[ad_1] CNN — Just days before Donald Trump hosts his first 2024 event in South Carolina, a state whose evangelical population has long played a critical role in its presidential primary, the former president is lashing out at religious conservatives who have declined to endorse his third presidential campaign. Trump’s …
Read More »Biden delivers sermon drawing on legacy of Rev. Martin Luther King: ‘This is a time of choosing’
[ad_1] CNN — Joe Biden delivered remarks Sunday from Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, becoming the first sitting president to deliver a Sunday sermon from the historic church where civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. served as pastor until his assassination in 1968. “You’ve been around for 136 …
Read More »Why Black voters are more important in Georgia than in any other state
[ad_1] CNN — President Joe Biden is heading back to Georgia. On the eve of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, he’s visiting Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, where the civil rights pioneer once preached. The trip makes a lot of sense, not just to pay tribute to King, but also …
Read More »Special counsel: Two words no president wants to hear
[ad_1] A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. CNN — There’s something ringing in Joe Biden’s ears that no president ever, ever wants to hear: special counsel. These are the independent lawyers appointed, usually by …
Read More »Brazil riots timeline: How security failures opened a path to insurrection
[ad_1] CNN — A sea of people, draped in the yellow and green of the Brazilian flag, surge onto the roof of the country’s modernist congressional building in the capital Brasilia, a video shared on social media shows. In the foreground, officers from the military police of Brazil’s Federal District, …
Read More »Concerns over Santos’ backstory were known prior to the election
[ad_1] CNN — Concerns over Rep. George Santos’ backstory became louder over the summer and into the fall campaign season, and issues surrounding the recently elected Republican congressman from New York had not been a secret, a GOP source told CNN on Friday. When it became clearer that Santos had …
Read More »Biden’s whirlwind final days as vice president had aides scrambling to close his White House office
[ad_1] Washington CNN — The early days of 2017 were a whirlwind for Vice President Joe Biden: swearing in a new Congress, a surprise Medal of Freedom, a speech at Davos and one final trip to Ukraine. Partly to wrap up his policy portfolios, partly to tout his accomplishments, and …
Read More »Matt Schlapp: GOP strategist alleges powerful conservative sexually assaulted him
[ad_1] CNN — A Republican strategist alleges that Matt Schlapp, the influential chairman of the American Conservative Union, groped and fondled his groin as he drove Schlapp back to an Atlanta hotel several weeks before the November midterm election. The strategist, a male in his late thirties who was working …
Read More »Biden’s legal team found another batch of classified documents in search of second location
[ad_1] CNN — Another batch of classified government records were found by President Joe Biden’s legal team, following the initial discovery of classified documents at his former think tank office in Washington this past fall. According to people briefed on the matter, the additional classified documents were found in a …
Read More »House Oversight chairman seeks Biden family financial transaction data
[ad_1] CNN — Rep. James Comer, in one of his first moves as House Oversight Chairman, is seeking information from the Treasury Department about the Biden family’s financial transactions and calling on a handful of former Twitter executives to testify at a public hearing. The new round of letters from …
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