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By Tami Luhby, CNN Jason Smith thought he’d have an easier time filling jobs at his three auto repair shops after Indiana’s governor announced that pandemic unemployment benefits would end in mid-June. But it hasn’t worked out that way so far. While he is getting more applications for the auto technician, service consultant and administrative

By Jeremy Diamond, CNN The United States on Monday will begin shipping its first doses of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine abroad as part of the Biden administration’s pledge to donate millions of vaccine doses to other countries, a White House official told CNN. The first of 2 million Pfizer vaccine doses will be shipped to Peru

The current acting director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Brandon Wales, sits down with CNN’s Pamela Brown to talk ransomware attacks and what everyone in the country can do to prevent them in a CNN exclusive interview.

Barbara Res, former executive vice president for the Trump Organization, talks with CNN’s Jim Acosta about the possibility of New York prosecutors filing criminal charges against her former employer.

By Kara Scannell Lawyers for the Trump Organization are expected to meet Monday with prosecutors from the Manhattan district attorney’s office in an effort to convince them not to pursue charges against the company, according to a source familiar with the matter. The meeting follows a virtual conference late last week where prosecutors informed the

By Barbara Starr, CNN Pentagon Correspondent President Joe Biden directed military forces to conduct defensive precision airstrikes against facilities used by Iran-backed militia groups in the Iraq-Syria border region on Sunday evening, according to a news release from the Department of Defense. “The targets were selected because these facilities are utilized by Iran-backed militias that

By Caroline Kenny and Pamela Brown, CNN In the wake of the Colonial Pipeline and JBS ransomware attacks in recent months, the head of the nation’s leading cybersecurity agency says these events are a harbinger of what’s to come on the cyber front and there needs to be a greater focus on shoring up the

By Devan Cole, CNN Former Attorney General William Barr, in a newly released book excerpt, said he suspected then-President Donald Trump’s claims of widespread election fraud were “all bullsh*t,” but that he launched unofficial inquiries into some of them to appease his boss. The comments from Barr — published in The Atlantic as part of

By Chandelis Duster, CNN Republican Sen. Mitt Romney on Sunday called on members of his party to “move on” from Donald Trump’s 2020 election lies, equating the former President’s return to rally-style events to wrestling entertainment as Trump goes after those who defied him. “Well, I do think it’s important for each person to speak

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) discusses the damage caused by former President Donald Trump’s lie about the 2020 US presidential election and says it’s time for Trump and his supporters to move on.

By Rachel Janfaza, CNN Braxton Simpson made a joyous announcement to her 264 YouTube subscribers this spring. “Fully vaccinated!” Simpson said, drawing out the final word as she bounced with glee. “I wanted to take you guys along this process to help you make a better and more informed decision,” she told her viewers in

By Kylie Atwood, CNN When US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid in Rome, the Israeli foreign minister pledged to fix the politicized relationship between the two countries, even as he cited “serious reservations” over the Biden administration’s efforts to salvage the Iran nuclear deal. “Israel has some serious reservations

By Chandelis Duster, CNN Former US Sen. Mike Gravel, an Alaska Democrat who garnered national attention by reading the Pentagon Papers into the Congressional Record and waged two unsuccessful bids for president, has died at age 91. The Gravel Institute, a progressive think tank founded by the former senator, confirmed his death in a tweet

By Kevin Liptak, CNN The infrastructure deal President Joe Biden heralded this week alongside Republicans and Democrats — and subsequently imperiled with a rogue comment afterward — appeared back on track Sunday, even as its durability going forward remained an open question. Republican senators, who were enraged to hear Biden deliver an ultimatum that he

By Daniel Dale, CNN Rep. Madison Cawthorn, a freshman Republican from North Carolina, has called himself a “big history buff” and a “lover of history.” But Cawthorn — who, at age 25, is the youngest member of Congress — keeps getting historical facts wrong. Cawthorn also has a record of other false claims. Here’s a

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) says he trusts President Biden’s clarification of a statement indicating that Biden would not sign a bipartisan infrastructure bill without a reconciliation bill tied to the legislation.

By Devan Cole, CNN Sen. Mitt Romney, a key Republican negotiator in infrastructure talks, said Sunday that he’s “totally confident” President Joe Biden will sign a bipartisan bill a day after the President attempted to clean up comments that threatened the deal. “I am totally confident the President will sign it if it comes to

By Jeremy Herb and Lauren Fox, CNN Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, who has been fighting for years to change the way the military prosecutes sexual assault cases, is poised to finally remove those cases from the military’s chain of command after the Pentagon’s civilian leader endorsed the change last week. But a

By Eric Bradner, CNN It was a bad week for the Big Lie — former President Donald Trump and his allies’ false claims that widespread fraud is to blame for his 2020 election loss. In one battleground state, Republican senators issued a report that eviscerated Trump’s lies about voter fraud. In another, a judge undercut

By Arlette Saenz and Donald Judd, CNN President Joe Biden on Saturday tried to walk back remarks from earlier this week when he said he wouldn’t sign a bipartisan bill on infrastructure unless it came paired with a reconciliation proposal for “human infrastructure,” the latest in a series of cleanup efforts from the White House