Politics

By Katie Lobosco, CNN In one of the first significant legal challenges to President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan, a public interest lawyer filed a lawsuit Tuesday arguing that the policy is an abuse of executive power. Plaintiff Frank Garrison claims that because of the forthcoming student loan forgiveness, he will be forced to

By Annie Grayer, CNN The House Select Committee investigating January 6 has been able to uncover much of the multi-faceted plot to subvert the 2020 presidential election. But as it heads into what is likely to be one of its final hearings this week, there are a few investigative threads that remain unanswered. The committee

By Sonia Moghe, CNN Disgraced attorney Michael Avenatti was ordered to pay $148,740 in restitution to Stormy Daniels, after being found guilty of stealing nearly $300,000 from his former client. US District Judge Jesse Furman ordered Avenatti to make the payments to Daniels before paying another victim, Nike, who has consented to allowing individual victims

By Kylie Atwood, CNN US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield introduced a resolution condemning Russia over the so-called referendums being carried out in four regions of Ukraine and declaring that the UN Security Council does not support the use of force to redraw borders during a security council meeting on Tuesday, a US official

By Katelyn Polantz and Tierney Sneed, CNN A federal appeals court on Tuesday opened the door to allowing the Justice Department to shield former President Donald Trump for his conduct while president in a defamation lawsuit brought by columnist E. Jean Carroll. That question — if Trump can be held personally responsible in Carroll’s defamation

By Tami Luhby and Betsy Klein, CNN Medicare beneficiaries will see their Part B premiums decrease in 2023, the first time in more than a decade that the tab will be lower than the year before, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced Tuesday. The standard monthly premiums will be $164.90 in 2023, a

By Taylor Romine and Tierney Sneed, CNN A Texas judge ruled Tuesday that state Attorney General Ken Paxton does not have to appear at a hearing related to abortion access lawsuit after an affidavit alleged that he ran away twice from a person who was serving him a subpoena related to the lawsuit. The subpoena

By Dan Merica, CNN Josh Shapiro, Pennsylvania’s Democratic gubernatorial nominee, will report on Tuesday that his campaign raised over $25 million from June to September, according to a campaign finance report provided to CNN, a sizable haul that dwarfs what Republican candidate Doug Mastriano raised over the same time. The race between Shapiro and Mastriano

By Gabby Orr, CNN A deepening rivalry between Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis is beginning to spark a debate among conservatives over the unofficial coronation of the Florida governor as the party’s most promising non-Trump option in 2024, with some prominent intellectuals and activists urging DeSantis superfans to pump the brakes. Questions of whether the

By Clare Foran, CNN The Senate voted on Tuesday to take up a stop-gap bill that would keep the government funded through December 16 as lawmakers work to avert a shutdown by the end of the week. The vote had earlier been on the verge of failing due to the inclusion of a controversial permitting

By Nikki Carvajal and Tami Luhby, CNN The Biden administration is releasing its proposal Tuesday to help reduce diet-related diseases and health disparities in the United States with the goal of ending hunger by 2030. Right now, the ambitious proposal is only an outline with no new funding tied to it. During a call with

By Paul LeBlanc, Jasmine Wright and Nikki Carvajal, CNN Vice President Kamala Harris will visit the Korean Demilitarized Zone that divides North and South Korea on Thursday as part of her visit to South Korea, a White House official said. Harris’ trip will include site visits at the DMZ, meetings with service members, and an

By Tierney Sneed and Holmes Lybrand, CNN The Justice Department submitted, as part of the special master review of the Mar-a-Lago search, a slightly revised inventory of the materials seized in the search, along with an FBI affidavit indicating that the new inventory fully reflects what was taken. The special master, Judge Raymond Dearie, had

By Zachary Cohen, Holmes Lybrand and Jackson Grigsby, CNN The day before the 2020 election, Roger Stone, the long-time Republican operative and ally of former President Donald Trump, said in front of a documentary film crew that he had no interest in waiting to tally actual votes before contesting the election results. “F**k the voting,