By Brian Rokus and Paul LeBlanc, CNN A recount shows that Mehmet Oz, the celebrity heart surgeon endorsed by former President Donald Trump, defeated Dave McCormick by 951 votes in Pennsylvania’s Senate GOP primary, according to the commonwealth’s acting secretary of state. Oz received 419,999 votes (31.1%) while McCormick received 419,048 votes (31.0%), the acting
Continue Reading By Kristin Wilson, CNN The House voted Wednesday 223-204 to pass a wide-ranging package of gun control legislation called the “Protecting Our Kids Act,” after lawmakers faced intense pressure to act in the wake of recent mass shootings. Five Republicans voted for the bill: Reps. Anthony Gonzalez of Ohio, Fred Upton of Michigan, Brian Fitzpatrick
Continue Reading By Annie Grayer and Ryan Nobles, CNN The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, Capitol Hill insurrection holds its first prime-time public hearing on Thursday and is expected to give an overview of their findings from the past year. The hearings are expected to shine a spotlight on the nine-member committee, which features
Continue Reading By Kate Bennett, CNN First lady Jill Biden said last month as she wrapped a six-day trip to Latin America that she was not concerned about the threat of boycott from certain countries at the upcoming Summit of the Americas. “I’m not worried. I think that they’ll come,” Biden said, a prediction that this week
Continue Reading By Kate Bennett, CNN First lady Jill Biden said last month as she wrapped a six-day trip to Latin America that she was not concerned about the threat of boycott from certain countries at the upcoming Summit of the Americas. “I’m not worried. I think that they’ll come,” Biden said, a prediction that this week
Continue Reading By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice Former Donald Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro, who is being prosecuted for contempt of Congress, told a federal judge on Wednesday that he is “at a severe disadvantage” because he has no lawyer five days after his arrest. He also continued to speak publicly on Wednesday about
Continue Reading The US Department of Justice has named the team who will lead a federal review of the response to the deadly rampage at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas — where a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers and remained in the school for more than an hour while police waited nearby.
Continue Reading By Devan Cole and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told CNN that the immigration challenges facing the Biden administration along the southern border are “beyond anything that anyone has seen before,” and that the issue will be a key focus of a summit of regional leaders taking place this week in
Continue Reading By Ellie Kaufman, CNN Mass graves are still being dug in Syria today, filled with victims of the ongoing conflict and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad‘s regime, an anonymous whistleblower known as “the gravedigger” told US senators during a congressional hearing about the conflict on Wednesday. Dressed fully in black from head to toe with his
Continue Reading By Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden arrived here Wednesday to play host to nearly two dozen leaders from Latin America, hoping to use new economic and migration announcements to demonstrate cohesion in a region of fractured politics and, at times, entrenched skepticism of the United States. His mission has been made more difficult by
Continue Reading By Clare Foran, CNN A House committee hearing on Wednesday provided a high-profile platform for an 11-year-old survivor of the Uvalde elementary school shooting and others affected by gun violence to tell their harrowing stories to the American public. The hearing took place as lawmakers face pressure to act in the wake of the horrific
Continue Reading By Clare Foran, CNN A House committee hearing on Wednesday provided a high-profile platform for an 11-year-old survivor of the Uvalde elementary school shooting and others affected by gun violence to tell their harrowing stories to the American public. The hearing took place as lawmakers face pressure to act in the wake of the horrific
Continue Reading By Rachel Ramirez and Ella Nilsen, CNN The amount of methane that major oil and gas companies are emitting in the Permian Basin is likely significantly higher than the official numbers they are reporting to the Environmental Protection Agency, according to a new report by the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology. The investigation
Continue Reading By Kara Scannell Lawyers for former President Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr. have reached an agreement for them to sit for depositions with the New York attorney general’s office beginning July 15 unless a New York appeals court intervenes. In a joint stipulation filed with the court, attorneys for the Trumps and
Continue Reading By Kara Scannell Former Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg has added a new white-collar defense attorney to his legal team ahead of his criminal tax trial expected this fall. Nicholas Gravante, an experienced trial attorney who represented another Trump Organization executive, Matthew Calarmari, in the Manhattan District Attorney’s investigation, has joined Weisselberg’s defense.
Continue Reading By Marshall Cohen With public hearings kicking off this week, the House select committee investigating January 6 is zeroing in on former President Donald Trump, and is preparing to use its platform to argue that he was responsible for grave abuses of power that nearly upended US democracy. The committee’s central mission has been to
Continue Reading By Kate Sullivan and Betsy Klein, CNN President Joe Biden on Wednesday said the results of the previous day’s primary elections reflected a desire from the American public to take a harder stance on crime and gun violence and called on states and localities to spend funds allocated from the Covid-19 relief bill to bolster
Continue Reading By Daniella Diaz, CNN A bipartisan Senate-passed bill that would expand security protection to the immediate family members of Supreme Court justices has stalled in the House, raising questions from senators on why it hasn’t passed in the wake of an arrest outside the home of a Supreme Court justice. The questions come hours after
Continue Reading By Alex Rogers and Manu Raju, CNN Blake Masters, the Republican Senate candidate from Arizona, met with conservative activists at a Phoenix IHOP this spring and was asked whether he would support investigating US intelligence operations to uncover the federal government’s “nefarious activities.” Masters replied, “Absolutely,” and then floated the conspiracy theory that the January
Continue Reading By Holmes Lybrand, CNN The California man arrested near US Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh‘s home and charged with attempting or threatening to kidnap or murder a US judge said in calls he made to 911 before the arrest that he was thinking of killing himself and needed psychiatric help, according to audio recordings released
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