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CNN By Devan Cole, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Supreme Court’s decision in favor of a Christian web designer in Colorado who refuses to create websites to celebrate same-sex weddings out of religious objections will have a far-reaching impact on other minority groups and could open the door to a slew of cases seeking to
Continue ReadingBy Casey Gannon (CNN) — A man arrested with multiple firearms and materials to make explosives in former President Barack Obama’s Washington, DC, neighborhood will remain in custody ahead of his detention hearing next week, a federal magistrate judge said Friday. Taylor Taranto, 37, was arrested Thursday and is facing four misdemeanor charges related to
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Rabinowitz and Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — The Colorado web designer who wanted to refuse LGBTQ customers and just won her case at the Supreme Court had claimed in court filings that a man inquired about her services for his same-sex wedding. But the man says he never reached out to Lorie Smith,
Continue ReadingBy Devan Cole, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Supreme Court’s decision in favor of a Christian web designer in Colorado who refuses to create websites to celebrate same-sex weddings out of religious objections will have a far-reaching impact on other minority groups and could open the door to a slew of cases seeking to further
Continue ReadingBy Dianne Gallagher, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge will allow a ban on most abortions in North Carolina after 12 weeks of pregnancy to go into effect on Saturday but temporarily blocked one provision included in the law. US District Court Judge Catherine Eagles on Friday issued a narrow temporary restraining order putting on
Continue ReadingBy Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — Several families in Georgia sued the state on Thursday over its ban on certain gender-affirming treatments for transgender youth, launching a last-minute effort to block the prohibitions just hours before it’s set to take effect. The law signed by Republican Gov. Brian Kemp in March bars licensed medical professionals
Continue ReadingBy Zachary Cohen, Kylie Atwood and Jake Tapper, CNN (CNN) — Rep. Michael McCaul, GOP chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is requesting that the State Department provide a detailed description of the allegations against Iran envoy Rob Malley that led to his security clearance being revoked, according to a new letter obtained by
Continue ReadingBy Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Hunter Biden’s lawyer lashed out Friday against the IRS whistleblowers who testified to Congress that the president’s son received preferential treatment from the Justice Department during his criminal investigation. The lawyer was publicly pushing back against claims from two IRS agents that the Justice Department officials slow-walked the criminal
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Originally Published: 30 JUN 23 10:37 ET Updated: 30 JUN 23 12:03 ET By Ariane de Vogue and Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — In a stinging defeat for President Joe Biden, the Supreme Court blocked the administration’s student loan forgiveness plan Friday, rejecting a program aimed at delivering up to $20,000 of relief to millions
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed (CNN) — Justice Amy Coney Barrett, in a concurrence to Friday’s ruling striking down President Joe Biden’s student debt forgiveness plan, defended the Supreme Court conservative majority’s use of a controversial legal theory and – deploying analogies concerning babysitters and grocery store owners – laid out how she believed the doctrine should
Continue ReadingBy CNN staff (CNN) — The US State Department on Friday released a long-awaited, unclassified version of its Afghanistan After Action Review report, which includes findings around the tumultuous final weeks of the US presence in Afghanistan, as well as a number of recommendations for improvement moving forward. Read the report here. The-CNN-Wire™ & ©
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Hansler and Kylie Atwood, CNN (CNN) — The US State Department on Friday released its long-awaited Afghanistan After Action Review report, which found that both the Trump and Biden administrations’ decisions to pull all US troops from Afghanistan had detrimental consequences, and details damning shortcomings by the current administration that led to the
Continue ReadingCNN By Ariane de Vogue and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court Friday ruled in favor of a Christian web designer in Colorado who refuses to create websites to celebrate same-sex weddings out of religious objections. The 6-3 decision was penned by Justice Neil Gorsuch and joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and
Continue ReadingBy Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter (CNN) — The Supreme Court declined Friday to take up a challenge to a Mississippi statute that bars individuals convicted of certain felonies from voting. Critics say the law is unconstitutional because it was enacted in 1890 with the intent to disenfranchise Black voters. Justices Ketanji Brown
Continue ReadingBy Katie Lobosco, CNN Washington (CNN) — After a more than three-year pause, borrowers will have to restart paying their federal student loan bills in October. The Biden administration had intended to cancel up to $20,000 of student debt for millions of borrowers before payments resumed, but its proposed student loan forgiveness program was struck
Continue ReadingBy Mark Morales and Kristina Sgueglia, CNN Central Islip, New York (CNN) — Embattled Rep. George Santos appeared in federal court on Friday, where prosecutors unveiled they had delivered the defense roughly 80,000 pages of documents earlier this week. Santos – back in court for the first time since pleading not guilty to a 13-count
Continue ReadingBy Devan Cole, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Friday cleared the way for an individual who suffers from gender dysphoria to sue a Virginia men’s prison for violating a federal law that prohibits discrimination based on disability. A lower federal court in Virginia initially dismissed the lawsuit brought by Kesha Williams, a
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Friday sent back to state court an Ohio redistricting case that raised the same, sweeping theory about the “Independent State Legislature” theory that the justices recently rejected in a case arising out of North Carolina. By returning the case to the Ohio Supreme Court, the justices
Continue ReadingBy Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to review a federal law that bars an individual subject to a domestic violence restraining order from possessing a firearm, adding a major Second Amendment case to next term’s docket. A federal appeals court invalidated the law in March
Continue ReadingBy Katie Lobosco, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Supreme Court struck down President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness program Friday, blocking millions of borrowers from receiving up to $20,000 in federal student debt relief, just months before student loan payments are set to restart after a yearslong pause. Biden had announced the student loan forgiveness
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