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By Rachel Janfaza Former New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof does not meet the residency requirements to run for governor in Oregon, the state Elections Division said Thursday. Oregon’s state constitution says a candidate must be “a resident within this state” for three years prior to an election. For Kristof, that period began in November

By Barbara Starr and Devan Cole, CNN President Joe Biden is nominating Army Lt. Gen. Michael Erik Kurilla to be the next commander of US Central Command, which oversees military operations in the Middle East, according to multiple defense officials and nomination paperwork sent to Congress. Kurilla would replace Gen. Frank McKenzie, who has commanded

By Jim Acosta, CNN A former Trump White House official said then-President Donald Trump initially refused to tweet the words “stay peaceful” as the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, was escalating. As a violent pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol and sent lawmakers scrambling for their lives, Trump tweeted at 2:38 p.m.

By Ryan Nobles, CNN Rep. Elaine Luria, a Democrat from Virginia and a member of the House committee investigating the Capitol Riot, announced on the anniversary of the attack that she will run for reelection in her Virginia Beach swing district. Of the Democrats on the panel, Luria represents a district that is at the

President Joe Biden spoke from the US Capitol on the one-year anniversary of the January 6 insurrection and condemned former President Donald Trump as a threat to democracy. Read his remarks as released below: Madam Vice President, my fellow Americans: To state the obvious, one year ago today, in this sacred place, democracy was attacked

CNN By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice A federal judge in Washington, DC, is questioning former President Donald Trump‘s actions during his speech on January 6, 2021, as he considers for the first time whether Trump is immune from liability related to his supporters attacking the US Capitol. During a court hearing Monday,

By Jasmine Wright, CNN Jamal Simmons, a Democratic communications aide and media contributor, has been tapped to be Vice President Kamala Harris’ new communications director, a White House official confirms. News of Simmons’ hire is the first of what is expected to be a communications overhaul of sorts for the vice president, who spent her

Vice President Kamala Harris spoke from the US Capitol on the one-year anniversary of the January 6 insurrection, where she said that on that day, “we all saw what our nation would look like if the forces who seek to dismantle our democracy are successful. The lawlessness, the violence, the chaos.” Read her remarks as

By Veronica Stracqualursi, Betsy Klein and Gabby Orr, CNN Former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said Thursday that more than a dozen of her former Trump administration colleagues plan to meet next week to try and stop former President Donald Trump as he continues to “manipulate people and divide our country.” “Next week, a

By Jessica Schneider and Tierney Sneed, CNN Facebook is the target of a new lawsuit from the sister of a slain federal officer who claims the tech giant’s algorithms and drive for revenue played an active role encouraging her brother’s alleged killers. The wrongful death lawsuit was filed in California state court Thursday by Angela

By Daniella Diaz and Chandelis Duster, CNN Rep. Liz Cheney, the vice chairwoman of the House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection, said Thursday she is looking forward to Vice President Mike Pence‘s cooperation and his team “continuing” their cooperation in the panel’s investigation. The Wyoming Republican also called him a “hero” for his

By Melanie Zanona, CNN House Democrats’ campaign arm is leaning into a strategy of linking Republicans to the January 6 insurrection amid the one-year anniversary of the US Capitol riot, even as some in the Democratic Party debate how much to talk about the deadly attack on the campaign trail. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee

By Lauren Fox, CNN On January 6, 2021, Rep. Dan Kildee, a Democrat from Michigan, was prepared for a long day. What he wasn’t prepared for was a year of recovery from trauma in his workplace, a building and institution he had grown up revering and what that day would come to mean for his

By Paul LeBlanc, CNN Rep. Jamie Raskin said that becoming the lead House impeachment manager in former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial last year served as a “lifeline” in the aftermath of his son’s death and the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol. “I was completely shocked when Speaker (Nancy) Pelosi asked me

By Maegan Vazquez, Clare Foran and Kate Sullivan, CNN President Joe Biden on Thursday marked the first anniversary of the January 6 insurrection by forcefully calling out former President Donald Trump for attempting to undo American democracy, saying such an insurrection must never happen again. Biden vowed to defend the nation’s founding ideals from the

By Eric Bradner, CNN Maricopa County officials on Wednesday undercut nearly every claim that cast doubt on the validity of ballots in an error-plagued report that Arizona Senate Republicans had commissioned of the 2020 election. The officials issued a 93-page rebuttal to the claims made by Cyber Ninjas, the company that state Senate Republicans had