By Jamie Gangel, Ryan Nobles and Evan Perez, CNN The House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol Hill insurrection has started to reach out to witnesses informing them of the panel’s desire to have them appear as part of its upcoming public hearings, which start later this month. CNN has learned that two people,
Continue Reading By Tami Luhby, CNN There are few things that President Joe Biden wants more than to see inflation subside. But the few tools that he — and governors — have in their arsenal to help Americans cope with high prices will probably prolong the pain, experts say. Biden has spent this week outlining his administration’s
Continue Reading By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN Being familiar never makes the feeling less dreadful: White House aides emailing each other during one of President Joe Biden’s stops on the road, tracking who’s covering what he’s saying, which TV channels are taking the speech live — and realizing a number of times that the answer was none. “You
Continue Reading By Sara Murray and Jason Morris, CNN Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has begun testifying before a special grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results. Raffensperger arrived roughly half an hour before his scheduled testimony on Thursday, saying it would be “hopefully short” on his way into
Continue Reading By Jeremy Diamond, Betsy Klein and Kate Sullivan, CNN The White House on Thursday announced the latest round of sanctions over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, targeting Russian government officials and elites close to Russian President Vladimir Putin with a slew of new financial and diplomatic sanctions. The sanctions, issued by the Treasury and State Departments,
Continue Reading By Betsy Klein, CNN The White House is lifting a longtime barrier of entry to many young Americans as it announces it will pay its interns starting this fall. “President Biden and Vice President Harris are announcing the launch of the White House Internship Program and that, for the first time in history, White House
Continue Reading By Kevin Liptak and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN Administration officials are still scrambling to secure attendees and prepare announcements for President Joe Biden to make just one week before he hosts Western Hemisphere leaders in Los Angeles for an important regional summit. It’s an unusually last-minute attempt to salvage what officials once described as a top-priority
Continue Reading By Kristin Wilson, CNN House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said next week she will bring forward legislation to ban military-style assault weapons, as the chamber moves to address gun violence. She said “we will be having a hearing and marking up the assault weapon ban” as soon as the House addresses several pieces of legislation, including
Continue Reading By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice The House select committee investigating the 2021 US Capitol insurrection has obtained a December 2020 proposal from a lawyer to Rudy Giuliani and others that sketched out an early, rough plan to halt Joe Biden becoming president by throwing the certification of the election into the hands
Continue Reading By Katie Lobosco, CNN The Department of Education announced Wednesday that it will cancel $5.8 billion in student loan debt for 560,000 borrowers who attended the now-defunct network of for-profit schools known as Corinthian Colleges. The cancellation amounts to the largest one-time discharge ever made by the Department of Education. Some of Corinthian’s former students
Continue Reading By Fredreka Schouten, CNN The Michigan Court of Appeals on Wednesday rejected efforts by two Republican candidates for governor to have their names placed on the August primary ballot. The candidates, businessman Perry Johnson and financial adviser Michael Markey, filed lawsuits after Michigan’s board of canvassers deadlocked last week, leaving in place a decision by
Continue Reading By Gregory Krieg, CNN Jamie McLeod-Skinner will win the Democratic nomination in Oregon’s 5th Congressional District, CNN projects, ousting seven-term Rep. Kurt Schrader in a rebuke to national Democrats, including President Joe Biden. Schrader, a moderate who has crossed Democratic leadership repeatedly — but nonetheless still won Biden’s first endorsement of the cycle, had been
Continue Reading By Steve Contorno, Leyla Santiago and Denise Royal, CNN Twice a week from her courtroom, Florida 13th Circuit Court Judge Denise Pomponio decides who in Hillsborough County can no longer be trusted with a gun. In just the last two months, she has taken away the firearm privileges of dozens of people, including a dad
Continue Reading By Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden said Wednesday there is little he can do to lower the cost of gasoline or food in the immediate term, an acknowledgment that prices for those goods will remain high as he works to bring down other costs incurred by families. “There’s a lot going on right now
Continue Reading By Nikki Carvajal, Kaitlan Collins and MJ Lee, CNN President Joe Biden conceded Wednesday he didn’t understand how big of an effect the shutdown of an Abbott baby formula plant in Michigan and subsequent recalls would have on the baby formula supply until April. His admission came moments after formula manufacturers told him, during a
Continue Reading By Hannah Rabinowitz and Devan Cole, CNN John Hinckley Jr., the man who attempted to assassinate then-President Ronald Reagan in 1981, remains on track to be freed from the strict conditions of release that he’s been living with for several years, his lawyer told CNN on Wednesday. US District Judge Paul Friedman confirmed during a
Continue Reading By Kate Bennett, CNN Excerpts from the upcoming memoir written by Hunter Biden’s ex-wife Kathleen Buhle appeared on People magazine’s website on Wednesday. The book, “If We Break” publishes on June 14. Buhle, who was married to Hunter Biden for 24 years, told People in an interview if she is questioned about his business affairs
Continue Reading By Tami Luhby, CNN Private health insurers are expected to pay $1 billion in rebates to eligible consumers this fall, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation analysis released Wednesday. The payouts stem from an Affordable Care Act provision that requires insurers to spend the majority of policyholders’ premium payments on medical care. The amount is
Continue Reading By Holmes Lybrand A father and son team was convicted Wednesday for rushing a group of police officers guarding an entrance to the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, helping to allow the mob outside to flood in. It was a “major breach point,” prosecutors said during a sentencing hearing for the pair on Wednesday.
Continue Reading By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Several abortion providers in Florida are suing to block a state law that bans most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy from going into effect next month. Plaintiffs argue that House Bill 5, which Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law in April, “criminalizes pre-viability abortions in direct violation of
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