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By Tierney Sneed and Holmes Lybrand, CNN A federal judge on Monday denied a request by Steve Bannon for his contempt-of-Congress trial to be delayed from its July 18 start date and severely limited the defenses that the former Donald Trump adviser could put forward at the trial. US District Judge Carl Nichols curtailed Bannon’s

By Kate Sullivan, Nikki Carvajal, Jeremy Diamond and Paul LeBlanc, CNN President Joe Biden on Monday said gun violence has turned everyday places in America into “killing fields” as he marked the passage of the first significant federal gun safety legislation in 30 years. Biden said the package he signed into law represents “an important

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN A challenge requires a challenger — and all the Democrats being discussed as potential primary opponents to President Joe Biden tell CNN they’re ruling out runs and warning others to follow suit. The chatter is fed by Democratic officials and party leaders who have begun to doubt that Biden is, as

By Devan Cole, Morgan Rimmer and Aaron Pellish, CNN Members of the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol previewed on Sunday the panel’s next public hearing, which will zero in on how the violent mob came together and the role of extremist groups in the deadly insurrection. “We

By Sara Murray, CNN Steve Bannon — who defied a congressional subpoena and is set to go to trial on criminal contempt charges — told the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection on Saturday that he is now willing to testify, ideally at a public hearing, according to a letter obtained by

By Marshall Cohen and Avery Lotz, CNN CNN Illustration by Alberto Mier One and a half years later, the minute-by-minute horrors of the January 6 insurrection, and then-President Donald Trump’s role in fomenting the violence, are still coming into focus, thanks in large part to recent public hearings from the House committee investigating the attack.

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN Devin, the founder of a cryptocurrency startup based in San Francisco, woke up one day in February to the most bizarre phone call of his life. The man on the other end, an FBI agent, told Devin that the seemingly legitimate software developer he’d hired the previous summer was a North

By Gregory Clary, CNN President Joe Biden has defended his controversial visit to Saudi Arabia next week, saying the trip is critical to the security of the United States. “As president, it is my job to keep our country strong and secure. We have to counter Russia’s aggression, put ourselves in the best possible position

By Pamela Brown, CNN Former Trump White House counsel Pat Cipollone invoked executive privilege in his closed-door interview Friday with the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol despite the panel’s attempts to pose questions that would not have required such a response, according to a person familiar with

By Ella Nilsen, CNN The Biden administration has taken a key step forward on a controversial proposed oil drilling project in Alaska’s North Slope, angering climate advocates who say the project would release tons of emissions and doom the President’s climate goals. The US Department of Interior released a draft environmental impact statement for the

By Veronica Stracqualursi and Jacqueline Howard, CNN The nonprofit that operates the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline plans to soon launch a pilot program for LGBTQ individuals to call. The hope is that such a program could become a permanent subnetwork, similar to one that already exists for veterans, and add a more specialized crisis line

By Phil Mattingly, CNN As President Joe Biden started to roll out the core of his economic team, a reality started to dawn on denizens of what had become a vibrant online community: Econ Twitter was being raided. The new government roles would almost certainly limit the participation of prominent members of the unofficial group