Politics

By Tierney Sneed, CNN Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott sued President Joe Biden and other members of the administration on Tuesday over the requirement that members of the National Guard be vaccinated against Covid-19. The lawsuit comes after a federal judge in Oklahoma in a separate case declined to block the mandate for members of

By Tierney Sneed Former President Donald Trump was hit with two new federal lawsuits Tuesday from law enforcement officers who were at the US Capitol on January 6 and who allege that Trump directed the assault that left them injured and emotionally traumatized. The two complaints — one filed by a US Capitol Police officer

By Barbara Starr and Oren Liebermann, CNN The US military conducted strikes in Syria after indirect fire posed what a US-led coalition official called “an imminent threat” to troops near Green Village, a base in the east of the country near the Iraqi border. While the US is not officially confirming it conducted the strikes,

By Ryan Nobles, Annie Grayer, Paula Reid, Angelica Grimaldi and Alex Rogers, CNN Fox News host Sean Hannity was concerned about former President Donald Trump‘s strategy and conduct before, during and after the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, according to a letter sent to him on Tuesday by the House select committee probing

By Chandelis Duster and Paul LeBlanc, CNN Sen. Tim Kaine on Tuesday recounted his hours-long journey on a Washington-area highway after a winter storm crippled the region and left hundreds, including the Virginia Democrat, stranded for hours on roads. “At some point it switched from a miserable travel day into kind of a survival mode

By Devan Cole and Ariane de Vogue, CNN All nine Supreme Court justices have received a Covid-19 booster shot, the court said Tuesday. The announcement comes as the US grapples with a dramatic surge in coronavirus cases nearly two years into the pandemic largely due to the highly contagious Omicron variant. Health officials have in

By Clare Foran and Manu Raju, CNN Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, the pivotal Senate swing vote, made clear on Tuesday that he remains deeply skeptical of overhauling the chamber’s rules on a simple majority basis to advance voting legislation, a clear sign that a frantic push by Democrats to win his support to

By Kristina Sgueglia, Melanie Schuman, Eric Bradner and Sonia Moghe, CNN A New York district attorney will not prosecute former Gov. Andrew Cuomo on a misdemeanor sex crime charge of forcible touching, despite finding Cuomo’s accuser “cooperative” and “credible.” Albany County District Attorney David Soares said in a statement Tuesday he was declining to prosecute