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Year: 2021

‘People have freedoms’: Republicans eyeing 2024 take on Biden’s vaccine mandate

CNN By Eric Bradner, CNN A growing roster of ambitious Republicans, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, joined the legal battle against President Joe Biden’s workplace vaccine mandates. The holiday-season legal battle ahead of the January 4 start date for the vaccinate-or-test requirement for large businesses underscores the partisan and cultural

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‘People have freedoms’: Republicans eyeing 2024 take on Biden’s vaccine mandate

By Eric Bradner, CNN A growing roster of ambitious Republicans, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, joined the legal battle against President Joe Biden’s workplace vaccine mandates. The holiday-season legal battle ahead of the January 4 start date for the vaccinate-or-test requirement for large businesses underscores the partisan and cultural divide

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UN draft condemns attacks on journalists, urges punishment

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) —  A proposed U.N. resolution would “unequivocally” condemn all attacks, reprisals and violence against journalists and media workers and urge governments to take action to end the prevailing impunity and punish these crimes. The draft General Assembly resolution circulated Friday also urges “the immediate and unconditional

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The week in 13 headlines

By Lauren Dezenski, CNN This week, President Biden returned from his foreign trip to a party in crisis after losing the Virginia gubernatorial race — and nearly losing the assumed-to-be-safe New Jersey governor’s race. Meanwhile, Democrats turned the screws on one another in an effort to pass Biden’s social spending bill and the infrastructure bill,

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