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By Barbara Starr, Evan Perez, Ellie Kaufman and Zachary Cohen, CNN A police officer died Tuesday after shots were fired outside the Pentagon building, according to three law enforcement sources. The Pentagon Force Protection Agency, which oversees the security of the Pentagon, confirmed the officer’s death in a tweet late Tuesday, hours after reports first

By Marshall Cohen The Chicago chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police union is going to bat for one of its members who stormed the US Capitol and now might lose his job with the Chicago Police Department. The revelation came in court filings one week after police who responded to the January 6 attack

By Geneva Sands and Alex Marquardt, CNN Key agencies across the federal government continue to fail meet basic cybersecurity standards, according to a new Senate report released Tuesday, which found systematic failures to safeguard data. Amid a rise of state-sponsored hacks and ransomware cybersecurity incidents, seven agencies were found to have failed at effectively securing

By Maegan Vazquez, CNN The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Monday that 70% of US adults have received at least one Covid-19 vaccination shot, reaching President Joe Biden’s July Fourth goal about one month late. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Monday that the White House is still “forging ahead”

By Kate Sullivan and Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden on Tuesday ratcheted up pressure on some Republican governors to do more for their constituents as the highly contagious Delta variant rips across their states. The remarks came as Biden said in a speech on Tuesday that the US has shared more than 100 million

By Gregory Krieg and Eric Bradner, CNN A pair of special election primaries in Ohio on Tuesday will put the spotlight on tough questions facing both parties ahead of next year’s midterm elections. In the state’s heavily Democratic 11th Congressional District, centered in Cleveland, voters are poised to choose between a progressive champion with close

By Paul P. Murphy, CNN Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson suggested to his constituents at a luncheon on Saturday that the FBI had advance knowledge of the January 6 insurrection but did nothing to thwart it. Before making the statement, which was captured on video taken at the event, Johnson prefaced it by saying, “I

By Paul LeBlanc and Rob Frehse, CNN New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was questioned by investigators in the state attorney general’s office for 11 hours last month as part of an inquiry into sexual harassment allegations against him, The New York Times reported Monday. The meeting — which took place in Cuomo’s Manhattan office on

By Stephanie Becker, CNN Maricopa County and Dominion Voting Systems are rebuffing the latest subpoenas from Arizona’s GOP-led Senate for election materials related to the so-called audit of 2020 election ballots. In a defiant letter sent Monday in response to the state Senate’s request, county Board of Supervisors Chairman Jack Sellers wrote: “If you haven’t

By Geneva Sands, CNN Federal authorities in July arrested tens of thousands of migrants attempting to enter the United States from Mexico, likely surpassing June’s numbers that were the highest in decades, raising new health and safety concerns during summer’s hottest days. Customs and Border Protection apprehended more than 176,000 migrants from July 1-28, according

By Em Steck, Drew Myers and Andrew Kaczynski, CNN Amid recent surging coronavirus cases in Florida, a top Republican National Committee official in the state has spread anti-vaccine rhetoric and misinformation, comparing the Biden administration’s vaccine efforts to Nazi-era “brown shirts,” and twice calling the vaccines “the mark of the beast,” comparable to a “false

By Kevin Liptak, CNN White House officials on Monday described a behind-the-scenes scramble over the weekend to locate any legal avenue for the administration to continue barring evictions. The effort ultimately came up short, the officials said, leaving millions of renters in the lurch and exposing a rare divide with Democratic members of Congress. “I

By Carma Hassan and Paul LeBlanc, CNN Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Monday signed new legislation expanding background checks on all gun sales in the state starting in 2024, a step he touted as “commonsense” and with bipartisan support. The legislation — which was signed in Aurora, Illinois, more than two years after five employees