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Year: 2021

McAuliffe and Youngkin battle over Covid-19 vaccine mandates in Virginia governor’s debate

By Eric Bradner, CNN Democratic former Gov. Terry McAuliffe lambasted Republican Glenn Youngkin on Tuesday night over his opposition to mandating Covid-19 vaccines for state workers in the second and final debate of the Virginia governor’s race. The candidates’ split on vaccines — McAuliffe would require them for students, teachers and health care workers and

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Top police organizations push back on GOP Sen. Tim Scott’s attack on Democrats for why police reform talks broke down

By Peter Nickeas and Paul LeBlanc, CNN Two major policing organizations — the Fraternal Order of Police and the International Association of Chiefs of Police — are disputing Republican Sen. Tim Scott’s account of how negotiations over a policing overhaul plan broke down last week. “Despite some media reports, at no point did any legislative

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An anti-racist author, a documentary filmmaker and a computational virologist are among the 2021 MacArthur Foundation ‘genius grant’ winners

By Amir Vera, CNN The MacArthur Foundation announced its class of 2021 Tuesday that includes an anti-racist author, a civil rights activist and a computational virologist. Colloquially known as the “genius grant,” MacArthur fellows are awarded a $625,000, no-strings-attached grant paid out over five years. Since 1981, 1,061 people have been named MacArthur Fellows, according

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Trump campaign loses NDA case it brought in arbitration against Omarosa Manigault Newman for tell-all book

By Tierney Sneed, Paula Reid and Katelyn Polantz, CNN Former Trump campaign and White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman has defeated an arbitration case brought against her by the Trump campaign, which alleged that she had violated a non-disclosure agreement with public comments and a book critical of former President Donald Trump. In a summary

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