Mike DeBonis

Congressional reporter, Washington Post

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Over the weekend, shootings in Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Arizona and Tennessee left more than a dozen people dead.

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Over the weekend, shootings in Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Arizona and Tennessee left more than a dozen people dead.

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President Biden formally handed over the administration’s push to expand voting rights to Vice President Kamala Harris.

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In three weeks, some 14 million people will lose the extra unemployment benefits that came with the first round of COVID relief. Meanwhile, the U.S.

Congress is at ‘square one’ after another week of no COVID stimulus package

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