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By Kaitlan Collins, CNN Former Vice President Mike Pence has filed a motion asking a judge to block a federal grand jury subpoena for his testimony related to January 6 on the grounds that he is protected by the Constitution’s Speech or Debate Clause, according to a source familiar with the filing. Pence had publicly

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN The FBI is searching for a Florida woman who did not show up to court in Washington, DC, on Monday, when she was set to go to trial on federal charges related to the January 6, 2021, US Capitol riot. According to a warrant issued for her arrest, court officials have

By Shawna Mizelle Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson will have a street named after her where she was raised in Miami-Dade County, Florida. Jackson made history last year when she was sworn into the nation’s highest court, becoming the first Black woman to hold a seat on the bench. She was raised in Miami

By Kylie Atwood, CNN Eight Republican senators are pressing Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines to provide them with the raw materials that informed the intelligence community’s latest assessment on the origins of Covid-19, according to a letter they sent Haines on Monday. “We write to request that you immediately deliver to Congress each IC

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN The US State Department on Monday imposed a visa sanction on a Syrian military official whom it says killed at least 41 unarmed civilians in a neighborhood of Damascus in April 2013. Amjad Yousef, a military intelligence officer for the regime of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, and his immediate family will

By Jeremy Diamond, Manu Raju, Lauren Fox and Melanie Zanona, CNN DC Council Chairman Phil Mendelson on Monday wrote a letter to the Senate attempting to withdraw the district’s criminal reform legislation from congressional review after it became clear the Senate intended to nix the legislation. “This morning, I delivered a letter to the Senate

By Tierney Sneed, Devan Cole and Ariane de Vogue, CNN The Supreme Court declined on Monday to take up an appeal brought by a Florida city that was sued by individuals who argued it had violated the Constitution when it held a prayer vigil in 2014 in response to a local shooting. The city of

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice Paul Manafort has agreed to pay $3.15 million he owes to the US government over misrepresentations he made on his tax returns almost a decade ago, bringing to a close the former Trump campaign chairman’s financial tangles in court. Manafort hadn’t disclosed to the Treasury Department nearly

By Daniel Dale, CNN As president, Donald Trump made some of his most thoroughly dishonest speeches at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference. As he embarks on another campaign for the presidency, Trump delivered another CPAC doozy Saturday night. Trump’s lengthy address to the right-wing gathering in Maryland was filled with wildly inaccurate claims about

By Oren Liebermann, CNN US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley visited Syria on Saturday, according to a statement from his office, marking his first visit to the country as the top US general. Milley met with US troops in northeast Syria, who are there as part of the campaign to

By Paul LeBlanc, CNN New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Sunday brushed aside the suggestion that Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s reelection loss was merely a warning sign for Democratic mayors, instead calling it a “warning sign for the country” at large. “I showed up at crime scenes. I knew what New Yorkers were saying.

By Aileen Graef and Paul LeBlanc, CNN House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Sunday declined to criticize President Joe Biden‘s decision to allow Congress to potentially nix reforms to the criminal code of Washington, DC, even as many in the party are breaking with the White House. A Senate vote to scrap the DC law