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By Rebekah Riess and Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge who was presiding over the Walt Disney Parks and Resorts case against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday disqualified himself from further participation in the case, citing a third-degree relative with stocks in the company, according to the order on disqualification. Chief Judge
Continue ReadingBy Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — North Carolina’s Fort Bragg is now Fort Liberty, as the US Army on Friday redesignated one of the largest military installations in the world. The renaming was formalized in a ceremony on Friday morning. The change follows a branch-wide push to rename bases that bear the name of Confederate
Continue ReadingCNN By Clare Foran, Nicky Robertson and Kristin Wilson, CNN (CNN) — The Senate passed a bill late Thursday evening to suspend the nation’s debt limit through January 1, 2025, averting a first-ever US default just days ahead of the deadline. The House earlier this week already passed the measure, which can now be sent
Continue ReadingBy Kaanita Iyer and Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — A retired Air Force lieutenant colonel was sentenced to three years in federal prison Thursday for storing files with classified information at his Florida home, the Department of Justice announced. Robert Birchum pleaded guilty earlier this year to unlawfully possessing and retaining classified documents relating to
Continue ReadingCNN By Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday escalated their ongoing feud at dueling campaign events in Iowa and New Hampshire amid DeSantis’ first campaign swing as a declared 2024 candidate. Trump pushed back on DeSantis’ claim that it would require two presidential terms to
Continue ReadingBy Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday escalated their ongoing feud at dueling campaign events in Iowa and New Hampshire amid DeSantis’ first campaign swing as a declared 2024 candidate. Trump pushed back on DeSantis’ claim that it would require two presidential terms to carry
Continue ReadingBy Kyung Lah and Rashard Rose, CNN (CNN) — Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Chairman Bill Gates, who faced threats for his management of the 2022 midterms and 2020 presidential election in Arizona, said Thursday he will not run for reelection. “Today, I am announcing that I will not run for re-election to the Maricopa
Continue ReadingCNN By Andrew Kaczynski, CNN (CNN) — Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis is attacking former President Donald Trump for “turning the country over to [Dr. Anthony] Fauci in March 2020” but DeSantis was praising the chief public health official at the same time in previously unreported quotes, saying Fauci was “really, really good and really,
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Rabinowitz and Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — An Army veteran was sentenced to three years in prison Thursday after being convicted of seditious conspiracy in connection with the Oath Keepers’ sprawling plot to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s 2020 victory, which culminated in the January 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol.
Continue ReadingCNN By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden tripped on a sandbag and fell as he completed handing out diplomas at the US Air Force Academy commencement in Colorado on Thursday. Biden appeared fine afterward, walking without assistance to his seat in the stands. He was seen smiling and jogging toward his vehicle
Continue ReadingBy Devan Cole and Holmes Lybrand, CNN Washington (CNN) — The man who attacked US Rep. Angie Craig in her Washington, DC, apartment earlier this year pleaded guilty Thursday to assaulting the Minnesota Democrat and two metro police officers who attempted to arrest him after the incident. Kendrid Hamlin, who has a lengthy criminal history
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Kaczynski, CNN (CNN) — Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis is attacking former President Donald Trump for “turning the country over to [Dr. Anthony] Fauci in March 2020” but DeSantis was praising the chief public health official at the same time in previously unreported quotes, saying Fauci was “really, really good and really, really
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden tripped on a sandbag and fell as he completed handing out diplomas at the US Air Force Academy commencement in Colorado on Thursday. Biden appeared fine afterward, walking without assistance to his seat in the stands. He was seen smiling and jogging toward his vehicle at
Continue ReadingBy Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — Even as Joe Biden appears to have pushed off reaching the next debt limit until 2025, top Democrats on Capitol Hill say what he really needs to do is what he should have done last fall: Come out in favor of a drastic change to strip Congress of this
Continue ReadingBy Katie Lobosco, CNN Washington (CNN) — Both the Senate and the House have now passed a bill to block President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness program, which promises to cancel up to $20,000 of debt for millions of borrowers but has been held up by courts. The bill now goes to Biden’s desk for
Continue ReadingBy Shania Shelton, CNN (CNN) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the environmental lawyer and anti-vaccine activist who launched his 2024 presidential bid earlier this year, discussed the importance of a democratic election and critiqued the Democratic National Committee over the push to change the presidential nominating calendar in a Thursday address to the New Hampshire
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration on Thursday imposed financial sanctions and visa restrictions in response to the ongoing violence in Sudan. The announcement of the sanctions comes a day after the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) announced it was walking away from talks with the rival Rapid Support Forces (RSF) following numerous
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Rabinowitz and Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — An Oath Keeper who acted as part of a security detail on January 6 for Roger Stone before rushing to join the riot at the Capitol was sentenced to more than four years in prison Thursday for seditious conspiracy. Roberto Minuta, who prosecutors described as one
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Hansler, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Biden administration on Thursday imposed sanctions on Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officials accused of plotting assassinations abroad, including against former national security adviser John Bolton and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Thursday’s sanctions target Mohammad Reza Ansari, an official with a unit of the IRGC-Qods
Continue ReadingBy Ariane de Vogue and Devan Cole, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Thursday sided with a cement mixing company that seeks to bypass federal labor law and sue a union in state court for the destruction of property caused by striking workers. The court said the dispute could continue in state court
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