President lyndon b. Johnson signed the Voting Rights act into law. Removing legal barriers for black voters, johnson not only made a quality at the ballot box of reality for everyone but he also ensured this nations laws matched its revered ideals. And yeah, its over the ensuing indicates protections under the act have been chipped away. Most notably after the 2013 Supreme Court decision in shelby v. Holder which made it easier for states to pass restrictive voting laws. Still, the outcome of our elections and our democracy held firm. Until january six 2020 line. An angry red violent mob stormed the capitol driven by one terrified goal. Overturn a free and Fair Election. They were motivated by the lives of one. Dan donald j trump. The new twice impeached thrice indicted for now former president of the United States. That dark day expose just how fragile american democracy, our democracy, really is. But, trump is now finally facing accountability for trying to illegally stated. Power th
Step counter the sport matt and wireless remote call. Now, im rafael romo at the Georgia State capitol in atlanta this is cnn coming out firing President Biden takes on republicans and tries to put to rest any doubts from democrats as he delivers a State Of The Union. Unlike those weve seen in the past, those same lawmakers in the audience meantime, face a midnight deadline to prevent a partial Government Shutdown. The senate needing to pass bills, keep the lights on for the government. A heavy lift in a sharply divided chambers, plus a new report on uvalde leads to frustration and fury from the community, from parents who lost children in the massacre and are still waiting for account and ability nearly two years later, were following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to Cnn News Central today, President Biden, looking to care curry some beltway momentum into Battleground States. Next hour hell be in pennsylvania after delivering the type of feisty
Indias dominance on day two of the final test against england has given them a substantial lead as they look for their fourth win in the series. Good afternoon. A major independent report into stakeknife the british armys top agent inside the iras internal Security Unit has concluded that his work probably resulted in more lives being lost than saved. The seven year Investigation Called Operation Kenova examined the activities of Freddie Scappaticci during the troubles in Northern Ireland. Hes suspected of involvement in numerous murders. The Police Service of Northern Irelands Chief Constable called on the uk government to apologise to the families affected, and said the ira needs to acknowledge its actions. Sara girvinjoins us live from belfast. After seven yea rs, after seven years, nearly £40 million, and just over 200 pages, today we had the findings from 0peration Kenovas interim report and it has found an army agent operating at the heart of the ira during the 30 years of viole
Jailbreak tactics that are specifically designed to get around the companys role, sara clare duffy, and its really important story as we marched toward november, especially. Thank you so much for your reporting there. One man deliberately got 217 Covid Vaccine shots over 29 months. That averages one shot every four days in the process, he basically became a Walking Experiment of covid shots and the impact on the human immune system. Bring in cnns meg tirrell. Shes got more on this. And what this one man became, this study he became the center of what happened okay. He is okay. Thats the first thing to say. The second thing to say is absolutely nobody should do this. This was of course not with any medical guidance that he was doing this. He was actually being investigated by the authorities in germany where he was when he got these 270 contain shots thats how medical researchers found out about him. And they started to study him. Its a 62 yearold man. He got these 217 shots over 29 mon
Donald trump. The Breaking News this hour we are following a defiant former president of the United States on the way to his new Jersey Golf Club right now after being arrested and arraigned on four serious, very serious criminal charges, stemming from his alleged efforts to subvert the 2020 president ial election in the United States. Trump proclaiming his innocence and accusing the Special Counsel of leading a political persecution. Wolf, of course, this is trumps third indictment in the past four months. It is the most serious set of charges he ever faced. As he did in new york and miami, the former president pleaded not guilty to all four counts today, Conspiracy To T Defraud the u. S. , conspiracy to obstruct proceed, obstruction of a proceeding and conspiracy against rights. I want to go our senior justice Correspondent Evan Perez from outside the federal courthouse here in washington where the former president made his initial appearance this afternoon. Evan, walk us through wha