By Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden visited a Washington, DC, vaccination clinic on Tuesday where children under the age of 5 are being immunized against Covid-19 — part of the first cohort of young kids to be immunized against the virus following the US Centers for Disease Control and
Continue Reading The latest hearing before the House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection revealed new details Tuesday about how former President Donald Trump pressured state officials to help him overturn the 2020 presidential election.
Continue Reading By Barbara Starr, CNN Pentagon Correspondent An airman has been arrested by military law enforcement in connection to an April attack at a US military base in northern Syria that injured four US service members. “As part of an ongoing investigation, on June 16, an Airman was taken into custody stateside in conjunction with the
Continue Reading By Marshall Cohen, Jeremy Herb and Zachary Cohen, CNN The latest hearing before the House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection revealed new details Tuesday about how former President Donald Trump pressured state officials to help him overturn the 2020 presidential election. The panel featured testimony from three Republican officials who were all on
Continue Reading By Marshall Cohen, Jeremy Herb and Zachary Cohen, CNN The latest hearing before the House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection revealed new details Tuesday about how former President Donald Trump pressured state officials to help him overturn the 2020 presidential election. The panel featured testimony from three Republican officials who were all on
Continue Reading By Marshall Cohen, Jeremy Herb and Zachary Cohen, CNN The latest hearing before the House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection revealed new details Tuesday about how former President Donald Trump pressured state officials to help him overturn the 2020 presidential election. The panel featured testimony from three Republican officials who were all on
Continue Reading By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter Justice Sonia Sotomayor made crystal clear on Tuesday that she believes the conservatives on the Supreme Court — including three of President Donald Trump’s nominees — are set to move the country sharply to the right by eviscerating or ignoring decades of precedent on issues that most
Continue Reading By Katie Lobosco, CNN The Internal Revenue Service will finally get through the massive pandemic-induced backlog of federal tax returns filed in 2021 this week, the agency said on Tuesday. But more than twice as many returns filed in 2022 still await processing compared with a typical year at this point. The IRS began the
Continue Reading By Kara Scannell The Justice Department will drop the remaining fraud counts facing disgraced attorney Michael Avenatti after he agreed to plead guilty to multiple charges last week. Prosecutors with the US attorney’s office for the Central District of California said in a court filing Tuesday they wouldn’t move ahead with the remaining 31 counts
Continue Reading By Rachel Janfaza, Ethan Cohen and Melissa Holzberg DePalo, CNN It’s Election Day in Alabama, Virginia, Georgia and Washington, DC, with voters picking their nominees in primaries or primary runoffs for the November midterms. In Alabama, Republicans Katie Britt and Mo Brooks are going head-to-head in a runoff for their party’s Senate nomination. Britt won
Continue Reading By Kevin Liptak, CNN The White House says it is “appalling” Russia won’t rule out applying the death penalty on two American citizens who are detained after volunteering to fight in Ukraine. “We still are trying to learn more about these two individuals,” said John Kirby, the coordinator for strategic communications at the National Security
Continue Reading By Kevin Liptak, CNN The White House says it is “appalling” Russia won’t rule out applying the death penalty on two American citizens who are detained after volunteering to fight in Ukraine. “We still are trying to learn more about these two individuals,” said John Kirby, the coordinator for strategic communications at the National Security
Continue Reading By Melanie Zanona, Gabby Orr and Zachary Cohen, CNN Donald Trump is growing increasingly irritated with the House panel investigating the January 6, 2021, riot as it lifts the curtain on some of its findings with public hearings that have garnered gavel-to-gavel cable coverage — much to the annoyance of the TV-obsessed former President. Tucked
Continue Reading By Alex Rogers and Ethan Cohen, CNN Independent orthopedic surgeon Al Gross dropped out of the Alaska House race on Monday and threw his support behind two Native women candidates: Republican Tara Sweeney and former Democratic state Rep. Mary Peltola. In a statement, Gross said that he and his wife Monica decided “it is just
Continue Reading By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN The top US “Nazi hunter” will lead a Justice Department team to identify and prosecute anyone who has committed war crimes in Ukraine, Attorney General Merrick Garland said Tuesday during an unannounced visit to that country. The team, Garland said, will be led by the department’s best-known Nazi hunter Eli Rosenbaum,
Continue Reading By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN The top US “Nazi hunter” will lead a Justice Department team to identify and prosecute anyone who has committed war crimes in Ukraine, Attorney General Merrick Garland said Tuesday during an unannounced visit to that country. The team, Garland said, will be led by the department’s best-known Nazi hunter Eli Rosenbaum,
Continue Reading By Fredreka Schouten, CNN A version of this story appeared in the CITIZEN BY CNN newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. The nation recently faced a jarring split screen: In Washington, DC, witnesses before the House committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol described then-President
Continue Reading By Kate Sullivan, Jennifer Hansler and Allie Malloy, CNN The Biden administration on Tuesday said it was reversing a Trump-era policy and joining the majority of countries around the world in committing to limit the use of anti-personnel landmines. The new policy prohibits the use of the landmines outside of the Korean Peninsula and bans
Continue Reading By Jessica Schneider, Ariane de Vogue, Tierney Sneed and Paul LeBlanc, CNN The Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Virginia man who is seeking to challenge one of his convictions for using a firearm in an attempted robbery. The ruling will allow the man to attempt to reduce his sentence by 10 years. In
Continue Reading By Ariane de Vogue, Tierney Sneed and Chandelis Duster, CNN The Supreme Court said Tuesday that Maine cannot exclude religious schools from a tuition assistance program that allows parents to use vouchers to send their children to public or private schools. The 6-3 ruling is the latest move by the conservative court to expand religious
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