CNN — The Department of Homeland Security inspector general has directed the Secret Service to stop its internal investigations into what happened to text messages related to January 6 that may have been deleted, according to a letter reviewed by CNN. The inspector general wrote in a letter sent Wednesday evening that the Secret Service … Read more
CNN — President Joe Biden will deliver a rare evening speech on guns Thursday to press US lawmakers to take action as the US confronts another mass shooting, the White House said. The address will take place at 7:30 p.m. ET from the White House Cross Hall. Biden plans to discuss “the recent tragic mass … Read more
CNN — Hurricane Agatha has rapidly intensified in the eastern Pacific Ocean and was nearing major hurricane status as it approached the southern Mexican coast Sunday night. Agatha, the first hurricane of the eastern Pacific season, had maximum sustained winds of 110 mph as of 10 p.m. Sunday, the National Hurricane Center saidup from 60 … Read more
CNN — Federal investigators have interviewed Republicans in Georgia about interactions with people in former President Donald Trump’s orbit and his 2020 reelection campaign, as the Justice Department’s sprawling criminal probe examines efforts in at least two states to put forth alternate slates of electors to displace Joe Biden electors in battleground states Trump lost. … Read more
CNN — The office of a conservative political organization that lobbies against abortion rights was vandalized and damaged by fire on Sunday morning in Madison, Wisconsin, in what police are investigating as arson. The fire and vandalism happened at the office of Wisconsin Family Action, CNN affiliate WISC reported. WFA is a political action committee … Read more
CNN — J.D. Vance, the Trump-backed candidate in Ohio’s contentious GOP Senate primary, has won the nomination, CNN projected Tuesday. Even as most candidates in the race ran toward former President Donald Trump, the primary is the first Senate contest of the year to test the power of his endorsement. In the other marquee race … Read more
Atlanta CNN — A potentially precedent-setting disqualification hearing is underway Friday in an Atlanta courtroom, aimed at determining if Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia is constitutionally barred from running for reelection because of her role in the January 6 insurrection. Greene is testifying as a witness during the marathon hearing – making her … Read more
CNN — The House Select Committee investigating the January 6 riot has in its possession more than two dozen text messages between former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and Virginia “Ginni” Thomasa conservative activist and the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, according to multiple sources familiar with the messages. These … Read more