National Politics

By Kyung Lah, CNN Even with the clock still ticking down to Tuesday’s Nevada primary, Republican Senate candidate Adam Laxalt has already set his sights on November — and his would-be opponent, Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto. “She’s the most vulnerable senator in America,” Laxalt told a group of supporters in Summerlin, a suburban neighborhood

By Kevin Liptak, CNN US national security adviser Jake Sullivan met in Luxembourg on Monday with the top Chinese diplomat for a “candid, substantive, and productive discussion” at a tense moment between their two countries, according to the White House. The talks, which hadn’t been announced beforehand, ran four-and-a-half hours. They came as a potential

By Betsy Klein and Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden on Monday signed what he described as “long overdue” legislation that could help establish a National Museum of Asian American and Pacific Islander History and Culture. “It’s about time for a national museum to capture the courage, the character, and the imagination … the dreams

By Shawna Mizelle and Melissa Alonso, CNN Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine on Monday signed a bill into law that makes it easier for teachers and staff to carry guns on school premises. The Republican-backed bill reduces the hours of training required for armed school personnel from 700 to 24, according to the legislation. “Those 700

By Ellie Kaufman Officer Eugene Goodman, the US Capitol Police officer who led the mob of protesters away from the Senate chamber on January 6, 2021, as senators and then-Vice President Mike Pence were evacuating, testified on Monday that the mob breaching the Capitol and breaking into the lower levels of the building “looked like

By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a slate of bills on Monday that aim to protect out-of-state patients and abortion providers from legal action in other states. The Democratic-sponsored bills are designed to make the state a haven for abortion seekers and providers, as conservative states seek to curtail abortion rights

By Zachary Cohen, Jeremy Herb and Marshall Cohen, CNN The House committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol detailed Monday how those around then-President Donald Trump told him he lost the 2020 election — but he refused to listen, turning instead to his attorney Rudy Giuliani to embrace false claims that

By Tierney Sneed, CNN The Supreme Court on Monday made it much more difficult for immigrants to challenge immigration policies in court, holding that challenges have to be brought individually and not on a class-wide basis. In the 6-3 holding, the court concluded that, under a 1996 statute, lower federal courts lack the power to

By Tierney Sneed and Ariane de Vogue, CNN The Supreme Court on Monday let stand the death sentence of a Texas inmate, rejecting his arguments that Texas state courts had failed to follow the justices’ earlier ruling in his case about whether he received ineffective assistance of counsel at his trial and sentencing. Justice Sonia

By Ella Nilsen, CNN President Joe Biden’s Department of Energy on Monday will propose a new rule to make residential, natural gas furnaces more energy-efficient. It would be the country’s first significant update to furnace standards since the 1990s. In the proposed rule, the details of which were shared first with CNN, non-weatherized gas furnaces

By Tami Luhby, CNN A growing number of GOP-led states are expanding Medicaid coverage to new moms at the same time as they seek to ban or limit access to abortions. Florida, Tennessee and South Carolina are among the states that are temporarily allowing low-income women to remain enrolled in Medicaid for up to 12

By Joan Biskupic, CNN legal analyst & Supreme Court biographer Supreme Court justices are facing protests from outside their newly fortified perimeter — and from within — as they finish an epic session destined to transform the law in America. The warnings from dissenting liberal justices battling the conservative supermajority have become overt. Justice Sonia