National Politics

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of Jon Huntsman, former Utah Governor and 2012 Republican presidential candidate. Personal Birth date: March 26, 1960 Birth place: Palo Alto, California Birth name: Jon Meade Huntsman Jr. Father: Jon Meade Huntsman Sr., billionaire chemical magnate Mother: Karen (Haight) Huntsman Marriage: Mary Kaye Cooper (1983-present) Children:

By Whitney Wild, CNN On a Friday evening in November 2018, 40-year-old Scott Beierle signed up for a hot yoga class in Tallahassee, Florida, and told the receptionist he would wait outside. When the class began, Beierle grabbed his ear protection and a loaded gun, walked into the classroom and opened fire. He killed two

By Zachary Cohen, Natasha Bertrand, Jeremy Herb and Katie Bo Williams, CNN Nearly three weeks into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Biden administration is still assessing the most effective way to get military aid into the country without triggering a wider war. While administration officials say the effort to provide Ukrainian forces with American-made weapons

By Donald Judd, CNN The Biden administration on Tuesday will announce a series of steps aimed at closing the gender and racial wage gaps, with Vice President Kamala Harris hosting a virtual White House meeting to mark Equal Pay Day. The steps include a new regulation across the federal workforce banning the use of prior

By John Harwood, CNN The Biden White House, trying to expand its limited supply of inflation-fighting tools, will on Tuesday unveil a new one. Dubbed “Freight Logistics Optimization Works,” or FLOW, the effort joins administration officials and major private sector businesses in a data-sharing initiative designed to enhance the efficiency with which companies move imported

By Jenn Selva, CNN The Idaho Legislature gave final approval Monday to a bill that would ban abortion after six weeks and allow the father, sibling, grandparent, aunt or uncle of the fetus to bring legal action against the medical professional who performed the abortion. Idaho’s GOP-controlled House passed Senate Bill 1309, dubbed the “Fetal

By Jamiel Lynch and Jeremy Grisham, CNN Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves on Monday signed into law a bill described as a prohibition on critical race theory (CRT), becoming the latest Republican-controlled state to legislate how history and race can be taught in schools. Reeves, a Republican, posted a video of him signing the bill, saying,

By Katelyn Polantz and Daniel Shepherd, CNN Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the Proud Boys, will remain in jail as he awaits trial, a federal judge decided on Tuesday. The Justice Department had argued Tarrio, if released, would be a danger to the community, pointing to his leadership of the far-right group from afar during

By Kevin Liptak, Natasha Bertrand, Katie Bo Lillis, Kylie Atwood and Jennifer Hansler, CNN The US has information suggesting China has expressed some openness to providing Russia with requested military and financial assistance as part of its war on Ukraine, a Western official and a US diplomat told CNN, and is conveying what it knows

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN The Biden administration is considering expediting the resettlement of Ukrainian refugees with US ties, including family already living here, according to a US official. This comes amid growing calls from advocates to do more for the millions of people fleeing war-torn Ukraine. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have

By Hannah Rabinowitz and Holmes Lybrand, CNN The Justice Department asked a judge on Monday to drop a criminal case against a Capitol rioter, admitting that prosecutors failed to schedule a hearing within the legal timeframe and asking for permission to charge the Texas man again for allegedly attacking police. In a court filing, prosecutors

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter Conservative activist Virginia “Ginni” Thomas said in an interview published Monday that although she attended a rally on January 6, 2021, she “played no role” in planning the events that day and that she doesn’t involve her husband, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, in the political work