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By Natasha Bertrand and Katie Bo Lillis, CNN Russian President Vladimir Putin has not necessarily given up on trying to capture the Ukrainian capital city of Kyiv, even as Russia has shifted its focus in recent days to southern and eastern Ukraine, according to US and Western officials. Over the next few weeks, officials expect

By Annie Grayer, Ryan Nobles, Zachary Cohen and Kristin Wilson, CNN The House voted Wednesday to recommend two former advisers to former President Donald Trump be referred to the Department of Justice on criminal contempt of Congress charges. The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, Capitol Hill riot is looking to hold Trump

By Maeve Reston, CNN Republican Connie Conway and Democrat Lourin Hubbard are headed to a runoff in the special primary election in California’s 22nd Congressional District, CNN projects. The outcome creates a sharp ideological contest between a staunch Republican in Conway, a strong supporter of former President Donald Trump, and a progressive Democrat in Hubbard,

By Gabby Orr, CNN A group of veteran political operatives has launched a new organization to help recruit and support Republican women seeking to run for governor in 2022 and beyond, CNN has exclusively learned. The group, called Right Direction Women, has set its sights on elevating GOP women to governor’s mansions across the country

By Eric Bradner and Sara Murray, CNN The ex-wife of Missouri Republican Senate candidate Eric Greitens says in a new court filing that she has photographs of injuries to their child in 2019 and other documentation of Greitens’ alleged abuse. In a document filed in Boone County Circuit Court on March 31, Sheena Greitens says

By Melanie Zanona, Manu Raju and Lauren Fox, CNN Republicans had already been agitating over the Biden administration’s policies at the border — and then in came Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Early Tuesday morning in the Capitol, Mayorkas walked into the lion’s den, taking a meeting with House GOP members of the “border security

By Lauren del Valle, CNN Two Republican state lawmakers in Ohio have introduced a bill that in many ways mirrors Florida’s controversial law that critics have dubbed “Don’t Say Gay” legislation. House Bill 616 would ban the teaching or providing of “any curriculum or instructional materials on sexual orientation or gender identity” to students in

By Katelyn Polantz and Paul LeBlanc, CNN The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol has obtained a cache of emails that right-wing lawyer John Eastman had sought to keep secret. The 101 emails — exchanged between January 4 and January 7, 2021 — were released to the committee

By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN The Oklahoma legislature on Tuesday gave final approval to a bill that would make performing an abortion illegal in the state, making exceptions only in the case of medical emergencies. The bill, Senate Bill 612, would make performing an abortion or attempting to perform the procedure a felony punishable by a

By Betsy Klein, CNN US Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra unveiled a new push by the Biden administration Tuesday to accelerate its efforts to prevent, detect and treat long Covid. Long Covid is associated with a host of lingering symptoms from Covid-19 involving multiple body systems. Estimates of the frequency of long-term symptoms

By Phil Mattingly and Katie Lobosco, CNN The Biden administration is extending a pause on federal student loan repayments through August 31. The repayment freeze, which has been in place since the beginning of the pandemic, had been scheduled to expire on May 1. In a statement Wednesday, President Joe Biden acknowledged that the economy