By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN The top two Republican leaders in Congress were at odds Tuesday over the Republican National Committee’s recent resolution that formally censured GOP Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for serving on the House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, pressed by CNN’s Manu Raju on
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By Kelly Mena, CNN Less than a year after Republican lawmakers pushed through a restrictive voting bill in Texas, election officials there are facing mounting challenges in implementing new voting procedures in time for the upcoming primaries. Officials are conducting their first election under SB 1, a sweeping overhaul that, among other provisions, restricts the
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By Holmes Lybrand and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN As the first trial for a January 6 US Capitol riot defendant approaches, prosecutors are laying out a strategy that includes calling a member of former Vice President Mike Pence’s security detail and the defendant’s two children to the stand. The trial of Guy Reffitt, a Texas Three
Continue Reading By Holmes Lybrand and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN As the first trial for a January 6 US Capitol riot defendant approaches, prosecutors are laying out a strategy that includes calling a member of former Vice President Mike Pence’s security detail and the defendant’s two children to the stand. The trial of Guy Reffitt, a Texas Three
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By Katie Lobosco, CNN China fell more than $213 billion short of its commitment to increase purchases of US goods and services that it made to then-President Donald Trump in 2020, according to a report released Tuesday. The commitment was made in what’s known as the Phase One deal, in which Beijing promised to purchase
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By Geneva Sands, CNN The rabbi who escaped a hostage takeover at his synagogue last month testified before Congress for the first time on Tuesday about his ordeal, detailing why he opened the door for the attacker and how he and others were able to flee after the hours-long standoff. On the morning of January
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By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN The top two Republican leaders in Congress were at odds Tuesday over the Republican National Committee’s recent resolution that formally censured GOP Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for serving on the House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, pressed by CNN’s Manu Raju on
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By Kelly Mena Texas’ March 1 primary is only a few weeks away, and it’s the Lone Star State’s first election to be conducted under a new law that made major changes to voting procedures. Among the changes are: Instituting new ID requirements for voting by mail. Limiting early voting hours to 6 a.m. to
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By Maegan Vazquez, Jasmine Wright, Whitney Wild and Kyle Blaine, CNN Second gentleman Doug Emhoff is safe after being ushered out of a room at a Washington, DC, high school by the Secret Service following a bomb threat to the building, his spokesperson said. “U.S. Secret Service was made aware of a security threat at
Continue Reading By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN A new government report out Tuesday details how opioid trafficking in the United States has changed in recent years, with Mexico now a “dominant source” of the country’s fentanyl supply and synthetic opioids rapidly saturating drug markets. In its report, the federal Commission on Combating Synthetic Opioid Trafficking — a bipartisan
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By Michael Warren, CNN Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan announced Tuesday that he will not be a candidate for US Senate, following a quiet campaign by Republican leaders to convince the term-limited governor to run. Hogan made the announcement at the end of a press conference Tuesday, noting that he appreciates “the people who have been
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The Missouri Department of Transportation is putting its support behind a proposal to ban the use of cellphones while driving.
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By Mary Kay Mallonee, CNN The US government is set to transfer a detainee from the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba who authorities once alleged was an al-Qaeda operative who planned to be the “20th hijacker” on 9/11 but failed to board United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed in rural Pennsylvania. After his capture
Continue Reading By Kelly Mena and Fredreka Schouten, CNN The Supreme Court took action this week in one state’s redistricting case that could have broad repercussions for the voting rights of African Americans and other minorities across the country. The court on Monday reinstated an Alabama congressional map that a lower court had said diluted the political
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By Kelly Mena and Fredreka Schouten, CNN The Supreme Court took action this week in one state’s redistricting case that could have broad repercussions for the voting rights of African Americans and other minorities across the country. The court on Monday reinstated an Alabama congressional map that a lower court had said diluted the political
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By Tami Luhby, CNN Many parents may not be so happy when they file their tax returns this year. They could discover they’re getting smaller refunds than they usually do. That’s because more than 36 million families already received half of their enhanced child tax credit in monthly payments during 2021. “One thing that likely
Continue Reading By Ellie Kaufman, CNN The US Army released its first climate strategy on Tuesday with goals to reduce the Army’s greenhouse gas pollution by 50% by 2030 and attain “net-zero” emissions by 2050. The Army plans to meet these goals by increasing fuel efficiency, making more Army vehicles electric, modernizing “operational power generation, battery storage,
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By Betsy Klein, CNN A safe place during a disaster is just a text away. The Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, is launching an updated feature that would let Americans text to find an open shelter in the event of a major disaster. Users can text “shelter” and their ZIP code to 43362 to
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A retiring Columbia Public Schools teacher and former head of a union representing CPS teachers is running for the Missouri House.
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By Ariane de Vogue, John Harwood, Joan Biskupic and Betsy Klein, CNN White House officials have begun reaching out to potential Supreme Court candidates to gather more information about their records with about three weeks remaining before President Joe Biden’s self-imposed deadline to announce his Supreme Court pick, CNN has learned. In addition, as a
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