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By Erica Orden On Thursday, New York prosecutors charged the Trump Organization and its chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, with running a 15-year alleged tax scheme designed “to compensate Weisselberg and other Trump Organization executives in a manner that was ‘off the books.” It is the first criminal case against former President Donald Trump’s company,

By Ethan Cohen and Paul LeBlanc, CNN California voters will decide whether to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom in an election on September 14, the state lieutenant governor said Thursday, setting up a 10-week window for the Democratic governor to make his case for staying in office. Lt. Governor Eleni Kounalakis made the announcement after California

By Kate Sullivan and Phil Mattingly, CNN Women make up approximately 60% of the staff at the White House and 56% of senior staff, the White House said Thursday ahead of releasing its annual report to Congress on personnel. The White House touted the diversity of its administration and said the staff makeup shows President

By Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden, whose empathy amid loss is his chief political characteristic, traveled Thursday to console families in Florida enduring the excruciating search for loved ones inside a seaside condo that suddenly collapsed a week ago. “Never give up hope,” he told the anguished relatives of those still missing, who had

By Ethan Cohen, CNN California voters will decide whether to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom in an election on September 14, the state lieutenant governor said Thursday. Lt. Governor Eleni Kounalakis made the announcement after California Secretary of State Shirley Weber certified the recall effort. Newsom, a Democrat, is only the second sitting governor in California

By Devan Cole, CNN After the Supreme Court issued its final two opinions of this term on Thursday, all eyes turned to Justice Stephen Breyer, the court’s senior liberal who is facing intense calls to retire so Democrats can install a replacement this summer. Breyer had been closely watched all term after Democrat Joe Biden

By Devan Cole, CNN After the Supreme Court issued its final two opinions of this term on Thursday, all eyes turned to Justice Stephen Breyer, the court’s senior liberal who is facing intense calls to retire so Democrats can install a replacement this summer. Breyer had been closely watched all term after Democrat Joe Biden

By Kate Sullivan and Phil Mattingly, CNN Women make up approximately 60% of the staff at the White House and 56% of senior staff, the White House said Thursday ahead of releasing its annual report to Congress on personnel. The White House touted the diversity of its administration and said the staff makeup shows President

By Kate Sullivan, CNN The Biden administration will share tens of millions of US Covid-19 vaccines this summer to countries around the globe, in addition to the 80 million it has already allocated, White House Covid-19 response director Jeff Zients said Thursday. “Just as our work to vaccinate Americans does not stop on July Fourth,

By Kate Sullivan, CNN The Biden administration will share tens of millions of US Covid-19 vaccines this summer to countries around the globe, in addition to the 80 million it has already allocated, White House Covid-19 response director Jeff Zients said Thursday. “Just as our work to vaccinate Americans does not stop on July Fourth,

By Melanie Zanona, Manu Raju and Annie Grayer, CNN House Republicans don’t want to touch the select committee on January 6 with a 10-foot pole. As Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy mulls whom to tap for a congressional investigation into the deadly US Capitol riot — and whether to appoint people at all — Republicans from

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy took questions from reporters the day after the House voted to create a select committee to investigate the January 6 insurrection.

By Melanie Zanona, Manu Raju and Annie Grayer, CNN House Republicans don’t want to touch the select committee on January 6 with a 10-foot pole. As Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy mulls whom to tap for a congressional investigation into the deadly US Capitol riot — and whether to appoint people at all — Republicans from

By Clare Foran, CNN The House of Representatives voted on Thursday to approve a $715 billion transportation and water infrastructure bill focused on improving and repairing roads, bridges, transit and rail, and ensuring clean drinking water. The vote was 221-201 with two Republicans voting with Democrats in favor. House Democrats say the bill — known

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN The Covid-19 pandemic increased the number of people at risk for human trafficking as traffickers took advantage of the social and economic crisis created by the global outbreak, the State Department said in a report released Thursday. The pandemic also caused governments to divert resources away from anti-trafficking efforts, the State

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN The Covid-19 pandemic increased the number of people at risk for human trafficking as traffickers took advantage of the social and economic crisis created by the global outbreak, the State Department said in a report released Thursday. The pandemic also caused governments to divert resources away from anti-trafficking efforts, the State

By Jeremy Herb, Manu Raju and Annie Grayer, CNN House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Thursday she was appointing Republican Rep. Liz Cheney to the new select committee to investigate the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, placing one of former President Donald Trump’s most vocal House Republican critics on the panel likely to investigate