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By Shawna Mizelle, CNN University of Alabama football coach Nick Saban and other prominent sports figures with ties to West Virginia have penned a letter to Sen. Joe Manchin, urging the West Virginia Democrat to help his party pass voting rights legislation. NBA Hall of Famer Jerry West, ex-NFL player and former West Virginia athletic
Continue ReadingBy Steve Contorno, CNN For political observers who have wondered for months how far Republicans should press their advantage in Florida when drawing the state’s new congressional boundaries, they now have a response from Gov. Ron DeSantis: all the way. DeSantis threw a surprise wrench into the state’s redistricting process late Sunday night when his
Continue ReadingCNN By Steve Contorno, CNN For political observers who have wondered for months how far Republicans should press their advantage in Florida when drawing the state’s new congressional boundaries, they now have a response from Gov. Ron DeSantis: all the way. DeSantis threw a surprise wrench into the state’s redistricting process late Sunday night when
Continue ReadingCNN By Kara Scannell New York Attorney General Letitia James laid out new, specific details about what her office believes to be “misleading or fraudulent” financial statements from former President Donald Trump’s business empire in a late-night court filing on Tuesday. The new filing seeks to compel the testimony of Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and
Continue ReadingBy Jamie Gangel, Jeremy Herb and Elizabeth Stuart, CNN The House committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol has subpoenaed and obtained records of phone numbers associated with one of former President Donald Trump’s children, Eric Trump, as well as Kimberly Guilfoyle, who is engaged to Donald Trump Jr., sources tell CNN.
Continue ReadingBy Fredreka Schouten, CNN In Texas, it’s now a crime for election workers to send absentee ballot applications to voters who didn’t request them. In Georgia, most voters who show up at the wrong polling places on Election Day will be turned away — instead of permitted to cast provisional ballots. And in Florida, a
Continue ReadingCNN By Zachary Cohen and Annie Grayer, CNN The House select committee investigating the January 6 riot issued a subpoena Tuesday for Rudy Giuliani, a central figure in former President Donald Trump’s failed bid to overturn the 2020 election on the basis of unfounded allegations of widespread voter fraud. In addition to Giuliani, the committee
Continue ReadingBy Zachary Cohen and Annie Grayer, CNN The House select committee investigating the January 6 riot issued a subpoena Tuesday for Rudy Giuliani, a central figure in former President Donald Trump’s failed bid to overturn the 2020 election on the basis of unfounded allegations of widespread voter fraud. In addition to Giuliani, the committee issued
Continue ReadingBy Priscilla Alvarez, CNN The US immigration court backlog reached nearly 1.6 million cases last year, with cases climbing more rapidly between October and December, according to Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, which tracks immigration court data. The backlog is almost equivalent to the size of Philadelphia’s population, the clearinghouse found in its latest
Continue ReadingBy Liz Stark, CNN The US Department of Education has distributed all $122 billion in school Covid-19 relief funding from the American Rescue Plan to states, the Biden administration announced Tuesday — a major milestone as school districts nationwide continue to grapple with Omicron’s surge. The Biden administration last March announced the allocation of more
Continue ReadingCNN, SENATE TV, POOL, FOX NEWS By Lauren Fox, CNN Sen. Mark Kelly, a Democrat facing reelection in Arizona, announced he will back a rules change to pass voting rights legislation, revealing a schism with his fellow Arizonan, Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, who has remained steadfast in her opposition to such a change. In a
Continue ReadingBy Tami Luhby, CNN Americans can now order a maximum of four free Covid-19 tests to be shipped directly to their homes. The federal government has quietly launched its website to sign up for the tests. Have you tried to order from the site, covidtests.gov? Let us know how it went. The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2022
Continue ReadingBy Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has been listening to arguments remotely from her chambers because she doesn’t feel comfortable sitting on the bench near colleagues who are not masked, including Justice Neil Gorsuch, according to a source familiar with the situation. In addition, Sotomayor has been participating
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed In a case involving a Nazi confiscation of a Jewish family’s painting, the Supreme Court on Tuesday grappled with how federal courts should decide whether California law or a foreign country’s law should apply. The case, which was filed in federal court in California, is now before the Supreme Court after nearly
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Janfaza, CNN Jim Obergefell, the gay rights activist and named plaintiff in the Supreme Court case that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide, announced on Tuesday that he is launching a bid for the Ohio State House. “I took a history making fight for equal rights all the way to the US Supreme Court and
Continue ReadingBy Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Long-serving Democratic Reps. Jim Langevin of Rhode Island and Jerry McNerney of California announced Tuesday that they will not be seeking reelection in November, joining the more than two dozen House Democrats planning to retire after this term of Congress. McNerney, who has served since 2007, announced that he will not
Continue ReadingBy Clare Foran, Ali Zaslav and Manu Raju, CNN Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told reporters Tuesday that he plans to put forward a proposal to change Senate rules to allow for a “talking filibuster” once Republicans block the voting legislation that Democrats are trying to pass. Since that would change the current 60-vote threshold
Continue ReadingCNN By Kaitlan Collins, Maegan Vazquez and Tami Luhby, CNN The federal government has quietly launched its website to sign up for free Covid-19 tests, allowing people to order a maximum of four tests shipped directly to their household. White House press secretary Jen Psaki confirmed Tuesday that the government website to order free Covid-19
Continue ReadingBy Kaitlan Collins, Maegan Vazquez and Tami Luhby, CNN The federal government launched its website to sign up for free Covid-19 tests, allowing people to order a maximum of four tests shipped directly to their household. White House press secretary Jen Psaki confirmed Tuesday that the government website to order free Covid-19 tests is up
Continue ReadingCNN By Natasha Bertrand and Kevin Liptak, CNN As the US has been warning the world of a potentially “imminent” Russian invasion of Ukraine, one foreign leader in particular has not been convinced: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Tension has been building between Zelensky and Biden administration officials, sources told CNN, amid a disagreement over how
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