By Donald Judd, CNN The White House will unveil new efforts to reduce emissions in the manufacturing sector Tuesday, including nearly $10 billion in Department of Energy funding from President Joe Biden’s signature infrastructure law aimed at “clean hydrogen” manufacturing. The announcement also includes the launch of a new “Buy Clean Task Force,” which promotes
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By Tierney Sneed, CNN Mazars USA, the accounting firm that former President Donald Trump and his businesses have used for years, cut ties with him in stunning fashion, declaring it could no longer vouch for the financial statements it has complied over the past decade. The February 9 letter was disclosed Monday amid litigation around
Continue Reading By Kyung Lah, Anna-Maja Rappard and Rachel Clarke, CNN Nestled inland among national forests, Shasta County could be seen as a GOP haven in California, far from the liberal coastal centers that dominate state politics. But it was here, where Republicans outnumber Democrats 2-to-1, that rebels stood up against their local party leaders and then
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By Kyung Lah, Anna-Maja Rappard and Rachel Clarke, CNN Nestled inland among national forests, Shasta County could be seen as a GOP haven in California, far from the liberal coastal centers that dominate state politics. But it was here, where Republicans outnumber Democrats 2-to-1, that rebels stood up against their local party leaders and then
Continue Reading By Kara Scannell, CNN Former President Donald Trump‘s long-time accounting firm informed the Trump Organization last week that it should no longer rely on nearly 10 years’ worth of financial statements and that they would no longer be their accountants, citing a conflict of interest. “We have come to this conclusion based, in part, upon
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By Clare Foran and Ali Zaslav, CNN A push for swift passage of a sweeping bill with bipartisan support to overhaul the US Postal Service’s finances hit a snag Monday evening in the Senate. Sen. Rick Scott of Florida, the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, objected to a unanimous consent request from Senate
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By Lauren Fox, Morgan Rimmer and Ted Barrett, CNN Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia went to the Senate floor to crystallize his opposition to Dr. Robert Califf’s nomination to lead the Food and Drug Administration, but the nominee still advanced past a key procedural hurdle Monday evening. In the narrowly divided Senate, Manchin’s
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By Katelyn Polantz and Evan Perez, CNN Special counsel John Durham accused a lawyer for the Democrats of sharing with the CIA in 2017 internet data purported to show Russian-made phones being used in the vicinity of the White House complex, as part of a broader effort to raise the intelligence community’s suspicions of Donald
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By Jessica Schneider, CNN US Navy nuclear engineer Jonathan Toebbe pleaded guilty to one felony count in federal court Monday afternoon, four months after he and his wife were arrested and charged with trying to sell classified information about nuclear submarines to a foreign country in exchange for millions of dollars of cryptocurrency. Toebbe, 43,
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By Gregory Krieg and Ethan Cohen, CNN Control of both chambers of Congress and dozens of governorships and state offices are on the line in 2022, the first national election since President Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump, who is using the campaign to tighten his grip on the Republican Party. Democrats are on the defensive
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By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN The last several hundred Afghan evacuees who have been living on domestic military bases are expected to depart those installations over the next week, according to a Homeland Security official, marking an end to part of a months-long operation to resettle tens of thousands of Afghans. For many Afghan nationals who
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By Katie Lobosco, CNN Canadian truckers recently shut down North America’s busiest land border crossing to protest Covid-19 mandates. But in the United States, truck drivers have long been frustrated with other problems, like bad pay for long hours and weeks away from home. Those issues were thrust into the spotlight when the pandemic disrupted
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By Paul LeBlanc, CNN Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin is expected to sign a bill ending school mask mandates, after the legislation cleared the state Senate and House of Delegates in recent days. The legislation allows parents to opt their children out of wearing a mask in school without having to provide a reason, and would
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By Fredreka Schouten, CNN Tina Peters, the embattled county clerk in Mesa County, Colorado, said Monday she is running for secretary of state. “Colorado deserves a secretary of state who will stand up to the Biden administration that wants to run our country into the ground with nationalized elections,” Peters, a Republican, said in a
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By Kara Scannell, CNN Former President Donald Trump‘s long-time accounting firm informed the Trump Organization last week that it should no longer rely on nearly 10 years’ worth of financial statements and that they would no longer be their accountants, citing a conflict of interest. “We have come to this conclusion based, in part, upon
Continue Reading By Jennifer Hansler and Kylie Atwood, CNN The United States is closing the US Embassy in Kyiv and “temporarily relocating” the small number of remaining diplomatic personnel in the country to Lviv, a city in western Ukraine, “due to the dramatic acceleration in the buildup of Russian forces,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced Monday.
Continue Reading By Devan Cole, Paul Murphy and Paradise Afshar, CNN A Democratic candidate for mayor in Louisville, Kentucky, was the target of a shooting Monday morning at his campaign headquarters, authorities said. Democrat Craig Greenberg was the target of the shooting in the city’s Butchertown neighborhood, Louisville Metropolitan Police Department Chief Erika Shields said, adding that
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By Betsy Klein, CNN President Joe Biden spent parts of the weekend reviewing materials on potential successors to Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer as his self-imposed end-of-February deadline inches closer. Biden is “currently reviewing the legal record and writings of potential nominees, all of whom deserve fair bipartisan review,” according to White House talking points
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By Ella Nilsen, CNN The vast majority of critical minerals and rare earth elements that help power electric vehicles and wind turbines come from mining operations overseas. But a new initiative spearheaded by the US Department of Energy is looking for ways to extract them from fossil fuel waste. The Energy Department plans to build
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By Jennifer Hansler and Kylie Atwood, CNN The United States is closing the US Embassy in Kyiv and “temporarily relocating” the small number of remaining diplomatic personnel in the country to Lviv, a city in western Ukraine, “due to the dramatic acceleration in the buildup of Russian forces,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced Monday.
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