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By Ray Sanchez, CNN To those who knew former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan‘s one-time chief of staff, Roy McGrath was fastidious to a fault. He was task-oriented and straight-laced, a career public servant and political operator who was quirky and deeply concerned about his image. What McGrath did not seem to be, they said, was

By Natasha Bertrand, Zachary Cohen, Alex Marquardt and Evan Perez, CNN The Pentagon has begun to limit who across the government receives its highly classified daily intelligence briefs following a major leak of classified information discovered last week. Some US officials who used to receive the briefing materials daily have stopped receiving it in recent

By Kara Scannell and Devan Cole, CNN Donald Trump appeared for a deposition Thursday as part of a high-stakes civil case brought by New York state against the former president, some of his children and his sprawling business empire. The former president answered numerous questions in the deposition with the New York attorney general’s office,

By Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden is spending most of his trip to Ireland this week exploring his family’s roots, from the shoemaker who sailed from Newry in 1849 in search of a better life in America to the brick-seller in Ballina who sold 28,000 bricks to pay for his own family’s passage to

By Donald Judd, CNN The Biden administration will announce nearly $300 million in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding to repair and replace bridges across eight states and the District of Columbia Thursday, closing out its three week “Invest in America” tour highlighting legislative achievements under President Joe Biden. Vice President Kamala Harris will make the announcement

By Tierney Sneed, CNN The Justice Department will take an emergency dispute over medication abortion drugs to the Supreme Court, Attorney General Merrick Garland said Thursday. Garland’s announcement comes after a federal appeals court overnight froze parts of a Texas judge’s order that would have suspended the US Food and Drug Administration’s approval of a

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN A trove of leaked classified Pentagon documents highlight US anxieties over growing Chinese and Russian influence in Latin America and Africa. Among the details are references to Russian mercenary group Wagner exploring a contract to fight criminal gangs in Haiti, and a Chinese company negotiating to build a deep water port

By Zachary Cohen and Sean Lyngaas, CNN The person behind a massive leak of classified US military documents worked on a military base and posted sensitive national security secrets in an online group of acquaintances, The Washington Post reported Wednesday. The Post reporting, which CNN could not independently verify, covers new ground in identifying the

By Nicky Robertson and Lauren Fox, CNN Sen. Dianne Feinstein said Wednesday night that she had asked to be “temporarily” replaced on the Senate Judiciary Committee while she is recovering from shingles, but the California Democrat remained committed to returning to the Senate amid pressure by some in her party to step down. “I understand

CNN By Eric Bradner, CNN Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said Wednesday he “can’t imagine” what the family of the man who killed five people, including a friend of the governor, in Louisville on Monday is feeling. Beshear’s comments, made during an emotional interview with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins which was his first since the mass shooting,

By Eric Bradner, CNN Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said Wednesday he “can’t imagine” what the family of the man who killed five people, including a friend of the governor, in Louisville on Monday is feeling. Beshear’s comments, made during an emotional interview with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins which was his first since the mass shooting, came

By Kyung Lah and Anna-Maja Rappard, CNN State Rep. Liz Harris was expelled Wednesday from the Arizona House of Representatives for ethics violations resulting from inviting a conspiracy theorist to publicly testify before lawmakers earlier this year. The resolution to expel the first-term Republican, elected in November, stated that she had brought “disrepute and embarrassment

By Zachary Cohen and Jennifer Hansler, CNN A Russian paramilitary group fighting in Ukraine on behalf of Vladimir Putin attempted to buy weapons and equipment from an unlikely source: NATO member Turkey, according to a leaked US intelligence document that was obtained by CNN. The leaked document appears to show the lengths the Russian private

By Lauren del Valle and Devan Cole, CNN Former President Donald Trump is suing Michael Cohen for $500 million in damages for allegedly breaching his contract as Trump’s former personal attorney. The lawsuit, filed in a Florida federal court on Wednesday, accuses Cohen of spreading false information about Trump and breaching his contractual obligations to