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Former President Obama spoke out about the danger of misinformation at an American Library Association conference.

By Dan Merica, CNN Former President Barack Obama said Tuesday that the rise in misinformation that led to the January 6 insurrection was apparent during his administration, but the speed and prevalence with which misinformation has increased in recent years “worries” him and should worry everyone. Echoing some of what he wrote in his latest

By Gregory Krieg, Ethan Cohen and Adam Levy, CNN The campaign to become New York City’s next mayor has come in for another twist. On Tuesday, the City Board of Elections released new numbers that suggested Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams’ lead in the Democratic primary had narrowed in the first set of tabulated ranked-choice

By Andrew Kaczynski and Drew Myers, CNN A top Republican Party official in Oregon appeared on a YouTube show hosted by a man with a history of racist, anti-Semitic and pro-Nazi statements, in which the official, Solomon Yue, spoke supportively of another man who espouses White nationalist rhetoric. Now, Yue tells CNN’s KFILE he wasn’t

By Barbara Starr, Nicole Gaouette and Kevin Liptak, CNN The US could complete its troop withdrawal from Afghanistan within days, according to multiple US officials, making this a critical week in President Joe Biden’s campaign to end America’s longest war even as US military officials warn the country could devolve into civil war. A formal

By Paul LeBlanc and Stella Chan, CNN California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday sued his own secretary of state in an effort to have his party affiliation listed on the state’s upcoming recall election ballot following what he called a filing “mistake” by his election attorney last year. Newsom wants to “require all recall

By Priscilla Alvarez and Geneva Sands, CNN More than 1 million migrants have been arrested after illegally crossing the US-Mexico border since last October, according to two US Department of Homeland Security officials, surpassing the 2019 border crisis tally with three months still left in the fiscal year. The Biden administration has been bracing for

By Katie Lobosco, CNN The federal government has sent out three rounds of stimulus checks to help people during the pandemic, but despite their political popularity, there’s no proposal on the table to deliver a fourth round. Congress, which would have to approve the money, is unlikely to consider more spending on direct payments as

By Tami Luhby, CNN Unemployed Americans will be able to sign up for hefty subsidies for 2021 coverage on the federal Affordable Care Act exchange starting July 1, the Biden administration announced Tuesday. The benefit, part of the Democrats’ $1.9 trillion rescue package enacted in March, allows anyone who receives or is approved to receive

By Ariane de Vogue and Chandelis Duster, CNN The Supreme Court on Thursday at 10 a.m. ET will issue the last two opinions of the term in highly anticipated cases involving the Voting Rights Act and political donor disclosures. All eyes will also be on Justice Stephen Breyer, who during the final days of the

By Kate Bennett, CNN The East Wing has been in discussions about first lady Jill Biden attending the Opening Ceremony for the Olympics in Tokyo next month, a White House official tells CNN. Asked by a reporter on Tuesday whether the first lady will go, President Joe Biden said it was a possibility. “Well, we’re

By Kate Sullivan and Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will travel to Surfside, Florida, on Thursday after a residential building partially collapsed in the coastal city last week, the White House announced on Tuesday. At least 11 people are dead and 150 people are unaccounted for, while search and rescue teams continue to

By Kate Sullivan, CNN President Joe Biden argued in Wisconsin on Tuesday that the bipartisan infrastructure proposal he agreed to last week would benefit working and middle-class families around the country. “After months of careful negotiation — of listening, compromising together and in good faith moving together, with ups and downs and some blips —

By Dianne Gallagher and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Maricopa County, Arizona, announced Monday that it will not reuse any of the voting equipment that was in the hands of the contractors hired by the Republican-controlled state Senate to conduct its so-called audit of the 2020 presidential election results. In a letter sent to Arizona Secretary of

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN A left-leaning group plans to spend $7 million to help elect Democratic secretaries of state and attorneys general in key battlegrounds — a big investment in down-ballot races that loom large in voting rights battles around the country. End Citizens United/Let America Vote on Tuesday will endorse six Democratic incumbents as

By Kate Bennett, CNN It is back en vogue for the first lady to be back in Vogue. After a four year hiatus of first ladies gracing the cover of the fashion magazine, Jill Biden is on the August issue, which goes on sale on July 20. Biden, who posed for the pictures this spring

By Joan Biskupic, CNN legal analyst & Supreme Court biographer Justice Stephen Breyer has taken a commanding role in the final days of the Supreme Court session, writing decisions preserving Obamacare and bolstering student free speech and, when conservatives ruled against union organizing on agricultural land, forcefully dissenting for the left wing. But what some

By Alex Rogers, CNN The House passed a resolution Tuesday to expel Confederate statues from the US Capitol and replace its bust of Roger B. Taney, the chief justice who wrote the Dred Scott decision, with one honoring Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Supreme Court justice. The vote was 285 to 120. Sixty-seven Republicans

CNN’s Erin Burnett talks to the former daughter-in-law of top Trump Organization official Allen Weisselberg, Jennifer Weisselberg, about the Manhattan district attorney’s investigation into the Trump Organization.