By Sean Lyngaas, CNN Minutes after President Joe Biden announced new sanctions on Russian banks and elites on Tuesday, a senior FBI cyber official asked US businesses and local governments to be mindful of the potential for ransomware attacks as the crisis between the Kremlin and Ukraine deepens. Russia is a “permissive operating environment” for
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By Shawna Mizelle, CNN Ukraine’s foreign minister on Tuesday said that “no sanctions will be enough” until Russian forces leave Ukraine, a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin recognized two separatist regions in the country as independent and announced he would deploy “peacekeeping” forces there. “No sanctions will be enough until Russian boots withdraw from
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By Shawna Mizelle, CNN Ukraine’s foreign minister on Tuesday said that “no sanctions will be enough” until Russian forces leave Ukraine, a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin recognized two separatist regions in the country as independent and announced he would deploy “peacekeeping” forces there. “No sanctions will be enough until Russian boots withdraw from
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Long lines wrapped around the Secretary of State’s office as people from all over Missouri gathered to file for the August primary elections.
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By Maegan Vazquez and Donald Judd, CNN President Joe Biden on Tuesday pledged that his administration is using “every tool at our disposal” to limit the effect on gas prices in the US of sanctions he announced against Russia, acknowledging that Americans will likely see rising prices at the pump in the coming months. However,
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By Kara Scannell, CNN Lawyers for E. Jean Carroll are no longer seeking to depose former President Donald Trump in their defamation lawsuit, saying doing so would cause too much delay. Roberta Kaplan, who represents Carroll, told reporters after a nearly one-hour federal court hearing Tuesday that they changed their minds given the former President’s
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By Ariane de Vogue, Joan Biskupic and Manu Raju, CNN President Joe Biden has met with three potential Supreme Court nominees — including Ketanji Brown Jackson, Leondra Kruger and J. Michelle Childs, multiple sources tell CNN. One source familiar with the three meetings — including the meeting with Jackson, who has long been considered the
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By Jeremy Herb, Jennifer Hansler and Michael Conte, CNN US Secretary of State Antony Blinken canceled a planned meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Geneva this week, he announced Tuesday, in the latest sign that diplomatic avenues with Russia over Ukraine are quickly closing. “Now that we see the invasion is beginning and
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By Whitney Wild, Geneva Sands, Gabe Cohen and Oren Liebermann, CNN The Defense Department on Tuesday approved the use of 700 National Guard members and 50 large tactical vehicles ahead of possible trucker convoy protests descending on the Washington area in the coming days, according to the DC National Guard. The guard members, activated on
Continue Reading By Zachary B. Wolf, CNN President Joe Biden has warned Americans they will have to pay a price for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Gas prices are likely to rise. The post-World War II world order that has maintained relative peace in Europe is threatened. But Biden has also been very clear on another point: US
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President Joe Biden described events now underway in Ukraine as “the beginning of a Russian invasion” as he unveiled new sanctions to punish Moscow on Tuesday.
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By Joan Biskupic, CNN legal analyst & Supreme Court biographer He has read their cases. He knows their records. And now President Joe Biden has begun the last stage for selection of a new Supreme Court justice: the interview. For possible nominees, this can be a make-or-break moment. The late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg famously
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By Clare Foran, CNN Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds will deliver the Republican response to President Joe Biden’s upcoming State of the Union address. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy announced on Tuesday that Reynolds will give the Republican address to the nation from Des Moines, Iowa, after the conclusion of
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By Daniel Dale, CNN Tanya Vrebosch, deputy mayor of the Canadian city of North Bay, saw something strange when she checked her phone on Sunday: North Bay was a trending topic on her Twitter feed. North Bay doesn’t do much trending — it’s a city of about 52,000 people in northern Ontario — so Vrebosch
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By Fredreka Schouten and Kelly Mena, CNN A version of this story appeared in the CITIZEN BY CNN newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. You’ve probably never heard of Republican Rep. Rusty Bowers, but the Arizona House speaker has quietly made a name for himself in the state as
Continue Reading By Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden described events now underway in Ukraine as “the beginning of a Russian invasion” as he unveiled new sanctions to punish Moscow on Tuesday. He laid out what he called a “first tranche” of US sanctions against Russia for its moves, including on two financial institutions, Russian sovereign debt
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By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter Justice Sonia Sotomayor was back on the bench for oral arguments at the Supreme Court on Tuesday after participating remotely during the court’s January sitting that came during a surge in Covid-19 cases due to the Omicron variant. Sotomayor was the only justice wearing a mask on
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By Tami Luhby, CNN Millions of Americans remained out of work because they or a loved one were sick with coronavirus symptoms in late January and early February, even as the number of cases of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 fell. Some 7.8 million people pointed to Covid-19 symptoms as the reason they were not
Continue Reading By Tami Luhby, CNN Millions of Americans remained out of work because they or a loved one were sick with coronavirus symptoms in late January and early February, even as the number of cases of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 fell. Some 7.8 million people pointed to Covid-19 symptoms as the reason they were not
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By Tierney Sneed and Katelyn Polantz, CNN The Supreme Court said on Tuesday that it will not take up former President Donald Trump’s case challenging the disclosure of his White House documents to the House January 6 investigation, a formal conclusion to his unsuccessful bid to keep those records secret. The court had previously rejected
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