National Politics

By Mohammed Tawfeeq, Jonny Hallam and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has announced that US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will visit Kyiv on Sunday. “I don’t think this is a secret that people from the US are coming to us tomorrow, State Secretary Mr. Blinken and

By Jamie Crawford, Jessica Schneider and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN A man who set himself on fire Friday on the plaza in front of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, has died, according to the Metropolitan Police Department. The man was identified as Wynn Bruce of Boulder, Colorado, an MPD spokesperson said Saturday. Bruce had

By Daniella Diaz, CNN House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is set to lead a group of fellow Republican lawmakers to the southern border in Texas on Monday, amid debate over the Biden administration’s decision to end a Trump-era pandemic restriction on the US-Mexico border. McCarthy’s office said in a press release Saturday morning that the

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN Employees at Insecurity Insight, a Switzerland-based nonprofit, received a string of malicious links and pornographic material on their cell phones after publishing a report last month on Russian attacks on hospitals in Ukraine. The phishing messages were “on a scale we had never experienced” and came as staff members spent late

By Jessica Schneider, CNN Someone set themself on fire Friday at the plaza in front of the US Supreme Court building, a court spokesperson said. Supreme Court Police, US Capitol Police and the DC Metropolitan Police Department responded to the incident, which happened at about 6:30 p.m. ET. The individual was airlifted to a local

By Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, CNN Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia was confronted in court on Friday over past social media posts advocating violence against Democrats. At the hearing in Atlanta, to determine if Greene is constitutionally barred from running for reelection because of her alleged role in the January 6 insurrection,

By Kate Sullivan, CNN President Joe Biden’s nominee to run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives received an endorsement from a big law enforcement group on Friday. The president of the Major County Sheriffs of America, Sheriff Dennis Lemma, sent a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee leaders to express his association’s support

By Kaitlan Collins, MJ Lee and Jeff Zeleny, CNN With seven months still to go before the midterm elections, the White House is preparing a slew of personnel moves as officials brace for a potential Republican takeover on Capitol Hill in November. The GOP has promised to be aggressive with its investigations of President Joe