Politics

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN People “associated with the US military” were likely behind a network of phony Facebook and Instagram accounts that promoted US interests abroad by targeting audiences in Afghanistan and Central Asia, Facebook parent firm Meta said Tuesday. It’s a rare case of a US tech giant tying a coordinated online influence operation

By Holmes Lybrand and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN Prosecutors unsealed a criminal complaint against a Michigan man on Tuesday accused of threatening to kill a California congressman and FBI Director Christopher Wray, adding to the spate of recent alleged criminal threats against lawmakers. According to court documents, Neil Matthew Walter made several threatening statements online and

By Joan Biskupic, CNN Cecilia “Cissy” Marshall, the wife of the late Supreme Court Justice and civil rights icon Thurgood Marshall, died on Tuesday at age 94, the court’s public information office announced. Like her husband, Marshall had worked for the NAACP in the 1940s and ’50s. She was born in Hawaii and moved to

By Arlette Saenz and Katie Lobosco, CNN The Biden administration is yet again extending the pause on federal student loan payments, a benefit that began in March 2020 to help people who were struggling financially due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The extension comes as the Biden administration’s student loan forgiveness program is tied up in

By Paul LeBlanc, CNN John Y. Brown Jr., the former Democratic governor of Kentucky, has died at age 88. Brown will perhaps be remembered best as a restaurant magnate who built Kentucky Fried Chicken into a global fast-food juggernaut, but it was his turn as governor that cemented Brown as an esteemed Kentucky statesman. “Our

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN Three Republican party committees on Tuesday asked the Georgia Supreme Court to halt Saturday early voting in the US Senate runoff. The petition — filed by the Republican National Committee, the Georgia Republican Party and the Republicans’ Senate campaign arm — asks the state’s high court to issue an emergency stay

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for the Internal Revenue Service to release former President Donald Trump‘s tax returns to a Democratic-led House committee. The court’s move is a major loss for Trump, who has sought to shield the release of his tax returns for

By Allie Malloy, CNN Dr. Anthony Fauci, in his final White House briefing before departing his official positions, said he hopes that he is remembered for giving his job “everything I have” and for never leaving “anything on the field.” “I’ll let other people judge the value or not of my accomplishments, but I would

By Michael Warren and Steve Contorno, CNN Gov. Ron DeSantis has gotten a rock star’s reception at Republican Party functions since winning reelection this month, solidifying himself as a top-tier possible presidential contender. But the Florida Republican has left some influential members of the party wanting more. He electrified the crowd at the Republican Jewish

By Kara Scannell A New York state judge set an October 2023 trial date for the New York attorney general’s $250 million lawsuit against former President Donald Trump, his eldest children and the Trump Organization, just as the presidential election gets underway. Judge Arthur Engoron set the trial for October 2, 2023, and laid out

By Katie Lobosco, CNN President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness program is at the mercy of the Supreme Court, and student loan borrowers could be waiting weeks, if not months, to hear whether the program is allowed to go into effect. About 16 million people have already been approved for up to $20,000 in federal

By Shawna Mizelle, CNN Democratic Arizona governor-elect Katie Hobbs said on Tuesday she doesn’t think the Biden administration is “doing enough” to address the situation at the southern border. Hobbs told “CNN This Morning” that her state bore “the brunt of decades of inaction from both parties in Washington.” “We need real action on immigration

By Betsy Klein, CNN The Biden administration is launching a critical, six-week push aimed at stepping up Americans’ Covid-19 booster vaccinations heading into the holiday season. “With winter and holiday gatherings right around the corner, more Americans getting their updated vaccine will help avoid thousands of preventable Covid-19 deaths. The six-week campaign will focus on

By Tierney Sneed, CNN Several Republican-led states asked a court to let them intervene in a case striking down Title 42 rule, so that the states could defend the Trump-era policy, which has allowed for the expulsion of more than 1 million migrants at the US-Mexico border. The 15 GOP states filed the request to