biden’s biggest initiatives — and perhaps a final chance to demonstrate whether bipartisan cooperation is possible.

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The White House is also preparing to step up negotiations over Biden’s $2 trillion jobs and infrastructure package with Congress’s return to Washington next week.

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Pressure on the federal government to rethink its allocation strategy has mounted as access to immunization expands nationwide but new infections are concentrated in just a handful of states, including Michigan, New York, New Jersey, Florida and Pennsylvania.

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Follow the president-elect’s progress filling nearly 800 positions, among the 1,200 that require Senate confirmation, in this tracker from The Washington Post and the Partnership for Public Service.

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The probe will look at allegations of sexual misconduct, illicit drug use and displaying images of nude women on the House floor

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The Biden administration unveiled its budget Friday. See which departments would get the biggest increases in funding.

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A pattern that helped Trump in 2016 collapsed four years later.

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Liberals have pushed for adding justices to the court to blunt its conservative majority.

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Kristine Hostetter was a beloved fourth-grade teacher. Then came the pandemic, the election and the Jan. 6 riot in Washington.

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Florida’s governor has elbowed his way to the front of the line of 2024 Republican hopefuls by leveraging a brand of “competent Trumpism” (as one ally put it) and hitting back at critics of his pandemic leadership.

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A gathering of Republican leaders and top donors in Florida this weekend is less a reset of priorities and more a reminder of the tensions that Donald J. Trump instills in his party.

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For Republicans, cancel culture is good for business.

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With deliveries from Johnson & Johnson set to fall 86 percent, a White House official warned that the vaccine would be scarce until a troubled Baltimore plant gains regulatory approval.

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The congressman defended himself in his first major public appearance since a Justice Department inquiry came to light last week.

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The president has not explicitly endorsed calls to expand the court, but he just ordered a study exploring possible reforms.

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David Malpass, who was met with skepticism when he got the job in 2019, has become increasingly vocal about the risk of climate change.

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Defense Department officials acknowledge that rooting out far-right extremist thinking from a military of 1.3 million active-duty troops will be an uphill slog.

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Roberta S. Jacobson’s departure comes amid the administration’s efforts to reduce the flow of immigration from Central America.

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As the secretary of defense issued an order to address extremism in the ranks, a well-known white nationalist was receiving combat training courtesy of Uncle Sam, according to an exclusive HuffPost investigation.

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The Colorado Republican railed against “a political party that is laser-focused on destroying our freedoms” and people pointed out the same thing.

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Max Boot nailed the irony of Carlson's anti-immigrant screeds in his op-ed for The Washington Post.

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The Fox News personality's latest incendiary comments came under the spotlight from the "CNN Tonight" anchor.

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House panel on COVID-19 accuses aides of "overruling and bullying scientists and making harmful decisions that allowed the virus to spread more rapidly."

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James Kyle Bell is also charged with fraudulently obtaining $1 million in funds from the coronavirus-relief Paycheck Protection Program.

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Carlson's “white replacement" conspiracy rhetoric was "not just a dog whistle to racists — it was a bullhorn," the ADL said in a letter to Fox News.

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The committee said Friday that it would probe the sexual misconduct allegations against the two Republican congressmen.

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The law only permits no-knock warrants if there is “clear and convincing evidence” that the crime being investigated “would qualify a person, if convicted, as a violent offender.”

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The former Republican House Speaker blamed lawmakers from his own party for helping to ignite the deadly Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6.

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Twitter users criticized the Navy after noticing that its official Twitter account featured its logo with a bald eagle wearing a mask.

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On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) said that the recall effort against California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is Republicans “setting their sights on Gov. Newsom because of the Trump administration’s failures to respond to COVID

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CNN anchor Don Lemon said Friday on his show "Tonight" that Fox News host Tucker Carlson was mainstreaming "white supremacist propaganda to your neighbors and your family members."

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The White House continues citing an old Gary Cohn interview out of context to suggest he is supporting Biden's $2.5 trillion spending plan. President Donald Trump's former economic advisor Gary Cohn has not endorsed President Biden's plan.

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On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Uvalde, TX Mayor Don McLaughlin said that the border is “a madhouse” and that things would be better if the border had the same fencing as the U.S. Capitol.

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According to Health and Human Services, the federal government is detaining more than 20,000 unaccompanied migrant children nationwide. To accommodate the latest surge, HHS opened 13 new detention facilities since March 1 and are designed to house the children until sponsors receive them.

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EAGLE PASS, Texas -- Communities all along the southern border are dealing with issues related to the surge that has impacted law enforcement entities and residents as well. Mayor Luis E. Sifuentes expressed the complaints he received from constituents concerning trespassing and other associated crimes.

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On Thursday—the very same day that President Biden announced his executive actions to restrict certain firearms—the Kansas legislature took a bold step in the opposite direction. 

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In a joint statement, several Republican Senators blasted President Joe Biden's defense budget, calling it "disappointing," and saying, "talk is cheap, but defending our country is not."

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The House Committee on Ethics announced Friday they opened an investigation on two Republican Representatives, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Rep. Tom Reed (R-NY). This comes as both Republicans recently were accused of sexual misconduct.

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