By Joan Biskupic, CNN Senior Supreme Court Analyst President Joe Biden and Senate Democrats have moved quickly to appoint scores of judges during the past two years, outpacing former President Donald Trump, but they have stalled in the South. The dearth of nominees offered in southern states, notably where both US senators are Republican, threatens
Continue Reading By Oren Liebermann, Haley Britzky, Phil Mattingly and Brad Lendon, CNN The US and Japan announced a significant strengthening of their military relationship and upgrade of the US military’s force posture in the country on Wednesday, including the stationing of a newly redesignated Marine unit with advanced intelligence, surveillance capabilities and the ability to fire
Continue Reading By Brad Lendon and Oren Liebermann, CNN A Chinese invasion of Taiwan in 2026 would result in thousands of casualties among Chinese, United States, Taiwanese and Japanese forces, and it would be unlikely to result in a victory for Beijing, according to a prominent independent Washington think tank, which conducted war game simulations of a
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Applications to grow your own marijuana for personal use are now open to residents 21 years old and older. The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services opened information and forms to the public Saturday as Amendment 3 guidelines continue to be rolled out. The change also joins the newly released application to have sentences
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Continue Reading By Annie Grayer, CNN House Republicans are gearing up to investigate the Department of Justice and the FBI, including their “ongoing criminal investigations,” setting up a showdown with the Biden administration and law enforcement agencies over their criminal probes, particularly those into former President Donald Trump. The new House GOP majority has proposed that a
Continue Reading By Kyung Lah, CNN The young man smiling in the last Bakersfield High School student newspaper for the 1983 school year was captioned — “Most Likely to Succeed.” That graduating student wasn’t then-senior Kevin McCarthy, the California Republican who on Saturday became the House speaker for the 118th US Congress, a powerful position that puts
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Continue Reading By Priscilla Alvarez and MJ Lee, CNN President Joe Biden visited the US-Mexico border on Sunday for the first time as president, but he did not appear to see or meet with migrants, including during a trip to a migrant respite center. Biden spent several hours in El Paso in his first visit to the
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, CNN California’s Robert Garcia will be sworn into office with the Constitution — and a priceless vintage Superman comic. The comic is one of several sentimental items that will be underneath the Constitution when Garcia takes his ceremonial oath. The copy of “Superman” #1 will be joined by a photo of Garcia’s
Continue Reading By Melanie Zanona, Manu Raju, Annie Grayer, Lauren Fox and Jeremy Herb, CNN Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz strode into House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy’s office on Monday night with a list of demands. Among them: The chairmanship of a key House Armed Services subcommittee. McCarthy rejected the offer. That decision set in motion a chain
Continue Reading By Melanie Zanona, Manu Raju, Annie Grayer, Lauren Fox and Jeremy Herb, CNN Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz strode into House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy’s office on Monday night with a list of demands. Among them: The chairmanship of a key House Armed Services subcommittee. McCarthy rejected the offer. That decision set in motion a chain
Continue Reading By Melanie Zanona, Manu Raju, Annie Grayer, Lauren Fox and Jeremy Herb, CNN Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz strode into House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy’s office on Monday night with a list of demands. Among them: The chairmanship of a key House Armed Services subcommittee. McCarthy rejected the offer. That decision set in motion a chain
Continue Reading By Melanie Zanona, Manu Raju, Annie Grayer, Lauren Fox and Jeremy Herb, CNN Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz strode into House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy’s office on Monday night with a list of demands. Among them: The chairmanship of a key House Armed Services subcommittee. McCarthy rejected the offer. That decision set in motion a chain
Continue Reading By Melanie Zanona, Manu Raju, Annie Grayer, Lauren Fox and Jeremy Herb, CNN Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz strode into House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy’s office on Monday night with a list of demands. Among them: The chairmanship of a key House Armed Services subcommittee. McCarthy rejected the offer. That decision set in motion a chain
Continue Reading By Melanie Zanona, Manu Raju, Annie Grayer, Lauren Fox and Jeremy Herb, CNN Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz strode into House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy’s office on Monday night with a list of demands. Among them: The chairmanship of a key House Armed Services subcommittee. McCarthy rejected the offer. That decision set in motion a chain
Continue Reading By Clare Foran, Manu Raju, Annie Grayer and Melanie Zanona, CNN Kevin McCarthy was elected House speaker in the early hours of Saturday morning — a major victory for the California Republican that elevates him to a powerful position leading the GOP majority in the chamber and an outcome that followed days of painstaking negotiations
Continue Reading By Melanie Zanona, Manu Raju, Annie Grayer, Lauren Fox and Jeremy Herb, CNN Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz strode into House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy’s office on Monday night with a list of demands. Among them: The chairmanship of a key House Armed Services subcommittee. McCarthy rejected the offer. That decision set in motion a chain
Continue Reading By Clare Foran, Melanie Zanona and Sonnet Swire, CNN Now that a House speaker has been selected following a dayslong stalemate and members have finally been sworn in, the chamber can look toward picking back up business and organizing GOP-led committees. Every new Congress must pass a new set of House rules, and doing so
Continue Reading By Simone Pathe, CNN Rep. Marcy Kaptur becomes the longest-serving woman in Congress this week after winning her first competitive race in decades. But she sees her work in Washington as far from over. “I operate in a different way than many of my colleagues simply because of what I have lived,” said the Ohio
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