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By Maegan Vazquez, CNN Julie Su, the Biden administration’s labor secretary nominee, appeared before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee on Thursday, where she attempted to make the case for her confirmation as she was grilled by Republicans over her record. The Democratic majority on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee,

By Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, CNN The federal district judge who first suspended the US Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the so-called abortion pill mifepristone failed to disclose during his Senate confirmation process two interviews on Christian talk radio where he discussed social issues such as contraception and gay rights. In undisclosed radio

By Ariane de Vogue, Tierney Sneed and Joan Biskupic, CNN Two Democratic lawmakers want former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff to clarify certain aspects of the Supreme Court‘s investigation into last year’s the leak of the draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade. Chertoff was tapped by Chief Justice John Roberts to review a report compiled

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN The Justice Department reached multimillion-dollar settlements in three major lawsuits against US oil and gas companies Thursday that it says will reduce air pollution and planet-warming gas emissions in a dozen states and Indian Country. The settlements aim to resolve claims that several large companies were using faulty equipment to manufacture

By Haley Britzky, Oren Liebermann, Jim Sciutto, Jennifer Hansler and Kylie Atwood, CNN The US military is deploying “additional capabilities” nearby Sudan to secure the US embassy in the country and assist with a potential evacuation, if the situation calls for it, the Defense Department announced on Thursday. That includes hundreds of Marines who are

CNN By Tami Luhby and Katie Lobosco, CNN House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has unveiled his plan to address the nation’s looming debt ceiling drama, offering to raise the borrowing cap by $1.5 trillion to prevent a default. But the proposal comes with a long list of demands from House Republicans that Senate Democrats and the

By Lauren Fox and Tierney Sneed, CNN Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin asked Chief Justice John Roberts or “another Justice whom you designate” to appear before his committee next month for a hearing on Supreme Court ethics rules — a request that is purely voluntary, with Durbin indicating he does not intend to subpoena the

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN Suspected North Korean hackers infiltrated a software firm that claims hundreds of thousands of customers around the world in a cyberattack that shows Pyongyang’s advanced hacking capabilities, private investigators said Thursday. The breach of the software firm 3CX, discovered last month, provided a potential foothold for the North Koreans into a

By Oren Liebermann, CNN The US transferred an alleged al-Qaeda associate from Guantanamo Bay to Algeria, the Defense Department announced Thursday, part of the Biden administration’s ongoing efforts to close the prison facility. Said bin Brahim bin Umran Bakush, a 72-year-old Algerian native who has been held in detention in Guantanamo Bay for 20 years,

By Sara Murray, CNN My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell has been ordered to shell out $5 million to an expert who debunked his data related to the 2020 election, according to a decision by the arbitration panel obtained by CNN. Lindell, a purveyor of election conspiracies, vowed to award the multimillion-dollar sum to any cyber

By Kaanita Iyer, CNN Sen. John Fetterman, who returned to Congress this week after receiving treatment for clinical depression, is speaking out about how his tough Senate race last year worsened his mental health. Fetterman, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, shared with People magazine in an interview published Wednesday that criticism about whether he could serve

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN President Joe Biden’s campaign didn’t respond to the Robert F. Kennedy Jr. campaign kick-off because, though there is now a major donor summit on the books for next week, there still technically is no Biden campaign. What there is instead is an acceptance among most Democratic leaders that they may still

By Maegan Vazquez, CNN Julie Su, a civil rights attorney who has held numerous state and federal roles focused on labor issues, was formally nominated to be the next secretary of labor by President Joe Biden in late February 2023. Su, currently the Department of Labor’s acting secretary, first joined the Biden administration in 2021

By Melanie Zanona, Annie Grayer, Haley Talbot and Kristin Wilson, CNN House Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green barred GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from speaking further in a hearing after she called Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas a “liar” — a stunning example of how Greene’s extreme rhetoric led even members of her