Politics

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked President Joe Biden’s vaccine and testing requirement aimed at large businesses, but it allowed a vaccine mandate for certain health care workers to go into effect nationwide. The decision is a huge hit to Biden’s attempts to use the power of

The Justice Department has charged the leader of the Oath Keepers, Stewart Rhodes, and 10 others with seditious conspiracy related to the January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack. Read the charges here: The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2022 Cable News Network, Inc., a WarnerMedia Company. All rights reserved.

By Mohammed Tawfeeq, Kylie Atwood, and Aqeel Najim and Devan Cole, CNN A woman and a child were wounded when several rockets hit Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone, including the US embassy, on Thursday, the embassy and Iraqi military said in statements. US personnel in the area are safe following the attacks, a State Department official

By Hannah Rabinowitz, Katelyn Polantz, Tierney Sneed and Holmes Lybrand, CNN The Justice Department escalated its January 6 investigation by bringing seditious conspiracy charges against 11 defendants, including the leader of the Oath Keepers, Stewart Rhodes. The latest accusations — with a charge that had not previously been brought in the department’s US Capitol attack

By Ali Zaslav and Lauren Fox, CNN Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona reiterated from the Senate floor Thursday that she is not backing off her position to uphold the filibuster, less than an hour before President Joe Biden arrived on Capitol Hill to pitch Democrats on eradicating it. She said removing the filibuster would

By Paula Reid and Annie Grayer, CNN Bernard Kerik, the former New York City police commissioner, met with the House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol Hill insurrection for eight hours Thursday. Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat and the panel’s chairman, said the interview began Thursday morning. Kerik appeared virtually for the voluntary

By Dan Merica, CNN The Republican National Committee said Thursday in a letter to the Commission on Presidential Debates that it is prepared to “prohibit future Republican nominees from participating in CPD-sponsored debates” unless the commission makes a number of significant changes to its procedure. The letter, which was first reported by The New York

By Liz Stark The US Energy Department is launching a Clean Energy Corps to help implement the recent bipartisan infrastructure law and develop clean-energy solutions to the climate crisis, the agency announced Thursday. The Clean Energy Corps — which will comprise staff from over a dozen offices across the department — will also seek to

By Delano Massey, CNN The Senate on Tuesday passed a bipartisan bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal posthumously to Emmett Till, a teenager savagely killed in 1955 by White supremacists in Mississippi, and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, who decided to have an open-casket funeral because she “wanted the world to see what they did

By Jeremy Herb, Jennifer Hansler, Alex Marquardt and Kylie Atwood, CNN A senior US official warned Thursday that the “drumbeat of war is sounding loud” following a week’s worth of diplomacy between the West and Russia that wrapped up Thursday. The effort ended without clear breakthroughs over the tens of thousands of Russian troops amassed

By Kate Sullivan, Kaitlan Collins, Betsy Klein, Jeremy Diamond and Paul LeBlanc, CNN President Joe Biden on Thursday announced his administration would make “high-quality masks” available to Americans for free, as the US struggles to contain the new surge of the Omicron variant and hospitalizations from Covid-19 reach new highs. The President also announced his

By Chandelis Duster, CNN The US Army is offering a bonus up to $50,000, the largest amount ever, to some new recruits who enlist for six years in an effort to increase its ranks amid the coronavirus pandemic. “This is an opportunity to entice folks to consider the Army,” Brig. Gen. John Cushing, deputy commanding