By Sam Fossum and Betsy Klein, CNN President Joe Biden warned on Friday that Russia will pay a “severe price” if the country uses chemical weapons in Ukraine. “I’m not going to speak about the intelligence, but Russia will pay a severe price if they use chemicals,” Biden told CNN’s Arlette Saenz following remarks announcing
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By Katie Bo Lillis and Jim Sciutto, CNN Russia has relied far more heavily on less sophisticated, so-called “dumb” bombs than it has on its arsenal of precision-guided munitions in its punishing war on Ukraine. It’s a dynamic that US officials are watching closely for clues about the state of Russia’s military — as these
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By Tierney Sneed The Texas Supreme Court on Friday issued a ruling that effectively foreclosed the last avenue abortion clinics had to challenge the state’s six-week limit on abortions in their current federal litigation. This stage of the legal dispute before the Texas Supreme Court centered on the role state licensing officials did or did
Continue Reading By Kara Scannell A federal judge on Friday denied Donald Trump‘s request to countersue magazine writer E. Jean Carroll for violating New York’s law against frivolous defamation lawsuits, criticizing the former President’s legal argument as “futile” and a delay tactic. Trump had asked the judge for permission to use the state’s anti-SLAPP law as a
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By Sam Fossum and Betsy Klein, CNN President Joe Biden warned on Friday that Russia will pay a “severe price” if the country uses chemical weapons in Ukraine. “I’m not going to speak about the intelligence, but Russia will pay a severe price if they use chemicals,” Biden told CNN’s Arlette Saenz following remarks announcing
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By Priscilla Alvarez and Geneva Sands, CNN Immigration arrests in the United States have plunged under President Joe Biden compared to his predecessor, who cast a wide net of who was eligible to be taken into custody, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement data released Friday. Under Biden, the Department of Homeland Security rolled out
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President Joe Biden will announce Friday that the US, along with the G7 and European Union, will call for revoking “most favored nation” status for Russia, referred to as permanent normal trade relations in the US, sources familiar with the move tell CNN.
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By Tami Luhby, CNN As Americans reel from skyrocketing gasoline prices, a growing number of states are looking to provide residents with a little relief by suspending their gas taxes. Nearly all states levy taxes or other fees on gasoline sales, on top of the federal gas tax of 18.4 cents a gallon. The revenue
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By Jasmine Wright and Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden marked the one-year anniversary of signing the American Rescue Plan into law with a trip to Philadelphia, where he celebrated the pandemic recovery plan’s passage with Democratic members of Congress and touted the law’s educational funding at a local elementary school. During his keynote speech
Continue Reading By Jasmine Wright and Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden marked the one-year anniversary of signing the American Rescue Plan into law with a trip to Philadelphia, where he celebrated the pandemic recovery plan’s passage with Democratic members of Congress and touted the law’s educational funding at a local elementary school. During his keynote speech
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By Phil Mattingly and Kylie Atwood, CNN An intense, closely guarded diplomatic effort by a core team of Biden energy and national security officials to raise global oil production amid surging prices from Russia’s war in Ukraine has fostered a cautious sense of optimism inside the White House. The two main targets of the effort,
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Republican politicians are pinning the blame for prices on President Joe Biden and his policies, saying the increase stretches back before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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By Kevin Liptak, CNN Even as Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday described the United States’ commitment to defending NATO members as “ironclad,” it was evident during her visit to this country along the alliance’s eastern edge that new troop deployments and air defense systems can’t entirely calm nerves. Taking her first question from a
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By Kaitlan Collins, Manu Raju, Kate Sullivan, MJ Lee and John Harwood, CNN President Joe Biden on Friday called for suspending normal trade relations with Russia and said the US would ban imports of seafood, vodka and diamonds from the nation as part of an effort to ramp up economic pressure on Russia for invading
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By Katelyn Polantz and Paul LeBlanc, CNN Michael Flynn, former President Donald Trump‘s onetime national security adviser, invoked his Fifth Amendment right during a deposition before the January 6 committee on Thursday, declining to answer the panel’s questions. Flynn — who met with the committee virtually — invoked the Fifth “on advice of counsel,” his
Continue Reading By Jeremy Herb, Natasha Bertrand and Barbara Starr, CNN Last week, a drone flew more than 350 miles beyond Ukraine’s western border before crashing in Croatia, a NATO member country. The drone was carrying a bomb, Croatian officials said, and it’s still not clear whether it belonged to Ukrainian or Russian forces. Another drone recently
Continue Reading By Natasha Bertrand Russia has been using Belarus as a springboard for many of its air operations in Ukraine, according to intelligence collected by NATO surveillance planes flying over the Polish-Ukrainian border and radar seen by CNN. CNN accompanied NATO’s Flying Squadron 2 on one such surveillance mission on Thursday. Within two hours of taking
Continue Reading By Jennifer Hansler, CNN The parents of Trevor Reed, a US citizen detained in Russia, said Thursday that his health has taken a further turn for the worse, and they fear he will be sent to solitary confinement rather than to medical care. Reed, who has been detained since 2019 and has been sentenced to
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By Jennifer Hansler, CNN The parents of Trevor Reed, a US citizen detained in Russia, said Thursday that his health has taken a further turn for the worse, and they fear he will be sent to solitary confinement rather than to medical care. Reed, who has been detained since 2019 and has been sentenced to
Continue Reading By Marshall Cohen A federal judge on Thursday panned a recent court filing from special counsel John Durham, chastising him for including unnecessary information that fueled a firestorm in right-wing circles about supposed spying on former President Donald Trump. Judge Christopher Cooper of the DC District Court made the comments during a hearing in the
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