Originally Published: 22 APR 24 05:20 ETUpdated: 22 APR 24 16:34 ETBy Tami Luhby, CNN(CNN) — The Biden administration finalized on Monday the first-ever minimum staffing rule at nursing homes, Vice President Kamala Harris announced.The controversial mandate requires that all nursing homes that receive Medicare and Medicaid funding provide a total of at least 3.48
Continue Reading Originally Published: 22 APR 24 15:43 ETBy Jeremy Herb, Lauren del Valle and Kara Scannell, CNN(CNN) — The first criminal trial of Donald Trump is officially underway.Prosecutors and Trump’s attorneys delivered opening statements and the first witness – a former National Enquirer publisher – was called Monday in the historic and unprecedented criminal trial of
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Originally Published: 22 APR 24 13:27 ETBy John Fritze, CNN(CNN) — The Supreme Court wrestled Monday for more than two and a half hours with the issue of ticketing homeless people is a “cruel and unusual” punishment that violates the Eighth Amendment.Several of the justices appeared concerned about the prospect of criminalizing homelessness but they
Continue Reading Originally Published: 22 APR 24 07:59 ETUpdated: 22 APR 24 13:28 ETBy Chris Boyette, Holly Yan and Caroll Alvarado, CNN(CNN) — Yale University police arrested dozens of protesters after they allegedly refused orders to leave the scene of a pro-Palestinian, pro-divestment protest Monday, Connecticut police said.The rally echoed a spate of pro-Palestinian demonstrations unfolding across
Continue Reading Originally Published: 19 APR 24 19:13 ETBy Jeremy Herb and Lauren del Valle, CNN(CNN) — The historic first criminal trial of a former US president begins with opening statements on Monday.Judge Juan Merchan swiftly moved through consideration of roughly 200 potential jurors to find a jury pool of 18 by midday Friday, swearing in 12
Continue Reading Originally Published: 09 APR 24 12:34 ETUpdated: 09 APR 24 13:14 ETBy Kara Scannell, Lauren del Valle and Jeremy Herb, CNNNew York (CNN) — An appeals court judge has denied former President Donald Trump’s request to delay the start of his New York hush money trial so he can challenge the gag order imposed by
Continue Reading Originally Published: 09 APR 24 00:42 ETUpdated: 09 APR 24 13:11 ETBy Cindy Von Quednow, CNN(CNN) — The Arizona Supreme Court has ruled on whether the state’s current ban on nearly all abortions after 15 weeks will stay in place, or if it will revert to a far narrower 123-year-old law with roots in the
Continue Reading CNN By Aaron Pellish, Eva McKend and Gregory Krieg, CNN (CNN) — Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. named attorney and tech entrepreneur Nicole Shanahan as his running mate Tuesday at a rally in Oakland, California. “I’m so proud to introduce to you the next vice president the United States, my fellow lawyer, a
Continue Reading CNN By Casey Gannon, CNN (CNN) — Former Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel on Sunday called the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol “unacceptable” after years of deflecting on the issue. McDaniel, who is joining NBC News as a political analyst after exiting the RNC earlier this month, told the outlet that the Capitol riot
Continue Reading CNN By Jeremy Herb, Lauren del Valle and Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump received both a lifeline from the courts Monday and a trial date for the first criminal trial of a former president in US history, a pair of rulings that hit home the legal whiplash constantly surrounding him. The twin rulings
Continue Reading Originally Published: 24 MAR 24 11:17 ET Updated: 24 MAR 24 17:35 ET By Casey Gannon, CNN (CNN) — Former Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel on Sunday called the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol “unacceptable” after years of deflecting on the issue. McDaniel, who is joining NBC News as a political analyst after exiting the RNC
Continue Reading Originally Published: 21 MAR 24 10:47 ET Updated: 21 MAR 24 13:26 ET By Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — The New York attorney general’s office has filed judgments in Westchester County, the first indication that the state is preparing to try to seize Donald Trump’s golf course and private estate north of Manhattan, known as Seven
Continue Reading Originally Published: 18 MAR 24 10:58 ET Updated: 18 MAR 24 13:47 ET By Kara Scannell and Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump can’t find an insurance company to underwrite his bond to cover the massive judgment against him in the New York attorney general’s civil fraud case, his lawyers told a
Continue Reading CNN By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN Washington (CNN) — A handful of Democratic governors made their way through a gaggle of their colleagues last month to tell President Joe Biden directly what they’ve been stressing behind the scenes: He needs to be fighting harder. The Democrats told Biden that he needed to show more of the
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (KVIA) — U.S. Senator Ben Ray Luján is taking Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium Co-founder Tina Cordova as his guest for tonight’s State of the Union address. Senator Luján has worked since his election in 2008 to pass legislation to strengthen support for downwinders, also known as New Mexicans impacted by nuclear testing in
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — House Democratic Policy and Communications Committee Co-Chair and Congresswoman Veronica Escobar announced Tuesday, an El Paso man will be joining her as her guest for President Joe Biden’s State of the Union Address. Eduardo Carrasco is a senior from El Paso. Escobar’s office said in a release, “Mr. Carrasco is
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Originally Published: 06 MAR 24 06:11 ET Updated: 06 MAR 24 10:11 ET By Kylie Atwood and Arit John, CNN (CNN) — Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley announced Wednesday that she is exiting the Republican presidential race, leaving former President Donald Trump as the party’s presumptive nominee. “The time has now come to suspend
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Amidst the ongoing legal battle over Texas’s Senate Bill 4, there are concerns over the impacts it will have. Some of those concerns are about the potential political implications there are ahead of primary elections. The back-and-forth over whether SB 4 will take effect comes just ahead of Super Tuesday.
