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By Jeremy Diamond, CNN Hundreds of thousands of recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program will for the first time soon be eligible for affordable health care coverage after President Joe Biden announced a plan Thursday to expand access to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act insurance marketplace. “We need to give Dreamers

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN The federal judge overseeing the trial of five Proud Boys members who are accused of plotting to storm the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, denied a mistrial motion on Thursday after jurors reported being followed and confronted in public. In late March, several jurors reported two incidents in which they

By Tierney Sneed, CNN The federal appeals court ruling Wednesday night that is keeping medication abortion drugs available is likely to complicate abortion access across the country, even in places where the procedure is legal. Since the Supreme Court overturned of Roe v. Wade last year, abortion pills — and the US Food and Drug

By Sophie Tanno, CNN President Joe Biden made a gaffe during his visit to Ireland on Wednesday as he confused a rugby team with a controversial 1920s-era British police force. Biden was speaking at the Windsor Bar in Dundalk, Ireland, when he appeared to mistake New Zealand’s All Blacks rugby team with the Black and

By Ray Sanchez, CNN To those who knew former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan‘s one-time chief of staff, Roy McGrath was fastidious to a fault. He was task-oriented and straight-laced, a career public servant and political operator who was quirky and deeply concerned about his image. What McGrath did not seem to be, they said, was

By Natasha Bertrand, Zachary Cohen, Alex Marquardt and Evan Perez, CNN The Pentagon has begun to limit who across the government receives its highly classified daily intelligence briefs following a major leak of classified information discovered last week. Some US officials who used to receive the briefing materials daily have stopped receiving it in recent

By Kara Scannell and Devan Cole, CNN Donald Trump appeared for a deposition Thursday as part of a high-stakes civil case brought by New York state against the former president, some of his children and his sprawling business empire. The former president answered numerous questions in the deposition with the New York attorney general’s office,

By Niamh Kennedy and Lindsay Isaac, CNN Police have launched an investigation after a document outlining details of US President Joe Biden’s trip to Northern Ireland was found on the street by a member of the public on Wednesday. The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said they were “aware of a security breach,” following

By Eric Bradner, CNN Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said Wednesday he “can’t imagine” what the family of the man who killed five people, including a friend of the governor, in Louisville on Monday is feeling. Beshear’s comments, made during an emotional interview with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins which was his first since the mass shooting, came

By Kyung Lah and Anna-Maja Rappard, CNN State Rep. Liz Harris was expelled Wednesday from the Arizona House of Representatives for ethics violations resulting from inviting a conspiracy theorist to publicly testify before lawmakers earlier this year. The resolution to expel the first-term Republican, elected in November, stated that she had brought “disrepute and embarrassment

By Zachary Cohen and Jennifer Hansler, CNN A Russian paramilitary group fighting in Ukraine on behalf of Vladimir Putin attempted to buy weapons and equipment from an unlikely source: NATO member Turkey, according to a leaked US intelligence document that was obtained by CNN. The leaked document appears to show the lengths the Russian private

By Alayna Treene, Sara Murray, Zachary Cohen and Annie Grayer, CNN House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan on Wednesday subpoenaed Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan as part of his panel’s investigation into the agency’s probe of Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter. The House subcommittee investigating the so-called weaponization of the federal government has made Twitter

By Tierney Sneed, CNN The Justice Department and a manufacturer of abortion pills have submitted the final round of court briefs in the emergency dispute over whether an appeals court should freeze a judge’s ruling that would suspend the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of medication abortion drugs. Now that the filings have been submitted,

By Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, CNN For years, Democratic Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has told a similar story: he was off at college and shielded from controversies surrounding his uncle, Black studies professor Leonard Jeffries, who eventually lost his job over incendiary comments about Jewish people. Hakeem Jeffries has said he had only a

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice Nine national media organizations, including CNN, are suing for access to Capitol Hill surveillance tapes of January 6, 2021, that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has provided to Fox News but so far to no other press outlets. The lawsuit, filed in the federal court in DC against

By Jasmine Wright and Nikki Carvajal, CNN The US Department of Health and Human Services will propose a new rule on Wednesday, aimed at safeguarding privacy and prohibiting the prosecution of individuals who seek abortions. The new rule proposal comes as Vice President Kamala Harris is set to convene an interagency taskforce meeting on reproductive

By Mary Kay Mallonee, CNN Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said Tuesday he had a “very productive” meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, whom he previously criticized following the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. “I just had a very productive, candid meeting with the Saudi Crown Prince and his senior leadership team. The opportunity

By Kate Sullivan and Shania Shelton, CNN Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina launched a presidential exploratory committee Wednesday morning. “I will never back down in defense of the conservative values that make America exceptional. And that’s why I’m announcing my exploratory committee for president of the United States,” Scott said in a new

By Jennifer Hansler and Jack Forrest, CNN Brittney Griner, the WNBA star who was freed from Russia late last year after being wrongfully detained, is writing a memoir due out next spring. “After an incredibly challenging 10 months in detainment, I am grateful to have been rescued and to be home. Readers will hear my

By Sydney Kashiwagi, CNN A recent shooting at a Louisville, Kentucky, bank was especially personal for the city’s mayor, Craig Greenberg. Greenberg, a survivor of workplace gun violence himself, revealed that he had lost a close friend in the Monday morning attack. “Last year, I survived a workplace shooting. And now yesterday, I’ve lost a

