Politics

By Tierney Sneed, CNN The Justice Department is declining to prosecute former Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross for misrepresentations he made to Congress about the origins of the Trump administration’s failed push to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. The decision not to prosecute Ross was revealed in letter made public Monday from Commerce

By Jasmine Wright, CNN Vice President Kamala Harris tested negative for Covid-19 following a meeting with Texas state House Democrats, several of whom later tested positive, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Monday. An official in the vice president’s office said that Harris’ testing occurred before her “routine doctor’s appointment” at Walter Reed Hospital,

By Betsy Klein, Maegan Vazquez and Kaitlan Collins, CNN President Joe Biden continued to put pressure on Facebook on Monday over the online dissemination of Covid-19 vaccine information, but backed off his recent accusation that the company was directly responsible for “killing people” and suggested it was merely allowing misinformation to spread. Asked by CNN

By Sarah Fortinsky, CNN Republican Rep. Vern Buchanan of Florida announced Monday he tested positive for Covid-19 and was experiencing “very mild flu-like symptoms.” Buchanan’s office wrote in a statement that he was fully vaccinated but got tested after symptoms. Buchanan is isolating at home. “I look forward to returning to work as soon as

By Marshall Cohen A man who pleaded guilty to breaching the Senate chamber during the US Capitol insurrection was sentenced Monday to eight months in prison in a closely watched case that could influence how hundreds of other rioters charged with the same felony are punished. Paul Hodgkins, a 38-year-old Floridian, is now the first

By Jennifer Hansler, Kylie Atwood, Barbara Starr and Nicole Gaouette, CNN The Biden administration is planning to relocate a group of Afghans who have applied for the special immigrant visa (SIV) program to Fort Lee, a US Army post in Virginia, as the US military withdrawal from Afghanistan nears completion. This will be the first

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya said her meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday was “very friendly and warm” and there was an understanding “that there will be strong actions in the nearest future.” In an interview with CNN following her meeting at the State Department, Tsikhanouskaya said

By Geneva Sands, CNN An Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainee in Mississippi with an urgent medical need was not sent to the hospital and later died, according to a Department of Homeland Security inspector general report obtained by CNN. The incident was discovered as part of an unannounced remote inspection conducted earlier this year of

By Phil Mattingly and Kate Sullivan, CNN President Joe Biden on Monday directly addressed concerns that his sweeping economic agenda will serve as an accelerant to inflation amid growing concern about price hikes across the economic spectrum. “We also know that as our economy has come roaring back, we’ve seen some price increases. Some folks have raised

By Michael Callahan and Betsy Klein, CNN A Moroccan man held in Guantánamo Bay for nearly 20 years has been transferred from the US detention facility to his native country of Morocco, the Department of Defense announced Monday, in what is believed to be the first transfer of a detainee in the Biden administration. A

By Kevin Liptak, CNN The United States and its foreign allies on Monday accused China of widespread malfeasance in cyberspace, including through a massive hack of Microsoft’s email system and other ransomware attacks, a dramatic escalation in the increasingly urgent attempt by the Biden administration to stave off further breaches. In a coordinated announcement, the

By Jennifer Agiesta, CNN Polling Director Polls in the final weeks of the 2020 election campaign were farther off the mark from the election results on average than polls in any election in decades, according to a new task force report released Monday. The analysis, from the American Association for Public Opinion Research, suggests partisan

By Clare Foran and Lauren Fox, CNN President Joe Biden’s agenda appears on the brink. After months of wind up, practice drills and tight votes, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is on the cusp of his most serious high wire act yet. The Democrat from New York returns to Washington on Monday with two goals

By Kylie Atwood There have been about two dozen reports of symptoms of mysterious health incidents similar to the “Havana syndrome” among US diplomats, intelligence officials and other government personnel in Vienna since the beginning of the year, according to two sources familiar with the matter. These new reports demonstrate that these mysterious incidents are

By Paul LeBlanc, Rachel Janfaza and Dianne Gallagher, CNN Another Texas state House Democrat who traveled to Washington, DC, last week has tested positive for Covid-19, an official with the group told CNN on Monday evening, bringing the number of infected legislators to six. The lawmakers are part of the group that left Texas, flying