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By Ryan Nobles and Daniella Diaz, CNN The top members of the select committee investigating the January 6 riot on Capitol Hill refuted recent claims by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy that former President Donald Trump has been cleared by the Justice Department of any role in the insurrection. “(McCarthy) has suggested, based on an

By Tierney Sneed, CNN The anti-abortion movement has won its biggest returns yet on its decades-long investment on reshaping the courts, with a Supreme Court order that allowed the country’s second most populous state to cut off almost all access to the procedure. For a generation, abortion foes have employed a multi-pronged strategy of electing

By Daniella Diaz, CNN When Rep. Sara Jacobs was in her late 20s, she decided she wanted time to create a family, so she made the decision to one day freeze her eggs. But then life overtook her plans as she embarked on a demanding career, first as a State Department official, then policy adviser

By Harry Enten, CNN The American landscape is filled with divisive issues that split the country down the middle. But while a sizable portion of American adults remain unvaccinated, we shouldn’t lose sight of the fact that the campaign to vaccinate Americans against Covid-19 has increasingly overcome the typical political divide. Three-quarters of American adults

By Sara Murray and Jeff Simon, CNN As Sen. Ron Johnson grapples with whether to run for a third term, it seems there’s no controversy the Wisconsin Republican is unwilling to wade into. “The science tells us that vaccines are 95 percent effective. So if you have a vaccine, quite honestly, what do you care

By Andy Rose, CNN A district judge in Texas has issued a temporary restraining order against Texas Right to Life, blocking the anti-abortion group from suing abortion providers employed by Planned Parenthood under the state’s strict new abortion law, according to a copy of the order provided by Planned Parenthood. The law, which took effect

By Sam Fossum and Maggie Fox, CNN The White House on Friday released a new multibillion-dollar plan for improving preparedness for pandemics or other biological threats, comparing it to the ambitious Apollo moon shot program of the 1960s and 1970s. “We need better capabilities, also, because there is a reasonable likelihood that another serious pandemic

By Sonnet Swire, CNN This week, President Biden’s infrastructure agenda took a backseat as the last US troops left Afghanistan and Hurricane Ida devastated both the Gulf Coast and the Northeast, while the Supreme Court allowed a restrictive new abortion law to stand in Texas — effectively outlawing most abortions sought in the state. Monday

By Dan Merica and Kyung Lah, CNN If California Gov. Gavin Newsom is able to keep his job and avoid a recall later this month, he could have Latino voters to thank for it. A mix of Democratic campaigns, super PACs and organizations throughout the predominantly blue state have been working for weeks to turnout

By Geneva Sands, CNN US intelligence officials are anticipating foreign terrorist organizations will seek to exploit the 20th anniversary of 9/11 and “probably the US withdrawal from Afghanistan” in their messaging, according to a FBI, DHS, and NCTC joint intelligence bulletin obtained by CNN. The agencies also concluded that homegrown violent extremists are unlikely to

By Arlette Saenz President Joe Biden has tapped former Delaware Gov. Jack Markell as the temporary point person who will oversee the administration’s Afghan evacuee resettlement effort in the United States, the White House announced Friday. Markell, who served two terms as governor, will be the coordinator of the resettlement initiative that the White House

By Donald Judd and Rachel Janfaza, CNN President Joe Biden on Friday signed an executive order directing the Department of Justice and other federal agencies to conduct a declassification review of documents related to the FBI’s investigation of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The review could result in the release of new documents, should

By Daniel Dale, CNN Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa, a veteran of the war in Iraq and a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, falsely claimed on CNN on Wednesday that President Joe Biden has never expressed gratitude or empathy toward the American troops who have served overseas during the last two decades.

By Marshall Cohen The so-called “QAnon Shaman” who stormed the US Capitol in a horned bearskin outfit pleaded guilty Friday to a felony for obstructing the Electoral College proceedings on January 6. The defendant, Jacob Chansley of Arizona, is a well-known figure in the QAnon movement. He went viral after the January 6 attack because

By Paul P. Murphy, CNN County administrators in Colorado have opened an investigation into an election official after employees complained she was pressuring them not to cooperate with a joint local, state and federal criminal investigation into an election system security breach discovered last month, a source told CNN. Deputy clerk Belinda Knisley of the