By Lauren Fox, CNN Many members within the House of Representatives have told CNN in recent days that they find themselves in a toxic work environment, wrought with bitter exchanges, threats and fears about what the erosion of decorum in the chamber will mean for a body that has still not recovered 10 months after
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By Tierney Sneed The Biden administration is asking the 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals to wipe away an order from another appeals court blocking its Occupational Safety and Health Administration vaccine mandate. Several lawsuits were brought challenging the OSHA mandate, and last week the cases were consolidated in the 6th Circuit, an appeals court
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By Ella Nilsen, CNN President Joe Biden wants half the vehicles sold in the US to be electric vehicles or plug-in hybrids by 2030. But to reach that goal, not only do Americans need to start buying more electric vehicles, they need more charging stations to plug them into. EVs and plug-in hybrids accounted for
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By Kate Sullivan, Betsy Klein and Devan Cole, CNN President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced the release of emergency oil reserves to combat high energy prices ahead of the busy holiday travel season, but it will be weeks before the barrels hit the market. The Department of Energy will release 50 million barrels of oil
Continue Reading By Kate Sullivan and Betsy Klein, CNN President Joe Biden on Tuesday will announce the release of emergency oil reserves to combat high energy prices ahead of the busy holiday travel season, but it will be weeks before the barrels hit the market. The Department of Energy will release 50 million barrels of oil from
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By Kate Sullivan, Betsy Klein and Devan Cole, CNN President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced the release of emergency oil reserves to combat high energy prices ahead of the busy holiday travel season, but it will be weeks before the barrels hit the market. The Department of Energy will release 50 million barrels of oil
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By Gregory Krieg, CNN More than three months after he resigned in disgrace, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo exists in political limbo — not completely written off as a spent force, but sidelined as the campaign to replace him heats up. Cuomo, who for a decade ran the Empire State and its Democratic Party
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By Maegan Vazquez, CNN The Bidens are expected this week to revive a longstanding Thanksgiving family tradition that goes back to 1975, opting to spend this year’s dinner in Nantucket, Massachusetts. In his 2017 memoir, ” Promise Me, Dad,” Biden wrote that Thanksgiving was the first holiday he and his now-wife Jill spent together. The
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By Joan Biskupic, CNN legal analyst & Supreme Court biographer Internal Supreme Court documents that could enhance public understanding of the Bush v. Gore election battle and other significant cases of the late 1990s and early 2000s were to be opened last year under a deal forged by a long-serving justice, but the high court
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By Devan Cole, CNN Rep. Louie Gohmert, a Republican congressman who downplayed the January 6 Capitol Hill insurrection, announced Monday that he’s running for Texas attorney general, the state’s top law enforcement official. Gohmert vowed in a tweet announcing his bid to “enforce the rule of law” and said in a separate video announcement that
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By Hannah Rabinowitz and Holmes Lybrand, CNN An Indiana man charged with carrying a loaded firearm onto the US Capitol grounds and assaulting police officers during the January 6 riot told investigators that if he had visited House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that day, “you’d be here for another reason,” according to recently unsealed court documents.
Continue Reading By Jennifer Hansler, Katie Bo Lillis, Jim Sciutto, Barbara Starr and Natasha Bertrand, CNN The US military has positioned US special operations forces in Djibouti to be ready to provide assistance to the US Embassy in Ethiopia if the situation worsens, according to one military official and two sources familiar with the movements. The activation
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The Centralia city government appointed Harlan Hatton as the new police chief during its board of aldermen meeting Monday night.
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By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice The Biden administration said in a court filing on Monday that the House select committee’s investigation into January 6 is needed to fully understand former President Donald Trump’s role in the US Capitol attack, arguing that his presidential records be turned over to Congress. Lawyers from the
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By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice Two lawyers who went to court to claim voter fraud after the 2020 election must pay nearly $180,000 to the defendants they sued, a federal magistrate judge ordered Monday, saying their lawsuit aimed to “manipulate gullible members of the public and foment public unrest.” The order from
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By Jennifer Hansler, Katie Bo Lillis, Jim Sciutto, Barbara Starr and Natasha Bertrand, CNN The US military has positioned US special operations forces in Djibouti to be ready to provide assistance to the US Embassy in Ethiopia if the situation worsens, according to one military official and two sources familiar with the movements. The activation
Continue Reading By Sean Lyngaas, CNN Federal and state officials are investigating an attempted breach of an Ohio county government office, in one of multiple instances this year in which data from a local government office was circulated at a conference promoting false claims of election fraud. The incident at the office of John Hamercheck, who is
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By Sean Lyngaas, CNN Federal and state officials are investigating an attempted breach of an Ohio county government office, in one of multiple instances this year in which data from a local government office was circulated at a conference promoting false claims of election fraud. The incident at the office of John Hamercheck, who is
Continue Reading By Sara Murray and Michael Warren, CNN Laurie Snell — the estranged wife of Pennsylvania GOP Senate candidate Sean Parnell — was awarded primary physical custody and sole legal custody of the couple’s three children, according to a judge’s order that was made public Monday. The decision comes amid a contentious divorce and custody proceedings
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By Fredreka Schouten, CNN The Republican National Committee is paying some of former President Donald Trump’s legal bills, using donor funds to help him pay an attorney representing him in a New York investigation into his company’s business practices, according to campaign finance filings and a party spokeswoman. The RNC made two payments totaling $121,670
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