Politics

By Priscilla Alvarez and Tierney Sneed, CNN Nineteen GOP-led states have asked a federal appeals court to rule on their request to suspend the termination of a Trump-era border policy by Friday, according to a court filing. It’s the latest twist in ongoing litigation over a public health authority, known as Title 42, that was

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter The Department of Justice is advising a federal judge in Mississippi that he does not need to hire a historian to determine whether a contested gun law complies with the Supreme Court’s most recent Second Amendment opinion. The highly unusual brief came after the judge, Carlton Reeves,

By Daniella Diaz, CNN The violent attack on Paul Pelosi drove House Speaker Nancy Pelosi‘s decision to leave House Democratic leadership, with the family deciding while in an intensive care unit with him that they were “done,” their daughter detailed in an in-depth interview with CNN on Tuesday morning. “You have to make sense with

By Katie Lobosco, CNN An independent federal agency is calling on Congress to help prevent college students from taking on an unaffordable amount of student debt. Congress should require colleges to give students an accurate price for the cost of attendance, the Government Accountability Office said in a recent report that found that most colleges

By MJ Lee, Betsy Klein and Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden signed into law Tuesday landmark new federal protections for same-sex and interracial couples, capping both a personal and national evolution on an issue that’s enjoyed growing acceptance over the past decade. Biden signed the Respect for Marriage Act before thousands of invited guests

By Casey Gannon, CNN A Texas man charged in the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol pleaded guilty Monday to threatening Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter shortly after the riot. On January 6, in the hours after the Capitol had been cleared of rioters, Ocasio-Cortez, a New York Democrat, posted a Tweet saying,

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN More than 2,400 migrants crossed into the United States near El Paso, Texas, daily over the weekend, according to a senior Border Patrol official, marking what he described as a “major surge in illegal crossings” in the region. “Over the weekend, the El Paso Sector experienced a major surge in illegal

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter The US Supreme Court announced Monday that it will resume announcing its opinions in person from the bench — a tradition that was suspended during the Covid-19 pandemic, when decisions were simply posted on the court’s website. The new guidance is applicable to next year, as there

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN Prosecutors on Monday presented opening arguments in a second trial against members of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group accused of joining a monthslong plot to keep Joe Biden out of the White House, as the defense opened its own case saying the men have been “overcharged” and had no real

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter The Supreme Court on Monday denied a request from tobacco company R.J. Reynolds to challenge a California law that bans the sale of flavored cigarettes. There were no noted dissents. The company, which makes menthol cigarettes, argued the state law conflicts with a federal law called the

By Tierney Sneed, CNN A federal appeals court heard arguments Monday on whether the Justice Department can use a felony obstruction charge typically employed in evidence-tampering cases for prosecutions brought against some alleged January 6, 2021, Capitol rioters. Two judges on the DC Circuit US Court of Appeals — both appointees of former President Donald

By Oren Liebermann, CNN The US Air Force carried out the first successful test of its complete air launched hypersonic missile, the Air Force said in a statement, a program that had previously suffered a series of setbacks because of testing failures. A full prototype of the Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon, known in short as

By Jason Morris and Paul LeBlanc, CNN Special counsel Jack Smith has subpoenaed Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger as part of the Justice Department’s investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election and the US Capitol attack on January 6, 2021. Mike Hassinger, public information officer with the Georgia secretary of state’s office, confirmed

By Lauren Fox and Daniella Diaz, CNN After a years-long fight, House Democrats finally have access to six years of former President Donald Trump’s tax returns. It is now up to Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal to decide what to do with them. Under tax privacy laws, Neal, a Democrat from Massachusetts, has