By Sam Fossum, CNN The US will temporarily lift Trump-era tariffs on Ukrainian steel for a period of one year in a move aimed at helping the Ukrainian economy and sending a message of support as the country continues to resist Russia’s ongoing invasion. “For steel mills to continue as an economic lifeline for the
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By Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden on Monday signed a bill into law aimed at streamlining the process for getting military assistance to Ukraine as Russia continues its invasion. In an Oval Office signing ceremony for the Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act on Monday afternoon, Biden said, “The atrocities that the Russians are engaging
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By Ali Zaslav, Jessica Dean and Ted Barrett, CNN Members of the US Senate passed a bipartisan bill Monday that would expand security protection to the immediate family members of Supreme Court justices, following recent protests at some justices’ homes. The Supreme Court Police Parity Act was approved by unanimous consent, meaning no senators objected
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By Betsy Klein and Kaitlan Collins, CNN The Biden administration is ramping up its warnings of a potential fall and winter surge should Congress fail to pass additional Covid-19 supplemental funding, warning of effects to the production of updated vaccines, as well as other potential consequences to testing and treatments. The warning comes as scientists
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By Betsy Klein and Kate Sullivan, CNN White House domestic policy adviser Susan Rice has tested positive for Covid-19, she announced Monday, becoming the latest high-ranking Biden administration official to contract the coronavirus. Rice said she last saw President Joe Biden five days before her diagnosis but was masked and is not considered a close
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By Jasmine Wright and Kate Sullivan, CNN Vice President Kamala Harris has hired White House staffer Erin Wilson to become her new deputy chief of staff, a White House official told CNN on Monday, amid the latest personnel shakeup in the vice president’s office. Wilson is slated to start May 31 and will replace Michael
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By Manu Raju and Alex Rogers, CNN It’s a refrain that former Sen. David Perdue has made a centerpiece of his campaign for governor in Georgia. “The election in 2020 was rigged and stolen,” Perdue asserted at a recent debate. Perdue’s former Senate GOP colleagues, however, are less than impressed. “It’s absurd,” said Sen. Mitt
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By Kara Scannell Former President Donald Trump said he no longer has four cell phones identified by the New York attorney general’s investigation into the Trump Organization’s finances but has turned over his personal phone to be searched as he tries to convince a state judge to lift a civil contempt ruling that so far
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By Kaitlan Collins, CNN President Joe Biden recently told his top national security officials that leaks about US intelligence sharing with Ukrainians aren’t helpful and need to stop, according to an official familiar with the conversation. Last week, after the White House denied providing direct intelligence to Ukrainians “with the intent to kill Russian generals,”
Continue Reading By Kaitlan Collins, CNN US officials found Russian President Vladimir Putin muted and subdued when he delivered his Victory Day address on Monday, further obscuring their attempts to ascertain the Russian leader’s ultimate objectives in Ukraine. Officials inside the Biden administration have been contemplating ways Putin could exit his unprovoked war should he choose to
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By Kaitlan Collins, CNN President Joe Biden recently told his top national security officials that leaks about US intelligence sharing with Ukrainians aren’t helpful and need to stop, according to an official familiar with the conversation. Last week, after the White House denied providing direct intelligence to Ukrainians “with the intent to kill Russian generals,”
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By Jeremy Diamond and Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden will deliver remarks and participate in a global Covid-19 summit convened by his administration on Thursday, two senior administration officials told CNN. The summit is aimed at urging other wealthy countries to ramp up their coronavirus relief efforts aimed at poorer countries, but it comes
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By Kylie Atwood and Jennifer Hansler, CNN Vladimir Putin “has recognized he has no victory to celebrate,” US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield told CNN in response to the lack of a major escalatory announcement in the Russian President’s “Victory Day” speech Monday. But the Russian leader also gave no indication that he
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By Betsy Klein, CNN The White House on Monday condemned “violence, threats, or vandalism” after protesters held demonstrations outside the homes of conservative Supreme Court Justices over the weekend. White House press secretary Jen Psaki reiterated the Biden administration’s support for the right to protest but said the justices should not feel that their safety
Continue Reading By Tierney Sneed, CNN Republicans in Congress and governors’ mansions are calling on Attorney General Merrick Garland to enforce a 1950 federal law that makes it illegal to hold protests outside the homes of judges in order to influence their decisions. In recent days, protesters have held peaceful demonstrations outside the homes of multiple conservative
Continue Reading By Daniel Dale, CNN President Joe Biden has been taking credit for reducing the federal budget deficit, the annual gap between the money the government takes in and the money the government spends. “Let me remind you again: I reduced the federal deficit,” Biden said in a speech on Wednesday. “All the talk about the
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By Daniel Dale, CNN President Joe Biden has been taking credit for reducing the federal budget deficit, the annual gap between the money the government takes in and the money the government spends. “Let me remind you again: I reduced the federal deficit,” Biden said in a speech on Wednesday. “All the talk about the
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By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Abortion rights advocates in Michigan are raising alarms about a restrictive abortion ban put in place in 1931 before the US Supreme Court’s 1973 landmark decision in Roe v. Wade. That law was invalidated by the decision in Roe v. Wade, but it’s still on the state’s books. Michigan Democratic Gov.
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By Katelyn Polantz, Hannah Rabinowitz, Evan Perez and Andrew Millman, CNN Top leaders in the Oath Keepers, the far-right extremist group, have been turning over phones and digital files and sitting for interviews with the FBI — and detailing how they worked to benefit Donald Trump’s campaign and communicated with others in the former President’s
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By Donald Judd, Paul LeBlanc and Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden on Monday announced that 20 of the nation’s internet providers have committed to lowering costs for low-income households, a step the administration says will increase access to high-speed internet for 48 million households nationwide. “Over the last few months, my administration has worked
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