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By Ella Nilsen, CNN California state lawmakers worked late into Wednesday night to pass an aggressive climate legislation package, including $54 billion in new spending on clean energy and drought resilience measures, and a bill to stop the planned closure of the state’s last nuclear plant. The legislative action comes as California and other Western

By Holmes Lybrand Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina must appear before the Georgia special grand jury investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, a federal judge ruled Thursday, but the scope of his testimony will be limited. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who is leading the investigation into former President Donald

By Kevin Liptak, Phil Mattingly and Kaitlan Collins, CNN President Joe Biden delivered his sharpest rebuke yet of Republicans and their fealty to his predecessor in an evening speech in Philadelphia on Thursday, alleging they “thrive on chaos” and warning their attempts to undermine democracy could devolve into violence. “They live not in the light

By Barbara Starr, Jennifer Hansler, Katie Bo Lillis and Ellie Kaufman, CNN An 83-year-old American nun from Louisiana who was held hostage by terrorists in Burkina Faso for almost five months was released on Monday. Sister Suellen Tennyson was released from the custody of terrorists to Nigeriens (Niger borders Burkina Faso) then turned over to

By Evan Perez, CNN Justice Correspondent Former White House counsel Pat Cipollone and his former deputy Patrick Philbin are expected to appear Friday before a grand jury in Washington, DC, that’s investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol and the events leading up to it, a person familiar with the matter tells

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN A lawyer with close ties to the right-wing militia group the Oath Keepers has been charged with four counts related to the January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack, including conspiracy to obstruct the certification of the electoral college vote that day. Kellye SoRelle, an attorney who volunteered for Lawyers for Trump

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN The Biden administration is pivoting to a long-term strategy to assist Afghans who worked with or on behalf of the US government, according to a senior administration official. Last year, amid the evacuation out of Afghanistan, the administration stood up “Operation Allies Welcome,” a whole-of-government effort to resettle Afghans to the

By Eric Bradner, CNN Sarah Palin’s loss in Alaska’s special election for its lone House seat on Wednesday was in part the result of a flawed candidate facing an electorate she had angered 13 years earlier, in a state with a ranked-choice voting system that gave Republican voters other options. Palin, the Republican former governor

By Daniel Dale, CNN Former President Donald Trump and his representatives have offered up a dizzying flurry of defenses in the wake of the FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago resort and residence in early August — and some of their claims are false, uncorroborated or sharply disputed. Here is a look at the facts, as

By Tierney Sneed, CNN After an explosive court brief and picture of classified documents from Mar-a-Lago earlier this week, the Justice Department will argue in court Thursday against a request by former President Donald Trump that a so-called special master be appointed in to review the evidence the FBI seized at his Florida resort last

By Jeremy Herb, Tierney Sneed, Kara Scannell, Holmes Lybrand and Marshall Cohen, CNN Former President Donald Trump argued in a court filing Wednesday that the National Archives should have expected to find classified material among the 15 boxes Trump turned over in January from Mar-a-Lago because they were presidential records. The filing, his closing written

By Jeremy Diamond, CNN As soon as this weekend, Americans will for the first time be able to get a coronavirus vaccine booster shot that targets the two most prevalent Omicron subvariants as well as the original strain of the virus. It almost didn’t happen. Absent new funding from Congress, securing tens of millions of

By Jeremy Herb, CNN A veteran FBI agent who engaged with social media posts critical of former President Donald Trump and retired from the bureau last week says he is cooperating with a government investigation into his conduct. Timothy Thibault, who worked in the FBI’s Washington field office as assistant special agent in charge, retired