National Politics

By Ella Nilsen, CNN President Joe Biden may invoke the Defense Production Act as soon as this week to spur domestic production of critical minerals needed to manufacture batteries for electric vehicles and long-term storage, according to a source familiar with the discussions. Doing so would add critical minerals such as lithium, nickel, graphite, cobalt

By Kevin Liptak and Jeremy Diamond, CNN President Joe Biden spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for nearly an hour Wednesday as airstrikes near Kyiv seemed to bear out Western skepticism that peace talks could ease Russia’s assault on Ukraine. Biden told his counterpart the US would provide Ukraine another $500 million in “direct budgetary

By Jeremy Herb, CNN The Biden administration on Wednesday enacted new sanctions against Iran’s ballistic missile program in response to a missile attack on Erbil in Iraq earlier this month. The Treasury Department announced the new sanctions against the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps unit responsible for research and development of ballistic missiles, as well as

By Lauren Fox, Ted Barrett, Jessica Dean and Kaitlan Collins, CNN A number of Senate Democrats have privately expressed concerns about President Joe Biden’s nomination of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti to be US ambassador to India, multiple sources have told CNN, raising concerns about whether his nomination will move forward. A State Department official

By Devan Cole, Donald Judd and Sam Fossum, CNN The family of Trevor Reed, a US citizen detained in Russia, met with President Joe Biden on Wednesday after holding a protest outside the White House to bring awareness to their son’s case. The meeting, which Reed’s family said lasted for more than 30 minutes and

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN As Russian artillery began raining down on his homeland last month, one Ukrainian computer researcher decided to fight back the best way he knew how — by sabotaging one of the most formidable ransomware gangs in Russia. Four days into Russia’s invasion, the researcher began publishing the biggest leak ever of

By Evan Perez and Katelyn Polantz, CNN A Justice Department investigation into Hunter Biden’s business activities has gained steam in recent months, with a flurry of witnesses providing testimony to federal investigators and more expected to provide interviews in the coming weeks, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. The probe, led by the

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN A Georgia state Senate committee on Tuesday gutted a controversial elections overhaul — a day after local election officials from both parties blasted it as complicating their work in an election year. The fate of the massive bill — which sped through the GOP-led state House earlier this month — is

By Manu Raju and Alex Rogers, CNN The bill is so popular that President Joe Biden and 424 members of the bitterly divided House back it. But the Senate is sputtering, struggling to find the time and consensus to suspend normal trade relations with Russia and Belarus — and show that the United States is