By Marshall Cohen, CNN Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann was acquitted Tuesday of lying to the FBI, in the first trial of special counsel John Durham’s investigation. The verdict is a major defeat for Durham and his Justice Department prosecutors, who have spent three years looking for wrongdoing in the Trump-Russia probe. He claimed
Continue Reading By Kevin Liptak and Paul LeBlanc, CNN US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen admitted Tuesday that she had failed to anticipate how long high inflation would continue to plague American consumers as the Biden administration works to contain a mounting political liability. “I think I was wrong then about the path that inflation would take,” Yellen
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By Kevin Liptak and Natasha Bertrand, CNN President Joe Biden said Tuesday the US is providing Ukraine “more advanced rocket systems and munitions” as its war with Russia grinds on. Writing in a New York Times op-ed, Biden said the US goal is “to see a democratic, independent, sovereign and prosperous Ukraine with the means
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By Tierney Sneed, CNN The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defended its authority to issue a mask mandate for domestic travelers, in a brief filed Tuesday asking an appeals court to reverse a district court’s decision in April to strike down the mandate. “It is difficult to imagine a more direct way to
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By Kevin Liptak and Paul LeBlanc, CNN US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen admitted Tuesday that she had failed to anticipate how long high inflation would continue to plague American consumers as the Biden administration works to contain a mounting political liability. “I think I was wrong then about the path that inflation would take,” Yellen
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By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito agreed Tuesday to temporarily block a lower court decision that allows the counting of undated ballots in Pennsylvania in a case that could directly tip a judicial race and also impact the commonwealth’s Republican US Senate primary. Alito, who has jurisdiction over
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By Kate Sullivan and Betsy Klein, CNN President Joe Biden on Tuesday said the pain was “palpable” when he met with grieving families in Uvalde, Texas, this weekend following a mass shooting at an elementary school that claimed the lives of 19 children and two teachers. The President said he spent nearly four hours in
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By Jason Morris and Sara Murray, CNN An Atlanta-area prosecutor investigating former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results has subpoenaed state Attorney General Chris Carr, according to a copy of the subpoena obtained by CNN. The subpoena, which calls for Carr to testify in late June, was first reported by The
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By Ella Nilsen, CNN The Department of Health and Human Services announced on Tuesday it is establishing an Office of Environmental Justice, putting a spotlight on environmental inequities in health. The new office will be led by interim director Sharunda Buchanan, a former official at the Centers for Disease Control specializing in environmental health issues
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By Marshall Cohen, CNN Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann was acquitted Tuesday of lying to the FBI, in the first trial of special counsel John Durham’s investigation. The verdict is a major defeat for Durham and his Justice Department prosecutors, who have spent three years looking for wrongdoing in the Trump-Russia probe. He claimed
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By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter The Supreme Court on Tuesday denied an emergency request from three Texas state legislators seeking to quash subpoenas from the US Justice Department and voting rights groups related to a challenge to state legislative maps. There were no noted dissents to the Supreme Court order. The state’s
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By Betsy Klein, Kate Sullivan and Nikki Carvajal, CNN Korean pop supergroup BTS appeared at the White House press briefing on Tuesday and will meet with President Joe Biden as part of a visit aimed at discussing Asian inclusion and representation and addressing anti-Asian hate crimes and disinformation. “While many of you may know BTS
Continue Reading By Alex Rogers, Manu Raju and Lauren Fox, CNN The House Judiciary Committee plans to vote as soon as Thursday on wide-ranging gun control legislation after a number of mass shootings in America, including at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, where 19 children and two teachers were killed. The bill would raise the lawful
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By Alex Rogers, Manu Raju and Lauren Fox, CNN The House Judiciary Committee plans to vote as soon as Thursday on wide-ranging gun control legislation after a number of mass shootings in America, including at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, where 19 children and two teachers were killed. The bill would raise the lawful
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By Kate Bennett, CNN First lady Dr. Jill Biden appears on the cover of the June/July issue of Harper’s Bazaar magazine, the first time in the magazine’s 155-year history a first lady has appeared on the cover, according to a release from the magazine. In the feature story, which was written earlier this spring, Biden
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By Kaitlan Collins and Kevin Liptak, CNN Facing rising prices and deep voter dissatisfaction, the White House this week is launching a month-long effort to signal heavy focus on the economy as inflation worries become the top concern for the White House before this fall’s midterm elections. It’s not the first time President Joe Biden
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By Steve Contorno, CNN Democrats in Florida, struggling to energize liberals while bleeding support among Latinos, have settled on a message to galvanize voters heading into the midterm elections: It’s too expensive here. Up and down the ballot, Democratic candidates have shifted their campaigns to focus on the soaring housing costs that are eating into
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By Fredreka Schouten, CNN Despite warnings that ditching voting machines would delay election results and likely violate the law, county commissioners in a rural slice of western Colorado this year voted to stop paying the licensing fee on the county’s devices. Commissioners in Nye County, Nevada, meanwhile, want local election officials to begin hand-counting paper
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By Joan Biskupic, CNN legal analyst & Supreme Court biographer Supreme Court officials are escalating their search for the source of the leaked draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade, taking steps to require law clerks to provide cell phone records and sign affidavits, three sources with knowledge of the efforts have told CNN.
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By Paula Reid, CNN Former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro has been subpoenaed by the Justice Department — the first indication the department is acting on the criminal referral from the House of Representatives to hold Donald Trump’s one-time trade adviser in contempt of Congress for his refusal to cooperate with the House select
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