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By Devan Cole, CNN Two Supreme Court justices did not recuse themselves from cases that came before the court over the past decade involving a publishing company that’s paid them in lucrative book deals. In two separate copyright infringement cases concerning the publishing conglomerate Penguin Random House, the high court declined to take up the
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Fox and Morgan Rimmer, CNN A bipartisan group of senators led by Republican Thom Tillis of North Carolina and independent Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona introduced immigration legislation Thursday intended to counter an influx of migrants expected at the border when a Covid-era border restriction ends next week. The legislation is not a true
Continue ReadingBy Lauren del Valle, CNN Attorneys for E. Jean Carroll and Donald Trump rested their respective cases in the battery and defamation trial against the former president in Manhattan federal court on Thursday evening. Carroll, a former magazine columnist, alleges Trump raped her in the Bergdorf Goodman department store in the mid-1990s and then defamed
Continue ReadingBy Eric Bradner and Kyung Lah, CNN The most unpredictable Senate race on the 2024 map is unfolding in Arizona, where a high-profile Democrat is targeting Democratic-turned-independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema and Republicans are hoping to seize on those tensions in a state trending away from them. “It’s grab your popcorn and watch,” said GOP state
Continue ReadingBy Morgan Rimmer and Jessica Dean, CNN Sen. Dianne Feinstein on Thursday pushed back on claims that her extended absence from the Senate, and the Judiciary Committee, as she recovers from shingles has caused a significant delay in advancing and confirming judicial nominees. Feinstein indicated in the statement that she still plans to return but
Continue ReadingBy Sydney Kashiwagi and Dianne Gallagher, CNN North Carolina’s Republican-controlled state Senate on Thursday passed legislation that would ban most abortions after 12 weeks. Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper has vowed to veto the bill, but the GOP supermajority in the legislature can override him. The measure sped through the legislature this week, passing both chambers
Continue ReadingBy Steve Contorno, CNN Florida lawmakers have sent to the desk of GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis a slate of bills that will alter the lives of transgender people in Florida — including their access to health care and everyday amenities. DeSantis, who is nearing a likely campaign for president in the coming weeks, is expected
Continue ReadingBy Sam Fossum, CNN President Joe Biden laid the groundwork for future sanctions targeted toward the current violence in Sudan that has left hundreds dead and sparked a humanitarian crisis that poses “an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States,” according to the administration. The executive order
Continue ReadingBy Betsy Klein, CNN The White House on Thursday expressed openness to a short-term fix to the debt ceiling as the US barrels toward a June default with the full faith and credit of the US government in the balance. “Congressional leaders are going to have to figure out a way to do this. Of
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, CNN North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, the current Republican favorite to be the party’s nominee for governor in 2024, has a long history of remarks viciously mocking and attacking teenage survivors of the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, for their advocacy for
Continue ReadingBy Manu Raju, Chief Congressional Correspondent Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin ratcheted up demands for Chief Justice John Roberts to police the actions of Clarence Thomas in the wake of a new ProPublica report showing a GOP megadonor paying school tuition for a close relative of the conservative justice. But Durbin told CNN he can’t
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed, CNN A Texas billionaire and GOP megadonor paid boarding school tuition for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ grandnephew, and the justice did not report the financial assistance for the child he helped raised on his annual disclosures, according to a new ProPublica report — the latest revelation raising ethical questions around the
Continue ReadingCNN By Tierney Sneed, CNN A Texas billionaire and GOP megadonor paid boarding school tuition for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ grandnephew, and the justice did not report the financial assistance for the child he helped raised on his annual disclosures, according to a new ProPublica report — the latest revelation raising ethical questions around
Continue ReadingCNN, WUSA, KATU By Hannah Rabinowitz and Holmes Lybrand, CNN Four members of the far-right Proud Boys have been found guilty of seditious conspiracy by a jury in Washington, DC, for their roles to forcibly prevent the peaceful transfer of power from then-President Donald Trump to Joe Biden after the 2020 election. Enrique Tarrio —
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Hansler, CNN US Ambassador to Russia Lynne Tracy visited Paul Whelan on Thursday — her first visit to the wrongfully detained American since taking up the post in Moscow. “Today, Ambassador Tracy visited #PaulWhelan at IK17 prison in Mordovia,” the US Embassy in Moscow posted on Twitter. “Paul has been wrongfully detained in
Continue ReadingCNN By Jennifer Hansler, CNN US Ambassador to Russia Lynne Tracy visited Paul Whelan on Thursday — her first visit to the wrongfully detained American since taking up the post in Moscow. “Today, Ambassador Tracy visited #PaulWhelan at IK17 prison in Mordovia,” the US Embassy in Moscow posted on Twitter. “Paul has been wrongfully detained
Continue ReadingBy Mary Kay Mallonee, CNN A Mississippi man is in jail after being charged with threatening to kill Republican Sen. Roger Wicker last week. William C. Sappington is charged with threatening to injure or kill a United States official, a federal offense, according to court documents, and was ordered by a US magistrate judge to
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Rabinowitz and Holmes Lybrand, CNN Four members of the far-right Proud Boys have been found guilty of seditious conspiracy by a jury in Washington, DC, for their roles to forcibly prevent the peaceful transfer of power from then-President Donald Trump to Joe Biden after the 2020 election. Enrique Tarrio — the Proud Boys
Continue ReadingBy Gregory Krieg and Eva McKend, CNN Young voters played a critical role in delivering Joe Biden to the White House in 2020. But as his reelection campaign kicks off, leading activists are uneasy about vouching for the president and concerned the administration could squander years of momentum In 2020, Biden’s campaign aggressively courted younger,
Continue ReadingCNN, POOL, KATV, CBS NEWS By Marshall Cohen, CNN President Joe Biden‘s son, Hunter Biden, is mired in a contentious and highly personal child support battle with an Arkansas woman who is the mother of one of his daughters. The parties reached a settlement in 2020 where Hunter Biden would pay monthly child support of
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