National Politics

By Whitney Wild and Geneva Sands, CNN Law enforcement in Washington, DC, said Monday that the Russian invasion of Ukraine, potential protests of President Joe Biden and a possible trucker convoy headed to the Washington area are all factoring into a heightened security response for the State of the Union address Tuesday night. Officials spoke

By Katelyn Polantz, Hannah Rabinowitz and Holmes Lybrand, CNN The jury selection for the first January 6 trial has revealed how shaken Washington residents were watching Trump supporters attack the US Capitol last year — and how that is making it impossible for some to serve on Capitol riot defendants’ juries now. “I live in

By Kevin Liptak, Maegan Vazquez and Jeremy Diamond, CNN When President Joe Biden began mulling the themes he wanted to strike during his State of the Union address, the President knew he would likely need to include Russia’s buildup of troops near Ukraine. But in those early drafting sessions late last year, he did not

By Kara Scannell and Paula Reid, CNN Lawyers for former President Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr. are appealing a New York state judge’s decision earlier this month ordering them to sit for depositions in the New York attorney general’s civil investigation into the Trump Organization. The notice of appeal, filed on Monday,

By Maegan Vazquez, Donald Judd and Kevin Liptak, CNN When President Joe Biden discusses the state of the US economy during Tuesday night’s State of the Union address, he will focus on a new plan to lower costs for American families and his administration’s efforts in the labor market’s recovery, senior administration officials told reporters

By Ella Nilsen, CNN The Supreme Court on Monday heard what could be one of the most consequential cases for climate change and clean air in decades, with Republican attorneys general and coal companies asking the court to strip the Environmental Protection Agency of its authority to regulate planet-warming gas emissions from power plants. During

By Katie Bo Lillis, Natasha Bertrand and Barbara Starr, CNN Ukrainian forces have so far managed to stave off Russian ground forces massed less than 20 miles north of the embattled capital Kyiv — but though they’ve defied US intelligence predictions that the city would likely fall within one to four days of a full-scale

By Maegan Vazquez and Donald Judd, CNN President Joe Biden marked Black History Month with an event at the White House on Monday, celebrating his decision to nominate the first Black woman to the Supreme Court and calling on Congress to pass voting rights legislation. Biden called Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, whom he nominated on

By Jeff Zeleny and Kate Sullivan, CNN Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will hold meetings with top Democratic and Republican senators on Wednesday, a White House official tells CNN, as the confirmation process for the President’s nominee to the Supreme Court gets underway. Jackson is scheduled to meet individually with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Senate