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Top House Democrats accuse DHS watchdog of obstructing investigation into missing Secret Service text messages

August 16, 2022 11:26 AM CNN Newsource

By Annie Grayer, CNN Two top House Democrats are accusing the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General of obstructing their investigation into missing Secret Service text messages related to the January 6 Capitol attack, escalating tensions between Congress and the watchdog agency. In a letter on Tuesday, House Oversight Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney and House Homeland

How to follow Tuesday’s primary elections

August 16, 2022 11:02 AM CNN Newsource

By Rachel Janfaza, Ethan Cohen, Melissa Holzberg DePalo, Clara Grudberg and Nicholas Anastacio, CNN It’s primary election day in Wyoming and Alaska. In both states Tuesday, there are key primary races that will test the fate of two of former President Donald Trump’s biggest critics. Here’s everything you need to know: In Wyoming, Rep. Liz

Trump considering releasing surveillance footage of FBI Mar-a-Lago search

August 16, 2022 11:01 AM CNN

By Gabby Orr, Sara Murray, Kaitlan Collins and Katelyn Polantz, CNN Some allies of former President Donald Trump are urging him to publicly release surveillance footage of FBI agents executing a search warrant on his Mar-a-Lago residence, a proposal that has drawn mixed reaction inside his orbit, CNN has learned. The CCTV footage has been

Florida judge to hold hearing Thursday on request to unseal Mar-a-Lago affidavit

August 16, 2022 10:13 AM CNN Newsource

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice The federal magistrate judge who approved the Mar-a-Lago search warrant will hold a hearing Thursday at the court in Florida to discuss requests to unseal investigators’ probable cause affidavit, which the Justice Department has opposed releasing. A federal judge on Friday unsealed the search warrant and property

Biden administration cancels another $3.9 billion in student loan debt for former for-profit college students

August 16, 2022 8:50 AM CNN Newsource

By Katie Lobosco, CNN The Department of Education said Tuesday that it will cancel $3.9 billion in student loan debt for 208,000 students who attended the now-defunct for-profit ITT Technical Institute — bringing the total amount of loan discharges approved under President Joe Biden to nearly $32 billion. Some former ITT Tech students were already

First lady Dr. Jill Biden tests positive for Covid-19

August 16, 2022 8:37 AM CNN Newsource

By Betsy Klein and Kate Bennett, CNN First lady Dr. Jill Biden has tested positive for Covid-19 and is experiencing mild symptoms, her spokesperson said Tuesday. “After testing negative for Covid-19 on Monday during her regular testing cadence, the First Lady began to develop cold-like symptoms late in the evening. She tested negative again on

Arizona Republican secretary of state nominee kept ‘Treason Watch List’ and posted about stockpiling ammunition on Pinterest

August 16, 2022 8:00 AM CNN Newsource

By Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, CNN The Republican nominee for secretary of state in Arizona is a self-proclaimed member of the far-right extremist group the Oath Keepers who repeatedly shared anti-government conspiracies and posts about stockpiling ammunition on social media. CNN’s KFile team uncovered previously unreported posts from Mark Finchem, an Arizona state representative

US Air Force tests nuclear-capable long-range missile

August 16, 2022 7:43 AM CNN Newsource

By Michael Callahan, CNN The US Air Force on Tuesday tested an unarmed nuclear-capable long-range missile, according to the Air Force Global Strike Command. The unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile, equipped with a test reentry vehicle, was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California and traveled 4,200 miles to a test range near

6 things to watch in Wyoming and Alaska elections

August 16, 2022 5:01 AM CNN Newsource

By Eric Bradner, CNN Former President Donald Trump’s campaign to purge the Republican Party of his opponents could reach its most dramatic moment of the 2022 midterm election cycle on Tuesday in Wyoming. Rep. Liz Cheney, the vice chair of the House committee investigating January 6, 2021, who was booted from her House leadership position

