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Conservative states kick off new fight to limit access to abortion pill mifepristone despite Supreme Court decision

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — Four months after the Supreme Court tossed out a high-profile challenge to the abortion drug mifepristone, and as abortion access is a major flashpoint in the presidential election, three conservative states are following through on a promise to bring the issue back to the forefront with a new lawsuit. The states –

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Biden eulogizes Ethel Kennedy, whose late husband he counted among his political inspirations, as ‘a hero in her own right’

By Michael Williams, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday eulogized Ethel Kennedy, the human rights activist and widow of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, as “a hero in her own right,” remembering her decades of public service and personal friendship to him and his family. “She got me through a time I didn’t want

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At Univision town hall, Trump refuses to back off false claims about Haitian migrants eating pets in Ohio

By Gregory Krieg and Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday repeated his false claim that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, are eating their neighbors’ pets, using a town hall with undecided Latino voters to prop up misinformation that has been rejected by local and statewide leaders from both parties. Asked

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Fulton County DA asks appeals court to restore three election subversion charges against Donald Trump

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has asked the state’s Court of Appeals to reinstate six counts in the election subversion case against Donald Trump and his co-defendants, including three specifically against the former president. The court filing brings the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, and the effort to

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Federal judge orders Alabama to reverse program that purged more than 3,000 names from state voter rolls

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge ordered Alabama’s Republican secretary of state on Wednesday to reverse a program that purged more than 3,000 names from the state’s voter rolls, agreeing with the Biden administration’s argument that the purge took place too close to the election. “For decades, federal law has given states a hard

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Special counsel says obstruction charge against Donald Trump in January 6 case should stand

By Holmes Lybrand and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — Special counsel Jack Smith told a federal judge on Wednesday that the Supreme Court’s decision limiting some obstruction charges against those who stormed the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, should not apply to Donald Trump in the election subversion case against the former president. One primary reason the obstruction

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Vice President Kamala Harris talks to Charlamagne Tha God

Harris defends ‘scripted’ style and agrees Trump is ‘about fascism’ in wide-ranging interview with Charlamagne tha God

CNN By Gregory Krieg and Ebony Davis, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris brushed off criticism that she comes across as “very scripted” – wearing her cautious style as a badge of honor – during a wide-ranging interview Tuesday in Detroit with radio host Charlamagne Tha God. “That would be called discipline,” Harris said,

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