National Politics

By Kaitlan Collins and Kevin Liptak, CNN Facing rising prices and deep voter dissatisfaction, the White House this week is launching a month-long effort to signal heavy focus on the economy as inflation worries become the top concern for the White House before this fall’s midterm elections. It’s not the first time President Joe Biden

By Steve Contorno, CNN Democrats in Florida, struggling to energize liberals while bleeding support among Latinos, have settled on a message to galvanize voters heading into the midterm elections: It’s too expensive here. Up and down the ballot, Democratic candidates have shifted their campaigns to focus on the soaring housing costs that are eating into

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN Despite warnings that ditching voting machines would delay election results and likely violate the law, county commissioners in a rural slice of western Colorado this year voted to stop paying the licensing fee on the county’s devices. Commissioners in Nye County, Nevada, meanwhile, want local election officials to begin hand-counting paper

By Paula Reid, CNN Former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro has been subpoenaed by the Justice Department — the first indication the department is acting on the criminal referral from the House of Representatives to hold Donald Trump’s one-time trade adviser in contempt of Congress for his refusal to cooperate with the House select

By Morgan Rimmer and Clare Foran, CNN A bipartisan group of senators hoping to find common ground on gun policy plans to continue talks this week in the wake of the tragic elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. The Senate is not in session this week during the Memorial Day recess period, but lawmakers plan

By Oren Liebermann, CNN The US is set to bring home and identify the remains of unknown World War II soldiers from the only American cemetery in Africa, the US Embassy in Tunisia said on Monday, Memorial Day. The announcement comes after the US and Tunisia signed a memorandum of understanding that will allow the

By Wayne Chang, Eric Cheung and Clare Foran, CNN A US delegation led by Sen. Tammy Duckworth, an Illinois Democrat, arrived in Taipei on Monday in a previously unannounced visit, Taiwan’s Foreign Ministry said. The delegation will meet with Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen on Tuesday, where they will discuss “regional security, economic and trade cooperation,

By Oren Liebermann, CNN For most of his life, Edward Salinas never knew he had a great uncle who served in World War II. The 26-year-old grew up in Edinburg, Texas, just north of the border with Mexico, thousands of miles away from where his relative was a crew member on one of the Navy’s

By Eric Bradner, Dan Merica and Gregory Krieg, CNN After the first month of multiple major primaries in the 2022 election season, both parties are facing uncertainty over their direction — and whose influence will dominate the next wave of nominating contests. For Republicans, the question of former President Donald Trump‘s power over the party

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice The House select committee investigating the insurrection is no longer fighting for access to Republican National Committee email marketing data in time for its public hearings next month. The announcement on Sunday — filed in the court case over the House’s subpoena of Salesforce, Inc. — diffuses

By Diane Ruggiero and Lauren Fox, CNN House Speaker Nancy Pelosi‘s husband was arrested and charged with driving under the influence after being involved in a collision Saturday night, law enforcement officials said. Paul Pelosi, 82, was arrested at 11:44 p.m. PT and charged with driving under the influence and driving with a blood alcohol

By Devan Cole and Jasmine Wright, CNN Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois said Sunday that he’s open to supporting a federal ban on AR-15 rifles, saying his position on the issue has changed in the wake of a mass shooting at a Texas elementary school last week that left 19 children and two teachers

By Paula Reid, CNN The Justice Department announced Sunday it will conduct a review of the law enforcement response to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, that left 19 children and two teachers dead. “At the request of Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin, the U.S. Department of Justice will conduct a Critical

By Devan Cole, CNN California Gov. Gavin Newsom has tested positive for Covid-19 and is taking antiviral medication, his office announced Saturday. “This morning, the governor tested positive for Covid-19 after exhibiting mild symptoms. The governor will continue to work remotely,” the Democrat’s office said in a statement, noting that he will be in isolation

By Dana Bash and Abbie Sharpe, CNN Adrian Alonzo says he got used to Uvalde schools being in lockdown, usually because of issues related to immigration, in this small town close to the southern border. But he realized that Tuesday’s alert was different when he got a notice that school buses would not be running