Biden signs Inflation Reduction Act into law

August 16, 2022 5:00 AM CNN Newsource

By Maegan Vazquez and Donald Judd, CNN President Joe Biden signed a sweeping $750 billion health care, tax and climate bill into law at the White House on Tuesday — marking a major victory for his administration and the Democratic Party ahead of the midterm elections. Biden said during a signing ceremony in the State

Biden signs Inflation Reduction Act into law

August 16, 2022 5:00 AM CNN

By Maegan Vazquez and Donald Judd, CNN President Joe Biden signed a sweeping $750 billion health care, tax and climate bill into law at the White House on Tuesday — marking a major victory for his administration and the Democratic Party ahead of the midterm elections. Biden said during a signing ceremony in the State

QUESTION OF THE DAY: Should the courts unseal the Mar-a-Lago affidavit?

August 16, 2022 2:31 AM ABC 17 News Team

Several news organizations have asked the courts to make the affidavit used to obtain a search warrant of Mar-a-Lago public.

Third Columbia police review board member resigns this summer

August 15, 2022 10:58 PM Lucas Geisler

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) – A third member of the Columbia Citizens Police Review Board resigned on Monday, delaying the Columbia City Council’s attempt to fill two other vacancies. Mayor Barbara Buffaloe announced at Monday night’s council meeting that member Michael Williams had resigned that afternoon. Buffaloe did not mention a reason for the resignation. Williams

Jefferson City Council holds public hearing on budget, property tax rates

August 15, 2022 9:46 PM Leila Mitchell

The Jefferson City Council held a public hearing Monday night on its fiscal year 2023 budget and its property tax rate.

Effort to recall Los Angeles DA fails to quality for ballot

August 15, 2022 8:42 PM CNN Newsource

By Shawna Mizelle and Taylor Romine, CNN Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón will not face a recall election after officials determined Monday that the campaign looking to oust him failed to gather enough valid signatures. The effort needed 566,857 valid signatures to place Gascón’s job on the ballot, but it fell nearly 47,000

DOJ opposes making public details in Mar-a-Lago search warrant’s probable cause affidavit, saying it could ‘chill future cooperation’

August 15, 2022 6:30 PM CNN

By Katelyn Polantz and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN The Justice Department is opposing the release of details in an affidavit that lays out the argument that investigators made to a federal magistrate judge explaining the probable cause it had to search former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate last week, saying it could have a chilling effect

Residents speak out on monthly water rate increase at Columbia City Council

August 15, 2022 5:10 PM Hannah Falcon

Columbia residents will have their first opportunity to comment in person on the fiscal 2023 budget at Monday night’s city council meeting.

The Washington Post: Trump-allied lawyers sought voting machine data in key battleground states

August 15, 2022 4:59 PM CNN Newsource

By Paul LeBlanc, CNN Lawyers allied with former President Donald Trump directed a data firm to copy information from local election systems in three battleground states, records obtained by The Washington Post show. The data firm, SullivanStrickler, copied sensitive information from a Dominion voting system in Coffee County, Georgia, and were directed by Trump-connected attorneys

Rudy Giuliani told by prosecutors he is a target in Georgia 2020 presidential election probe

August 15, 2022 4:44 PM CNN

By Sara Murray, Jason Morris and Gloria Borger, CNN Rudy Giuliani has been told by prosecutors in Georgia that he is a target of the special purpose grand jury investigating whether former President Donald Trump and his allies violated the law in their efforts to flip the 2020 election results in Georgia. A prosecutor from

Alaska voters are casting ballots in two separate elections for the same seat. Here’s how it works

August 15, 2022 4:29 PM CNN Newsource

By Rachel Janfaza, Ethan Cohen and Eric Bradner, CNN Voters in Alaska on Tuesday are voting in two separate elections for the same US House seat — the state’s at-large congressional district seat. That’s because there’s both a special general election to fill the remainder of the late Rep. Don Young’s term and a primary