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By Brian Fung and Katelyn Polantz, CNN Microsoft on Wednesday argued forcefully before Congress that the US government has abused the use of gag orders to keep subpoenas and warrants secret in law enforcement investigations and called for new restrictions on their use. Microsoft’s vice president of customer security, testifying before the House Judiciary Committee,

The US House of Representatives voted to expel Confederate statues from the Capitol building.

By Paul LeBlanc, CNN Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar said Tuesday that she would support adding a “reality-based” Republican to the select committee being established by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to investigate the January 6 insurrection. Asked by CNN’s Jake Tapper on “The Lead” about the possibility of Pelosi appointing a GOP lawmaker to the panel,

By Devan Cole, CNN Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will appoint Randy Moore as the new chief of the US Forest Service, making him the first African American to lead the agency once sworn in, Vilsack announced Monday. Moore, a longtime employee of the Forest Service, will take the agency’s reins just as it braces for

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday denied a request to block a US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention order that prohibits landlords nationwide from evicting certain tenants who fail to pay rent amid the Covid-19 pandemic. The court’s order means the moratorium will remain in place

By Jessica Dean and Manu Raju, CNN High-stakes talks over a major revamp of policing laws are at a precarious state, with influential law enforcement groups divided, lawmakers struggling to bridge a gap on long-standing sticking points and skepticism among many congressional Republicans about the need for legislation at a time of rising crime in

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 —