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Month: January 2023

House GOP’s swing votes demand talks on debt ceiling and push back on White House’s hard-line stance

By Manu Raju, CNN Chief Congressional Correspondent House Republicans from swing districts are flatly rejecting the White House’s position that there be no negotiations with Congress over raising the national debt ceiling, insisting that they won’t bend to the Democrats’ take-it-or-leave-it approach to avoid the first-ever debt default with no conditions attached. The Republicans, many

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DeSantis administration rejects proposed AP African American Studies class in Florida high schools

By Steve Contorno, CNN The administration of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida is blocking a new Advanced Placement course for high school students on African American studies. In a January 12 letter to the College Board, the nonprofit organization that oversees AP coursework, the Florida Department of Education’s Office of Articulation said the course

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Michael Jackson’s biopic will start production this year

A Michael Jackson biopic is on the way. Director Antoine Fuqua will helm the upcoming film, “Michael,” based on the King of Pop’s life. Lionsgate will distribute the film worldwide. Antoine Fuqua started in music videos before directing films such as Will Smith’s “Emancipation’ and is currently filming “The Equalizer 3” with Denzel Washington. His long career has also

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‘I had to sleep with that document’: How the government tries to prevent classified government documents from spilling out

By Jeremy Herb, Katie Bo Lillis, Katelyn Polantz and Zachary Cohen, CNN A Defense Department contractor allowed classified information to sit unprotected in a commercial cloud and email server for nearly two years. A private attorney received a 1,000-page file from the Army as part of litigation — only to be asked to return it

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New York state Senate panel rejects Hochul’s judicial nominee to the state’s highest court

By Gloria Pazmino, CNN A New York state Senate panel has rejected Gov. Kathy Hochul’s nomination to lead New York’s highest court on Wednesday, potentially setting up a legal fight between the Democratic governor and the Democratic-majority legislature. The New York State Senate Committee on the Judiciary voted 10-9 against sending Justice Hector LaSalle’s nomination

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