Politics

By Christina Carrega, CNN John Jerome White was 19 years old when a Georgia judge sentenced him to life plus 40 years in prison for breaking into a 74-year-old woman’s home and raping her. Exonerated after DNA testing years later, he walked free in a state that does not have laws on the books to

By Ryan Nobles and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN The remaining fencing around the US Capitol that was erected in the wake of the January 6 insurrection will start to come down as early as Friday, the US Capitol Police formally announced Wednesday. In an email obtained by CNN on Wednesday, the US Capitol Police said that

By Rachel Janfaza, CNN Hillary Clinton called out the Republican-led crackdown on voting rights and urged Americans to fight for access to the ballot box in an op-ed published Wednesday. “We are witnessing a concerted attempt to destabilize the democratic process and delegitimize our multi-racial democracy, carried out in full view of the American people.

By Holmes Lybrand and Tara Subramaniam, CNN Violent crime in the United States shot up last year as the pandemic raged. Major cities across the country saw a more than 30% jump in homicides as well as increases in aggravated assaults, according to a January report from the National Commission on Covid-19 and Criminal Justice.

By Kate Sullivan, CNN The Biden administration is sending millions of Covid-19 vaccines to countries in Latin America this week as part of President Joe Biden’s commitment to play a leading role in ending the pandemic across the globe. One million doses of Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine will ship to Bolivia on Thursday, one

By Marshall Cohen and Devan Cole, CNN The Justice Department has charged a Pennsylvania man who allegedly attacked an Associated Press photographer and used a stun gun while assaulting police officers during the Capitol insurrection on January 6. Alan Byerly, who is one of many Capitol riot defendants arrested recently in connection with attacks on

By Annie Grayer and Daniella Diaz, CNN Republican Rep. Jim Hagedorn announced a reoccurrence of his kidney cancer on Wednesday. The Minnesota lawmaker was first diagnosed with stage IV kidney cancer on February 15, 2019, and had been receiving care at Rochester’s Mayo Clinic. “Over the weekend, recent tests conducted at the Mayo Clinic revealed

By Ashley Killough and Paul LeBlanc, CNN A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the negligence of the United States government was mostly responsible for the 2017 mass shooting at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, one of the deadliest mass shootings in recent history. US District Judge Xavier Rodriguez for the Western District of Texas

By Pamela Kirkland and Sara Murray, CNN A federal court judge on Wednesday denied a motion to stop the implementation of parts of Georgia’s new voting law, ahead of state legislature runoff elections next week. In the ruling, US District Judge J. P. Boulee declined to block parts of SB202, saying the timing of the

By Chandelis Duster and Catherine Valentine, CNN Then-President Donald Trump allegedly praised Adolf Hitler during a discussion with his White House chief of staff John Kelly in 2018 while on a trip to Paris to commemorate the armistice after World War I, according to excerpts of an upcoming book, obtained by CNN, from Wall Street

By Kristen Holmes and Liz Stark, CNN The Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday an additional $50 million in funding to enhance air pollution monitoring and improve air quality in low-income communities and communities of color. The announcement of new funds comes as the agency ramps up its investments in environmental justice initiatives, a core focus

By Paul LeBlanc, CNN Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Tuesday compared officials carrying out President Joe Biden’s latest Covid-19 vaccination push to Nazi-era “brown shirts,” just weeks after apologizing for her comments comparing Capitol Hill mask-wearing rules to the Holocaust. Responding to remarks from Biden about mobilizing officials to reach unvaccinated individuals at their homes,

By Daniella Diaz and Ryan Nobles, CNN Republican Rep. Chip Roy of Texas revealed in a video circulating online that he wants to jam Democrats’ legislative goals so Republicans can win the 2022 midterms. In the video posted by Democratic activist Lauren Windsor on Tuesday, Roy was asked specifically about infrastructure negotiations in Congress. “The

By Kate Sullivan and Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden on Wednesday pushed for generational investments in human infrastructure to expand the social safety net, asserting that he’ll continue to make the case for his plans “until the job is done.” Biden made the case for policies that were included in his original American Jobs

By Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN Two US service members were injured Wednesday in a rocket attack targeting the al-Asad airbase in Iraq which hosts US, Iraqi, and coalition forces. Col. Wayne Marotto, the spokesman for Operation Inherent Resolve, tweeted that the airbase was attacked by 14 rockets which landed on the “base & perimeter” and that