By Daniel Dale, CNN Former president and current presidential candidate Donald Trump has gone on the attack against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a potential rival for the Republican nomination in 2024 — bashing the governor over everything from pandemic policy to Social Security. CNN looked into the accuracy of seven of the assertions Trump has
Continue Reading By Ella Nilsen, CNN A few weeks after allowing the controversial Willow oil drilling project in Alaska to go forward, the Biden administration is auctioning off more than 73 million acres of waters in the Gulf of Mexico to offshore oil and gas drilling. It could be the first Gulf of Mexico lease sale under
Continue Reading By Steve Contorno, CNN As Fox News faces legal peril over its coverage of Donald Trump‘s 2020 election lies, one of its most featured Republicans, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, is trying to gut the free speech protections that may ultimately save the network from financial ruin. DeSantis and his GOP allies in the state legislature
Continue Reading By Donald Judd and Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden addressed the second Summit for Democracy on Wednesday from the White House, building on what he billed as his administration’s “enduring commitment to boost democracy globally,” where he sought to assure participants that democratic institutions work. This year’s multi-day summit is being co-hosted by Biden,
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Washington is in a budget crisis with the two major parties at loggerheads over spending and the debt ceiling.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) An $8 million bond issue for the Boone County Fire Protection District will be on the April 4 ballot. If passed, it could mean major renovations for local fire stations and allow it to purchase better equipment. This is how the money will be spent: $5 million will go towards building a new fire
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Libraries, their funding and local control figured heavily into a state House debate Tuesday morning, acting as a preview for what was to come later in the day when lawmakers take up the state budget.
Continue Reading By Eric Bradner, CNN As Nashville police left a news conference Monday, Ashbey Beasley unexpectedly moved in front of the still-live microphones and television cameras. Beasley then told her story: She and her son survived the Fourth of July parade mass shooting in her hometown of Highland Park, Illinois, last year, in which a gunman
Continue Reading By Haley Britzky, CNN Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin argued against criticisms from Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville on Tuesday and implored him to support the department’s officer nominations, which Tuberville has vowed to block until Austin reverses his stance on policies supporting service members seeking abortions. “Not approving the recommendation for promotions actually creates a ripple
Continue Reading By Shawna Mizelle, CNN A Kentucky law that aims to increase oversight in public schools by making it easier for parents to file complaints about — and, if desired, shield their children from — “harmful” materials has gone into effect after Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear declined to veto a Republican-pushed bill. Senate Bill 5 makes
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ABC 17 News is interviewing each of the seven candidates running for three open spots on the Columbia Board of Education. At least two of them will be new members — only one incumbent is in the race.
Continue Reading By Jasmine Wright, CNN Vice President Kamala Harris emerged from the female slave dungeon at Cape Coast Castle visibly shaken. Inside the famous slave trading outpost’s dungeon, Harris set a bouquet of flowers down and placed her hand on the centuries-old wall, connecting herself physically to the sorrow of the Africans it once imprisoned. It
Continue Reading By Steve Contorno, CNN Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will deliver an address next month in Jerusalem, a trip that is certain to inject the likely Republican presidential contender into Israel’s national tumult and its increasingly fraught relationship with the United States. The Jerusalem Post and the Museum of Tolerance announced Tuesday that DeSantis would serve
Continue Reading By Jeremy Herb and Lauren del Valle, CNN More than a week ago, former President Donald Trump predicted — incorrectly — that he would be arrested in a New York criminal case. His statement led to a flurry of speculation on the state of the Manhattan grand jury investigating Trump’s alleged role in a scheme
Continue Reading By Maegan Vazquez, CNN Monday’s deadly school shooting in Nashville has sparked a familiar cycle of condolences and calls to action among lawmakers in Washington, but both sides of the aisle have been quick to concede that the recent violence is probably not enough to sway a divided Congress to move substantive gun control efforts
Continue Reading By Katelyn Polantz, Paula Reid, Zachary Cohen, Devan Cole and Tierney Sneed, CNN A federal judge has decided that former Vice President Mike Pence must testify to a grand jury about conversations he had with Donald Trump leading up to January 6, 2021, according to multiple sources familiar with a recent federal court ruling. But
Continue Reading By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN The Justice Department moved Tuesday to end a consent decree with the Seattle Police Department, bringing to a close more than a decade of federal supervision of the police department. The Seattle consent decree was established under the Obama administration in 2012 after a Justice Department investigation found that the police
Continue Reading By Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, CNN President Joe Biden and the White House have attacked Republicans in recent months for positions the president himself once held on Social Security and entitlement programs including sunset bills and raising the retirement age, a CNN KFile review of Biden’s record shows. In his State of the Union
Continue Reading By Katelyn Polantz, Paula Reid, Zachary Cohen, Devan Cole and Tierney Sneed, CNN A federal judge has decided that former Vice President Mike Pence must testify to a grand jury about conversations he had with Donald Trump leading up to January 6, 2021, according to multiple sources familiar with a recent federal court ruling. But
Continue Reading By Jennifer Hansler, CNN The United States announced it supports the creation of a special tribunal to prosecute the crime of aggression — a significant development in the push to hold top Kremlin officials accountable for the war in Ukraine. “At this critical moment in history, I am pleased to announce that the United States
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