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By Sarah Fortinsky and Devan Cole, CNN Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri was accused by a law professor of engaging in a line of transphobic questioning during a hearing Tuesday on the legal consequences of the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade. Following the Supreme Court’s ruling last month, some progressives have increasingly

By Phil Mattingly, CNN Vice President Kamala Harris will welcome a group of state and local officials to the White House on Wednesday as the administration seeks to draw attention to key elements of President Joe Biden’s cornerstone legislative achievement. Harris will headline a half-day White House Summit on the American Rescue Plan, the $1.9

By Clare Foran and Ali Zaslav, CNN The Senate voted on Tuesday to confirm Steve Dettelbach as President Joe Biden’s pick to run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Successful confirmation of the nominee is a victory for the Biden administration and comes in the wake of a string of recent mass shootings

By Kate Sullivan and Donald Judd, CNN White House officials on Tuesday acknowledged June’s Consumer Price Index report is expected to show elevated inflation but argue the figures included in the report don’t reflect a recent drop in energy prices and are therefore “out of date.” National Economic Council director Brian Deese and Council of

By Fredreka Schouten Pennsylvania’s top election officials on Tuesday sued three counties for refusing to tally undated mail-in ballots cast in the state’s May 17 primary election, the latest confrontation between state and local officials over election administration. Acting Secretary of the Commonwealth Leigh Chapman and the Pennsylvania Department of State sued the boards of

CNN By Marshall Cohen, Jeremy Herb and Zachary Cohen, CNN The latest hearing from the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection fleshed out the links between former President Donald Trump and the far-right extremist groups that were at the vanguard of the violent effort to stop the transition of power and keep

By Marshall Cohen, Jeremy Herb and Zachary Cohen, CNN The latest hearing from the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection fleshed out the links between former President Donald Trump and the far-right extremist groups that were at the vanguard of the violent effort to stop the transition of power and keep him

By Kaitlan Collins, Zachary Cohen and Kristen Holmes, CNN Former President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly downplayed the significance of the hearings by the House select committee investigating January 6, 2021, has regularly asked those around him in recent days when the televised hearings are going to end — underscoring his private fixation on the

By Fredreka Schouten A version of this story appeared in the CITIZEN BY CNN newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. Welcome back to the CITIZEN newsletter after a brief vacation hiatus. In this edition, we’re focusing on a single big topic: ranked-choice voting. Some critics of the US election

By Oren Liebermann, CNN The US carried out a drone strike in northwest Syria on Tuesday that killed Maher al-Agal, the leader of ISIS in Syria, US Central Command said. A senior ISIS official closely associated with Maher was seriously injured during the strike, Central Command said in a statement. An initial review indicated that

By Kate Bennett and Kyle Blaine, CNN First lady Jill Biden‘s office issued an apology Tuesday morning after Biden faced criticism for citing “bodegas” and “breakfast tacos” to praise Latino diversity. Biden made the comments on Monday during a conference in San Antonio for the Latino civil rights and advocacy organization UnidosUS, where she commented

By Gregory Krieg, CNN The contentious Democratic House primary in Michigan’s 11th District, which pits two incumbents against each other after the state redrew its congressional map, has quietly become one of the key battlegrounds in the party’s evolving rift over Israel and overlapping debates about its broader ideological direction. On Wednesday, the campaign arm

CNN By Tierney Sneed and Holmes Lybrand, CNN A federal judge on Monday denied a request by Steve Bannon for his contempt-of-Congress trial to be delayed from its July 18 start date and severely limited the defenses that the former Donald Trump adviser could put forward at the trial. US District Judge Carl Nichols curtailed