National Politics

By Evan Perez, CNN Justice Correspondent Congressional Republicans don’t yet have subpoena power to investigate the Biden administration, but some of their investigative targets are already yielding fruit thanks to a lawsuit filed by conservative state attorneys general. A federal judge in Louisiana on Monday ordered an FBI cybersecurity official to be deposed in a

By Steve Contorno and Michael Warren, CNN Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, already a master at sidestepping questions about his political future, is proving equally adept at tiptoeing around Donald Trump as he builds a case for his party’s nomination in 2024. As Trump staged the unveiling of a third presidential campaign, DeSantis in public and

By Sara Murray and Zachary Cohen, CNN The Atlanta-area prosecutor investigating Donald Trump and his allies has hit a roadblock in her effort to gain testimony from some of the state Republicans who signed on as fake electors in order to thwart Joe Biden’s 2020 victory in Georgia. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis took

By Gregory Krieg, CNN No one in American politics brings Democrats — and fed-up conservatives — together quite like former President Donald Trump. President Joe Biden, party leaders, allied organizations, rank-and-file elected officials and the campaign of Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock, who faces Republican Herschel Walker in a runoff next month, are responding to Trump’s

By Holmes Lybrand A Texas man who served in the US Air Force was convicted on Wednesday of six charges in the US Capitol attack on January 6, 2021, when prosecutors say he entered the Senate chamber dressed in military gear. A federal judge in Washington, DC, found Larry Brock, 55, of Grapevine, Texas, guilty

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN Iranian government-sponsored hackers compromised the network of an unnamed US federal government agency starting in February, stealing passwords on the network and installing software to generate cryptocurrency, US officials said Wednesday. Though the hack likely began in February, officials at the Department of Homeland Security responded to the breach in June

By Eric Bradner, CNN Former Vice President Mike Pence is set to participate in a CNN town hall at 9 p.m. ET Wednesday, the day after former President Donald Trump announced his entrance into the 2024 presidential race. The event follows the release on Tuesday of Pence’s autobiography, “So Help Me God,” in which he

By Maeve Reston, CNN Even after CNN projected on Wednesday that Republicans will win the House majority, five House races in California remained uncalled. That raises a perennial question: Why does it take California so long to count its votes? More than a week after Election Day, attention turned to some of the outstanding races

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN A day after Donald Trump announced his third bid for the presidency, he faced public defections from billionaire backers and vicious trolling from a once-friendly New York tabloid — underscoring his early challenges in mounting a political comeback nearly two years after the end of his divisive presidency. Stephen Schwarzman, the

By Ali Zaslav, Daniella Diaz and Ted Barrett, CNN The Senate on Wednesday cleared a key procedural hurdle toward historic passage of the bipartisan bill to protect same-sex and interracial marriage, voting 62-37 to break a filibuster. Wednesday’s successful test vote signals the bill is on a glide path to succeed, a remarkable turn of

By Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN The future of Title 42, and the situation at the US-Mexico border, remains in limbo for now. The Supreme Court said Tuesday that the controversial Trump-era border restriction will remain in effect while legal challenges play out, a move that ensures federal officials will be able to continue to swiftly

By Kate Bennett and Shawna Mizelle, CNN Ivanka Trump announced on Tuesday that she doesn’t plan to be involved in former President Donald Trump’s campaign, issuing a statement to CNN minutes after her father announced another run for the White House. “I love my father very much. This time around I am choosing to prioritize

By Shawna Mizelle, CNN When former President Donald Trump phoned Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger urging him to “find” votes to overturn the 2020 presidential election results on January 2, 2021, Fani Willis had only been in office as Fulton County district attorney for a day. She had campaigned on the premise of restoring

By CNN staff Former Vice President Mike Pence is set to participate in a CNN town hall on Wednesday as questions swirl about his plans for 2024 and the direction of the Republican Party after a disappointing showing in last week’s midterm elections. The town hall is taking place the day after former President Donald

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN With his formal announcement of a third presidential bid, Donald Trump now will face new limits on raising and spending money ahead of the 2024 election. But election lawyers and campaign finance experts said loopholes in federal election rules — and lax enforcement by federal regulators of existing laws — still

By Alex Rogers, Ted Barrett and Ali Zaslav, CNN Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell won a secret-ballot leadership election after days of finger-pointing over the Republican midterm losses, putting him on pace to become the longest-serving Senate party leader in US history. McConnell defeated Florida Sen. Rick Scott, his first challenger in his 15 years