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By Ellie Kaufman Officer Eugene Goodman, the US Capitol Police officer who led the mob of protesters away from the Senate chamber on January 6, 2021, as senators and then-Vice President Mike Pence were evacuating, testified on Monday that the mob breaching the Capitol and breaking into the lower levels of the building “looked like

By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a slate of bills on Monday that aim to protect out-of-state patients and abortion providers from legal action in other states. The Democratic-sponsored bills are designed to make the state a haven for abortion seekers and providers, as conservative states seek to curtail abortion rights

By Zachary Cohen, Jeremy Herb and Marshall Cohen, CNN The House committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol detailed Monday how those around then-President Donald Trump told him he lost the 2020 election — but he refused to listen, turning instead to his attorney Rudy Giuliani to embrace false claims that

By Tierney Sneed, CNN The Supreme Court on Monday made it much more difficult for immigrants to challenge immigration policies in court, holding that challenges have to be brought individually and not on a class-wide basis. In the 6-3 holding, the court concluded that, under a 1996 statute, lower federal courts lack the power to

By Tierney Sneed and Ariane de Vogue, CNN The Supreme Court on Monday let stand the death sentence of a Texas inmate, rejecting his arguments that Texas state courts had failed to follow the justices’ earlier ruling in his case about whether he received ineffective assistance of counsel at his trial and sentencing. Justice Sonia

By Ella Nilsen, CNN President Joe Biden’s Department of Energy on Monday will propose a new rule to make residential, natural gas furnaces more energy-efficient. It would be the country’s first significant update to furnace standards since the 1990s. In the proposed rule, the details of which were shared first with CNN, non-weatherized gas furnaces

By Tami Luhby, CNN A growing number of GOP-led states are expanding Medicaid coverage to new moms at the same time as they seek to ban or limit access to abortions. Florida, Tennessee and South Carolina are among the states that are temporarily allowing low-income women to remain enrolled in Medicaid for up to 12

By Joan Biskupic, CNN legal analyst & Supreme Court biographer Supreme Court justices are facing protests from outside their newly fortified perimeter — and from within — as they finish an epic session destined to transform the law in America. The warnings from dissenting liberal justices battling the conservative supermajority have become overt. Justice Sonia

By Jeremy Herb, Zachary Cohen and Annie Grayer, CNN The anticipated testimony of former President Donald Trump‘s campaign manager Bill Stepien before the House January 6 committee was unexpectedly upended Monday when Stepien said he couldn’t appear due to a family emergency. The development is “disruptive” to Monday’s hearing, a source familiar with the committee’s

By Shawna Mizelle, CNN The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol will hold its second public hearing of the month on Monday. The hearing is expected to detail how then-President Donald Trump “engaged in a massive effort to spread false and fraudulent information” even though “Trump and his

By Kara Scannell, CNN Disgraced attorney Michael Avenatti has told a judge he intends to plead guilty to charges alleging he stole millions of dollars from his clients. In a court filing, Avenatti said he intends to “change his plea and plead guilty to multiple counts in the indictment and request sentencing on those counts.”