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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. A measure moving through the Republican-controlled Georgia legislature would hand new election policing powers to the state’s bureau of investigations. The bill under consideration in

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN US Border Patrol made more than 158,000 arrests on the US southern border in February, a jump from January when there were nearly 148,000 apprehensions, according to newly released agency data. Single adults continued to make up the majority of arrests, followed by families and unaccompanied children. Of the total 164,973

By Kate Bennett, CNN After more than two years, the White House is planning to resume regular public tours next month, according to a White House memo obtained by CNN. On April 15, members of the public who have obtained tickets will once again be able to visit the People’s House. Touring the White House

By Kevin Liptak and Kylie Atwood, CNN The United States applied new sanctions Tuesday on Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, who has allied with Russia in its war on Ukraine. A number of other Russians, including a judge, were also targeted with sanctions for human rights abuses, according to the US Treasury Department. And the Biden

By Betsy Klein, CNN The White House is amping up its warning that aspects of the federal Covid-19 response will be curtailed after lawmakers failed to pass additional funding, with administration officials speaking in dire terms in a call with reporters and sending a letter to congressional leaders Tuesday. The latest warnings mark an escalation

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of Jon Huntsman, former Utah Governor and 2012 Republican presidential candidate. Personal Birth date: March 26, 1960 Birth place: Palo Alto, California Birth name: Jon Meade Huntsman Jr. Father: Jon Meade Huntsman Sr., billionaire chemical magnate Mother: Karen (Haight) Huntsman Marriage: Mary Kaye Cooper (1983-present) Children:

By Whitney Wild, CNN On a Friday evening in November 2018, 40-year-old Scott Beierle signed up for a hot yoga class in Tallahassee, Florida, and told the receptionist he would wait outside. When the class began, Beierle grabbed his ear protection and a loaded gun, walked into the classroom and opened fire. He killed two

By Zachary Cohen, Natasha Bertrand, Jeremy Herb and Katie Bo Williams, CNN Nearly three weeks into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Biden administration is still assessing the most effective way to get military aid into the country without triggering a wider war. While administration officials say the effort to provide Ukrainian forces with American-made weapons

By Donald Judd, CNN The Biden administration on Tuesday will announce a series of steps aimed at closing the gender and racial wage gaps, with Vice President Kamala Harris hosting a virtual White House meeting to mark Equal Pay Day. The steps include a new regulation across the federal workforce banning the use of prior

By John Harwood, CNN The Biden White House, trying to expand its limited supply of inflation-fighting tools, will on Tuesday unveil a new one. Dubbed “Freight Logistics Optimization Works,” or FLOW, the effort joins administration officials and major private sector businesses in a data-sharing initiative designed to enhance the efficiency with which companies move imported

By Jenn Selva, CNN The Idaho Legislature gave final approval Monday to a bill that would ban abortion after six weeks and allow the father, sibling, grandparent, aunt or uncle of the fetus to bring legal action against the medical professional who performed the abortion. Idaho’s GOP-controlled House passed Senate Bill 1309, dubbed the “Fetal

By Jamiel Lynch and Jeremy Grisham, CNN Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves on Monday signed into law a bill described as a prohibition on critical race theory (CRT), becoming the latest Republican-controlled state to legislate how history and race can be taught in schools. Reeves, a Republican, posted a video of him signing the bill, saying,

By Katelyn Polantz and Daniel Shepherd, CNN Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the Proud Boys, will remain in jail as he awaits trial, a federal judge decided on Tuesday. The Justice Department had argued Tarrio, if released, would be a danger to the community, pointing to his leadership of the far-right group from afar during