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By John Blake, CNN An army of commentators have rightly condemned a belief called “replacement theory,” which a young White man cited before killing 10 people, most of them Black, Saturday at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York. Those who subscribe to the theory — many of them White conservatives — believe a secret group

By Simone Pathe and Kelly Mena, CNN The Rev. Zachary Holmes spent part of last weekend assembling people to head to the polls ahead of Tuesday’s primaries. But the church parking lot was a lot less crowded than it normally would have been. That’s because it was Saturday, not Sunday. Previously, Holmes had conducted voting

By Kaitlan Collins, CNN The first flights of the Biden administration’s latest effort to expedite baby formula delivery to the US amid a nationwide shortage will include US military aircraft, a White House official says. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered the first flights supporting the newly created Operation Fly Formula program, and they will

By Ryan Nobles and Paula Reid, CNN Rudy Giuliani, former President Donald Trump‘s onetime personal attorney and a lead architect of his attempt to overturn the 2020 election results, on Friday met with the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection, two sources told CNN. Giuliani’s original deposition with the committee had been

By Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden and his South Korean counterpart agreed in talks Saturday to begin discussions on restarting and potentially expanding joint military drills that had been halted under Biden’s predecessor — a step likely to draw fury from North Korea as it intensifies its provocations. The move was a signal Biden

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN A federal judge in Louisiana has for now blocked the Biden administration from ending a Trump-era pandemic restriction, known as Title 42, at the US-Mexico border, thwarting plans to terminate the controversial public health authority. Since taking office, President Joe Biden’s administration has continued to rely on Title 42, a public

By Marshall Cohen, CNN Hillary Clinton personally approved her campaign’s plans in fall 2016 to share information with a reporter about an uncorroborated alleged server backchannel between Donald Trump and a top Russian bank, her former campaign manager testified Friday in federal court. Robby Mook said he attended a meeting with other senior campaign officials

By Manu Raju and Melanie Zanona, CNN The conservative archbishop of San Francisco, Salvatore Cordileone, says House Speaker Nancy Pelosi may no longer receive the holy sacrament of Communion in the archdiocese, because she supports abortion rights. In a letter to Pelosi released Friday afternoon, the archbishop wrote that he had informed the California Democrat

By Zachary Cohen and Tierney Sneed, CNN Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, pressed two Arizona state lawmakers after the 2020 presidential election to upend Joe Biden‘s popular vote win in that state by ensuring “a clean slate of electors” was chosen, according to emails released Friday. The emails — which started

By Kate Sullivan, CNN The White House says flying a bill that will authorize about $40 billion in aid to Ukraine will ensure there won’t be any funding gaps when it comes to its military and humanitarian support for their fight against a Russian invasion. But while flying a bill to a President’s location is

By Steve Contorno, CNN A Florida appeals court has reinstated the congressional map Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law last month, allowing the controversial new district boundaries to take effect for now. In an order issued Friday, the First District Court of Appeal stayed a temporary injunction on the DeSantis map put in place

By Marshall Cohen, CNN Special counsel John Durham’s case against a Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer got a boost from pivotal testimony from one of the FBI’s former top officials this week. The trial of Michael Sussmann stems from Durham’s three-year inquiry into potential misconduct tied to the FBI’s Trump-Russia probe. It has become a vehicle