By Natasha Bertrand, CNN US law enforcement officials recovered what appeared to be a Fabergé egg from a yacht seized from a Russian oligarch in Fiji, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said Wednesday. The $300 million yacht, owned by sanctioned Russian oligarch Suleiman Kerimov, was sailed by US law enforcement officials from Fiji to the
Continue Reading By Ryan Nobles, Zachary Cohen, Annie Grayer and Jamie Gangel, CNN The House committee investigating the insurrection plans to show footage at Thursday’s hearing of then-President Donald Trump having difficulty working through efforts to tape a message to his supporters on January 7, 2021, the day after the Capitol riot, sources familiar with the committee’s
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Jefferson City Special Learning Center wants to double its capacity to teach children with special needs by creating a new facility with the help of state funding.
Continue Reading By Ali Zaslav, Manu Raju, Ted Barrett, Morgan Rimmer, Jessica Dean and Kristin Wilson, CNN Ten GOP senators are needed to join all 50 Democrats in order to overcome a legislative filibuster in support of the House-passed bill to codify same-sex marriage into federal law. CNN asked all 50 Republicans where they stand on the
Continue Reading By Fredreka Schouten A Democratic super PAC on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the Federal Election Commission in a bid to force the agency to take action against former President Donald Trump for, in their view, essentially running for president without formally declaring himself a candidate. The lawsuit from American Bridge 21st Century follows a
Continue Reading By Jennifer Hansler, CNN Dozens of family members of Americans detained abroad gathered in Washington on Wednesday to unveil a mural of their loved ones, to urge the country not to forget about them and again call for the US government to act decisively to bring them home. For many of the families, it has
Continue Reading By Michael Warren and Dan Merica, CNN In the fight to control the Senate, Democrats and Republicans are staring at equally uncertain, yet markedly different, paths to the majority. Republican candidates are enjoying a favorable political environment, defined by an unpopular Democratic president presiding over a time of notably high inflation. But Senate Republicans have
Continue Reading By Tierney Sneed and Katelyn Polantz, CNN Prosecutors rested their case against Steve Bannon on the third day of his trial, having kept to an approach to keep things simple and straightforward for the jury. To present their evidence that Bannon, the ex-adviser to former President Donald Trump, was in contempt of Congress for not
Continue Reading By Jeremy Herb and Marshall Cohen, CNN The House January 6 committee’s final prime-time hearing Thursday is all about 187 minutes. That’s the period of a little more than three hours as the riot unfolded in the US Capitol that the House select committee has argued then-President Donald Trump was derelict in his duties. The
Continue Reading By Jeremy Herb and Marshall Cohen, CNN The House January 6 committee’s final prime-time hearing Thursday is all about 187 minutes. That’s the period of a little more than three hours as the riot unfolded in the US Capitol that the House select committee has argued then-President Donald Trump was derelict in his duties. The
Continue Reading By Marshall Cohen and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN A former Trump White House aide who met with the January 6 committee earlier this week went on a profane and sexist rant on a livestream after his testimony, where he railed against the lawmakers and attacked other witnesses, according to audio posted to his Telegram. The aide,
Continue Reading By Evan Perez and Kara Scannell, CNN The federal investigation into Hunter Biden’s business activities is nearing a critical juncture as investigators weigh possible charges and prosecutors confront Justice Department guidelines to generally avoid bringing politically sensitive cases close to an election, according to people briefed on the matter. While no final decision has been
Continue Reading By Josh Campbell and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN Specialized strike forces from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives targeting gun traffickers seized more than 7,700 guns and silencers associated with crimes in the past year in Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, DC, New York and San Francisco, Attorney General Merrick Garland said Wednesday. Speaking alongside
Continue Reading By Manu Raju and Clare Foran, CNN A bipartisan group of senators reached a deal to make it harder to overturn a certified presidential election, marking the most significant response by Congress to former President Donald Trump’s relentless pressure campaign to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. The proposal still needs to be
Continue Reading By Tami Luhby, CNN With their once-sweeping budget reconciliation package whittled down to two health care measures, Senate Democrats are moving ahead with pushing the legislation through the chamber. Another hurdle, however, remains, and it’s not Sen. Joe Manchin, the West Virginia Democrat who has blocked his party from including climate, tax, social safety net
Continue Reading By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Georgia’s law banning abortions as early as six weeks of pregnancy with some exceptions can take effect immediately, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. The 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday immediately stayed a federal district court’s order that had blocked the abortion law from going into effect. “It
Continue Reading By Marshall Cohen and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN A former Trump White House aide who met with the January 6 committee earlier this week went on a profane and sexist rant on a livestream after his testimony, where he railed against the lawmakers and attacked other witnesses, according to audio posted to his Telegram. The aide,
Continue Reading By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN Americans’ belief that society and government can do something about mass shootings is at a new high, according to a CNN poll conducted by SSRS. Most of the public favors stricter gun laws, the survey finds, with more than 4 in 10 saying that recently enacted gun legislation doesn’t go far
Continue Reading By Ted Barrett and Manu Raju, CNN Republican and Democratic senators said Wednesday they expect a bill to codify same-sex marriage to eventually win the 60 votes needed to break a filibuster, a sign of growing public acceptance and a sea change over an issue that had once badly divided the two parties. While most
Continue Reading By Paul LeBlanc, CNN Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said former President Donald Trump called him last week as part of a fresh effort to decertify the state’s 2020 presidential election results. “He would like us to do something different in Wisconsin,” Vos, a Republican, explained to CNN affiliate WISN in relaying his phone conversation
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