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By Fredreka Schouten, Dianne Gallagher and Pamela Kirkland, CNN Voting for this year’s general election kicked off Friday with North Carolina becoming the first state to begin sending out absentee ballots, but it comes amid continuing concerns about the harassment of election officials by people who refuse to accept the results of the 2020 election.

By Gregory Krieg, Kara Scannell and Zenebou Sylla, CNN A little more than a month before a Saudi-backed women’s golf series is scheduled to hold a New York City tournament at a course run by former President Donald Trump‘s company, top City Council officials are pushing Mayor Eric Adams’ administration to void the city’s contract

By Holmes Lybrand Two members of the Proud Boys who founded an online group named “Murder the Media” pleaded guilty on Friday to obstructing the certification of the electoral college vote at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. Nicholas Ochs — an “Elder” in the Proud Boys who founded the group’s Hawaii chapter —

By Holmes Lybrand Kellye SoRelle, a self-described general counsel for the right-wing militia group the Oath Keepers, pleaded not guilty Friday to several charges relating to the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. SoRelle faces four charges, including obstruction of an official proceeding and obstructing justice by telling others to delete information from

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN The Biden administration plans to allow up to 125,000 refugees into the United States for the 2023 fiscal year, the same lofty ceiling as last year, according to a source familiar with the plan. The refugee ceiling dictates how many refugees can be admitted to the United States, but the administration

By Kate Sullivan, CNN President Joe Biden on Thursday criticized Republican lawmakers who voted against the bipartisan infrastructure bill last year but have taken credit for projects made possible by the $1.2 trillion law. “We got a little help from Republicans — but not a lot — but enough to get it passed. But the truth is, there

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter In his first public comments since the Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade, Justice Neil Gorsuch said he hoped the results of an internal investigation into the leak of a draft opinion of the decision would be done “soon.” “The chief justice appointed an internal committee to

By Tierney Sneed, CNN The Justice Department and former President Donald Trump’s lawyers face a Friday midnight deadline for submitting proposals for how the special master review of the documents seized at Mar-a-Lago — including classified documents — should work. They’ll be filing the briefs even as the Justice Department appeals the order requiring the

By Kevin Liptak, CNN When Princess Elizabeth landed at Washington National Airport on the last day of October 1951, she emerged from her airplane in a raspberry red coat, a new velvet-brimmed hat and, some people observed, more makeup than usual. It was her first official visit to the United States, three months before she

By Sonnet Swire, Priscilla Alvarez and Paul LeBlanc, CNN Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser declared a public health emergency on Thursday in response to the thousands of migrants arriving in the nation’s capital by bus from Arizona and Texas. Bowser announced in a news conference a new government office tasked with the local response to

By Michael Warren, CNN New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu on Thursday endorsed state Senate President Chuck Morse for the US Senate, just days before Tuesday’s Republican primary. “For the sake of this great state, we have to defeat (Sen.) Maggie Hassan in November, and the best candidate to this is Chuck Morse,” Sununu said during