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CNN By Michelle Watson, Shawna Mizelle and Josh Campbell, CNN (CNN) — Robert Philip Hanssen, who received payments of $1.4 million in cash and diamonds for the information he gave the Soviet Union and Russia, has died, the Federal Bureau of Prisons announced Monday. He was 79 years old. Hanssen had been in custody at

CNN By Sara Murray and Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — House Oversight Chairman James Comer on Monday said he will move ahead this week with efforts to hold FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt, even after the bureau allowed top members of the committee to view an internal law enforcement document. Comer and the top

By Sara Murray and Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — House Oversight Chairman James Comer on Monday said he will move ahead this week with efforts to hold FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt, even after the bureau allowed top members of the committee to view an internal law enforcement document. Comer and the top Democrat

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — Senior American and Chinese officials had “candid” and “productive” discussions on Monday in China, according to read-outs from both Washington and Beijing, as the two countries grapple with how to maintain communication amid intense friction. Top US State Department and National Security Council officials met with Chinese officials in

By Katelyn Polantz, Jeremy Herb and Kaitlan Collins, CNN Washington (CNN) — An employee at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence drained the resort’s swimming pool last October and ended up flooding a room where computer servers containing surveillance video logs were kept, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. While it’s unclear if the room was

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump, now a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, claimed in a television interview on Thursday that he not only purchased 75 million barrels of oil for the national Strategic Petroleum Reserve but did so for a remarkably low price. “We had so much oil

By Michelle Watson, Shawna Mizelle and Josh Campbell, CNN (CNN) — Robert Philip Hanssen, who received payments of $1.4 million in cash and diamonds for the information he gave the Soviet Union and Russia, has died, the Federal Bureau of Prisons announced Monday. He was 79 years old. Hanssen had been in custody at Colorado’s

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration on Monday announced a goal to produce 50 million metric tons of clean hydrogen fuel by 2050 – a roadmap that, if successful, would cut around 10% of the country’s planet-warming pollution by the same date. For the US to transition to clean energy, it will

By Kit Maher and Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, a frequent Republican critic of former President Donald Trump, said Monday in an exclusive interview with CNN’s Dana Bash that he will not seek the party’s 2024 presidential nomination. “We’ve taken the last six months to really kind of look at

By Eric Bradner and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN (CNN) — Former Vice President Mike Pence on Monday filed the paperwork for his bid for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, setting up a clash with his running mate of elections past, former President Donald Trump. Pence is set to formally announce his candidacy on Wednesday ahead of

By Evan Perez, Hannah Rabinowitz, Katelyn Polantz and Casey Gannon, CNN (CNN) — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump met with Justice Department officials on Monday following a public request for a meeting about what they characterize as prosecutorial misconduct, according to sources familiar with the matter. The meeting, which lasted an estimated 90 minutes,

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter (CNN) — As the Supreme Court races to issue all outstanding opinions by a self-imposed early July deadline, there is little doubt that the conservative majority is prepared to continue the right-ward trajectory on areas of the law. The real question is just how far and how

By Gregory Wallace, CNN (CNN) — US federal officials are putting millions of dollars into fixing dangerous intersections where trains and cars meet. The $570 million in infrastructure spending to replace, improve or study grade crossings will reduce the approximately 2,000 train-vehicle collisions that happen every year, the Biden administration said. The collisions kill about

By Natasha Bertrand, Zachary Cohen and Kylie Atwood, CNN Washington (CNN) — Ukraine has cultivated a network of agents and sympathizers inside Russia working to carry out acts of sabotage against Russian targets and has begun providing them with drones to stage attacks, multiple people familiar with US intelligence on the matter told CNN. US

CNN By CNN Staff (CNN) — Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley participated in a CNN town hall in Iowa on Sunday. Though the former South Carolina governor correctly cited a variety of facts and figures, not everything she said was accurate. Haley falsely claimed, as she has before, that crime is at an all-time high.