By Natasha Bertrand, CNN White House officials are losing confidence that Ukraine will ever be able to take back all of the land it has lost to Russia over the past four months of war, US officials told CNN, even with the heavier and more sophisticated weaponry the US and its allies plan to send.
Continue Reading By Tierney Sneed, CNN Abortion rights proponents have filed court actions in at least seven states seeking to block or slow the enforcement of abortion bans in the days since Friday’s US Supreme Court ruling cleared the way for states to prohibit the procedure. In Idaho, Kentucky, Mississippi and Texas, state court lawsuits were filed
Continue Reading By Kevin Liptak, Niamh Kennedy, Sugam Pokharel, Kate Sullivan and Donald Judd, CNN Finnish President Sauli Niinistö said on Tuesday that Turkey has agreed to support Finland and Sweden’s NATO membership bids, removing a major hurdle to the two countries joining the alliance. Niinistö said in a statement that a joint memorandum on the matter
Continue Reading By Natasha Bertrand, CNN White House officials are losing confidence that Ukraine will ever be able to take back all of the land it has lost to Russia over the past four months of war, US officials told CNN, even with the heavier and more sophisticated weaponry the US and its allies plan to send.
Continue Reading By Ryan Nobles, Zachary Cohen and Annie Grayer, CNN Cassidy Hutchinson, an aide to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and a witness to many critical events and conversations, is expected to testify publicly on Tuesday before the select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack, according to two sources familiar
Continue Reading By Rob Frehse and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN A 39-year-old man who allegedly slapped Rudy Giuliani on the back Sunday has been charged with assault with intent to cause physical injury, harassment in the second degree and menacing in the third degree and was released on his own recognizance after a court appearance Monday, court records
Continue Reading By Rob Frehse and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN A 39-year-old man who allegedly slapped Rudy Giuliani on the back Sunday has been charged with assault with intent to cause physical injury, harassment in the second degree and menacing in the third degree and was released on his own recognizance after a court appearance Monday, court records
Continue Reading By Jennifer Hansler, Stefano Pozzebon and Kylie Atwood, CNN A US government delegation quietly traveled to Venezuela “for discussions about the welfare and safety of US nationals in Venezuela,” a State Department spokesperson told CNN on Monday. The visit by Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs Roger Carstens and US Ambassador Jimmy Story, who heads
Continue Reading By Cheri Mossburg, CNN A new amendment could add women’s reproductive rights to California’s state constitution after overwhelmingly passing in the State Assembly on Monday. SCA 10 will now be placed before California voters in the November election, following the Assembly’s 58-16 vote, which exceeded the necessary two-thirds majority to pass. California’s state Senate had
Continue Reading By Cheri Mossburg, CNN A new amendment could add women’s reproductive rights to California’s state constitution after overwhelmingly passing in the State Assembly on Monday. SCA 10 will now be placed before California voters in the November election, following the Assembly’s 58-16 vote, which exceeded the necessary two-thirds majority to pass. California’s state Senate had
Continue Reading By Devan Cole, CNN The Supreme Court’s majority decision overturning Roe v. Wade has allowed states to begin setting their own abortion policies. Just days after the ruling, it has already resulted in a patchwork system in which access to the procedure is, for many people, determined largely by whether a state is controlled by
Continue Reading By Devan Cole and Tierney Sneed, CNN The Supreme Court’s majority decision overturning Roe v. Wade has led states to implement their own abortion policies. The ruling has already resulted in a patchwork system across the country — as was anticipated — in which access to the procedure is, for many people, determined largely by
Continue Reading By Tierney Sneed, CNN Abortion rights proponents have filed court actions in at least seven states seeking to block or slow the enforcement of abortion bans in the days since Friday’s US Supreme Court ruling cleared the way for states to prohibit the procedure. In Idaho, Kentucky, Mississippi and Texas, state court lawsuits were filed
Continue Reading By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice Right-wing attorney John Eastman has dropped his challenge to the House’s pursuit of his call log data, according to a new federal court filing. The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack had subpoenaed Verizon for three months of records related to Eastman’s
Continue Reading By Joan Biskupic, CNN legal analyst & Supreme Court biographer Supreme Court justices on Monday readily put themselves in the shoes of a football coach who wanted to pray at midfield after a game, over those of students who might feel pressure to join him, in an expansive decision focused on the “suppression” of religious
Continue Reading By Katelyn Polantz and Evan Perez, CNN FBI seized the phone of former President Donald Trump’s election attorney John Eastman last week, according to a new court filing from the conservative lawyer. Eastman disclosed the search and seizure in federal court in a lawsuit that he filed in New Mexico on Monday, calling it improper.
Continue Reading By Barbara Starr and Oren Liebermann, CNN The US carried out a strike in Syria on Monday targeting a senior leader of Hurras al-Din, an al Qaeda-affiliated terrorist organization, according to a statement from US Central Command. The US is “highly confident” that the strike, carried out from a drone, killed Abu Hamzah al Yemeni,
Continue Reading By Maegan Vazquez, Jasmine Wright and Devan Cole, CNN In her first interview since Roe v. Wade was overturned on Friday, Vice President Kamala Harris told CNN’s Dana Bash that she never believed former President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court picks, whom she voted against in the Senate, would preserve the landmark abortion law. “I never
Continue Reading By Maegan Vazquez, Jasmine Wright and Devan Cole, CNN In her first interview since Roe v. Wade was overturned on Friday, Vice President Kamala Harris told CNN’s Dana Bash that she never believed former President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court picks, whom she voted against in the Senate, would preserve the landmark abortion law. “I never
Continue Reading By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN President Joe Biden’s pick to helm US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Ed Gonzalez, is withdrawing from consideration, Gonzalez announced in a tweet on Monday, leaving the agency without permanent leadership as the administration tries to usher forward its immigration agenda. Biden tapped Gonzalez to serve as ICE director last year. But
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