By Tierney Sneed, CNN The Supreme Court on Friday reversed Roe v. Wade, the 50-year-old court precedent enshrining a right to abortion. Doing so now gives state lawmakers the green light to aggressively limit or ban abortion. Since a draft for Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization was leaked last month, CNN readers have asked
Continue Reading By Dan Merica, CNN A string of Republican candidates who attended the “Stop the Steal” rally in Washington and marched to the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, are winning or could win primaries in competitive congressional districts, offering what could be the clearest test yet of whether general election voters still care about the
Continue Reading By Ethan Cohen and Rachel Janfaza, CNN Sixteen states and Puerto Rico have been invited to move forward with their applications to hold early Democratic Party presidential nominating contests in 2024, a Democratic National Committee official told CNN on Saturday. New York, Nebraska and the group Democrats Abroad were the only applicants who didn’t make
Continue Reading By Arlette Saenz and Sam Fossum, CNN President Joe Biden said Saturday the federal government will cover the full cost of the wildfire response in New Mexico following requests from the state’s governor and other lawmakers, while also acknowledging the role the US Forest Service played in starting the Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak Fire. “I think
Continue Reading By Devan Cole and Gabby Orr, CNN Former President Donald Trump has endorsed Alabama Senate hopeful Katie Britt as she competes for the Republican nomination in a runoff primary against US Rep. Mo Brooks. Trump’s endorsement on Friday of Britt, the former president and CEO of the Business Council of Alabama, comes months after he
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the life of John Edwards, former senator from North Carolina. Personal Birth date: June 10, 1953 Birth place: Seneca, South Carolina Birth name: Johnny Reid Edwards Father: Wallace Edwards, textile mill worker Mother: Catherine “Bobbie” (Wade) Edwards, postal worker Marriage: Elizabeth (Anania) Edwards (July 30, 1977-December 7,
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of former US Congressman Charles Rangel, who represented New York from 1971 to 2017. Personal Birth date: June 11, 1930 Birth place: New York, New York (Harlem) Birth name: Charles Bernard Rangel Father: Ralph Rangel Sr. Mother: Blanche (Wharton) Rangel Marriage: Alma (Carter) Rangel (July 26,
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of former Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal. Personal Birth date: June 10, 1971 Birth place: Baton Rouge, Louisiana Birth name: Piyush Jindal Father: Amar Jindal, engineer Mother: Raj (Gupta) Jindal Marriage: Supriya (Joly) Jindal (October 1997-present) Children: Slade, Shaan and Selia Education: Brown University, B.S., Biology and
Continue Reading By Sonia Moghe, CNN A New York judge Friday rejected an attempt by the National Rifle Association to end an investigation of the organization by the state’s top attorney. State Supreme Court Judge Joel Cohen dismissed the NRA’s counterclaims against New York Attorney General Letitia James as not viable. The NRA had argued that James’
Continue Reading By Eric Bradner, CNN The wildest congressional contest of 2022 is unfolding in Alaska, where the state’s former governor and onetime Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is attempting a political comeback in a crowded field for a House seat that is open for the first time in nearly 50 years. Palin was a late
Continue Reading By Paul LeBlanc and Sarah Fortinsky, CNN March for Our Lives, the student-led movement focused on gun violence prevention, returned to Washington Saturday with a mass demonstration in the wake of recent shootings in Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo, New York. The DC march on Saturday afternoon at the Washington Monument featured a slate of speakers
Continue Reading By Kevin Liptak, CNN In an odd twist of scheduling, President Joe Biden was meeting here Thursday with a leader who’s amplified conspiracy theories the very same hour that startling new details emerged about the conspiracy to deny him the presidency. Biden had for months been averse to engaging Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro, who US
Continue Reading By Kristen Holmes, CNN A day after the House January 6 committee revealed previously unseen video of former President Donald Trump’s daughter and senior adviser, Ivanka Trump, saying she accepted then-Attorney General Bill Barr’s statement that the Justice Department found no fraud sufficient to overturn the election, the former President is responding, saying she had
Continue Reading By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN A federal judge in Texas vacated guidelines set by the Biden administration over who is to be prioritized for immigration enforcement, according to a Friday ruling. Last year, the Department of Homeland Security released guidelines that directed Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to arrest immigrants deemed public safety or national security
Continue Reading By Daniel Dale, CNN In a Wednesday appearance on the ABC late-night show “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” President Joe Biden made a dramatic claim about the US economy — and repeated himself for emphasis. “Look, here’s where we are. We have the fastest-growing economy in the world. The world. The world,” Biden said. Facts First: Biden’s
Continue Reading By Daniel Dale, CNN In a Wednesday appearance on the ABC late-night show “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” President Joe Biden made a dramatic claim about the US economy — and repeated himself for emphasis. “Look, here’s where we are. We have the fastest-growing economy in the world. The world. The world,” Biden said. Facts First: Biden’s
Continue Reading By Tierney Sneed Virginia “Ginni” Thomas’ efforts to call on state lawmakers to disrupt President Joe Biden’s 2020 election win were broader than previously known, with The Washington Post reporting Friday that the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas had sent form letters to 29 Arizona legislators encouraging them to meddle in the state’s
Continue Reading By Tierney Sneed and Katelyn Polantz, CNN The attorney discipline arm of the DC Bar has brought a case against Rudy Giuliani for pushing unsubstantiated election fraud accusations in a Pennsylvania federal court on behalf of Donald Trump after the 2020 election. The disciplinary office filing, called a charge, further puts Giuliani’s status as a
Continue Reading By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice Former Donald Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro wanted his first phone call after his arrest for contempt of Congress to be to a TV network, rather than an attorney, the Justice Department says. “I’m supposed to be on live television tonight. I’d like to call the producer
Continue Reading By Sam Fossum and Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden on Friday said the high-profile summer hearings of the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection are “about democracy itself,” stressing that it’s important for Americans to understand what transpired. “It’s important the American people understand what truly happened and to understand that
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