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U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., announced federal job guarantee legislation on Friday as panelists at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s 55th Annual Legislative Conference discussed the financial pressures facing Black families.

At the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s conference, authors Victor Simmons, Phill Branch, Ada Taylor and Calvin Stovall discussed strengthening Black economic power, arguing responsibility extends beyond consumer spending to corporate supply chains, institutional accountability, collaboration among Black businesses, financial education, and stronger business practices needed to keep wealth circulating within Black communities.

The Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments Monday in one of the most important climate change cases to reach its docket in years, a multibillion-dollar effort to hold major oil companies like ExxonMobil liable for the damages caused by planet-warming pollution.

Newly obtained documents reviewed by CNN show Cornell University police drafted letters to wireless carriers about a week after a student now known as Jane Doe told police she had been sexually assaulted by members of the Chi Phi fraternity in 2024.

A lawsuit filed last month by a former Cornell University student alleging a gang rape at a fraternity house in 2024 has prompted the reopening of an investigation and reignited a firestorm around the scourge of sexual assaults at universities in the US and how schools, police and prosecutors respond.

Nine states have redrawn congressional maps ahead of the midterms, shifting roughly one in ten voters into new districts. Through tactics like packing and cracking, these changes—often favoring Republicans—threaten to dilute Black voters' political influence, potentially affecting representation on healthcare, schools, and civil rights issues Black communities have long fought to secure.

A week after a cybercriminal group claimed to steal sensitive personal data on thousands of current and former FBI employees, the bureau is still assessing the extent of the damage while facing internal criticism about the agency’s handling of the incident.

The Trump administration is set to launch another overtly political campaign ad funded by taxpayer dollars, attacking the “fake news media” and “the sick political class that hates our country.”

Eight US Navy personnel assigned to the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group attempted suicide during a period that included when the ships undertook combat operations against Iran and the carrier set a modern record for its time at sea, according to a letter from the service’s acting secretary, which was obtained by CNN.

President Donald Trump and his allies inside and outside his administration are aiming to blanket polling places with an expanding network of party and federal election monitors this November, intensifying scrutiny of the nuts and bolts of voting as Trump hunts for what he claims, without evidence, is widespread cheating and fraud in US elections.