By Kate Bennett, CNN Hillary Clinton has added yet another job to her lengthy résumé: fiction writer. Tuesday marks the release of Clinton’s novel, “State of Terror,” written with veteran crime novelist Louise Penny. Clinton, who has penned several nonfiction books on her own over the last many years, this time tapped into her creative
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By Jasmine Wright, CNN The White House says it did not select the child actors who appeared in a YouTube-original video featuring Vice President Kamala Harris, responding to criticism from conservative media and politicians that the use of the actors was deceptive. In a video posted last week, Harris participated in a YouTube Originals Kids
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By Veronica Stracqualursi and Whitney Wild, CNN Sen. Gary Peters, the chair of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, is asking TikTok to provide information on its policies monitoring and removing violent extremist content from its platform, as part of the committee’s efforts to investigate the rise in domestic terrorism and the events surrounding the January
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By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN The Biden administration is ending mass worksite immigration raids and instead focusing on employers who exploit undocumented workers, according to a newly released memo from Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. The move is another key departure from Trump administration immigration policies. Most notably, under former President Donald Trump, ICE conducted the
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By Annie Grayer and Morgan Rimmer, CNN Democratic Rep. John Yarmuth announced on Tuesday that he will not be seeking reelection after serving thirteen years in Congress and becoming one of the most powerful liberals in Washington DC. Yarmuth’s announcement is a blow for Democrats who hold a slim majority in the chamber and must
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By Kylie Atwood and Jennifer Hansler, CNN The State Department has tapped veteran diplomat Elizabeth Jones to lead the agency’s Afghanistan relocation and resettlement efforts, a senior State Department official told CNN Tuesday. Jones came out of retirement to take the role of Coordinator for Afghan Relocation Efforts (CARE) and officially started last week, the
Continue Reading By Kylie Atwood and Jennifer Hansler, CNN The State Department has tapped veteran diplomat Elizabeth Jones to lead the agency’s Afghanistan relocation and resettlement efforts, a senior State Department official told CNN Tuesday. Jones came out of retirement to take the role of Coordinator for Afghan Relocation Efforts (CARE) and officially started last week, the
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By Whitney Wild and Devan Cole, CNN Local police in Washington warned their law enforcement partner agencies a day before the January 6 pro-Trump rally that there were social media reports urging attendees to “come armed” but said there was no credible threat for the event, according to an email obtained by a government watchdog
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By Kara Scannell Former President Donald Trump’s company is in advanced talks to sell the lease for its marquee hotel in Washington, DC, for more than $370 million, according to a person familiar with the matter. Miami investment fund CGI Merchant Group is in advanced negotiations with the Trump Organization, the person said. As part
Continue Reading By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff on Tuesday referred to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy as an “insurrectionist in a suit and tie,” as he slammed the House Republican leader for having “absolutely no reverence for the truth.” Schiff, a California Democrat who chairs the House Intelligence Committee and sits on the select
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By Dan Merica, CNN Former President Barack Obama will campaign for Terry McAuliffe and Virginia Democrats ahead of the November elections, the gubernatorial nominee announced on Tuesday. “The stakes are so huge,” McAuliffe said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “If people don’t understand, they come out in presidential years, but they have to come out in
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By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter The Supreme Court appeared inclined Tuesday to allow a Kentucky Republican attorney general step in to defend a controversial state abortion law after the state’s Democratic governor declined to continue doing so. At issue in the case is a law that restricts a standard second-trimester abortion method
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By Dan Merica, CNN The federal headwinds against Democrats on the ballot this November have never been stronger. Democrats who were once buoyant that a well-liked President Joe Biden and popular agenda moving through Congress could propel the party to wins in 2021 are now worried that a trying few months for the President and
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By Harry Enten, CNN Death is a five-letter word, but it may as well be a four letter word to many Americans. We don’t like talking about our eventual demise or planning for it. Far less than 50% of Americans have a clear end of life plan. My father was the same way. I remember
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By Lauren del Valle and Kara Scannell, CNN The campaign finance trial against Rudy Giuliani’s Ukrainian-born associate, Lev Parnas, is set to start Tuesday in Manhattan federal court. Parnas faces charges related to two alleged campaign finance schemes. In one alleged scheme, prosecutors say Parnas and another Giuliani associate, Igor Fruman — who has pleaded
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By Clare Foran and Kristin Wilson, CNN The House of Representatives approved an extension of the nation’s debt limit through early December after the Senate passed the stopgap measure last week in a bid to avert a catastrophic default and economic disaster. Now that the Democratic-controlled House has passed the short-term extension, it is cleared
Continue Reading By Clare Foran, CNN The House of Representatives is expected to vote Tuesday to extend the nation’s debt limit through early December after the Senate approved a stopgap measure last week in a bid to avert a catastrophic default and economic disaster. Once the Democratic-controlled House passes the short-term extension, it will be cleared for
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By Tierney Sneed, CNN The Justice Department on Monday asked the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals to halt Texas’ six-week abortion ban while its suit challenging the new law is appealed. Allowing the ban to remain in effect, the Justice Department said in its filing, “would prolong” its “substantial harm to the United States’
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By Ashley Killough, Ed Lavandera and Kay Jones, CNN Allen West, Republican candidate for governor of Texas, announced Monday night that he had been released from Medical City Plano and will be recovering from Covid-19 at home until he tests negative. West, who had not been vaccinated and was first admitted for treatment on Saturday,
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By Paul LeBlanc, CNN Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday issued an executive order banning all state entities, including private employers, from enforcing vaccine mandates, the latest escalation in the Republican’s resistance to public health measures during the Covid-19 pandemic. The order states that “no entity in Texas” can enforce vaccination against anyone in the
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