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By Betsy Klein, CNN Paris Hilton met with officials at the White House Tuesday during a trip to Washington aimed at her ongoing advocacy against child abuse. Hilton, a White House official tells CNN, “was at the White House with state and national advocates as part of her advocacy efforts to improve protections of youth

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis said the removal of not only Vladimir Putin, but the entire regime that supports him, is necessary to stop Russia’s “warmongering” and predicted the Kremlin leader will become increasingly erratic as his battlefield losses grow in Ukraine. Speaking to CNN in Washington on Tuesday, Landsbergis also

By Katie Bo Lillis, Michael Conte, Jennifer Hansler and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN The US intelligence community believes that China is actively attempting to build a military capable of taking over Taiwan — even in the face of US support for the island, top US intelligence officials told Congress Tuesday. The threat to Taiwan between now

By Rachel Janfaza, Ethan Cohen and Melissa Holzberg DePalo, CNN It’s Election Day in West Virginia and Nebraska, where key primary races of the 2022 election cycle are taking place. The races, which will test former President Donald Trump’s influence over the Republican Party, include this year’s first US House member-vs.-member matchup in West Virginia

By Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden said on Tuesday that his administration is currently evaluating how to best move forward on existing tariffs on China enacted during the Trump administration, but he cautioned that no decision has been made. Some experts and business groups have called on Biden to get rid of the tariffs

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN The US, European Union and the UK have blamed Russia for a hack that knocked out internet service for tens of thousands of satellite modems in Ukraine and elsewhere in Europe at the onset of Russia’s invasion on February 24. “The United States is joining with allies and partners to condemn

By Fredreka Schouten and Kelly Mena, CNN A version of this story appeared in the CITIZEN BY CNN newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. Election officials in Arizona could face criminal charges if a noncitizen registers to vote on their watch. In Iowa, a law enacted last year makes

By Melanie Zanona, CNN House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy heaped praised on former President Donald Trump at a Dallas fundraiser on Monday evening, calling him Republicans’ “secret weapon” and suggesting he could become president again, according to sources in the room. When Trump took the stage at the event raising money for the House GOP’s

By Simone Pathe and Gregory Krieg, CNN Fewer competitive House districts means that some of 2022’s most consequential congressional elections are happening well before November. The real action in many districts is this spring and summer as Republican and Democratic candidates jockey for their parties’ nominations. But some primaries are more interesting than others; either

By Kate Sullivan, CNN President Joe Biden on Tuesday blamed the Covid-19 pandemic and Russia’s war in Ukraine for troubling economic news as he and his administration went on the defensive over mounting inflation and rising gas prices. The President’s speech at the White House was advertised by his advisers as being focused on his

By Alex Rogers, CNN A House panel will hold an open congressional hearing next Tuesday about UFOs for the first time in over 50 years. It will focus on a Pentagon program that was established last year after the US intelligence community released a preliminary assessment on 144 reports of “unidentified aerial phenomena” since 2004

By Kate Sullivan, CNN A bipartisan group of more than 100 mayors on Tuesday endorsed President Joe Biden‘s nominee to run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives as the White House races to garner enough support to get Steve Dettelbach confirmed by the Senate. The group sent a letter from the US Conference

By Daniel Dale, CNN A former Democratic congressional candidate went viral on Twitter over the weekend with a false claim that Tennessee has banned Plan B, a pregnancy-preventing emergency contraceptive known as a “morning-after pill.” Pam Keith’s inaccurate tweet came five days after Politico revealed a February draft opinion in which a Supreme Court majority

CNN By Jessica Schneider and Tierney Sneed, CNN News that the Supreme Court is on the cusp of overturning Roe v. Wade is sounding alarms for an unexpected part of the population: people looking to get pregnant and the doctors who are helping them. The conservative justices, according to a draft majority opinion disclosed last