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By Lauren Fox, CNN Congress punted once again on a massive Covid-19 relief package, leaving President Joe Biden’s administration in limbo on one of its top requests from Congress this spring. Lawmakers departed Washington on Thursday for a two-week recess without passing the massive $10 billion deal, the second time Congress has failed to act

By Hannah Rabinowitz and Holmes Lybrand, CNN Investigators said Thursday that they had seized a cache of weapons during a search of multiple Washington, DC, apartments belonging to two men accused of impersonating Department of Homeland Security agents for more than two years. Between five residences and three vehicles that belong to Arian Taherzadeh and

By Shawna Mizelle, CNN Former first lady Michelle Obama praised Ketanji Brown Jackson on Thursday, thanking the judge, newly confirmed to the US Supreme Court, for giving Black women and girls “a new dream to dream, a new path to forge, and a future we can all be hopeful for.” “I was so moved to

By Barbara Starr, Zachary Cohen and Jeremy Herb, CNN New commercial satellite imagery is showing some of the clearest signs to date that North Korea is tunneling again at its remote underground nuclear test site in a way that could potentially shorten the time it needs for its next test. The April 3 imagery from

By Kara Scannell The Manhattan district attorney said Thursday the criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump and his company is continuing with prosecutors reviewing new evidence, dismissing speculation that the case was closed following the high-profile departure of two senior prosecutors. “We are every day following up on new evidence that we’ve secured,” Alvin

By Tierney Sneed and Sonia Moghe, CNN New York Attorney General Letitia James asked a New York court on Thursday to hold former President Donald Trump in civil contempt for allegedly failing to comply with a court order that he turn over certain documents for her investigation. State Judge Arthur Engoron in February had ordered

By Richard Roth, Kate Sullivan, Samantha Beech and Laura Ly, CNN The United Nations General Assembly voted Thursday to suspend Russia from the UN Human Rights Council after high-profile allegations of atrocities committed by Russian soldiers during the war in Ukraine. The voting result was 93 in favor, 24 against and 58 abstentions. A draft

By Paul LeBlanc, CNN Chief Justice John Roberts turned heads this week when he criticized how the Supreme Court’s conservatives used the emergency docket, referred to by some as the shadow docket. The shadow docket is simply the nickname for emergency actions taken by the court that do not go through the full briefing and

By Kate Sullivan, CNN Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Thursday filed a lawsuit against several county prosecutors in her state and asked the state’s Supreme Court to issue a decision on the constitutionality of abortion, telling CNN+’s Kasie Hunt she’s tackling “a real and present danger” to abortion rights. Whitmer filed the lawsuit Thursday morning

By Oren Liebermann, CNN The Air Force delayed its hypersonic missile program by up to a year after “recent flight test anomalies” pushed back the schedule for the weapon’s completion, according to a statement from the Air Force. The AGM-183 Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW) was supposed to reach early operational capability, an important milestone