By Jeremy Harlan and Ashley Killough, CNN Mesa County, Colorado, Clerk Tina Peters turned herself in to local authorities Thursday morning, a day after the Grand Junction Police Department had issued a warrant for her arrest. The Mesa County Sheriff’s Office announced that Peters had turned herself in at 10:30 a.m. MST Thursday and posted
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By Simret Aklilu, CNN Rep. Liz Cheney on Thursday hit back at critics of the House select committee investigating January 6, saying the panel will move ahead with its investigation of the US Capitol attack regardless of criticism or intimidation attempts. Cheney, writing in a Wall Street Journal op-ed published Thursday, vowed that the committee,
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By Manu Raju and Ted Barrett, CNN American consumers are feeling the squeeze from inflation — as are Senate Democrats facing voters in nine months. The Senate’s most vulnerable Democrats are all calling on the Biden administration to do more to address the pain consumers are feeling from the cost of rising goods — and
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By Holmes Lybrand and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN A deputy attorney general in Virginia resigned Thursday after Facebook posts resurfaced in which she called rioters who had stormed the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, “patriots” and made reference to the “deep state.” Monique Miles, a now-former deputy for Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares, is the
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By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN Since Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott deployed thousands of personnel to the US-Mexico border, the operation has been slammed as overtly political and a waste of resources by Democratic lawmakers and even some of the National Guard members participating in the mission. Last March, Abbott, who’s up for reelection, launched “Operation
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By Tierney Sneed and Tami Luhby, CNN Republican attorneys general in three states filed a federal lawsuit on Thursday challenging President Joe Biden’s move to raise the minimum wage for federal contractors to $15 an hour. The case — filed on behalf of Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi — argues that Biden did not have the
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By Maegan Vazquez, Kevin Liptak and Sam Fossum, CNN President Joe Biden on Thursday urged Americans in Ukraine to leave the country immediately, warning that “things could go crazy quickly” in the region. “American citizens should leave now,” Biden said in an upcoming interview that was taped Thursday with NBC News’ Lester Holt. Referring to
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By Darya Tarasova, Sharon Braithwaite, Kara Fox, Katya Krebs and Tim Lister, CNN Russia blasted Western countries and media for spreading a “large-scale disinformation campaign” over a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine, saying Friday that they were doing so “to divert attention from their own aggressive actions.” The Russian Foreign Ministry statement comes just hours
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By Devan Cole, CNN Recent controversies over the certification of the Equal Rights Amendment and improper record-keeping of Trump-era documents have pushed the nation’s chief archivist, whose typical pro forma responsibilities render him unknown to all but the most knowledgeable Washingtonians, into the middle of several high-profile political dramas. David Ferriero, who’s set to retire
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By Hannah Rabinowitz and Holmes Lybrand, CNN Mark Leffingwell, a disabled Iraq War veteran who pleaded guilty to punching two police officers in the head on January 6, 2021, on Thursday became the 100th member of the mob that stormed the US Capitol to be sentenced in federal court, according to CNN records. Leffingwell was
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By Maegan Vazquez and Sam Fossum, CNN President Joe Biden said Thursday that he’s done a “deep dive” on four potential candidates to succeed Justice Stephen Breyer on the US Supreme Court, but he declined to name any of the prospective nominees. “I’ve taken about four people and done the deep dive on them, meaning
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By Jennifer Agiesta, CNN Polling Director An increasing majority of Americans lack confidence that elections in America today reflected the will of the people, and about half think it likely that a future election in the United States will be overturned for partisan reasons, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS. There’s been
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By Tierney Sneed, CNN Concerns raised by a Democratic Senate Judiciary Committee member about the tone of questioning being directed at nominees of color prompted sharp rebuke by two Republicans on the committee. Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla of California used a Thursday committee vote on Andre Mathis, President Joe Biden’s nominee to the 6th US
Continue Reading By Betsy Klein, CNN The Biden administration is “very closely” monitoring the protests at US-Canada border crossings in which standoffs have emerged over vaccine mandates and other issues, threatening supply chains and other major disruptions, a White House official told CNN. “We know that a number of companies and industries are seeing significant impacts from
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By Betsy Klein, CNN The Biden administration is “very closely” monitoring the protests at US-Canada border crossings in which standoffs have emerged over vaccine mandates and other issues, threatening supply chains and other major disruptions, a White House official told CNN. “We know that a number of companies and industries are seeing significant impacts from
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By Chandelis Duster and Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said Wednesday partisan divisions among lawmakers could affect the perception of the Supreme Court and the confirmation process of judicial nominees, adding that she is concerned the country “might be in crisis” because of political polarization. “Surely, it has an effect on
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By Jennifer Agiesta and Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN Nearly 6 in 10 Americans disapprove of how Joe Biden is handling his presidency, with most of that group saying there’s literally nothing Biden has done since taking office that they approve of. The finding, from a CNN Poll conducted by SSRS in January and February, highlights the
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By Ryan Nobles, Zachary Cohen, Annie Grayer and Jamie Gangel, CNN White House call records now in the possession of congressional investigators do not reflect calls made to or from then-President Donald Trump as the violence unfolded on Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021, leaving them with gaps so far in their understanding of what
Continue Reading By Allie Malloy, Kate Sullivan and Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden on Thursday acknowledged the stress on American families’ budgets after a key inflation report showed annual inflation has hit 7.5%. However, Biden claimed, “there are also signs that we will make it through this challenge.” “On higher prices, we have been using every
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By Allie Malloy, Kate Sullivan and Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden on Thursday acknowledged the stress on American families’ budgets after a key inflation report showed annual inflation has hit 7.5%. However, Biden claimed, “there are also signs that we will make it through this challenge.” “On higher prices, we have been using every
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