National Politics

By Katie Lobosco, CNN The Internal Revenue Service will finally get through the massive pandemic-induced backlog of federal tax returns filed in 2021 this week, the agency said on Tuesday. But more than twice as many returns filed in 2022 still await processing compared with a typical year at this point. The IRS began the

By Rachel Janfaza, Ethan Cohen and Melissa Holzberg DePalo, CNN It’s Election Day in Alabama, Virginia, Georgia and Washington, DC, with voters picking their nominees in primaries or primary runoffs for the November midterms. In Alabama, Republicans Katie Britt and Mo Brooks are going head-to-head in a runoff for their party’s Senate nomination. Britt won

By Kevin Liptak, CNN The White House says it is “appalling” Russia won’t rule out applying the death penalty on two American citizens who are detained after volunteering to fight in Ukraine. “We still are trying to learn more about these two individuals,” said John Kirby, the coordinator for strategic communications at the National Security

By Melanie Zanona, Gabby Orr and Zachary Cohen, CNN Donald Trump is growing increasingly irritated with the House panel investigating the January 6, 2021, riot as it lifts the curtain on some of its findings with public hearings that have garnered gavel-to-gavel cable coverage — much to the annoyance of the TV-obsessed former President. Tucked

By Jessica Schneider, Ariane de Vogue, Tierney Sneed and Paul LeBlanc, CNN The Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Virginia man who is seeking to challenge one of his convictions for using a firearm in an attempted robbery. The ruling will allow the man to attempt to reduce his sentence by 10 years. In

By Ariane de Vogue, Tierney Sneed and Chandelis Duster, CNN The Supreme Court said Tuesday that Maine cannot exclude religious schools from a tuition assistance program that allows parents to use vouchers to send their children to public or private schools. The 6-3 ruling is the latest move by the conservative court to expand religious

By Jennifer Hansler and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN The US State Department on Tuesday confirmed the death of an American citizen in Ukraine whose obituary said he died in mid-May while fighting in the war there. “We can confirm the death of U.S. citizen Stephen Zabielski in Ukraine,” a State Department spokesperson said. “We have been

By Kate Sullivan and Jasmine Wright, CNN President Joe Biden will appoint Marilynn Malerba as treasurer of the United States, making the lifetime chief of the Mohegan Tribe the first Native American to hold the position, the White House announced on Tuesday. The appointment means that for the first time in US history a Native