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Fact check: Trump won’t stop telling a lie that there were no terror attacks during his presidency

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — During his presidency, Donald Trump talked repeatedly about the terrorist attacks that occurred in the United States on his watch. He sometimes denounced these attacks in vivid detail. In his 2018 State of the Union address, he spoke of “two terrorist attacks in New York” in “recent weeks.”

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Judge shields thousands of Catholic employers from federal rules requiring time off for abortions and IVF treatment

By Tierney Sneed and Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge in North Dakota ruled Monday that the federal government cannot enforce new regulations mandating employers provide time off for abortion and fertility treatments against thousands of Catholic employers nationwide while their lawsuit challenging the regulations plays out. More than 7,000 Catholic parishes and another 1,380 Catholic employers are

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Manchin won’t endorse Harris over vow to gut filibuster to codify abortion rights: ‘Shame on her’

By Manu Raju, Ted Barrett and Sam Fossum, CNN Washington (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris’ vow to gut the Senate’s filibuster rule to pass a bill codifying abortion rights has cost her an endorsement from a leading Senate moderate: Joe Manchin. The West Virginia independent, one of the staunchest defenders of the potent delay

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GOP congressman gave jobs to his lover and to his fiancée’s daughter, New York Times says

By Gregory Krieg, CNN (CNN) — New York Rep. Anthony D’Esposito, one of the GOP’s most endangered House incumbents, reportedly gave both his lover and his fiancée’s daughter part-time jobs in his district office on Long Island, a potential violation of House ethics rules. D’Esposito hired the pair shortly after taking office in 2023, according

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Son of suspect in second attempted assassination of Trump arrested on child pornography charges

By Holmes Lybrand and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — The son of the man who allegedly attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump at his Florida golf course was arrested on child pornography charges Tuesday, according to court records. Oran Alexander Routh, whose father is Ryan Wesley Routh, the man prosecutors say set up a “sniper’s nest” at

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House Foreign Affairs chair moving forward with plan to hold Blinken in contempt of Congress over 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal

By Kylie Atwood, Jennifer Hansler and Michael Conte, CNN (CNN) — House Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul is moving forward with his plan to hold Secretary of State Antony Blinken in contempt of Congress on Tuesday for failing to appear at a hearing regarding the Biden administration’s handling of the 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan, even

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Trump says women won’t be ‘thinking about abortion’ if he’s elected, casting himself as their ‘protector’

By Kate Sullivan and Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump cast himself as a “protector” of women at a Pennsylvania rally Monday evening and claimed that American women won’t be “thinking about abortion” if he’s elected. The plea to ignore Trump’s own role in undoing national abortion rights protections is a clear

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Prosecutors want to bring attempted assassination charge against man in Trump golf incident. Here’s what they’d have to prove

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — As the US Department of Justice gears up to try to indict the man who allegedly plotted to shoot Donald Trump while he was golfing, a federal prosecutor said his team has been focused on one charge in particular: attempting to kill a major presidential candidate. In court Monday, prosecutor

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