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CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of Mike Pompeo, former US secretary of state and director of the CIA. Personal Birth date: December 30, 1963 Birth place: Orange, California Birth name: Michael Richard Pompeo Father: Wayne Pompeo, machinist Mother: Dorothy (Mercer) Pompeo Marriages: Susan (Mostrous) Pompeo (date unavailable publicly-present); Leslie (Libert) Pompeo

The final NYC Democratic mayoral debate offered eight of the leading candidates one last chance to change the dynamic of this unpredictable and often off-kilter race. CNN’s Athena Jones reports.

By Marshall Cohen Fox News, right-wing websites and Republican lawmakers are promoting a new false flag conspiracy that the FBI orchestrated the deadly assault on the US Capitol. The haywire theory originated from an article published Monday by Revolver News, a right-wing website. From there, it was picked up by Fox News host Tucker Carlson,

After a whirlwind few days of international meetings and summits, CNN’s Jeff Zeleny reports from Geneva on the significance of Biden’s first foreign trip as US president.

By Tami Luhby, CNN Louisiana will stop paying the $300-a-week federal boost to pandemic unemployment benefits at the end of July — the first Democrat-led state to drop the assistance. Gov. John Bel Edwards on Wednesday signed a bill that terminates the federal enhancement early in exchange for increasing the maximum state unemployment benefit by

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN This week, voting right activists Cliff Albright and LaTosha Brown will board a 53-foot bus and kick off a tour through the South. Their task: Rally public support for federal legislation to combat the raft of new state laws aimed at restricting voting rights. They face big obstacles. Among them: Democratic

By Kevin Liptak and Jeff Zeleny, CNN Even Queen Elizabeth II wanted to know: What would President Joe Biden say to Vladimir Putin? “We had a long talk,” Biden said of his tea with the monarch, who he was surprised to discover resembled his mother. Traveling across Europe for the past week, Biden found his

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins reports.

Officer Michael Fanone, who was injured defending the Capitol on Jan. 6, tells CNN’s Don Lemon about his interaction with GOP Rep. Andrew Clyde during an encounter in the Capitol building.

By Gregory Krieg, CNN The end of the New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary is near. Early voting is underway and Election Day is less than a week away, so Wednesday night’s debate offered eight of the leading candidates one last chance to change the dynamic of this unpredictable and often off-kilter race. But after

By Paul LeBlanc, CNN A DC Metropolitan Police officer who defended the US Capitol on January 6 blasted GOP Rep. Andrew Clyde on Wednesday evening for what he called “disgusting” behavior during a tense exchange. Michael Fanone, who was stun-gunned several times and beaten with a flagpole during the riot, told CNN’s Don Lemon on

President Joe Biden says he warned Russian President Vladimir Putin of consequences if jailed Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny were to die in prison. CNN’s Clarissa Ward reports.

By Jamiel Lynch and Travis Caldwell, CNN The South Carolina Supreme Court on Wednesday halted executions in the state until procedures for its newest method of execution — firing squad — are finalized. Attorneys for Brad Keith Sigmon, who had been scheduled to be executed on Friday, successfully petitioned the state’s high court to stay

By Brian Fung and Alex Marquardt, CNN US lawmakers are preparing legislation that would require a vast range of public and private entities to alert the government within 24 hours of a cybersecurity breach, following a wave of ransomware attacks that have threatened the nation’s economic and national security. The bipartisan draft by Sens. Mark

By Devan Cole, CNN The House overwhelmingly passed a bill on Wednesday that would establish June 19 as Juneteenth National Independence Day, a US federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. While the legislation met bipartisan support in the House, more than a dozen Republicans in the chamber voted against the

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN Some Republican lawmakers are doubling down on reframing the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, falsely arguing it was a mostly peaceful event, antifa was responsible for the attack and that rioters were not armed. Several of these incorrect narratives were repeated during a Tuesday hearing on the attack

By Devan Cole, CNN Texans will soon be able to carry handguns in public without obtaining licenses or training after the state’s Republican governor on Wednesday signed a permitless carry gun bill into law. The measure approved by Gov. Greg Abbott allows individuals 21 and older who can legally possess firearms in the state to

By Rebekah Riess, CNN Tom Ridge, a former Republican governor of Pennsylvania and the first US secretary of Homeland Security, was transferred by ambulance to a hospital in the Washington area Wednesday morning after suffering a stroke at his residence in Bethesda, Maryland, according to a statement provided to CNN by Ridge Global LLC. According

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter The Supreme Court is staring at its self-imposed end of June deadline, but with only weeks to go the justices have not yet released some of the most significant opinions of the term, including a challenge to the Affordable Care Act, the Voting Rights Act and a