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Notable US Spies Fast Facts

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at US citizens who have been convicted of spying against the United States. Aldrich Ames 1962 – Aldrich Ames, son of a CIA analyst, joins the agency as a low-level documents analyst. 1967-1968 – Enters the Career Trainee Program at the CIA and becomes an operations

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Affirmative Action Fast Facts

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is some background information about affirmative action as well as a few notable court cases. Affirmative action policies focus on improving opportunities for groups of people, like women and minorities, who have been historically excluded in United States’ society. The initial emphasis was on education and employment. President John

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Roe v. Wade Fast Facts

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the US Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade. Case 1971 – The case is filed by Norma McCorvey, known in court documents as Jane Roe, against Henry Wade, the district attorney of Dallas County, who enforced a Texas law that prohibited abortion, except to save a

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US District Judge James Boasberg stands for a portrait at E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse in Washington

Court orders DC judge to end criminal contempt inquiry into Trump officials involved in deportation flights

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — A divided federal appeals court on Tuesday ordered US District Judge James Boasberg to end his efforts to hold Trump administration officials accountable for flouting his orders in a high-stakes immigration case. The decision comes nearly a year after Boasberg, the chief judge of the federal trial-level court in

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It’s not just the US President Donald Trump criticizing the British prime minister for being weak on defense. On April 14 his own adviser George Robertson joined in

British leader’s complacency on defense puts country ‘in peril,’ former NATO chief warns

By Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — It’s not just the US President Donald Trump criticizing the British prime minister for being weak on defense. On Tuesday his own adviser George Robertson joined in, accusing Keir Starmer of a “corrosive complacency” that puts the United Kingdom “in peril.” Speaking to the Financial Times Robertson, a former

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Olivia Troye

Olivia Troye, former Pence adviser turned Trump critic, launches Democratic bid for US House from Virginia

By David Wright, CNN (CNN) — Olivia Troye, a former adviser to Vice President Mike Pence, announced Tuesday that she would run for Congress as a Democrat in Virginia’s proposed new 7th District, pending passage of a sweeping redistricting referendum this month. Troye publicly broke with the Republican Party in 2020 after serving in political

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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche speaks during a news conference at the Department of Justice headquarters in Washington

DOJ ‘weaponization’ report accuses Biden administration of biased prosecutions against anti-abortion protesters

By Paula Reid, Casey Gannon, CNN (CNN) — The Trump Justice Department released a new report Tuesday accusing the Biden administration of unfairly using a federal law meant to protect access to abortion clinics to go after anti-abortion protesters. The report is the first product from DOJ’s “Weaponization Working Group” – established early in President

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