Pelosi appoints Kinzinger to 1/6 House select committee
By Daniella Diaz, Melanie Zanona and Aaron Pellish, CNN House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Sunday she has appointed GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger to the…
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Tom Barrack and the influence he had in Trump’s world
By Jeremy Herb and Marshall Cohen, CNN When Donald Trump accepted the Republican nomination for president in 2016, a little-known businessperson…
Continue ReadingNSA review finds no evidence supporting Tucker Carlson’s claims NSA was spying on him, sources say
By Jeremy Herb, CNN A National Security Agency review of its intercepts did not find any evidence that Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s…
Continue ReadingWhat the For the People Act would mean for veterans with disabilities
By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Deployed to Iraq in 2003, US Marine Corps field radio operator Joanna Sweatt took cover in tight-spaced bunkers for…
Continue Reading‘Funny, cringy and scary’: Reporter shows how Bumble match led to arrest
CNN’s Marshall Cohen walks through how a match on the dating app Bumble led to a Capitol riot suspect being arrested by…
Continue ReadingJustice Department says it will not investigate Covid-19 nursing home deaths in several states
By Sunlen Serfaty and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN The Department of Justice will not open a civil investigation into the Covid-19 response in state…
Continue ReadingBoosters, masks and mandates: Biden’s team sorts through options for containing Covid surge among unvaccinated Americans
By Kevin Liptak, CNN The Biden administration is debating a series of steps to further contain the Covid-19 pandemic, which, after 18 months, is…
Continue ReadingDoctor: Patients ‘beg me for the vaccine’ before being intubated
An Alabama doctor shared a heartbreaking Facebook post, revealing that some of her unvaccinated Covid-19 patients are begging for the vaccine before…
Continue ReadingStaff director for 1/6 committee accused of retaliating against whistleblower
By Ryan Nobles and Natasha Bertrand, CNN David Buckley, the newly named staff director for the House Select Committee investigating the January 6…
Continue ReadingNew Capitol Police chief says he’d be ‘a fool to not be concerned’ about ongoing threat
By Rachel Janfaza, CNN In his first day on the job, Tom Manger — the new chief of the US Capitol Police — said Friday that he would be…
Continue ReadingBumble match turns in January 6 suspect who allegedly whipped police
By Marshall Cohen Yet another US Capitol suspect was caught this week, all thanks to his Bumble match. Prosecutors say Andrew Taake of Texas used the…
Continue ReadingDefense Department has had about 2,000 breakthrough Covid cases
By Oren Liebermann and Ellie Kaufman, CNN The Department of Defense has experienced about 2,000 breakthrough Covid-19 cases among its more than 2…
Continue ReadingThe week in 12 headlines
By Sonnet Swire, CNN This week, Senate Republicans blocked a key vote to start debate on a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill long sought by President…
Continue ReadingNational Guard unit starts to make cuts after Congress fails to pay for Capitol security mission
By Oren Liebermann, Ellie Kaufman and Jeremy Herb, CNN The Nebraska National Guard has begun canceling training events as other Guard units across…
Continue ReadingFlorida heads to Supreme Court on Covid-19 regulations for cruise ships
By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter Florida’s attorney general asked the Supreme Court on Friday to step in on an emergency basis to…
Continue ReadingTrump ally Tom Barrack strikes a $250 million bail deal to get out of jail
By Erica Orden, CNN A federal magistrate judge on Friday ordered Tom Barrack, a longtime associate of former President Donald Trump who was indicted…
Continue ReadingBiden administration terminates two border wall contracts in Texas
By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN US Customs and Border Protection is terminating two border wall contracts in the Laredo sector that cover approximately 31…
Continue ReadingBiden poised to nominate Caroline Kennedy as US ambassador to Australia
By Nicole Gaouette and Jeff Zeleny, CNN President Joe Biden is poised to nominate Caroline Kennedy to serve as ambassador to Australia, three people…
Continue ReadingBiden back on the campaign trail: ‘I whipped Donald Trump in Virginia and so will Terry’
By Dan Merica, CNN President Joe Biden made a forceful return to the campaign trail on Friday night in Virginia, stumping for gubernatorial candidate…
Continue ReadingBiden administration purchases extra Pfizer doses to prepare for possibility of children vaccine needs and booster shots
By Betsy Klein and Naomi Thomas, CNN The Biden administration purchased an additional 200 million doses of Pfizer-BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine…
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