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By Tami Luhby, CNN Though East Hampton is a solidly middle-class town in Connecticut, dozens of families are applying for free school meals for the first time as they contend with high food costs and tight budgets. Like their peers in most of the US, East Hampton children soon will no longer automatically receive breakfast

By Aaron Pellish and Marshall Cohen, CNN Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas presented an honorary American flag recently flown above the US Capitol to a convicted January 6 rioter after she was released from prison Friday. Gohmert, a Trump ally who has previously promoted debunked conspiracies about the January 6, 2021, insurrection, met Dr.

By Marshall Cohen and Dan Berman, CNN The Justice Department and former President Donald Trump’s lawyers faced off yet again in the Mar-a-Lago investigation, this time in a court filing late Friday where they offered vastly different proposals for how the critical special master review of seized documents should work. Although the document Friday appeared

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter Chief Justice John Roberts — making his first public comments since the US Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade last term, triggering demonstrations across the country — defended the legitimacy of the court Friday night while also acknowledging it had been “gut-wrenching” to drive into a barricaded

By Marshall Cohen, Hannah Rabinowitz and Shawna Mizelle, CNN The Justice Department and former President Donald Trump’s lawyers proposed two selections each to a federal judge for who should serve as “special master” in the Mar-a-Lago investigation. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon, the Trump-appointed judge presiding over the case, earlier this week granted the former

By Oren Liebermann and Barbara Starr, CNN The Navy ordered an investigation into the grueling SEALs selection course, according to three Navy officials, after the death of a sailor earlier this year drew increased scrutiny of the policies, staff preparation, and safety measures in place around one of the military’s most elite units. The new

By: CNN The Justice Department and former President Donald Trump’s lawyers submitted to a federal judge dueling proposals for who should serve as special master and how the review of documents seized at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence and resort — including classified documents — should work. Read the court filing here: The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2022 Cable

By Marshall Cohen, Hannah Rabinowitz, Evan Perez and Kara Scannell, CNN The Justice Department and former President Donald Trump’s lawyers have submitted their respective nominees to serve as the special master reviewing materials seized from Mar-a-Lago and vastly different proposals for how the process should work. Friday night’s joint court filing also stressed the wide

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor agreed Friday night to temporarily block a lower court order that required Yeshiva University to recognize a “Pride Alliance” LGBTQ student club. The order from Sotomayor — who has jurisdiction over the lower court in the case — suggested that the full

By Fredreka Schouten, Dianne Gallagher and Pamela Kirkland, CNN Voting for this year’s general election kicked off Friday with North Carolina becoming the first state to begin sending out absentee ballots, but it comes amid continuing concerns about the harassment of election officials by people who refuse to accept the results of the 2020 election.

By Gregory Krieg, Kara Scannell and Zenebou Sylla, CNN A little more than a month before a Saudi-backed women’s golf series is scheduled to hold a New York City tournament at a course run by former President Donald Trump‘s company, top City Council officials are pushing Mayor Eric Adams’ administration to void the city’s contract

By Holmes Lybrand Two members of the Proud Boys who founded an online group named “Murder the Media” pleaded guilty on Friday to obstructing the certification of the electoral college vote at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. Nicholas Ochs — an “Elder” in the Proud Boys who founded the group’s Hawaii chapter —