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By Zachary Cohen, Sara Murray, Casey Gannon and Andrew Millman, CNN Former acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell testified Thursday before a grand jury investigating Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents. CNN identified Grenell as he was departing the courthouse in Washington, DC. Grenell was subpoenaed to testify in special counsel Jack Smith’s ongoing

By Betsy Klein, CNN The nation’s largest employer says it’s time for employees to return to the office more regularly, offering the latest salvo in America’s work from home battle. The Biden administration on Thursday detailed new guidance for a return to work for federal employees, making clear that they must “substantially” increase in-office work.

By Kaitlan Collins, CNN Former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe testified before a federal grand jury Thursday in Washington, DC, as part of the special counsel’s criminal probe into the aftermath of the 2020 election. Former President Donald Trump had sought to block testimony from Ratcliffe and other top officials from his administration, but

By Morgan Rimmer and David Wright, CNN Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell will return to the Senate on Monday following an absence as he recovered from a fall, the Kentucky Republican said Thursday. “I am looking forward to returning to the Senate on Monday. We’ve got important business to tackle and big fights to win

By Amanda Jackson, CNN A US citizen died while volunteering in the fighting in Ukraine Friday, his family told CNN. Edward Wilton, 22, of Florida, had been in Ukraine for nearly a year at the time of his death, his half-brother Parker Cummings told CNN by phone Wednesday. The US Embassy told the family of

By Kara Scannell and Lauren del Valle, CNN Former President Donald Trump asked a judge to delay a columnist’s assault and defamation trial set to being later this month after learning that a billionaire who has donated to Democratic causes has paid for some of the accuser’s legal fees. The information recently came to light

By Jeremy Diamond, CNN Hundreds of thousands of recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program will for the first time soon be eligible for affordable health care coverage after President Joe Biden announced a plan Thursday to expand access to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act insurance marketplace. “We need to give Dreamers

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN The federal judge overseeing the trial of five Proud Boys members who are accused of plotting to storm the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, denied a mistrial motion on Thursday after jurors reported being followed and confronted in public. In late March, several jurors reported two incidents in which they

By Evan Perez, Jeremy Herb, Natasha Bertrand, Zachary Cohen and Kevin Liptak, CNN A member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard was arrested by the FBI on Thursday in connection with the leaking of classified documents that have been posted online, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Thursday. The arrest of Jack Teixeira, 21, comes following

By Tierney Sneed, CNN The federal appeals court ruling Wednesday night that is keeping medication abortion drugs available is likely to complicate abortion access across the country, even in places where the procedure is legal. Since the Supreme Court overturned of Roe v. Wade last year, abortion pills — and the US Food and Drug

By Sophie Tanno, CNN President Joe Biden made a gaffe during his visit to Ireland on Wednesday as he confused a rugby team with a controversial 1920s-era British police force. Biden was speaking at the Windsor Bar in Dundalk, Ireland, when he appeared to mistake New Zealand’s All Blacks rugby team with the Black and