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CNN By Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, CNN For years, Democratic Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has told a similar story: he was off at college and shielded from controversies surrounding his uncle, Black studies professor Leonard Jeffries, who eventually lost his job over incendiary comments about Jewish people. Hakeem Jeffries has said he had only
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed, CNN The Justice Department and a manufacturer of abortion pills have submitted the final round of court briefs in the emergency dispute over whether an appeals court should freeze a judge’s ruling that would suspend the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of medication abortion drugs. Now that the filings have been submitted,
Continue ReadingBy Haley Britzky, CNN US forces captured an ISIS operative and two of his associates in eastern Syria on Saturday evening, the US military announced on Wednesday. The operative, Hudayfah al Yemeni, is an “ISIS attack facilitator,” a news release from US Central Command said. He and his associates were captured by US forces during
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, CNN For years, Democratic Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has told a similar story: he was off at college and shielded from controversies surrounding his uncle, Black studies professor Leonard Jeffries, who eventually lost his job over incendiary comments about Jewish people. Hakeem Jeffries has said he had only a
Continue ReadingBy Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice Nine national media organizations, including CNN, are suing for access to Capitol Hill surveillance tapes of January 6, 2021, that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has provided to Fox News but so far to no other press outlets. The lawsuit, filed in the federal court in DC against
Continue ReadingBy Jasmine Wright and Nikki Carvajal, CNN The US Department of Health and Human Services will propose a new rule on Wednesday, aimed at safeguarding privacy and prohibiting the prosecution of individuals who seek abortions. The new rule proposal comes as Vice President Kamala Harris is set to convene an interagency taskforce meeting on reproductive
Continue ReadingBy Mary Kay Mallonee, CNN Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said Tuesday he had a “very productive” meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, whom he previously criticized following the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. “I just had a very productive, candid meeting with the Saudi Crown Prince and his senior leadership team. The opportunity
Continue ReadingBy Joan Biskupic, CNN Senior Supreme Court Analyst The recent revelations of lavish gifts and travel that a Republican megadonor showered on Justice Clarence Thomas reflect a larger Supreme Court culture of nondisclosure, little explanation, and no comment. The justices have provided less and less information regarding travel and gifts on their annual financial disclosure
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak, CNN When President Joe Biden spoke here Wednesday to mark a quarter-century of the Good Friday Agreement, it wasn’t from the seat of the Northern Ireland Assembly — currently suspended over a Brexit trade dispute — but from a new university campus downtown. The choice of venue for Biden’s sole public event
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday proposed ambitious new car pollution rules that could require electric vehicles to account for up to two-thirds of new cars sold in the US by 2032, in what would be one of the Biden administration’s most aggressive climate-change policies yet. The tailpipe standards would also
Continue ReadingCNN By Jim Sciutto, Chief National Security Correspondent One day after China simulated “joint precision strikes” on Taiwan during military exercises around the island, Taiwan’s Foreign Minister Joseph Wu condemned Beijing’s actions in an exclusive interview with CNN and warned that “they seem to be trying to get ready to launch a war against Taiwan.”
Continue ReadingBy Kate Sullivan and Shania Shelton, CNN Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina launched a presidential exploratory committee Wednesday morning. “I will never back down in defense of the conservative values that make America exceptional. And that’s why I’m announcing my exploratory committee for president of the United States,” Scott said in a new
Continue ReadingCNN By Em Steck, Olivia Alafriz and Andrew Kaczynski, CNN After the Michigan Republican Party faced intense backlash for using Holocaust imagery on its social media to oppose what it says are Democrats’ restrictive gun proposals, the new chair of the state GOP party did not apologize — in fact, she doubled down on the
Continue ReadingCNN By Devan Cole and Kara Scannell, CNN Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is suing House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, over what the lawsuit filed Tuesday describes as a “transparent campaign to intimidate and attack” his office’s case against former President Donald Trump. The suit injects more legal drama into Bragg’s investigation of Trump, which
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Hansler and Jack Forrest, CNN Brittney Griner, the WNBA star who was freed from Russia late last year after being wrongfully detained, is writing a memoir due out next spring. “After an incredibly challenging 10 months in detainment, I am grateful to have been rescued and to be home. Readers will hear my
Continue ReadingBy Sydney Kashiwagi, CNN A recent shooting at a Louisville, Kentucky, bank was especially personal for the city’s mayor, Craig Greenberg. Greenberg, a survivor of workplace gun violence himself, revealed that he had lost a close friend in the Monday morning attack. “Last year, I survived a workplace shooting. And now yesterday, I’ve lost a
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed and Tami Luhby, CNN The Justice Department said Tuesday it plans to seek a court order to put on hold a federal judge’s ruling from last month that put in jeopardy some of the Affordable Care Act’s mandates for insurers to provide no-cost coverage of preventive care treatments, including certain cancer and
Continue ReadingBy Jeremy Herb, CNN The highly classified leaked Pentagon documents posted to social media offer a pessimistic US viewpoint about the state of the war in Ukraine, highlighting weaknesses in Ukraine’s weaponry and air defenses and predicting a stalemate in the war for months to come. The documents, which appear to date from February and
Continue ReadingCNN 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
Continue ReadingBy Priscilla Alvarez, CNN US asylum officers are frustrated by policy whiplash under President Joe Biden, and some are considering leaving their posts, as administration officials contemplate restarting controversial Trump-era border policies that would largely limit who could seek refuge in the United States. “At this point, I can’t tell the difference between Biden immigration
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