By Maeve Reston, CNN Voters in two of the most liberal cities in America sent a clear message to the Democratic Party on Tuesday: they want their leaders to refocus on the most basic functions of government by ensuring their safety, protecting their quality of life and restoring order. For months now, voters in San
Continue Reading By Manu Raju and Pamela Brown, CNN Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has privately expressed an openness for raising the age to 21 for purchasing semiautomatic rifles, according to a person familiar with the matter, but the issue is unlikely to be included in any final deal because most Republicans are opposed to it. Instead,
Continue Reading By Ella Nilsen, CNN Months of intense lobbying from the solar and clean energy industry culminated on Monday in the Biden White House taking their biggest action on climate in recent months. The administration moved to waive anti-circumvention tariffs on solar panels for two years and invoking the Defense Production Act to speed up domestic
Continue Reading By Ella Nilsen, CNN Months of intense lobbying from the solar and clean energy industry culminated on Monday in the Biden White House taking their biggest action on climate in recent months. The administration moved to waive anti-circumvention tariffs on solar panels for two years and invoking the Defense Production Act to speed up domestic
Continue Reading By Zachary Cohen, Evan Perez, Annie Grayer and Ryan Nobles, CNN Former acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen and his then-deputy, Richard Donoghue, have been invited by the committee investigating the January 6 insurrection to testify publicly during one of its hearings, multiple sources tell CNN. Rosen and Donoghue have previously spoken with the committee behind
Continue Reading By Zachary Cohen, Evan Perez, Annie Grayer and Ryan Nobles, CNN Former acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen and his then-deputy, Richard Donoghue, have been invited by the committee investigating the January 6 insurrection to testify publicly during one of its hearings, multiple sources tell CNN. Rosen and Donoghue have previously spoken with the committee behind
Continue Reading By Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden arrived here Wednesday to play host to nearly two dozen leaders from Latin America, hoping to use new economic and migration announcements to demonstrate cohesion in a region of fractured politics and, at times, entrenched skepticism of the United States. His mission has been made more difficult by
Continue Reading By Kevin Liptak, CNN The decision by Mexico’s President to boycott this week’s summit for regional leaders in Los Angeles rendered futile months of work by President Joe Biden and other top officials to convince him to attend. Now, key nations in Central America are following President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s lead, dispatching only lower-level
Continue Reading By Kate Sullivan, CNN Actor Matthew McConaughey delivered impassioned and at-times emotional remarks at the White House press briefing on Tuesday, telling the stories of those who died in the elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, and urging more action on gun control. McConaughey, a Uvalde native, said he and his wife, Camila Alves, spent
Continue Reading By Gregory Krieg, CNN Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Tuesday endorsed state Sen. Alessandra Biaggi’s bid to unseat Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, the leader of the Democratic Party’s House campaign arm, ahead of their primary clash in a newly drawn district north of New York City. In an fundraising email to supporters, Ocasio-Cortez touted Biaggi as
Continue Reading By Whitney Wild and Annie Grayer, CNN The Secret Service says former President Donald Trump’s call to supporters to walk alongside him to the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, led the agency to consider options to secure a motorcade, but ultimately found that transporting the former President to the Capitol unfeasible. A minute-by-minute accounting
Continue Reading By Zachary Cohen and Kylie Atwood, CNN House Democrats are investigating former President Donald Trump‘s “apparent failure to account for gifts from foreign government officials while in office” after learning there may be thousands of dollars-worth of items that are either missing or were not tracked properly, according to a new letter sent to the
Continue Reading By Holmes Lybrand A female ISIS fighter from Kansas who led and trained a unique battalion of over 100 women and children in Syria pleaded guilty in an Alexandria, Virginia, courthouse Tuesday to conspiring to provide support to the terrorist global organization. Allison Elizabeth Fluke-Ekren, who studied biology at the University of Kansas, traveled to
Continue Reading By Rachel Janfaza, Ethan Cohen and Melissa Holzberg DePalo, CNN It’s election day in New Jersey, Mississippi, South Dakota, Iowa, New Mexico, Montana and California. A number of House primary races have captured national attention, especially in California, where redistricting after the 2020 census shook up the traditional political playing field. A former Trump administration
Continue Reading By Sara Murray, CNN Steve Bannon, set to go to trial next month for defying a congressional subpoena, has subpoenaed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and members of the House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection as he builds his defense. Bannon, a conservative firebrand who previously served as former President Donald Trump’s chief strategist
Continue Reading By Kate Sullivan, CNN Actor Matthew McConaughey delivered impassioned and at-times emotional remarks at the White House press briefing on Tuesday, telling the stories of those who died in the elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, and urging more action on gun control. McConaughey, a Uvalde native, said he and his wife, Camila Alves, spent
Continue Reading By Zachary Cohen and Kylie Atwood, CNN House Democrats are investigating former President Donald Trump‘s “apparent failure to account for gifts from foreign government officials while in office” after learning there may be thousands of dollars-worth of items that are either missing or were not tracked properly, according to a new letter sent to the
Continue Reading By Betsy Klein, CNN Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo conceded Tuesday that there is not much more the White House can do to tackle record high gas prices for Americans, casting blame on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “Unfortunately, that is the brutal reality,” Raimondo said in response to CNN’s Kate Bolduan saying there’s not much action
Continue Reading By Jeremy Diamond, Betsy Klein and Phil Mattingly, CNN President Joe Biden on Tuesday met with Sen. Chris Murphy, one of the top Democratic lawmakers negotiating on gun reform, at the White House for an update as talks intensify on Capitol Hill. “We’re entering a pretty critical stage so I thought it would be important
Continue Reading 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. State and local election officials in Michigan and other political battlegrounds are gearing up to deal with a new element in this year’s elections: a
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