By Betsy Klein, CNN A top official on the White House monkeypox response team on Friday sought to defend the Biden administration’s actions as the outbreak worsens but did not offer substantive explanations for why it is taking so long to get the spread under control, casting the response as reactive to the disease’s trajectory.
Continue Reading By Jennifer Hansler and Holmes Lybrand, CNN El Shafee Elsheikh, a British ISIS fighter and member of the execution cell dubbed “the ISIS Beatles” because of their British accents, was sentenced to life in prison Friday for his role in the hostage-taking and deaths of four Americans and several others. Elsheikh was handed down eight
Continue Reading By Melanie Zanona The man in charge of the House GOP‘s campaign strategy has been doling out advice to Republican candidates and incumbents in key battleground races as they prepare for the general election: Don’t be distracted by Donald Trump on the campaign trail, and instead focus on the issues Republicans believe will be most
Continue Reading By Nick Valencia, Pamela Kirkland and Tierney Sneed, CNN A federal judge won’t put on hold her ruling that Sen. Lindsey Graham must appear before the Fulton County special grand jury that’s investigating Republican efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia. Graham had asked US District Judge Leigh Martin May on Thursday
Continue Reading By Kevin Liptak, CNN The leaders of China and Russia both plan to attend November’s G20 summit, its host said Thursday, setting up a high-profile showdown with US President Joe Biden. Indonesian President Joko Widodo told Bloomberg in an interview that he’d received assurances from both Presidents Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin that they would
Continue Reading By Betsy Klein, CNN The Democratic National Committee is launching a new seven-figure TV and other media ad buy aimed at touting Democratic efforts to lower costs amid high inflation, highlighting recent victories including the signing of the climate, health care and tax bill earlier this week. The campaign, a DNC official told CNN exclusively,
Continue Reading By Tierney Sneed, Hannah Rabinowitz, Katelyn Polantz and Denise Royal, CNN A US magistrate judge started the process of potentially releasing some information from the affidavit that the Justice Department used to obtain a search warrant for former President Donald Trump’s Florida residence. Judge Bruce Reinhart said during a hearing at the West Palm Beach
Continue Reading By Evan Perez and Katelyn Polantz, CNN A document unsealed Thursday, which offered specifics about the crimes the Justice Department is investigating, including “willful retention of national defense information,” sharpens the focus on former President Donald Trump as a possible subject of the criminal probe, several legal experts told CNN. US Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart
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The Jefferson City Council will hold a special meeting Thursday to discuss and vote on its property tax rate for the 2023 fiscal year after a council member asked to lower the mayor’s proposed rate.
Continue Reading By Joe Sutton, CNN A federal judge in Florida on Thursday ruled that a law pushed by Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis restricting conversations around race in schools and the workplace is unconstitutional. In a 44-page ruling blocking enforcement of parts of the law, US District Judge Mark Walker said that Florida’s Individual Freedom Act
Continue Reading By Evan Perez and Katelyn Polantz, CNN A document unsealed Thursday, which offered specifics about the crimes the Justice Department is investigating, including “willful retention of national defense information,” sharpens the focus on former President Donald Trump as a possible subject of the criminal probe, several legal experts told CNN. US Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart
Continue Reading By Alex Rogers, Melanie Zanona and David Wright, CNN A super PAC tied to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell came to the rescue of J.D. Vance, the struggling Senate Republican candidate in Ohio, a state Democrat Joe Biden lost by 8 points in 2020. The National Republican Senatorial Committee resorted to cutting and shifting ad
Continue Reading By Jamie Gangel, Elizabeth Stuart and Jeremy Herb, CNN In the days since the FBI seized classified and top secret documents from Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, the former President and his allies have claimed that Trump had a “standing order” to declassify documents he took from the Oval Office to the White House residence. But
Continue Reading By Jamie Gangel, Elizabeth Stuart and Jeremy Herb, CNN In the days since the FBI seized classified and top secret documents from Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, the former President and his allies have claimed that Trump had a “standing order” to declassify documents he took from the Oval Office to the White House residence. But
Continue Reading By Tierney Sneed, CNN Former President Donald Trump asked the full bench of the DC US Circuit Court of Appeals to review a recent appellate panel ruling okaying the Internal Revenue Service’s release of Trump’s tax returns to a House committee. The DC Circuit panel made “made several errors” in its ruling in favor of
Continue Reading By Tierney Sneed, Hannah Rabinowitz, Katelyn Polantz and Denise Royal, CNN A US magistrate judge started the process of potentially releasing some information from the affidavit that the Justice Department used to obtain a search warrant for former President Donald Trump’s Florida residence. Judge Bruce Reinhart said during a hearing at the West Palm Beach
Continue Reading By Jamie Gangel, Elizabeth Stuart and Jeremy Herb, CNN In the days since the FBI seized classified and top secret documents from Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, the former President and his allies have claimed that Trump had a “standing order” to declassify documents he took from the Oval Office to the White House residence. But
Continue Reading By Melissa Alonso and Jennifer Henderson, CNN The Florida state Senate will pause its proceedings to remove state attorney Andrew Warren, who was suspended by Gov. Ron DeSantis for his pledge not to prosecute certain cases, according to a letter penned by Senate President Wilton Simpson on Wednesday. The Republican governor announced he was suspending
Continue Reading By Kara Scannell, CNN Allen Weisselberg, the former chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, pleaded guilty Thursday to his role in a 15-year-long tax fraud scheme, and as part of the deal he has agreed to testify against former President Donald Trump’s real estate company at trial. In court Thursday, Weisselberg said, “Yes, your
Continue Reading By Kara Scannell, CNN Allen Weisselberg, the former chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, pleaded guilty Thursday to his role in a 15-year-long tax fraud scheme, and as part of the deal he has agreed to testify against former President Donald Trump’s real estate company at trial. In court Thursday, Weisselberg said, “Yes, your
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