By Tierney Sneed and Tami Luhby, CNN The Justice Department said Tuesday it plans to seek a court order to put on hold a federal judge’s ruling from last month that put in jeopardy some of the Affordable Care Act’s mandates for insurers to provide no-cost coverage of preventive care treatments, including certain cancer and

By Jeremy Herb, CNN The highly classified leaked Pentagon documents posted to social media offer a pessimistic US viewpoint about the state of the war in Ukraine, highlighting weaknesses in Ukraine’s weaponry and air defenses and predicting a stalemate in the war for months to come. The documents, which appear to date from February and

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN US asylum officers are frustrated by policy whiplash under President Joe Biden, and some are considering leaving their posts, as administration officials contemplate restarting controversial Trump-era border policies that would largely limit who could seek refuge in the United States. “At this point, I can’t tell the difference between Biden immigration

By Shania Shelton, CNN An independent investigation conducted by former Arizona Supreme Court Chief Justice Ruth McGregor found that older printers and longer ballots printed on heavier paper were to blame for a printer issue at several precincts in Maricopa County that prevented some ballots from being properly scanned on site during Election Day 2022.

By Ethan Cohen and Jeff Zeleny, CNN Chicago will host the 2024 Democratic National Convention, the Democratic National Committee announced Tuesday. The convention will be held from August 19-22, 2024. In its announcement, the DNC called the Midwest a “critical Democratic stronghold” that helped President Joe Biden win the 2020 presidential election. “I am thrilled

By Casey Gannon and Katelyn Polantz, CNN Donald Trump’s close presidential aide and speechwriter Stephen Miller returned to testify to a federal grand jury in Washington on Tuesday after the courts ordered that he and other top advisers must share their recollections of direct conversations with the then-president related to the January 6, 2021, Capitol

By Natasha Bertrand, Lauren Fox and Alayna Treene, CNN Top lawmakers on Capitol Hill who oversee the intelligence community finally have been granted the ability to look over the classified documents found improperly in the homes of President Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence, three sources familiar with the

By David Wright, CNN Bernie Moreno, a wealthy Ohio businessman, has filed paperwork to run for Senate in 2024 and challenge Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown in what’s likely to be one of the most competitive races of the upcoming cycle. Moreno is now the second Republican to officially jump into the race after state Sen.

By Em Steck, Olivia Alafriz and Andrew Kaczynski, CNN After the Michigan Republican Party faced intense backlash for using Holocaust imagery on its social media to oppose what it says are Democrats’ restrictive gun proposals, the new chair of the state GOP party did not apologize — in fact, she doubled down on the party’s

By Nikki Carvajal, CNN President Joe Biden signed legislation Monday to end the national emergency for Covid-19, the White House said, in a move that will not affect the end of the separate public health emergency scheduled for May 11. A White House official downplayed the impact of the bill, saying the termination of the

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN The US State Department on Monday officially designated Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich as wrongfully detained by Russia. “Today, Secretary Blinken made a determination that Evan Gershkovich is wrongfully detained by Russia,” State Department principal deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel said in a statement. The designation gives further backing to the

By Sean Lyngaas, Brian Fung and Donie O’Sullivan, CNN Days after the Pentagon announced it was investigating the leak of more than 50 classified documents that turned up on social media sites, dozens of them remain viewable on Twitter. Photos of the leaked documents first appeared on a social media platform called Discord weeks earlier

By Annie Grayer and Alayna Treene, CNN House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan issued a subpoena to FBI Director Christopher Wray on Monday for documents as House Republicans investigate the circumstances surrounding a since-withdrawn memo from the bureau’s Richmond field office that focused on extremism in the Catholic Church. This probe, led by Jordan and conducted

By Zachary Cohen, Natasha Bertrand and Kylie Atwood, CNN The man arrested by the FBI in connection with a massive US classified documents leak was charged in Boston Friday with unauthorized retention and transmission of national defense information, as well as unauthorized removal of classified information and defense materials. The 21-year-old suspect, Jack Teixeira, is

By Tierney Sneed, CNN A seven-day clock is ticking for the Biden administration and higher courts to address an untenable situation around medication abortion — one created by rival federal court rulings from judges in separate corners of the country. While it’s not unusual for lower courts to disagree on major legal questions, the contradicting

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice Former President Donald Trump has appealed a judge’s order that Mike Pence must testify to a federal grand jury investigating the aftermath of the 2020 election, according to a person familiar with the case, but is unlikely to stop his former vice president from speaking to the

By Shawna Mizelle, CNN A Republican congresswoman who represents a swing district in South Carolina urged the Food and Drug Administration on Monday to ignore a recent ruling by a federal judge suspending the approval of a medication drug used for abortion. “This is an FDA-approved drug. I support the usage of FDA-approved drugs, even

By Natasha Bertrand and Kylie Atwood, CNN Highly classified Pentagon documents leaked online in recent weeks have provided a rare window into how the US spies on allies and foes alike, deeply rattling US officials, who fear the revelations could jeopardize sensitive sources and compromise important foreign relationships. Some of the documents, which US officials

By Jasmine Wright, CNN Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra on Sunday said “everything is on the table” following a Texas federal judge’s ruling to suspend the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the medication abortion drug mifepristone. In an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union,” the secretary would not

By Dana Bash, Abbie Sharpe and Ann Parangot, CNN Seven-year-old Karolina plays the piano at the Ukraine House cultural center here in the nation’s capital, poking at keys, swinging her sneakers underneath. She could be any child playing the piano — except the legs swinging below the bench are prosthetic. Karolina lost her legs last