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US welcomes new governments to fight against spyware as it finds more American personnel have been targeted

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration is welcoming six new countries to a US-led pact to crack down on phone-hacking spyware as US officials tell CNN that the administration continues to find new cases of American government personnel being targeted by a technology that is deemed a national security and counterintelligence threat. “We are

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Fact check: Trump, telling a completely fictional story, falsely claims he released ‘the tape’ of his Zelensky call

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump told an entirely fictional story on Saturday about how he had supposedly outwitted his Democratic opponents by releasing “the tape” of the 2019 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that was a key factor in Trump’s first impeachment. Speaking at a Saturday campaign rally

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Supreme Court to debate whether White House crosses First Amendment line on social media disinformation

By John Fritze and Brian Fung, CNN (CNN) — For doctors like Eileen Barrett, a pending Supreme Court case challenging the government’s ability to communicate with social media companies isn’t principally a fight about the fraught politics of online speech. Instead, they say, it’s a matter of life and death. “I have seen countless statements

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‘Knock it off’: Speaker Mike Johnson tries to stop Republicans from campaigning against each other in bitter primary battles

By Manu Raju and Melanie Zanona, CNN House Republicans, who have seen their time in the majority devolve into a seemingly endless series of internal party feuds, now have a new problem: GOP lawmakers targeting other sitting members in their primaries. In at least four primaries – in South Carolina, Illinois, Texas and Virginia –

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Biden team raised $53 million in February, entering general election with major cash advantage

By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden’s campaign effort brought in $53 million in February, a sign of accelerating donor interest over a month that saw the election rematch crystalize between Biden and former President Donald Trump. The figure, which includes funds from Biden’s campaign, the Democratic National Committee and related joint fundraising

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Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford discusses consequences of testimony in rare interview

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — Christine Blasey Ford, the psychology professor who accused Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, used a rare interview to detail the trauma she faced after her explosive allegations thrust her into a charged confirmation battle for one of the nation’s most powerful positions. Speaking on ”CBS Sunday Morning”, Ford described

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‘Everything he is saying isn’t true’: Congolese governments denounce Trump’s baseless stories about emptied prisons

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — There is no evidence for former President Donald Trump’s repeated claims that “the Congo” has emptied prisons to allow violent criminals to come to the US border as migrants – and the governments of both the Democratic Republic of Congo and the neighboring Republic of Congo say Trump’s

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WH says oversight of Boeing should reassure Americans, but won’t say if Biden thinks it’s safe to fly on company’s planes

By Michael Williams and Samantha Waldenberg, CNN Washington (CNN) — The White House on Friday said federal regulators are doing everything they can to assuage Americans’ anxieties about flying after notable recent mishaps on Boeing planes. But asked directly whether President Joe Biden thinks it’s safe to fly, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre sidestepped. “I think

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Former Vice President Mike Pence on March 15 said he “cannot in good conscience” endorse presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump

Opinion: Mike Pence’s bombshell announcement

CNN Opinion by Dean Obeidallah, CNN (CNN) — Former Vice President Mike Pence’s announcement last week that he would not endorse Donald Trump for president in 2024 was truly a bombshell. Pence — who during the first GOP presidential debate last year pledged to endorse Trump even if the former president was convicted of a crime — has now

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