By Betsy Klein and Kate Bennett, CNN First lady Dr. Jill Biden has tested positive for Covid-19 and is experiencing mild symptoms, her spokesperson said Tuesday. “After testing negative for Covid-19 on Monday during her regular testing cadence, the First Lady began to develop cold-like symptoms late in the evening. She tested negative again on
Continue Reading By Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, CNN The Republican nominee for secretary of state in Arizona is a self-proclaimed member of the far-right extremist group the Oath Keepers who repeatedly shared anti-government conspiracies and posts about stockpiling ammunition on social media. CNN’s KFile team uncovered previously unreported posts from Mark Finchem, an Arizona state representative
Continue Reading By Michael Callahan, CNN The US Air Force on Tuesday tested an unarmed nuclear-capable long-range missile, according to the Air Force Global Strike Command. The unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile, equipped with a test reentry vehicle, was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California and traveled 4,200 miles to a test range near
Continue Reading By Eric Bradner, CNN Former President Donald Trump’s campaign to purge the Republican Party of his opponents could reach its most dramatic moment of the 2022 midterm election cycle on Tuesday in Wyoming. Rep. Liz Cheney, the vice chair of the House committee investigating January 6, 2021, who was booted from her House leadership position
Continue Reading By Maegan Vazquez and Donald Judd, CNN President Joe Biden signed a sweeping $750 billion health care, tax and climate bill into law at the White House on Tuesday — marking a major victory for his administration and the Democratic Party ahead of the midterm elections. Biden said during a signing ceremony in the State
Continue Reading By Maegan Vazquez and Donald Judd, CNN President Joe Biden signed a sweeping $750 billion health care, tax and climate bill into law at the White House on Tuesday — marking a major victory for his administration and the Democratic Party ahead of the midterm elections. Biden said during a signing ceremony in the State
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Several news organizations have asked the courts to make the affidavit used to obtain a search warrant of Mar-a-Lago public.
Continue Reading By Shawna Mizelle and Taylor Romine, CNN Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón will not face a recall election after officials determined Monday that the campaign looking to oust him failed to gather enough valid signatures. The effort needed 566,857 valid signatures to place Gascón’s job on the ballot, but it fell nearly 47,000
Continue Reading By Katelyn Polantz and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN The Justice Department is opposing the release of details in an affidavit that lays out the argument that investigators made to a federal magistrate judge explaining the probable cause it had to search former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate last week, saying it could have a chilling effect
Continue Reading By Paul LeBlanc, CNN Lawyers allied with former President Donald Trump directed a data firm to copy information from local election systems in three battleground states, records obtained by The Washington Post show. The data firm, SullivanStrickler, copied sensitive information from a Dominion voting system in Coffee County, Georgia, and were directed by Trump-connected attorneys
Continue Reading By Sara Murray, Jason Morris and Gloria Borger, CNN Rudy Giuliani has been told by prosecutors in Georgia that he is a target of the special purpose grand jury investigating whether former President Donald Trump and his allies violated the law in their efforts to flip the 2020 election results in Georgia. A prosecutor from
Continue Reading By Rachel Janfaza, Ethan Cohen and Eric Bradner, CNN Voters in Alaska on Tuesday are voting in two separate elections for the same US House seat — the state’s at-large congressional district seat. That’s because there’s both a special general election to fill the remainder of the late Rep. Don Young’s term and a primary
Continue Reading By Katelyn Polantz and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN The Justice Department is opposing the release of details in an affidavit that lays out the argument that investigators made to a federal magistrate judge explaining the probable cause it had to search former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate last week, saying it could have a chilling effect
Continue Reading By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN The Justice Department unsealed charges on Monday against a Pennsylvania man who allegedly threatened to kill FBI agents after investigators searched Mar-a-Lago, former President Donald Trump’s home in Florida. Investigators said that Adam Bies of Mercer, Pennsylvania, has been threatening federal agents on the social media site Gab for months. Agents
Continue Reading By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice Trump White House lawyer Eric Herschmann, who pushed back on efforts by the former President and his allies to overturn the 2020 election, has been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury investigating the events surrounding January 6, 2021, a person familiar with the probe confirmed to CNN.
Continue Reading By Jason Morris and Nick Valencia, CNN A federal judge in Atlanta has denied GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham’s motion to quash a subpoena, ruling that he must testify before a Fulton County grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. In her written decision on Monday, US
Continue Reading By Sara Murray, Jason Morris and Gloria Borger, CNN Rudy Giuliani has been told by prosecutors in Georgia that he is a target of the special purpose grand jury investigating whether former President Donald Trump and his allies violated the law in their efforts to flip the 2020 election results in Georgia. A prosecutor from
Continue Reading By Kylie Atwood and Jennifer Hansler, CNN The Biden administration does not plan to release billions of dollars of Afghan government assets held by the country’s central bank anytime soon, citing concerns the funds could end up in the hands of terrorists after the leader of al Qaeda was killed while hiding out in Afghanistan’s
Continue Reading By Kylie Atwood and Jennifer Hansler, CNN The Biden administration does not plan to release billions of dollars of Afghan government assets held by the country’s central bank anytime soon, citing concerns the funds could end up in the hands of terrorists after the leader of al Qaeda was killed while hiding out in Afghanistan’s
Continue Reading By Ellie Kaufman, CNN US-led coalition forces repelled multiple drones near the US-led coalition At-Tanf base in Syria Monday, according to a press release from the coalition. The attempted attack did not result in casualties or damage, a release from Combined Joint Task Force — Operation Inherent Resolve, the global coalition to defeat what remains
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