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Missouri Republican Party joins lawsuit in Boone County state Senate district
The Missouri Republican Party has joined a lawsuit that seeks to get one of its Mid-Missouri candidates kicked off the ballot.
Continue ReadingThe Missouri Republican Party has joined a lawsuit that seeks to get one of its Mid-Missouri candidates kicked off the ballot.
Continue ReadingBy Aaron Pellish, CNN (CNN) — Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he had a “visceral reaction against” the removal of the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that was once the focal point of the deadly 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Kennedy said in an interview with podcast host Tim
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak and Samantha Waldenberg, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden is not altering his policy toward Israel following a deadly strike that resulted in the death of more than 45 people, the White House said Tuesday, suggesting the incident had not yet crossed a red line that would force changes in American
Continue ReadingBy Nick Valencia and Jason Morris, CNN (CNN) — A Fulton County judge will allow a co-defendant of Donald Trump in the Georgia election subversion case to continue his effort to access thousands of 2020 ballots to argue debunked voter fraud theories. Harrison Floyd, who led the organization Black Voices for Trump in 2020, argued during a hearing
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — A federal appeals court, including two Donald Trump appointees, ruled Tuesday that the Democratic-lean of Washington, DC’s, population does not make its jury pool too biased to try a January 6 Capitol rioter case. Thomas Webster, a former New York Police Department officer who was found guilty in 2022 of assaulting
Continue ReadingBy Arit John, CNN (CNN) — The Democratic National Committee is planning to hold a virtual roll call ahead of the party’s August convention to nominate President Joe Biden in order to meet an Ohio ballot access deadline. The move comes after the Republican-controlled Ohio legislature failed to pass legislation to move back the state’s
Continue ReadingBy Oren Liebermann, Natasha Bertrand and Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — The temporary pier constructed by the US military to transport aid into Gaza broke apart and sustained damage in heavy seas on Tuesday in a major blow to the American-led effort to create a maritime corridor for humanitarian supplies into the war-torn enclave, the Pentagon said. The pier was
Continue ReadingBy Kylie Atwood, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration is opening up US online payment systems to Cuban private business owners, senior administration officials announced on Tuesday. The change in policy will allow independent private sector entrepreneurs in Cuba to import food, equipment and other goods, the officials explained. It will also make it easier
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak, Donald Judd and Nikki Carvajal, CNN (CNN) — After months of either ignoring or poking fun at former President Donald Trump’s criminal trial, the Biden campaign on Tuesday decided for the first time to stage a news conference about Trump’s record outside the courthouse where closing arguments were taking place. The feisty
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — Federal Judge Aileen Cannon on Tuesday rejected special counsel Jack Smith’s request for a gag order against Donald Trump in the classified documents case, saying that prosecutors’ efforts to confer with the defendant was “wholly lacking in substance and professional courtesy.” In a brief order, Cannon slammed prosecutors for
Continue ReadingBy John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court declined Tuesday to hear a number of cases questioning whether state court juries must have a dozen members when they are weighing serious criminal charges. A series of appeals challenging Florida’s use of six-member juries has been pending at the Supreme Court for months. Six states
Continue ReadingBy John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined an appeal from disgraced attorney Michael Avenatti, who argued that his extortion conviction was based on a vague anti-corruption law that shouldn’t apply to lawyers making settlement demands. Best known for representing adult film actress Stormy Daniels, Avenatti was sentenced to a 30-month
Continue ReadingBy Way Mullery, CNN (CNN) — See some of the documents New York prosecutors introduced into evidence during former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial. He was found guilty on May 30 of all 34 counts of falsifying business records. Prosecutors said in arguments this evidence established Donald Trump’s knowledge of “falsifying business records” to
Continue ReadingBy Kayla Tausche, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Biden reelection campaign has enlisted three police officers – all of whom were working at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, when rioters overtook the building – to stump for Biden across battleground states in the coming weeks, the campaign told CNN. Sgt. Aquilino Gonell, Officer
Continue ReadingBy AYANNA ALEXANDER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — During the presidential election four years ago, the Equal Ground Education Fund hired over 100 people to go door-to-door and attend festivals, college homecomings and other events to help register voters across Florida. Their efforts for this year’s elections look much different. A state law passed last
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Rabinowitz and Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump’s attorneys asked a federal judge Monday to reject special counsel Jack Smith’s request for a gag order in the classified documents case and to find the federal prosecutors who wrote the request in contempt. Smith’s office has requested that the Florida judge overseeing the
Continue ReadingCNN By Donald Judd and Jack Forrest, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden on Monday commemorated Memorial Day during remarks at Arlington National Cemetery, where he marked the solemn and personal occasion by thanking those killed while serving their country in the name of democracy around the world. “Freedom has never been guaranteed –
Continue ReadingBy Donald Judd and Jack Forrest, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden on Monday commemorated Memorial Day during remarks at Arlington National Cemetery, where he marked the solemn and personal occasion by thanking those killed while serving their country in the name of democracy around the world. “Freedom has never been guaranteed – every
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed and Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — Before indicting Donald Trump last year for allegedly mishandling classified documents, federal prosecutors had to decide where to bring the charges: Washington, DC, or Florida. Ultimately, they charged the former president in Florida, a decision that has proven to be a fateful one — underscored by
Continue ReadingBy Aaron Pellish, CNN (CNN) — Chase Oliver won the Libertarian Party presidential nomination on Sunday after seven rounds of voting at the party’s convention in Washington, DC. The 38-year-old, who has previously run for Congress multiple times in Georgia, focused his pitch on making Libertarian values palatable to a broader audience. In an interview
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