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By Donald Judd, CNN The Biden administration on Tuesday will announce a series of steps aimed at closing the gender and racial wage gaps, with Vice President Kamala Harris hosting a virtual White House meeting to mark Equal Pay Day. The steps include a new regulation across the federal workforce banning the use of prior
Continue ReadingBy John Harwood, CNN The Biden White House, trying to expand its limited supply of inflation-fighting tools, will on Tuesday unveil a new one. Dubbed “Freight Logistics Optimization Works,” or FLOW, the effort joins administration officials and major private sector businesses in a data-sharing initiative designed to enhance the efficiency with which companies move imported
Continue ReadingBy Amy Simonson, CNN The Colorado House of Representatives on Monday passed legislation that seeks to codify the right to an abortion in the state. The Reproductive Health Equity Act — which cleared the chamber 40-24 — now heads to the state’s Democratic-controlled Senate, where it’s expected to pass. The legislation states that “every individual
Continue ReadingBy Jenn Selva, CNN The Idaho Legislature gave final approval Monday to a bill that would ban abortion after six weeks and allow the father, sibling, grandparent, aunt or uncle of the fetus to bring legal action against the medical professional who performed the abortion. Idaho’s GOP-controlled House passed Senate Bill 1309, dubbed the “Fetal
Continue ReadingBy Jamiel Lynch and Jeremy Grisham, CNN Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves on Monday signed into law a bill described as a prohibition on critical race theory (CRT), becoming the latest Republican-controlled state to legislate how history and race can be taught in schools. Reeves, a Republican, posted a video of him signing the bill, saying,
Continue ReadingBy Katelyn Polantz and Daniel Shepherd, CNN Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the Proud Boys, will remain in jail as he awaits trial, a federal judge decided on Tuesday. The Justice Department had argued Tarrio, if released, would be a danger to the community, pointing to his leadership of the far-right group from afar during
Continue ReadingBy Annie Grayer, CNN A plan to reopen the US Capitol after being shut down to the public for two years as the result of the coronavirus pandemic is under review, a source familiar with the plans tells CNN. On Monday, United States Capitol Police met with the House and Senate sergeants at arms, staff
Continue ReadingBy Marshall Cohen, CNN A federal appeals court is expected to decide soon whether to revive a longshot challenge against GOP Rep. Madison Cawthorn’s candidacy, which revolves around whether the Constitution’s ban on insurrectionists holding office should apply to him. The liberal activists, legal scholars and anti-Trump Republicans who oppose Cawthorn asked the Fourth Circuit
Continue ReadingBy Fredreka Schouten, CNN A Democratic group says it filed a complaint Monday with the Federal Election Commission, alleging that former President Donald Trump is breaking federal law by raising and spending big sums to promote a likely presidential campaign in 2024 without formally declaring his candidacy. The group, American Bridge, cites Trump’s statements to
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak, Natasha Bertrand, Katie Bo Lillis, Kylie Atwood and Jennifer Hansler, CNN The US has information suggesting China has expressed some openness to providing Russia with requested military and financial assistance as part of its war on Ukraine, a Western official and a US diplomat told CNN, and is conveying what it knows
Continue ReadingBy Priscilla Alvarez, CNN The Biden administration is considering expediting the resettlement of Ukrainian refugees with US ties, including family already living here, according to a US official. This comes amid growing calls from advocates to do more for the millions of people fleeing war-torn Ukraine. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Rabinowitz and Holmes Lybrand, CNN The Justice Department asked a judge on Monday to drop a criminal case against a Capitol rioter, admitting that prosecutors failed to schedule a hearing within the legal timeframe and asking for permission to charge the Texas man again for allegedly attacking police. In a court filing, prosecutors
Continue ReadingBy Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter Conservative activist Virginia “Ginni” Thomas said in an interview published Monday that although she attended a rally on January 6, 2021, she “played no role” in planning the events that day and that she doesn’t involve her husband, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, in the political work
Continue ReadingBy Jessica Schneider, CNN Breonna Taylor‘s mother, Tamika Palmer, met with officials from the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division on Monday to ask them to investigate the fatal shooting of her daughter during a botched police raid in 2020 — and ultimately to bring federal charges against the officers involved. “I’m here at the Department
Continue ReadingBy Betsy Klein, CNN White House Covid-19 response coordinator Jeff Zients on Monday renewed the Biden administration’s urgent call for Congress to pass pandemic supplemental funding or face “severe consequences.” His remarks came amid uncertainty for the legislative path forward for additional money for the federal government’s pandemic response. The Biden administration requested $22.5 billion
Continue ReadingBy Kaitlan Collins, Kevin Liptak and Kate Sullivan, CNN White House officials are having early discussions about having President Joe Biden travel to Europe soon amid the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, according to multiple sources familiar with the planning. The trip would come on the heels of visits by several top aides, including Vice
Continue ReadingBy Clare Foran, CNN Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will deliver a virtual address Wednesday to members of Congress, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced. The address by the Ukrainian President comes amid Russia’s ongoing unprovoked and deadly invasion of the country and as Ukraine continues to press the United States
Continue ReadingBy Michael Warren, CNN Bobbie and Bill Kilberg were expecting a few dozen people for their fundraiser Monday for GOP Rep. Liz Cheney, an intimate cocktail party they were planning at their home in McLean, Virginia. But in the weeks since the Republican National Committee voted to censure Cheney for her involvement in the ongoing
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN A group of 89 House Democrats, including progressives and moderates, sent a letter to President Joe Biden Monday morning urging him to restart negotiations on a Democrat-only spending bill centered around climate action. The letter comes a few weeks after Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia opened the door for new
Continue ReadingBy Kaitlan Collins and Kate Sullivan, CNN Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky pressed US President Joe Biden during their latest call for more sanctions to further squeeze Russia, CNN has learned. According to multiple sources familiar with the call, Zelensky specifically asked Biden for further efforts to cut off Russia from international trade and to continue
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