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By Holmes Lybrand, CNN The trial of a January 6, 2021, US Capitol riot defendant who was seen on video at the forefront of a mob that chased Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman near the Senate chamber began late Tuesday afternoon. Douglas Jensen faces seven charges for his alleged actions that day, including obstruction of

By Melanie Zanona and Manu Raju, CNN In a private memo last summer, House Democratic leaders warned their party’s most vulnerable members about the “enduring” and “potent” attacks waged by Republicans over policing and crime, counseling them to be far more proactive in their support for law enforcement than they were in the 2020 cycle.

By Tierney Sneed and Kara Scannell, CNN A court hearing in Brooklyn on Tuesday gave the public its first glimpse of how Judge Raymond Dearie, a senior judge who’s been tapped to serve as a special master in the Mar-a-Lago search dispute, will approach the job of reviewing materials seized from former President Donald Trump’s

By Maegan Vazquez and Gregory Wallace, CNN The federal agency responsible for conducting independent accident investigations has recommended technologies in new vehicles to limit speeding and prevent impaired driving in an attempt to cut down on a growing number of related fatal crashes. The National Transportation Safety Board’s recommendation of alcohol impairment detection systems are

By Annie Grayer, CNN The chairman of the House select committee investigating January 6, 2021, on Tuesday said the panel will hold a hearing next week. Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi said the hearing will take place on September 28 at 1 p.m. ET. As of now, the hearing, which has not been formally

By Melanie Zanona, CNN The House Oversight Committee on Tuesday rejected a GOP effort to seek documents related to the Biden family’s international business deals, as Republicans attempt to lay the groundwork to investigate Hunter Biden under a GOP-led House. Republicans on the committee forced a vote on a so-called “resolution of inquiry,” which called

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN The Department of Homeland Security’s cybersecurity agency this summer turned down a multimillion-dollar proposal to protect election officials from harassment ahead of the midterm elections, multiple people familiar with the matter told CNN. The plan’s rejection comes as some DHS and cyber officials have expressed concern about their work to stem

By Kara Scannell, Marshall Cohen and Tierney Sneed, CNN Judge Raymond Dearie, the special master overseeing the seizure of documents from Mar-a-Lago, signaled on Tuesday to lawyers for former President Donald Trump that if they don’t make a case that any of the documents were declassified, he would determine that they’re classified. Out of court,

By Allie Malloy and Maegan Vazquez, CNN The White House is once again downplaying an assertion by President Joe Biden that American military personnel would defend Taiwan in the event of an invasion by the Chinese military, saying he was answering a hypothetical question that was not a reflection of any official policy change. In

By Andi Babineau and Devan Cole, CNN Montana will comply with a court order requiring it to enforce a process that makes it easier for residents to change the sex designations on their birth certificates, the state’s health department said Monday, abandoning a recent effort to impose stricter rules in the record-changing process. “The Department

By Hannah Rabinowitz and Omar Jimenez, CNN The Justice Department on Tuesday announced charges against 47 people accused of stealing $250 million from a federal program designed to provide meals for needy children during the pandemic. According to the department, the scheme is the largest Covid-19-related fraud uncovered by investigators to date. The defendants are

By Betsy Klein, Morgan Rimmer, Ted Barrett and Kate Sullivan, CNN President Joe Biden on Tuesday renewed his push for Congress to approve a bill aimed at targeting dark money in political campaigns, though the legislation is expected to fail this week due to Republican opposition. “There’s much too much money that flows in the

By Brad Lendon, Ellie Kaufman and Barbara Starr, CNN US and Canadian warships sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Tuesday following weekend remarks from President Joe Biden that the US would defend Taiwan in the event it is attacked by China. A US Navy ship, the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Higgins, conducted a “routine

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN A version of this story appeared in the CITIZEN BY CNN newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. A new book out Tuesday examines how the falsehoods about election fraud in the 2020 election now threaten democracy. Written by David Becker, executive director and founder of

By Tierney Sneed, CNN Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday told a federal appeals court that it should not lift the hold a lower court judge put on the Justice Department using Mar-a-Lago documents identified as classified in its criminal probe — and continued to try to cast doubt on whether the 100 or so