Washington CNN — Agents and organizations affiliated with the Russian and Chinese governments are promoting disinformation about the integrity of US elections that took place in the United States before the November midterms, senior FBI officials said Monday. The FBI assessment highlights how the explosion of election conspiracy theories in the United States has been … Read more
CNN — The National Archives alerted lawyers for former President Donald Trump in May 2021 that Trump’s letters with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un – and two dozen boxes of documents – were missing, according to new correspondence released Monday by the National Archives. Archives. Gary Stern, general counsel for the National Archives and … Read more
CNN Business — US Representative Ro Khanna is calling on the White House to retaliate against Saudi Arabia if OPEC and its allies cut oil production in a bid to drive up prices. “It’s beyond pale,” the California Democrat told CNN in a phone interview Monday. “They are actively defrauding the American people and destabilizing … Read more
Washington CNN — Former President Donald Trump falsely claimed he gave the letters he exchanged with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to the National Archives last year when he was interviewed by the New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman for her upcoming book, according to interview audio obtained by CNN. Trump also claimed in … Read more
CNN — The Supreme Court will hear two pivotal cases later this quarter regarding online speech that could significantly shape the future of social media, the court announced Monday. A case, Gonzalez v. Google, is to determine whether tech platforms’ recommendation algorithms are protected from lawsuits under a legal shield commonly invoked by tech companies … Read more
CNN — Republican Senator Marco Rubio of Florida said Sunday he would vote against any potential congressional disaster aid for Hurricane Ian victims if lawmakers “loaded him with things unrelated to the storm.” “Of course. I will fight against having pork in it. That’s key,” the senator told CNN’s Dana Bash on ‘State of the … Read more
MINNEAPOLIS — A legal battle that Chinese feminists had seen as pivotal to the country’s beleaguered #MeToo movement ended abruptly just before a jury was assigned to hear the case in a Minnesota courtroom. Richard Liu, billionaire founder of Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com Inc., settled a lawsuit brought against him by a former University of … Read more
CNN — Republican Senator Rick Scott of Florida said Sunday that “it’s never okay to be racist” when asked about former President Donald Trump’s personal attack on Elaine Chao, his former Secretary of State. Transport. Scott offered a measured response to Trump’s mockery of a notable Asian American in the GOP. Trump, in a Friday … Read more
America has lost a great civil servant, a consistent and principled jurist. Judge Laurence Hirsch Silberman, who died Sunday at age 86, served for nearly four decades on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, widely considered the second highest court in the nation. He served with six future Supreme Court … Read more
Editor’s note: Peter Bergen is a CNN national security analyst, vice president of New America, and professor of practice at Arizona State University. Bergen is the author of “The Rise and Fall of Osama Bin Laden”. He has made more than a dozen reporting trips to Pakistan since 1983. The opinions expressed in this commentary … Read more