Politics

By Jack Forrest, CNN The White House has directed federal agencies that they have 30 days to remove TikTok from all government-issued devices. Shalanda Young, director of the Office of Management and Budget, wrote in guidance issued Monday that all executive agencies, and those they contract with, must delete any application from TikTok or its

By Oren Liebermann, CNN The Navy has renamed a warship in honor of a Black sailor and statesman who had been born into slavery, as part of the US military’s ongoing effort to remove names that commemorate the Confederacy. The guided missile destroyer USS Chancellorsville, which was named after a Confederate victory in the Civil

By Melanie Zanona, Manu Raju and Alayna Treene, CNN Speaker Kevin McCarthy faced questions from his leadership team Monday night over his plans to publicly release security footage from January 6, 2021, multiple sources told CNN — a process that he said could take some time to disseminate widely even as Fox News host Tucker

By Sean Lyngaas and Holmes Lybrand, CNN A ransomware attack on the US Marshals Service has affected a computer system containing “law enforcement sensitive information,” including personal information belonging to targets of investigations, a US Marshals Service spokesperson said Monday evening. “The affected system contains law enforcement sensitive information, including returns from legal process, administrative

By Ted Barrett, CNN Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia told CNN Monday he will vote to rescind a controversial Washington, DC, crime law — which critics argue is soft on violent criminals — when it comes up for a vote in the Senate, likely next week. Manchin becomes the first Democrat to publicly

By Jeremy Herb, Natasha Bertrand, Zachary Cohen and Pamela Brown, CNN The Department of Energy’s low-confidence assessment that Covid-19 most likely originated from a laboratory leak in China is still a minority view within the intelligence community, three sources familiar with the intelligence community’s findings tell CNN. While the FBI has also assessed — with

By Steve Contorno and Kit Maher, CNN Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis‘ new book, “The Courage to Be Free,” leans into the culture wars that established him as one of the early Republican favorites for the GOP nomination for the presidency. While more sparse on biographical details than most political memoirs, the 256-page book offers some

By Elise Hammond, CNN Millions of Americans have student loan debt, amassing to more than $1.6 trillion by the end of last year, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. It’s the result of a decades-long explosion in borrowing coupled with soaring education costs. The Federal Reserve data shows people under the age

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN Chinese hackers are too frequently going “unidentified and undeterred,” and software companies aren’t doing enough to secure their products from cyber-attacks that “can do real damage” to US interests through the loss of trade secrets, a top US cyber official said Monday. “The risk introduced to all of us by unsafe

By Jennifer Hansler and Jeremy Herb, CNN US Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns said Monday that China will have to “be more honest about what happened three years ago in Wuhan with the origin of the Covid-19 crisis” if the US and China are going to be able to work together. Burns added that the

By Steve Contorno and Kit Maher, CNN Appearing at the doorstep of Walt Disney World, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill Monday that gives him new power over Disney, effectively punishing the entertainment giant for speaking out against the Republican’s political agenda. The new law amounts to a state takeover of the Reedy Creek

By Joan Biskupic, CNN Senior Supreme Court Analyst The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will hear a new case testing constraints on the power of US regulators to delve into American businesses and individual lives. The justices agreed to a Biden administration request to take up the case involving the Consumer Financial Protection

By David Wright, CNN Michigan Rep. Elissa Slotkin is entering the race to replace retiring Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow, with a campaign launch video on her YouTube page and a US Senate campaign website up. The announcement makes Slotkin the first Democrat to officially declare a bid in what is likely to be among the

By Elizabeth Stuart and Arlette Saenz, CNN First lady Jill Biden did not hesitate when asked if there was any chance her husband would not run for reelection in 2024. “Not in my book,” she told CNN in an interview Saturday during a five-day trip that saw her visit Namibia and Kenya. “I’m all for