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The Colonial Pipeline initiated the restart of operations Wednesday evening. Following the restart, it will take several days for the product delivery supply chain to return to normal, Colonial Pipeline said. That means some markets served by Colonial Pipeline may experience, or continue to experience, intermittent service interruptions during the …

The Biden administration is overturning a policy that barred undocumented college students from receiving federal relief grants during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Education Department announced that it will distribute $36 billion in federal relief funding to higher education. Colleges and universities will have to decide how to distribute the funding …

The huge yellow letters that spell out “Black Lives Matter” in D.C.’s Black Lives Matter Plaza were paved over but will be replaced by the end of the week, the mayor’s office said. The famous curb-to-curb letters were missing from 16th Street NW between H and K streets on Tuesday. …

A prosecutor is seeking hate crime charges and the death penalty for the Atlanta, Georgia spa shooter that killed eight people in March. Robert Aaron Long was indicted on four counts of murder, four counts of felony murder, five counts of assault with a deadly weapon, four counts of possession …

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey has signed a bill making it easier to purge infrequent voters from a list of those who automatically get a ballot each election. In a tweet Tuesday, the governor called “Arizona a national leader when it comes to election integrity,” and he added that the bill …

On Monday, forty-four attorney generals wrote a letter calling for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to scrap plans for a children’s version of Instagram. “Use of social media can be detrimental to the health and well-being of children, who are not equipped to navigate the challenges of having a social media …

President Biden announced on Tuesday that one million people had enrolled so far in Affordable Care Act coverage during a special sign-up period his administration created. The president opened a special enrollment period in February, shortly after taking office. Former President Trump had declined to open enrollments back up, even as …

Virginia businessman Glenn Youngkin has won the Republican nomination for governor after six rounds of counting ballots cast at Saturday’s drive-through unassembled convention. I am prepared to lead, excited to serve and profoundly humbled by the trust the people have placed in me. Virginians have made it clear that they are …

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Monday signed a repeal of Georgia’s Civil War-era citizen’s arrest law. The repeal of the law comes a year after the fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man pursued by white men who said they suspected him of a crime. Wanda Cooper-Jones, the mother …

Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy scheduled a vote for Wednesday to replace Liz Cheney as GOP Conference chair. Cheney is being challenged by Republicans for speaking out against former President Donald Trump and his claims about the 2020 presidential election being rigged. In a letter to Republican House members Monday, McCarthy …

Georgia GOP Gov. Brian Kemp signed a bill that prohibits large cuts to police budgets in a move against the “defund the police” movement. According to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the legislation stops cities and counties in the state from reducing their law enforcement budgets by more than 5% in one year …

The Biden administration says the government will protect gay and transgender people against sex discrimination in health care. This is a  reversal of a Trump-era policy that sought to narrow the scope of legal rights in sensitive situations involving medical care. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said Monday …

Maryland Governor Larry Hogan today issued a full posthumous pardon for 34 victims of racial lynching. The lynchings occurred in Maryland between 1854 and 1933. Hogan issued the pardons on the basis that the extrajudicial killings “violated fundamental rights to due process and equal protection of the law.” It is …

A federal grand jury has indicted Derek Chauvin and three other former Minneapolis police officers involved in the death of George Floyd on charges of civil rights violations. The four officers were charged under a federal law that makes it a crime for a law enforcement officer to “willfully deprive …

Two Democrats from the Federal Election Commission are criticizing Republican members after the commission decided not to punish former President Donald Trump over a payment to Stormy Daniels. The FEC vote split 2-2 on party lines, with one member not voting and one abstaining. The vote was taken last month, …