By Paul LeBlanc, CNN The US will announce a new round of security assistance to Ukraine “in very short order,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Wednesday evening, as Russia’s brutal invasion continues. Speaking to CNN+’s Chris Wallace, Psaki said Russia’s test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile would not change the White House’s
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By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign is asking a federal court to keep details of its legal and research activity secret as they’re being pursued by special counsel John Durham. Durham is seeking more access to information about Perkins Coie, the campaign’s primary law firm, and its contact
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By Ryan Nobles, Mike Valerio and Paul LeBlanc, CNN A military parachute event featuring the Army Golden Knights at Washington’s Nationals Park Wednesday night inadvertently triggered a “probable threat” warning at the US Capitol and prompted an evacuation order, sources familiar with the matter tell CNN. The exhibition was apparently part of a military appreciation
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By Natasha Bertrand, CNN Tetiana Poudel’s father, a deputy commander in Ukraine’s Territorial Defense Forces, needed combat boots. Russia had just invaded Ukraine, and his unit was desperately lacking basic protective gear and medical supplies. So Poudel, a 31-year-old Ukrainian American citizen — who’s on leave from her California day job as an attorney for
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By Jennifer Hansler, CNN The US State Department is expecting its strongest year for foreign service intake in a decade, a department spokesperson told CNN, reversing a trend that began under the Trump administration. According to the spokesperson, internal numbers show that 327 career foreign service employees have been onboarded this fiscal year, which began
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By Oren Liebermann, CNN The Ukrainian Air Force has added about 20 more operational aircraft to its fleet because of an influx of spare parts, according to a senior US defense official. Though the official wouldn’t specify which country had provided the aircraft parts, the official said Wednesday that the US and other countries had
Continue Reading By Oren Liebermann, CNN The Ukrainian Air Force has added about 20 more operational aircraft to its fleet because of an influx of spare parts, according to a senior US defense official. Though the official wouldn’t specify which country had provided the aircraft parts, the official said Wednesday that the US and other countries had
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By Sam Fossum, CNN The Biden administration is unveiling two new programs, established by the bipartisan infrastructure law, that will provide $20 million worth of rebates to replace old transformers and upgrade electric motor systems, according to the Department of Energy. The draft guidance, which was unveiled Wednesday to solicit public feedback, will help make
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By Tierney Sneed Omarosa Manigault Newman — a former staffer on Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign who then worked for Trump’s White House — was awarded more than $1.3 million in attorney’s fees and costs this week after previously prevailing in a dispute over whether she had violated a Trump campaign non-disclosure agreement. The award was
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By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN A federal judge used the words of Republican lawmakers to describe the severity of January 6 during a hearing on Wednesday after a defendant’s outburst objecting to the government characterizing the riot as being carried out by “terrorists” who stormed the US Capitol. Reading from a statement from Senate Republican leader
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By Ryan Nobles, Annie Grayer and Gregory Krieg, CNN The campaign manager of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 2020 run for president sent a memo Wednesday addressed to “allies” of the Vermont independent, informing them that Sanders has “not ruled out” a presidential run in 2024. The memo, obtained by CNN, is written by Faiz Shakir, who
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By Ellie Kaufman, CNN A US service member died while participating in a training event at the Marine Corps base in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, on Sunday, a statement from the Navy Expeditionary Combat Command Public Affairs said. The service member, Lt. j.g. Aaron Fowler, became unresponsive during the training event and was pronounced dead at
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By Paula Reid, CNN A federal investigation into Mississippi State Penitentiary found evidence that conditions at the facility violate the US Constitution, the Justice Department announced Wednesday. Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke says the department’s civil rights division found that practices at the facility, also known as Parchman, violated the 8th and 14th Amendments by
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By Donald Judd, CNN A White House official confirmed Wednesday that President Joe Biden will name Gary Restaino as acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives until the Senate confirms a permanent director to fill the post. The confirmation that Restaino will serve as acting director comes after White House press
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By Betsy Klein, Paula Reid and Evan Perez, CNN The Justice Department on Wednesday appealed a ruling by a federal judge that struck down the mask mandate for mass transportation, following a recommendation by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “It is CDC’s continuing assessment that at this time an order requiring masking
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By Dianne Gallagher, Steve Contorno and Rachel Janfaza, CNN The Florida state Senate on Wednesday advanced legislation pushed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis during the state’s special legislative session: a new congressional map submitted by the governor and a pair of bills aimed at Disney. The DeSantis-backed map — which proposes an aggressively partisan redrawing
Continue Reading By Jennifer Hansler and Kylie Atwood, CNN The United States on Wednesday unveiled its latest round of sanctions going after Russia over its war on Ukraine, this time targeting a key commercial bank and “a global network of more than 40 individuals and entities led by U.S.-designated Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeyev.” In a news release,
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By MJ Lee and Kate Sullivan, CNN Tensions remain very high within the Biden administration ahead of the expected repeal of a Trump-era pandemic restriction next month and the potential surge of migrants at the border that’s expected to follow, according to a source familiar with ongoing discussions. Since the US Centers for Disease Control
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By Jennifer Hansler and Kylie Atwood, CNN The United States on Wednesday unveiled its latest round of sanctions going after Russia over its war on Ukraine, this time targeting a key commercial bank and “a global network of more than 40 individuals and entities led by U.S.-designated Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeyev.” In a news release,
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By Dan Merica and David Wright, CNN Democratic Senate candidates in five of the six most crucial 2022 races are heading into the final months of the campaign with dramatically more cash in the bank than their would-be Republican opponents, a silver lining in what could be a difficult midterm cycle for their party. But
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