National Politics

By Sean Lyngaas and Zachary Cohen, CNN The US believes Russian intelligence agencies have worked closely with the editorial staff of five Russian-language media outlets to boost public support for a renewed Russian invasion of Ukraine, US officials familiar with the intelligence assessment told CNN in a media briefing. Officers with Russia’s domestic and foreign

By Clare Foran and Ali Zaslav, CNN A push for swift passage of a sweeping bill with bipartisan support to overhaul the US Postal Service’s finances hit a snag Monday evening in the Senate. Sen. Rick Scott of Florida, the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, objected to a unanimous consent request from Senate

By Lauren Fox, Morgan Rimmer and Ted Barrett, CNN Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia went to the Senate floor to crystallize his opposition to Dr. Robert Califf’s nomination to lead the Food and Drug Administration, but the nominee still advanced past a key procedural hurdle Monday evening. In the narrowly divided Senate, Manchin’s

By Katelyn Polantz and Evan Perez, CNN Special counsel John Durham accused a lawyer for the Democrats of sharing with the CIA in 2017 internet data purported to show Russian-made phones being used in the vicinity of the White House complex, as part of a broader effort to raise the intelligence community’s suspicions of Donald

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN The last several hundred Afghan evacuees who have been living on domestic military bases are expected to depart those installations over the next week, according to a Homeland Security official, marking an end to part of a months-long operation to resettle tens of thousands of Afghans. For many Afghan nationals who

By Katie Lobosco, CNN Canadian truckers recently shut down North America’s busiest land border crossing to protest Covid-19 mandates. But in the United States, truck drivers have long been frustrated with other problems, like bad pay for long hours and weeks away from home. Those issues were thrust into the spotlight when the pandemic disrupted

By Paul LeBlanc, CNN Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin is expected to sign a bill ending school mask mandates, after the legislation cleared the state Senate and House of Delegates in recent days. The legislation allows parents to opt their children out of wearing a mask in school without having to provide a reason, and would

By Betsy Klein, CNN President Joe Biden spent parts of the weekend reviewing materials on potential successors to Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer as his self-imposed end-of-February deadline inches closer. Biden is “currently reviewing the legal record and writings of potential nominees, all of whom deserve fair bipartisan review,” according to White House talking points