By Zachary Cohen and Holmes Lybrand, CNN Roger Stone, a staunch ally of former President Donald Trump, met briefly Friday with the House select committee investigating the January 6 riot and asserted his Fifth Amendment rights to every question asked, he said. Stone emerged from the deposition after only 90 minutes and told reporters he
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By Sean Lyngaas, CNN US cybersecurity officials on Friday issued an “emergency directive” ordering all federal civilian agencies to quickly address a critical software flaw that is impacting big tech firms around the world. The order from the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency gives federal agencies until December 23 to document internet-facing installations of
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By Lauren Fox and Daniella Diaz, CNN Trump administration officials made “deliberate efforts to undermine the nation’s coronavirus response for political purposes,” the House Select subcommittee on the coronavirus crisis led by Democrats said in a report released Friday. The committee, which spent months working to interview former Trump officials, said the administration worked to
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By Kate Sullivan, CNN President Joe Biden on Friday pledged to “keep up the fight” to pass voting rights legislation that remains stalled in Congress due to Republican opposition, as he delivered the commencement address at a historically Black university in South Carolina. “I’ve never seen anything like the unrelenting assault on the right to
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By Natasha Bertrand, Jim Sciutto and Katie Bo Lillis, CNN Russia has continued to amass new troops near Ukraine’s border in recent days, despite President Joe Biden urging Russian President Vladimir Putin to de-escalate tensions during a virtual meeting last week. More Russian military units have been sent to the border area in recent days,
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By Lauren Fox and Daniella Diaz, CNN Trump administration officials made “deliberate efforts to undermine the nation’s coronavirus response for political purposes,” the House Select subcommittee on the coronavirus crisis led by Democrats said in a report released Friday. The committee, which spent months working to interview former Trump officials, said the administration worked to
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By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN Most of the public continues to take precautions to guard against the risks of Covid-19 and nearly 4 in 10 Americans think they’ll continue doing so for the foreseeable future, according to a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS. More than half, 55%, say the risk of coronavirus remains high enough
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By Gabby Orr and Manu Raju, CNN Just before Donald Trump took the stage at an August rally in Alabama that was meant to boost GOP Rep. Mo Brooks‘ US Senate bid, the former President ran into one of Brooks’ primary opponents offstage. The previously unreported encounter between Trump and Katie Boyd Britt was described
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By Ella Nilsen and Rene Marsh, CNN In an ancient and now extinct supervolcano sitting in northern Nevada lies a treasure that its seekers call “white gold.” This metal isn’t to trade or to make jewelry out of — it’s lithium, and its value lies in its role in potentially slashing the world’s carbon emissions.
Continue Reading By Ella Nilsen and Rene Marsh, CNN In an ancient and now extinct supervolcano sitting in northern Nevada lies a treasure that its seekers call “white gold.” This metal isn’t to trade or to make jewelry out of — it’s lithium, and its value lies in its role in potentially slashing the world’s carbon emissions.
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By Simone Pathe, CNN As the calendar turns to 2022, Senate races are about to kick into much higher gear, with ad spending increasing ahead of the first primaries in May and just a few more fundraising quarters for candidates to prove they’re serious The biggest storyline to watch heading into 2022 is the resolution
Continue Reading By Leyla Santiago and Sara Weisfeldt, CNN Tucked away in the back of an office in a Florida strip mall is a tidy storage room filled with hundreds of navy blue t-shirts, hats, flags and even Christmas decor. “We have ornaments,” Tiffany Justice points out proudly, quick to show a version of a Thomas Jefferson
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By Leyla Santiago and Sara Weisfeldt, CNN Tucked away in the back of an office in a Florida strip mall is a tidy storage room filled with hundreds of navy blue t-shirts, hats, flags and even Christmas decor. “We have ornaments,” Tiffany Justice points out proudly, quick to show a version of a Thomas Jefferson
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By Oren Liebermann, CNN Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott asserted the Pentagon has no authority to punish unvaccinated members of the state National Guard, joining other Republican governors who have called on Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to withdraw or otherwise nullify the military’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate. In a Thursday letter to Austin, Abbott wrote that
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By Jennifer Hansler, CNN A group of mostly Democratic House members is urging the Biden administration to take steps to avert a looming economic catastrophe in Afghanistan. The lawmakers, led by Democratic Reps. Jason Crow of Colorado and Tom Malinowski of New Jersey and Republican Rep. Peter Meijer of Michigan, proposed measures to help provide
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By Phil Mattingly, CNN President Joe Biden, in a lengthy statement, implicitly acknowledged ongoing negotiations with Sen. Joe Manchin and procedural steps will cause Democrats to miss the Christmas deadline for Senate passage of his $1.75 trillion economic and climate package, noting that Democrats will continue to work together “over the days and weeks ahead”
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By Daniella Diaz and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN The Senate parliamentarian on Thursday rejected Democrats’ third attempt to include immigration in President Joe Biden’s economic bill, delivering a major blow to Democrats who have repeatedly sought to include immigration provisions in the Build Back Better bill. It’s the latest hit to the Biden administration’s immigration agenda
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By Ariane de Vogue and Tierney Sneed, CNN The Department of Justice asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to allow a vaccine mandate aimed at certain extra health care workers to go into effect nationwide, marking the first time the justices have been asked to weigh in on a federal mandate the Biden administration put
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By Manu Raju, Chief Congressional Correspondent Anger is growing in Democratic ranks over the failure to get President Joe Biden’s sweeping agenda through this year despite unified control of Congress, with their party already bracing for what could be a brutal Election Day in next November’s midterms. Major issues they promised to deliver on, such
Continue Reading By Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden bestowed the Medal of Honor, the most prestigious decoration in the US military, to three Army soldiers on Thursday afternoon. The medal was awarded posthumously to Army Sergeant First Class Alwyn Cashe and Army Sergeant First Class Christopher Celiz, as well as Army Master Sergeant Earl D. Plumlee.
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