The House select committee investigating January 6 has asked Rep. Jim Jordan, one of former President Donald Trump’s top congressional allies, to voluntarily meet with the panel as it zeroes in on Republican lawmakers who may have significant knowledge of events leading up to the US Capitol attack. Source: CNN
Alleged scam PAC operator indicted by the Justice Department still ran robocalls after his arrest
A man indicted by the Justice Department last month for allegedly running two fraudulent political action committees in 2016 continued to run another operation — including promises of a Trump Christmas card for contributions of at least $35 — using a different PAC shortly after his indictment and arrest in November. Source: CNN
Michael Flynn loses his legal challenge to the House January 6 probe, one day after filing it
Michael Flynn has swiftly lost his bid in court to block a possible House select committee subpoena for his phone records and to hold off demands he speak to the panel investigating January 6. Source: CNN
Why it's so hard to find a Covid test right now
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Pfizer's antiviral pill, Paxlovid, is authorized for ill people to take at home before they become sick enough to be hospitalized
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US officials consider shortening isolation time
As the highly transmissible Omicron and Delta coronavirus variants continue to sweep across the United States, health officials warn that more people are expected to get infected — even those who are fully vaccinated — and they need to stay home and isolate themselves so they don’t spread the virus to others. Source: CNN
Opinion: I'm vaccinated and boosted. I'm traveling for Christmas
This is the second year that Covid-19 has upended holiday travel, after nearly two long years of plans undone, loved ones unseen and life milestones unmarked. Now that vaccines are widely available in the United States, it’s especially frustrating that we are still held hostage to a pandemic fueled by the people who refuse to get vaccinated and by the …
'A recipe for absolute destruction': Democrats scramble to avoid electoral blowback after Manchin halts Biden agenda
It’s exactly the scenario Democrats had worked for months to avoid — but now find themselves confronting. Source: CNN
'We really don't have a plan': Biden's climate promises are sunk without Build Back Better, experts say
Multiple independent analyses have found President Joe Biden simply can’t hit his goal of cutting greenhouse gases by 50% by the end of the decade without the clean energy provisions in Build Back Better, the President’s signature economic and climate legislation. Source: CNN