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By Jasmine Wright and Natasha Bertrand, CNN When Vice President Kamala Harris enters the famed Hotel Bayerischer Hof on Friday in Munich, she’ll do so under the largest international gaze of her career. She leads the American delegation to the Munich Security Conference on Friday as Russia creeps closer to mounting what US officials have
Continue ReadingCNN By Jim Sciutto and Natasha Bertrand, CNN The latest US intelligence assessment indicates that Russia is continuing with preparations to invade Ukraine, according to a senior US official with direct knowledge and another source directly familiar with the intelligence. The assessment — described as “bleak” by the senior official — indicates Russia could attack
Continue ReadingBy Oren Liebermann and Ellie Kaufman, CNN The US military has approved religious exemptions to its Covid-19 vaccine mandate for 15 service members out of approximately 16,000 requests, according to the latest data from the services. The Marine Corps has approved religious exemptions for six Marines and the Air Force has approved nine requests for
Continue ReadingBy Shawna Mizelle, CNN The US ambassador to the United Nations said Thursday that Russia’s “intentions are very clear” with Ukraine, hours after Secretary of State Antony Blinken told the UN Security Council in a tense meeting that Moscow was laying the groundwork to justify starting a war and preparing to launch an attack on
Continue ReadingBy Sonia Moghe, CNN An unnamed New York state trooper who was part of former Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s protective detail and told investigators he touched her inappropriately has filed a lawsuit against Cuomo, former Secretary to the Governor Melissa DeRosa, and her employer, New York State Police. In the suit, the trooper, who is
Continue ReadingBy Ellie Kaufman, CNN Reports of sexual assault increased by 25% and reports of sexual harassment increased by 150% at US military academies during the 2020-2021 academic year compared to the previous academic year, according to a Defense Department report released Thursday. The three US military academies received 161 reports of sexual assault compared to
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Sarisohn and Paul LeBlanc, CNN Illinois Democratic state lawmakers voted Thursday to remove nine Republicans from the state House after they refused to comply with the chamber’s mask mandate. The motion to remove the lawmakers — which passed 66-39 — followed an emotional appeal by Democratic state Rep. Lakesia Collins, who pleaded with
Continue ReadingBy Shawna Mizelle, CNN More than 100 congressional Democrats have urged President Joe Biden in a recent letter to review the “disparate treatment of Black migrants” throughout the immigration system and end the public health order that allows authorities to turn away migrants encountered at the US southern border. “It is time to undo the
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Janfaza, CNN The more than $1.9 million effort that ousted three San Francisco School Board members from their positions Tuesday was funded in large part by Silicon Valley-area billionaires, records show. According to publicly available information, the recall effort’s three biggest donors were “Neighbors for a Better San Francisco Advocacy,” a political action
Continue ReadingBy Ryan Nobles, Manu Raju and Melanie Zanona, CNN House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has endorsed Harriet Hageman, the Trump-backed opponent of incumbent Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming — a rare endorsement from leadership in a divisive GOP primary, and one that marks the culmination of a simmering feud between the two powerful Republicans battling
Continue ReadingBy Gregory Krieg, CNN Four years ago, Hillary Clinton was greeted with a bouquet by then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo when she endorsed him at the New York State Democratic Party convention. But a lot has changed since then and, on Thursday, as she introduced Cuomo’s successor, Gov. Kathy Hochul, at the same event, Clinton, like her
Continue ReadingBy Devan Cole and Paradise Afshar, CNN The mayoral candidate in Louisville, Kentucky, who survived a shooting at his campaign headquarters earlier this week said Thursday that his family and campaign team are “traumatized again” after the suspected shooter was released from jail on bond. “Our criminal justice system is clearly broken. It is nearly
Continue ReadingBy Katie Lobosco, CNN Pressure is growing on the Biden administration to make it easier to discharge student loan debt in bankruptcy. President Joe Biden campaigned on reforming the bankruptcy system, which currently makes it extremely difficult for student loan debt to be discharged. Borrowers must meet a high burden of proof: that paying the
Continue ReadingCNN By Tierney Sneed and Kara Scannell, CNN Former President Donald Trump, as well as his children Ivanka and Donald Jr., must sit for depositions in the New York attorney general’s civil investigation of their business practices, a New York judge ruled Thursday. New York Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron also rejected an attempt to
Continue ReadingBy Liz Stark and Gabe Cohen, CNN The Internal Revenue Service will stand up a second “surge team” to address its massive backlog of tax returns and correspondence, the National Taxpayer Advocate said during a congressional hearing Thursday. The IRS has already redirected roughly 1,200 employees back into entry-level clerical positions, where they are manually
Continue ReadingBy Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Florida’s state House on Thursday passed a Republican-sponsored bill that would prohibit abortion in the state after 15 weeks of pregnancy, allowing only for exceptions involving “serious risk” to the pregnant person and fatal fetal abnormality, but with no exceptions for rape or incest. The bill now heads to the GOP-controlled
Continue ReadingCNN By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Florida’s state House on Thursday passed a Republican-sponsored bill that would prohibit abortion in the state after 15 weeks of pregnancy, allowing only for exceptions involving “serious risk” to the pregnant person and fatal fetal abnormality, but with no exceptions for rape or incest. The bill now heads to the
Continue ReadingBy Kristin Wilson and Maegan Vazquez, CNN All members of Congress will be invited to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on March 1, according to the House sergeant-at-arms, marking a return to a full House chamber after last year’s socially distant speech. House Sergeant-at-Arms William Walker wrote Thursday there will be coronavirus
Continue ReadingBy Tara Subramaniam, CNN Last week, an article claiming that the Biden administration planned to give away crack pipes to drug addicts went viral, eliciting outrage on the right and prompting a series of clarifications from the administration. The February 7 article from the Washington Free Beacon pointed to a federal grant program administered by
Continue ReadingBy Tami Luhby, CNN The number of kids covered by Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program has soared to a record 40 million during the pandemic, aided by a congressional provision that bars states from disenrolling them during the public health emergency. However, at least 6.7 million children are at risk of losing that
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