Politics

By Christina Carrega, CNN Attorney General Merrick Garland has ordered a temporarily halt to federal executions as Justice Department senior officials review the policies and procedures for the controversial punishment. “Serious concerns have been raised about the continued use of the death penalty across the country, including arbitrariness in its application, disparate impact on people

By Katelyn Polantz and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN The Justice Department has rounded up several new defendants this week accused of destroying thousands of dollars’ worth of professional broadcast equipment outside the US Capitol on January 6, in a scene captured on multiple videos showing Trump supporters gleefully taking out their anger at the mainstream media.

By Katelyn Polantz and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN The Justice Department has rounded up several new defendants this week accused of destroying thousands of dollars’ worth of professional broadcast equipment outside the US Capitol on January 6, in a scene captured on multiple videos showing Trump supporters gleefully taking out their anger at the mainstream media.

By Tami Luhby, CNN Patients would no longer receive surprise medical bills for emergency treatment and certain other health care services from out-of-network providers starting in January under a rule issued Thursday by the Biden administration. The interim final rule starts the process of filling out the No Surprises Act, a contentious and long-delayed bill

By Tami Luhby, CNN Patients would no longer receive surprise medical bills for emergency treatment and certain other health care services from out-of-network providers starting in January under a rule issued Thursday by the Biden administration. The interim final rule starts the process of filling out the No Surprises Act, a contentious and long-delayed bill

By Erica Orden On Thursday, New York prosecutors charged the Trump Organization and its chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, with running a 15-year alleged tax scheme designed “to compensate Weisselberg and other Trump Organization executives in a manner that was ‘off the books.” It is the first criminal case against former President Donald Trump’s company,

By Ethan Cohen and Paul LeBlanc, CNN California voters will decide whether to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom in an election on September 14, the state lieutenant governor said Thursday, setting up a 10-week window for the Democratic governor to make his case for staying in office. Lt. Governor Eleni Kounalakis made the announcement after California

By Kate Sullivan and Phil Mattingly, CNN Women make up approximately 60% of the staff at the White House and 56% of senior staff, the White House said Thursday ahead of releasing its annual report to Congress on personnel. The White House touted the diversity of its administration and said the staff makeup shows President

By Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden, whose empathy amid loss is his chief political characteristic, traveled Thursday to console families in Florida enduring the excruciating search for loved ones inside a seaside condo that suddenly collapsed a week ago. “Never give up hope,” he told the anguished relatives of those still missing, who had

By Ethan Cohen, CNN California voters will decide whether to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom in an election on September 14, the state lieutenant governor said Thursday. Lt. Governor Eleni Kounalakis made the announcement after California Secretary of State Shirley Weber certified the recall effort. Newsom, a Democrat, is only the second sitting governor in California

By Devan Cole, CNN After the Supreme Court issued its final two opinions of this term on Thursday, all eyes turned to Justice Stephen Breyer, the court’s senior liberal who is facing intense calls to retire so Democrats can install a replacement this summer. Breyer had been closely watched all term after Democrat Joe Biden

By Devan Cole, CNN After the Supreme Court issued its final two opinions of this term on Thursday, all eyes turned to Justice Stephen Breyer, the court’s senior liberal who is facing intense calls to retire so Democrats can install a replacement this summer. Breyer had been closely watched all term after Democrat Joe Biden

By Kate Sullivan and Phil Mattingly, CNN Women make up approximately 60% of the staff at the White House and 56% of senior staff, the White House said Thursday ahead of releasing its annual report to Congress on personnel. The White House touted the diversity of its administration and said the staff makeup shows President

By Kate Sullivan, CNN The Biden administration will share tens of millions of US Covid-19 vaccines this summer to countries around the globe, in addition to the 80 million it has already allocated, White House Covid-19 response director Jeff Zients said Thursday. “Just as our work to vaccinate Americans does not stop on July Fourth,

By Kate Sullivan, CNN The Biden administration will share tens of millions of US Covid-19 vaccines this summer to countries around the globe, in addition to the 80 million it has already allocated, White House Covid-19 response director Jeff Zients said Thursday. “Just as our work to vaccinate Americans does not stop on July Fourth,

By Melanie Zanona, Manu Raju and Annie Grayer, CNN House Republicans don’t want to touch the select committee on January 6 with a 10-foot pole. As Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy mulls whom to tap for a congressional investigation into the deadly US Capitol riot — and whether to appoint people at all — Republicans from

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy took questions from reporters the day after the House voted to create a select committee to investigate the January 6 insurrection.