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City Council

Jackson, Mississippi, water crisis: City council approves agreement with EPA to establish federal oversight of long-term solutions | #citycouncil

CNN — The Jackson, Mississippi, city council voted Thursday to approve a legal agreement with the Environmental Protection Agency which aims to find a long-term solution to the city’s water crisis. City and state officials have been engaged in ongoing negotiations to establish federal involvement in running the city’s troubled water system, CNN has previously […]

Arkansas

CNN Projection: Republican Sarah Huckabee Sanders will win Arkansas governorship

CNN — Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the one-time press secretary and communications director for former President Donald Trump, will win Arkansas’ gubernatorial race, CNN projects. She will be the first woman elected governor of Arkansas. Huckabee Sanders defeated Democrat Chris Jones, a minister and former nonprofit leader who got a degree in nuclear engineering from MIT. […]

Alaska

Mitch McConnell vs. Rick Scott: Battle for the GOP’s future in the Senate could be settled with the midterms | #alaska | #politics

CNN — A simmering conflict between Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Sen. Rick Scott of Florida is heating up in the closing days of the fall campaigns, as the two Republicans battle behind the scenes over who will get the credit for a big win – and who will bear the blame if the […]

Alaska

Midterm elections 2022: How to tell if Republicans are heading for a landslide in the House | #alaska | #politics

CNN — The conditions are ripe for Republicans to win the US House of Representatives next month. So while Senate control is still up for grabs, the discussion on the House side has shifted to just how large a possible new GOP majority could be. Republicans only need a net gain of five seats to […]

Alaska

Obamacare premiums rise for 2023, but enhanced subsidies will protect most enrollees | #alaska | #politics

CNN — After four straight years of premium declines, Affordable Care Act policies will be more costly in 2023. However, most enrollees won’t feel the increase thanks to enhanced federal subsidies that congressional Democrats were able to extend. The average monthly premium for the benchmark silver plan in 2023 will rise by 4% in the […]

Alabama

Alabama Sen. Tuberville suggests Black people are criminals. Where is the outrage? | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

A version of this story appears in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. CNN — Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama took the crime messaging Republicans across the country have been weaving and doused it in overt racism and a conspiracy theory over the weekend. Other Republicans […]

Alaska

Biden is blamed for downturn in new oil drilling, but fossil fuel companies are the ones hitting pause | #alaska | #politics

CNN — OPEC+’s decision this week to slash oil production – and now the looming threat of higher gas prices – has pushed Republican rhetoric into familiar territory: President Joe Biden’s green policies are making Americans pay more at the pump. Republicans in Congress have slammed Biden’s attempts since he took office to curb new […]

Alabama

Republicans called Biden’s infrastructure program ‘socialism.’ Then they asked for money. | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

CNN — Last November, GOP Rep. Tom Emmer of Minnesota released a statement slamming the passage of the freshly approved infrastructure law he referred to as “President Biden’s multi-trillion dollar socialist wish list.” Then in June, Emmer – the House Republican campaign chairman leading attacks on Democrats for supporting the law – quietly submitted a […]

Alabama

The 10 Senate seats most likely to flip in 2022 | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

CNN — The race for the Senate is in the eye of the beholder less than six weeks from Election Day, with ads about abortion, crime and inflation dominating the airwaves in key states as campaigns test the theory of the 2022 election. The cycle started out as a referendum on President Joe Biden – […]

Alaska

The mysterious nine-second call from the White House to a January 6 rioter: CNN reveals the rioter’s identity for the first time | #alaska | #politics

Washington CNN — At 4:34 pm on January 6, 2021, a cell phone registered to a Capitol rioter who had stormed the building, received a phone call from a White House landline, according to records obtained by CNN. The call lasted for only nine seconds. Who placed the call and why remains a mystery, but […]