Continue Reading Originally Published: 04 MAR 24 16:21 ETUpdated: 04 MAR 24 18:27 ETBy John Fritze and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN(CNN) — The Supreme Court on Monday temporarily froze enforcement of Texas’ controversial immigration law that allows state law enforcement to arrest and detain people they suspect of entering the country illegally.Justice Samuel Alito issued the administrative hold,
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By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Texas Sen. John Cornyn has informed his colleagues that he intends to run for Senate Republican leader, becoming the first senator to announce a campaign after Sen. Mitch McConnell said he will step down from the post in November. Cornyn, who served as McConnell’s No. 2
Continue Reading Originally Published: 28 FEB 24 19:06 ET By Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — In a surprise move, an Illinois judge has removed former President Donald Trump from the state’s ballot based on the 14th Amendment’s so-called “insurrectionist ban.” The decision is paused, giving Trump a short period of time to appeal. This is a developing
Continue Reading Originally Published: 28 FEB 24 09:09 ET Updated: 28 FEB 24 15:58 ET By Betsy Klein, Arlette Saenz and Nikki Carvajal, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden received his annual routine physical at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Wednesday, which will likely be the last presidential health update before the 2024 election
Continue Reading Originally Published: 28 FEB 24 16:14 ET By Haley Talbot and Kristin Wilson, CNN (CNN) — The House plans to vote Thursday on a one-week stopgap measure to avert a partial government shutdown, a GOP aide told CNN Wednesday, coming just one day before the deadline to fund roughly 20% of the federal government. House
Continue Reading Originally Published: 28 FEB 24 10:26 ET Updated: 28 FEB 24 16:07 ET By Kara Scannell and Lauren del Valle, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump must come up with the full bond amount to cover the $454 million verdict in the civil fraud trial, an appeals court judge ruled Wednesday. Associate Justice Anil
Continue Reading CNN By Holmes Lybrand, Hannah Rabinowitz, Devan Cole and Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — A Georgia lawyer who had been billed as a star witness in the effort to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis did not deliver damaging testimony Tuesday on her romantic relationship with prosecutor Nathan Wade. Instead, the lawyer, Terrence Bradley,
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By KATE BRUMBACK and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A former law partner of Fulton County special prosecutor Nathan Wade has taken to the witness stand as lawyers pressed him on details about a romantic relationship between Wade and District Attorney Fani Willis that has roiled the 2020 Georgia election case against
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Former President Donald Trump has been fined $354 million in a civil fraud lawsuit that could alter the personal fortune and real estate empire that helped propel him to the White House. Trump, his sons Eric Trump and and Donald Trump Jr., and other top Trump Organization executives were accused by New York Attorney General Letitia James of
Continue Reading Originally Published: 13 FEB 24 05:00 ET Updated: 13 FEB 24 19:22 ET By Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — The House, by a narrow margin, has voted to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, the first Cabinet secretary to be impeached in almost 150 years. The result came one week after the stunning loss House
Continue Reading CNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN Donald Trump’s filing to the Supreme Court over his claim for sweeping presidential immunity begins with a quote from Yogi Berra. “This application is déjà vu all over again,” the former president’s lawyers write, noting that special counsel Jack Smith had tried and failed to get the nine justices
Continue Reading CNN By Betsy Klein, Nikki Carvajal and Michael Williams, CNN Washington (CNN) — The White House on Friday did not rule out the possibility of releasing the transcript of President Joe Biden’s interviews with special counsel Robert Hur about his handling of classified documents, with the caveat that any classified information would have to be
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