By Dan Merica and Jeff Zeleny, CNN Milwaukee Bucks executive Alex Lasry ended his US Senate bid on Wednesday just two weeks before Wisconsin’s Democratic primary and after spending more than $12 million on his campaign. The decision is a surprising move from a candidate who polls showed was competitive with Lieutenant Gov. Mandela Barnes
Continue Reading By Daniella Diaz, CNN House Democrats will not vote on a series of gun and policing bills this week that would have included an assault weapons ban, according to a source familiar with the matter. This comes after the chamber had scheduled these bills in the wake of a wave of mass shootings across the
Continue Reading By Josh Campbell, Kristin Wilson and Lauren Koenig, CNN Gun manufactures selling assault-style rifles have employed questionable marketing tactics, including appealing to White supremacists, “preying” on the masculinity of young men, and running advertisements that mimic video games, according to an investigation by the Democrat-led House Committee on Oversight and Reform. In a hearing Wednesday,
Continue Reading By Kevin Liptak, Betsy Klein and Kate Sullivan, CNN President Joe Biden said Wednesday he’s “feeling great” and is back to working in person after isolating in the White House and recovering from what has been described as a mild case of Covid-19. The President, addressing the nation from the Rose Garden, credited the vaccines,
Continue Reading By Chandelis Duster, CNN The Department of Justice has reached out to other Trump White House officials regarding the January 6 attack on the US Capitol in addition to two top aides to former Vice President Mike Pence, a former administration official told CNN on Wednesday. Alyssa Farah Griffin, a former White House communications director
Continue Reading By Chandelis Duster, CNN The Department of Justice has reached out to other Trump White House officials regarding the January 6 attack on the US Capitol in addition to two top aides to former Vice President Mike Pence, a former administration official told CNN on Wednesday. Alyssa Farah Griffin, a former White House communications director
Continue Reading By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN Human smugglers frequently misrepresent immigration policies and conditions along the US-Mexico border in Facebook and WhatsApp social media posts targeting US-bound migrants, according to a report released Wednesday by a tech transparency group. Since taking office, President Joe Biden has faced an unprecedented number of migrants arriving at the US southern
Continue Reading By Edward-Isaac Dovere Seized by genuine panic about the prospect of Republicans winning control of Congress and governors’ mansions across the country, multiple Democratic leaders and candidates in some of the tightest races are calling on party leaders — including President Joe Biden — to focus on calling out Republicans as “extremists.” They don’t think
Continue Reading By Kevin Liptak, CNN When President Joe Biden tested positive for Covid last week, the dog stayed with him. The cat went with his wife. Biden’s long-anticipated, heavily-planned-for, how-has-it-not-happened-yet Covid infection turned the White House residence briefly into a sick ward for a single, high-profile patient who aides said spent the weekend going stir crazy
Continue Reading By Tierney Sneed and Evan Perez, CNN The move by the Justice Department to bring two top aides to former Vice President Mike Pence in front of a federal grand jury is the most aggressive public step taken yet by prosecutors investigating the plots to subvert the 2020 election. It signals that the Department’s probe
Continue Reading By Annie Grayer, CNN Former acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller told the House select committee investigating the Capitol Hill insurrection that former President Donald Trump never gave him a formal order to have 10,000 troops ready to be deployed to the Capitol on January 6, 2021, according to new video of Miller’s deposition released by
Continue Reading By Natasha Bertrand, Katie Bo Lillis and Phil Mattingly, CNN When President Joe Biden convened nearly a dozen Western leaders by private video conference on Thursday to discuss the war in Ukraine, he was intent upon delivering a key message, sources say: to stay unified in punishing Russia, even as the Kremlin tries to weaponize
Continue Reading By Dan Merica and Eric Bradner, CNN Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday outlined a hardline and harsh criminal justice agenda for the Republican Party, praising China’s justice system, pushing for the death penalty for drug dealers and arguing the federal government should circumvent governors to use the National Guard to fight crime. While the
Continue Reading By Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden will speak Thursday with Chinese President Xi Jinping, a White House official tells CNN, as tensions between the two countries rise amid reports that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is considering a visit to Taiwan. The expected call comes as national security officials are quietly working to convince Pelosi
Continue Reading By Clara Grudberg, CNN 2022 marks a record high for women running in gubernatorial and Senate races, but the total number of women running for the House of Representatives fell slightly from previous cycles, according to an analysis by the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University. While Republican female candidates broke records
Continue Reading By Jason Morris and Paul LeBlanc, CNN The State Bar of Georgia is investigating two Republican lawyers who signed on to the “fake electors” scheme to subvert the Electoral College in the 2020 presidential election. The lawyers, Brad Carver and Daryl Moody, were specifically referred to the State Disciplinary Board for investigation by the Office
Continue Reading By Jennifer Hansler and Devan Cole, CNN US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with the family of slain Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh at the State Department on Tuesday. “The Secretary is deeply appreciative of the opportunity to meet with Shireen’s family,” State Department spokesperson Ned Price said at a briefing, noting that
Continue Reading By Annie Grayer, CNN Former acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller told the House select committee investigating the Capitol Hill insurrection that former President Donald Trump never gave him a formal order to have 10,000 troops ready to be deployed to the Capitol on January 6, 2021, according to new video of Miller’s deposition released by
Continue Reading By Oren Liebermann, Zachary Cohen and Barbara Starr, CNN Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has approved the treatment of wounded Ukrainian soldiers at a US military hospital in Germany, according to a memo obtained by CNN and confirmed by two US defense officials. The plan would allow Ukrainian troops to be treated at a US military
Continue Reading By Kylie Atwood, Jennifer Hansler and Michael Conte, CNN The family of an American sentenced to 14 years at a hard labor camp in Russia fears that he has been given what amounts to a “a death sentence” and is calling on the Biden administration to designate him as wrongfully detained, which would trigger formal
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