Buttigieg was “mostly offline” for four weeks after the arrival of his twins in mid-August, a spokesperson for the Department of Transportation said.

CNN reporter Chris Cillizza used former Secretary of State Colin Powell’s recent death to condemn the Republican Party.

The leak spilled 25,000 gallons of crude oil into the ocean.

Clinton, 75, was admitted Tuesday to the hospital southeast of Los Angeles with an infection unrelated to Covid-19, officials said.

Sens. Joe Manchin and Bernie Sanders on Friday publicly sparred over the sweeping multitrillion-dollar social spending bill that’s been dividing Democrats.

“The Justice Department intends to ask the Supreme Court to vacate the 5th Circuit’s stay of the preliminary injunction against Texas Senate Bill 8,” DOJ spokesperson Anthony Coley said in a statement to reporters.

Jessica Hertz, who had previously been an associate general counsel for Facebook in DC, is stepping down from her post as White House staff secretary.

“It leaves, frankly, the Biden administration wide open to concerns that people are going to buy influence,” Professor Kathleen Clark told Politico.

Ongoing conflict between parents and schools over virus mitigation for children in the classroom has gone to court in Wisconsin, where two parents are suing their children’s school districts over their Covid-19 infection.