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Foundation cancels RBG award ceremony that would have honored Musk, Murdoch after family’s outcry

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — The foundation that selected SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch and other honorees as recipients of an award named after Ruth Bader Ginsburg announced Monday it is canceling its award ceremony after receiving pushback from the late justice’s family. Julie Opperman, chair of the Opperman Foundation,

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Stormy Daniels says she was scared for her life after hush money deal with Trump went public

By Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — Adult film actress Stormy Daniels says she was afraid for her life after her secret hush money deal with Donald Trump exploded onto the public stage in 2018 while he was president. “I was completely sure that I was gonna die,” Daniels says in a documentary released Monday on Peacock called “Stormy.” Daniels said

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren wants answers from MOHELA about problems student loan borrowers faced when payments resumed

By Katie Lobosco, CNN Washington (CNN) — Sen. Elizabeth Warren wants MOHELA (Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority) to answer for the problems student loan borrowers faced – including inaccurate bills and hourslong hold times on the phone – when the pandemic-related payment pause ended in the fall. In a letter first shared with CNN and

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Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort is in discussions to help with reelection effort

By Kristen Holmes and Jack Forrest, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump’s team is in discussions with Paul Manafort, his 2016 campaign chairman whom he later pardoned, to potentially help with the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, three sources familiar with the ongoing conversations told CNN. Manafort, who was one of several individuals who

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Takeaways from the Supreme Court’s oral arguments over social media censorship

By Brian Fung and John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Monday appeared deeply skeptical of arguments by two conservative states that the First Amendment bars the government from pressuring social media platforms to remove online misinformation. In more than 90 minutes of oral arguments that occasionally veered into the justices’ personal frustrations

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Philadelphia man incarcerated as a teen is freed after more than a dozen years in prison

CNN By Jake Tapper, CNN Philadelphia (CNN) — C.J. Rice is a free man, and as of Monday morning the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania officially considers him legally innocent of the crime he was convicted of in 2013. This morning, Judge James Eisenhower, in room 805 in the Criminal Justice Center in Philadelphia, granted the motion offered by District Attorney Larry

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Philadelphia man incarcerated as a teen is freed after more than a dozen years in prison

By Jake Tapper, CNN Philadelphia (CNN) — C.J. Rice is a free man, and as of Monday morning the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania officially considers him legally innocent of the crime he was convicted of in 2013. This morning, Judge James Eisenhower, in room 805 in the Criminal Justice Center in Philadelphia, granted the motion offered by District Attorney Larry Krasner

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Biden signs new executive order to improve women’s health research as reproductive health remains central to reelection pitch

By Sam Fossum, Michael Williams and Donald Judd, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden is taking new executive action Monday to improve research on women’s health across the federal government as well as announce new actions being taken by several federal agencies as the White House seeks to increase funding for women’s health research.

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