CNN — Two inmates who had escaped from a Virginia jail were captured after authorities found them hiding in a Tennessee barn, officials said. Officers apprehended Johnny Shane Brown and Albert Lee Ricketson on Friday in Rogersville, Tennessee, after the pair escaped from the Southwest Virginia Regional Jail Authority in Abingdon a day prior, said
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CNN — Former Vice President Mike Pence said Friday that he had been previously unaware classified documents were at his Indiana home but that “mistakes were made” and he takes full responsibility. Pence said during remarks at Florida International University that he had thought “out of an abundance of caution, it would be appropriate to
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Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images CNN — The GOP-led House Judiciary Committee and select subcommittee on the so-called weaponization of the federal government plan to adopt a rule that will allow Republican members to issue subpoenas without consulting Democrats days ahead of time, according to three sources familiar with the matter. The plan, articulated to GOP members
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Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images CNN — The Justice Department announced new arrests Friday in a plot to kill a New York-based journalist and human rights activist who is critical of the Iranian government. The three men charged, who are allegedly part of an Eastern European criminal organization with ties to Iran, are facing murder-for-hire and money
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CNN — A federal judge on Friday delayed the contempt of Congress trial for former Donald Trump adviser Peter Navarro, likely for months, to allow for additional pre-trial debate over the role executive privilege could play when the case goes to a jury. Over the course of a nearly two-hour hearing Friday, US District Judge
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Book reveals why prosecutors didn’t charge Trump over hush money payments 02:08 – Source: CNN Politics of the Day 16 videos Book reveals why prosecutors didn’t charge Trump over hush money payments 02:08 Now playing – Source: CNN Court releases video of attack on Paul Pelosi 03:35 Now playing – Source: CNN Manchin: McCarthy didn’t
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CNN — Twitter and Tesla CEO Elon Musk met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries at the US Capitol in Washington on Thursday evening. McCarthy, leaving the meeting with Musk in his office, declined to comment other than to say: “He came for my birthday.” The California Republican turned 58 on
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New York CNN — Over the holidays, while most media executives were perhaps looking to get a reprieve from work, Jonah Peretti was online, fully immersed in experimenting with artificial intelligence. The BuzzFeed co-founder and chief executive, who has always raced to test out the latest technologies, was familiar with AI and predictions of how
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CNN — A panel of independent experts that advises the US Food and Drug Administration on its vaccine decisions voted unanimously Thursday to update all Covid-19 vaccines so they contain the same ingredients as the two-strain shots that are now used as booster doses. The vote means young children and others who haven’t been vaccinated
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A version of this story appears in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. CNN — If you’re not intently following the drip, drip, drip of the various classified documents scandals involving President Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence, it’s easy
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