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By Donald Judd, CNN President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed an executive order in the Rose Garden that issues more than 50 directives across nearly every Cabinet-level agency in an effort to expand access to long-term care and child care. Biden, flanked by child care and family care advocates and providers, called the executive order
Continue ReadingBy Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter The Supreme Court seemed to side with a former mail carrier, an evangelical Christian, who says the US Postal Service failed to accommodate his request to not work on Sundays. A lower court had ruled against the worker, Gerald Groff, holding that his request would cause an
Continue ReadingBy Jack Forrest and Brian Rokus, CNN Democratic Rep. Dan Kildee of Michigan had surgery Monday to remove a small cancerous tumor in his tonsil, his office said. Kildee, who announced last month that he’d been diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma, will stay at George Washington University Hospital “for the next several days as part
Continue ReadingBy Sean Lyngaas, Oren Liebermann and Natasha Bertrand, CNN Officials from the FBI and Navy are investigating the role a pro-Russia social media account had in spreading photos of classified US documents online — and have contacted a former Navy noncommissioned officer who was affiliated with the account, multiple people familiar with the matter told
Continue ReadingCNN By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter Justice Clarence Thomas intends to amend his financial disclosure forms to reflect a 2014 real estate deal he made with a GOP megadonor — an acknowledgment that the transaction should have been disclosed almost a decade ago, a source close to Thomas tells CNN. The deal
Continue ReadingCNN By Annie Grayer and Sara Murray, CNN House Republicans on the Judiciary Committee are exemplifying the lengths they are willing to go to discredit Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s criminal case against former President Donald Trump with a Monday New York field hearing on Bragg’s home turf. House Republicans are seeking to make the
Continue ReadingBy Jack Forrest, CNN Embattled GOP Rep. George Santos announced Monday he will seek reelection in 2024 to represent New York’s 3rd Congressional District, defying the calls from some Republicans on Capitol Hill and in his district to step aside. “I’m proud to announce my candidacy to run for re-election and continue to serve the
Continue ReadingCNN, WESH By Steve Contorno, CNN Gov. Ron DeSantis’ political allies overseeing Disney’s special taxing district threatened on Wednesday to hike taxes, raise utility rates and develop land around the entertainment giant’s Central Florida theme parks as retribution for the company’s efforts to avoid a state takeover. In a meeting full of harsh words for
Continue ReadingCNN’s Nicky Robertson Sen. John Fetterman has returned to the Senate after receiving treatment for clinical depression at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. The Pennsylvania Democrat began inpatient treatment in February and was discharged at the end of March. “It’s great to be back,” he told reporters as he arrived at the Capitol Monday
Continue ReadingBy Sean Lyngaas and Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN A member of the private online chatroom where a major leak of US classified documents surfaced has defended 21-year-old Jack Teixeira, who was charged in connection to the leak on Friday, telling CNN that Teixeira shared the classified material to keep other members informed, “so we won’t be
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Rabinowitz, Evan Perez and Lauren del Valle, CNN The FBI has arrested two alleged Chinese agents and federal prosecutors have charged dozens of others with working to silence and harass dissidents within the United States — with some even operating an “undeclared police station” in New York City. Lu Jianwang and Chen Jinping
Continue ReadingBy Steve Contorno, CNN Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday threatened to build a prison or a competing theme park near the Magic Kingdom or raise taxes on Walt Disney World to retaliate against the company for resisting a state takeover of its special taxing district. Laying out his plan to exact retribution against the
Continue ReadingBy Kara Scannell, CNN A federal judge on Monday denied for a second time former President Donald Trump’s request to delay an assault and defamation trial set to begin next week in New York. Trump’s attorneys asked for the delay, saying a “cooling off” period is necessary to obtain a fair and impartial jury given
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Fox and Morgan Rimmer, CNN Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has returned to the Senate following a period of recovery in the wake of a fall. McConnell arrived on Capitol Hill Monday morning and did not answer questions from CNN about how he is feeling after spending the last several weeks recovering after
Continue ReadingBy Manu Raju and Lauren Fox, CNN Senate Republicans are prepared to block Democratic efforts to replace Sen. Dianne Feinstein on the powerful Judiciary committee, ratcheting up pressure on the 89-year-old California Democrat to resign or return quickly to allow President Joe Biden’s judicial nominees to be confirmed. Democrats would need 60 votes to replace
Continue ReadingBy Clare Foran, Ted Barrett, Lauren Fox and Haley Talbot, CNN Lawmakers face a lengthy to-do list as they return to the Capitol after a two-week recess to confront a series of critical issues ranging from a looming debt limit crisis to the fallout from a leak of highly classified Pentagon documents. There is still
Continue ReadingBy Annie Grayer and Sara Murray, CNN House Republicans on the Judiciary Committee are exemplifying the lengths they are willing to go to discredit Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s criminal case against former President Donald Trump with a Monday New York field hearing on Bragg’s home turf. House Republicans are seeking to make the case
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Dale As former President Donald Trump and his allies attack Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who is prosecuting Trump on felony charges of falsifying business records, the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing Monday in Manhattan to castigate Bragg for his handling of violent crime. But Trump and other Republicans, including
Continue ReadingBy Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter Justice Clarence Thomas intends to amend his financial disclosure forms to reflect a 2014 real estate deal he made with a GOP megadonor — an acknowledgment that the transaction should have been disclosed almost a decade ago, a source close to Thomas tells CNN. The deal between
Continue ReadingBy Oren Liebermann, CNN A US helicopter raid in northeast Syria targeted a senior ISIS leader and planner early Monday morning, according to a spokesman for US Central Command. “We believe the raid killed a senior ISIS Syria leader and operational planner responsible for planning terror attacks in the Middle East and Europe,” said Col.
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