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By Ben Tinker Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser, on Saturday reiterated his belief that the natural origins theory of the novel coronavirus is still the most likely. His comments come as CNN has reported that senior Biden administration officials overseeing an intelligence review into the origins of the coronavirus now believe

By Chris Boyette, CNN With the breaking of a bottle of sparkling wine across its bow, the first in a class of Navy oiler ships was christened the USNS John Lewis in San Diego on the one year anniversary of the longtime US congressman’s death. “It’s fitting that we honor John Lewis with this formidable

By Rachel Janfaza, CNN Three Texas state House Democrats who traveled to Washington, DC, this week have tested positive for Covid-19, The Texas House Democratic Caucus said in a statement Saturday. The lawmakers are part of the group that left Texas, flying from Austin to Washington to break the state House’s quorum and block Republicans

By Chris Boyette, Veronica Stracqualursi and Harmeet Kaur, CNN Illinois this week became the first state in the nation to ban law enforcement from using deceptive tactics when interrogating minors. Under the law, confessions made by juvenile suspects who were deceived by law enforcement officers during the interrogation process will be deemed “inadmissible as evidence.”

By Daniella Diaz, CNN A report by a Senate committee found that a little-known security unit within the Department of Commerce abused its power and oftentimes monitored employees of color without any evidence of wrongdoing. The report, involving more than two dozen whistleblowers with allegations dating to the mid-2000s, found that the Investigations and Threat

By Veronica Stracqualursi and Aileen Graef, CNN The head of a key congressional committee overseeing the aviation industry is pushing six US airlines to explain worker shortages, flight cancellations and delays after the government supplied billions in federal aid to the airline industry amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Sen. Maria Cantwell, a Democrat from Washington and

By Alex Rogers and Michael Warren, CNN In one of next year’s most consequential Senate races, the Republican primary to take on Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona is turning on a question: Who won the 2020 presidential election? Former President Donald Trump’s false claims of widespread voter fraud, including his promotion of a controversial,

By Pete Muntean and Devan Cole, CNN A private memorial service for the families of the victims of the 1996 TWA Flight 800 explosion is being held on Saturday, 25 years after the disaster that killed 230 people and just before the federal government begins destroying the reconstructed wreckage of the ill-fated aircraft. The service

By Priscilla Alvarez and Tierney Sneed, CNN A federal judge in Texas on Friday ruled that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program is unlawful. The decision, by US District Judge Andrew Hanen of the Southern District of Texas, injected uncertainty into the lives of hundreds of thousands of young immigrants, as well as their

By Priscilla Alvarez, Tierney Sneed and Rachel Janfaza, CNN A federal judge in Texas on Friday ruled that Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the Obama-era program shielding certain undocumented immigrants from deportation, is illegal and blocked new applicants. The ruling from Judge Andrew Hanen would bar future applications. It does not immediately cancel current permits

By Eric Bradner, CNN Former Vice President Mike Pence crisscrossed Iowa on Friday, assailing President Joe Biden’s administration for unleashing “a tidal wave of left-wing policies that threaten to wipe out all the progress that we made” in speeches that could preview his potential 2024 message. The trip to the first presidential nominating state offered

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN The family of Trevor Reed, an American detained in Russia, said Friday that he is being transferred from Moscow to a Russian prison camp but that they do not know where he is going or when he will get there. “We’re devastated,” the family said in a statement, calling on the

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN Undocumented immigrants who arrived to the United States as children have been banking on an Obama-era program to shield them from deportation for years, living in a state of perpetual limbo and waiting for either legislation that will give them permanence or a court decision that could take away any protection

By Lauren Dezenski, CNN As Texas Democratic legislators fled the state to try to block a voting measure in the state Capitol in Austin, President Biden made an impassioned pitch for voting rights, but it’s not clear his words alone will break Capitol Hill’s impasse over the filibuster. Biden’s administration later reversed a particularly noteworthy

By Natasha Bertrand, Pamela Brown, Katie Bo Williams and Zachary Cohen, CNN Senior Biden administration officials overseeing an intelligence review into the origins of the coronavirus now believe the theory that the virus accidentally escaped from a lab in Wuhan is at least as credible as the possibility that it emerged naturally in the wild

By Paula Reid and Erica Orden, CNN New York prosecutors have continued to pressure top Trump Organization executive Matthew Calamari to cooperate since charging the company and its chief financial officer earlier this month, according to a person familiar with the matter — the latest sign that the inquiry is continuing. Calamari, the chief operating

By Priscilla Alvarez and Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden’s senior adviser for migration, Amy Pope, is leaving her position, according to the White House. Friday was Pope’s last day working for the White House. Pope’s appointment to the White House role was temporary. In March, she was nominated to be the International Organization for

By Maeve Reston, CNN California gubernatorial candidate Caitlyn Jenner defended her travel out of state on Friday — insisting that she is not pausing or suspending her campaign — after an Australian publication reported that she is in Australia filming “Celebrity Big Brother.” “My campaign team is in full operation as am I. I am