National Politics

By Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden said Thursday he was still working with his team to determine whether he should dispatch a senior member of his administration to Ukraine, a potentially dramatic show of support for the nation as it comes under attack from Russia. “We’re making that decision now,” Biden said when asked

By Annie Grayer, Kristin Wilson and Paul LeBlanc, CNN Former US Supreme Court Justices Sandra Day O’Connor and the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg will get statues on the grounds of the US Capitol after President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed a bipartisan bill into law to erect them. The House passed the bill last month

By Steve Contorno, CNN Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law on Thursday a Mississippi-style anti-abortion measure that bans the procedure after 15 weeks of pregnancy without exemptions for rape, incest or human trafficking. The bill, which goes into effect July 1, does allow exemptions in cases where a pregnancy is “serious risk” to the

By Jennifer Agiesta and Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN Black adults in America are nearly 40 points more likely than the general population to say that their racial background is central to the way they think about themselves, according to a new poll from the Pew Research Center, and how Black Americans view their racial identity affects

By Veronica Stracqualursi and Amanda Musa, CNN Kentucky’s GOP-controlled legislature on Wednesday overrode Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto of a broad abortion bill that bans most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, restricts access to medication abortion and makes it more difficult for a minor to obtain an abortion in the state. The bill was

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN Alleged rioter Dustin Thompson took the stand in his trial on Wednesday and told a Washington, DC, jury that he believed he had received “presidential orders” to go to the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. “Besides being ordered by the President to go to the Capitol, I don’t know what

By Oren Liebermann, Jeremy Herb and Kaitlan Collins, CNN For the first time since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the US is providing Kyiv with the types of high-power capabilities some Biden administration officials viewed as too much of an escalation risk a few short weeks ago. The $800 million list is driven not only by

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN Wes Moore, a leading Democratic candidate for governor of Maryland, first became famous for his 2010 bestselling memoir, “The Other Wes Moore,” an inspirational story of two boys with the same name and ties to the rough streets of Baltimore. While the author became a Rhodes scholar, an Army captain and

By Annie Grayer, Ryan Nobles and Zachary Cohen, CNN The Biden administration has cleared the way for the National Archives to provide a new tranche of documents to the committee investigating the Capitol Hill insurrection that former President Donald Trump initially had wanted to keep secret, a new letter from the Archives reveals. Archivist David

By Eric Bradner, CNN A lawyer for Iowa Senate hopeful Abby Finkenauer urged the state Supreme Court on Wednesday to place her back on this year’s Democratic primary ballot after a judge ruled that she had fallen short of the state’s signature requirements for qualification as a candidate. The court’s decision, expected by the end

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN US officials warned Wednesday that unnamed hackers have developed tools designed to “gain full system access” to the sensitive computer systems used to operate energy facilities. The tools could help a hacker burrow into an industrial computer network and “disrupt critical devices or functions,” said the Department of Energy, the FBI,