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By Manu Raju and Melanie Zanona, CNN The conservative archbishop of San Francisco, Salvatore Cordileone, says House Speaker Nancy Pelosi may no longer receive the holy sacrament of Communion in the archdiocese, because she supports abortion rights. In a letter to Pelosi released Friday afternoon, the archbishop wrote that he had informed the California Democrat… Continue Reading

By Zachary Cohen and Tierney Sneed, CNN Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, pressed two Arizona state lawmakers after the 2020 presidential election to upend Joe Biden‘s popular vote win in that state by ensuring “a clean slate of electors” was chosen, according to emails released Friday. The emails — which started… Continue Reading

By Kate Sullivan, CNN The White House says flying a bill that will authorize about $40 billion in aid to Ukraine will ensure there won’t be any funding gaps when it comes to its military and humanitarian support for their fight against a Russian invasion. But while flying a bill to a President’s location is… Continue Reading

By Marshall Cohen, CNN Hillary Clinton personally approved her campaign’s plans in fall 2016 to share information with a reporter about an uncorroborated alleged server backchannel between Donald Trump and a top Russian bank, her former campaign manager testified Friday in federal court. Robby Mook said he attended a meeting with other senior campaign officials… Continue Reading

By Steve Contorno, CNN A Florida appeals court has reinstated the congressional map Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law last month, allowing the controversial new district boundaries to take effect for now. In an order issued Friday, the First District Court of Appeal stayed a temporary injunction on the DeSantis map put in place… Continue Reading

By Brian Vitagliano and Kara Scannell, CNN Former President Donald Trump has paid his $110,000 fine for being held in contempt of court by a New York judge, according to a spokesperson from the New York attorney general’s office. Trump had until Friday to purge the contempt order issued by Judge Arthur Engoron on April… Continue Reading

By Ellie Kaufman and Barbara Starr, CNN The US is expected to keep 100,000 troops stationed in Europe for the foreseeable future unless Russia escalates and threatens Sweden and Finland or NATO members, according to multiple US officials. The numbers could temporarily increase if NATO carries out more military exercises in the region, and the… Continue Reading

By Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, CNN Ohio Republican congressional candidate J.R. Majewski said in a livestream following the 2020 election that he thought every state won by former President Donald Trump should secede from the United States. Majewski, who works in the nuclear industry and is an Air Force veteran, is already under scrutiny… Continue Reading

By Marshall Cohen, CNN Special counsel John Durham’s case against a Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer got a boost from pivotal testimony from one of the FBI’s former top officials this week. The trial of Michael Sussmann stems from Durham’s three-year inquiry into potential misconduct tied to the FBI’s Trump-Russia probe. It has become a vehicle… Continue Reading

By Edward-Isaac Dovere and Kaitlan Collins, CNN President Joe Biden’s West Wing has been thrown into crisis mode over a nationwide shortage of baby formula, with top aides undertaking efforts to restock grocery store shelves while coming under fire for a mess they didn’t create and which they’re still working to grasp the scope of.… Continue Reading

By Gregory Krieg, CNN Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Friday that he will run for Congress in a newly drawn district that includes parts of Manhattan and his home borough of Brooklyn. De Blasio left office less than six months ago after serving two terms as mayor. He had previously… Continue Reading

By Whitney Wild, CNN Two United States Secret Service employees have been sent home from South Korea just as President Joe Biden embarks on his first Asia tour since taking office. According to a source familiar with the matter, a group of Secret Service employees went out to dinner in Seoul this week. After dinner,… Continue Reading

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice Right-wing attorney John Eastman revealed in a late-night court filing that he was in touch directly with then-President Donald Trump about plans to overturn the 2020 election, which included receiving Trump’s handwritten notes. The House Select Committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection is still seeking documents… Continue Reading

By Maegan Vazquez and Devan Cole, CNN Trevor Reed, an American citizen and former Marine recently freed after two years imprisoned in Russian, detailed his harrowing experience surviving a psychiatric treatment facility in the country in an exclusive interview with CNN. “The psychiatric treatment facility, I was in there with seven other prisoners in a… Continue Reading

By Jessica Schneider, CNN The Justice Department will announce renewed efforts to combat hate crimes across the country Friday, just days after 10 people were killed in a Buffalo supermarket shooting that officials have called a racially motivated hate crime. Attorney General Merrick Garland is expected to unveil three new initiatives aimed at deterring and… Continue Reading

By Katie Bo Lillis, Zachary Cohen and Jeremy Herb, CNN US intelligence officials are skeptical that any change in Russian public opinion against the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine — even a dramatic one — would have an effect in persuading Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the conflict, according to multiple sources familiar with the… Continue Reading

By Ella Nilsen, CNN The Biden administration is announcing that school districts around the nation can apply for the first round of funding to transition to clean, zero emissions buses. On Friday, Vice President Kamala Harris, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan and White House Infrastructure Coordinator Mitch Landrieu will announce the first $500 million… Continue Reading

By Joan Biskupic, CNN legal analyst & Supreme Court biographer There was a little-seen warm moment between Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Clarence Thomas last November 1, just before the Supreme Court heard arguments on Texas’ abortion ban. Roberts announced that 30 years ago on that exact date, a ceremonial investiture for Thomas had… Continue Reading

By Brad Lendon, CNN The US Navy is honoring its only Filipino to be awarded the Medal of Honor, America’s highest decoration for military valor, by naming a new warship after him. A future Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer will be named USS Telesforo Trinidad, after Fireman 2nd Class Telesforo De La Cruz Trinidad, Navy Secretary… Continue Reading