National Politics

By Donald Judd, CNN National security adviser Jake Sullivan issued a stark warning Sunday that the United States believes Russia could launch an invasion of Ukraine this week, but is still holding out hope diplomacy can prevail. Sullivan told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union” that Russian forces are positioned so that an

CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the life of Bill Frist, heart and lung transplant surgeon and former Senate majority leader. Personal Birth date: February 22, 1952 Birth place: Nashville, Tennessee Birth name: William Harrison Frist Father: Thomas Frist Sr., physician Mother: Dorothy (Cate) Frist Marriages: Tracy (Roberts) Frist (2015-present); Karyn (McLaughlin) Frist

By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN A significant number of both Democrats and Republicans currently hope to see their parties find alternatives to President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump in the next presidential election, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS. But very few have specific candidates in mind, underscoring how distant —

By Gloria Borger, Jamie Gangel and Ashley Semler, CNN In Donald Trump’s White House, telephones were a valued commodity. The then-President loved to talk to everyone, said a former White House aide. “He took everybody’s calls,” the aide said, even interrupting national security briefings to make and receive calls. The phone was his lifeline, according

By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Understanding the state of the Equal Rights Amendment depends on who you ask. Backers of the ERA say it went into effect as of January 27, having met all the constitutional requirements, and should be published as the 28th Amendment. Opponents — and even some legal experts who support the ERA

By Sean Lyngaas Intelligence and national security agencies across the US government met on Friday to discuss how the Biden administration might respond to cyberattacks from Russia in light of the Ukraine crisis, three US officials familiar with the meeting told CNN. The meeting — which convened officials from the White House, intelligence agencies, Department

By Sonnet Swire While protests by truckers and others against Covid mandates continue to occupy Canada’s capital, block US-Canada border crossings and add to supply chain headaches, Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky said he hopes trucker protests come to the United States as soon as this weekend to “clog up” major US cities. Asked

By Shawna Mizelle, CNN Hillary Clinton jokingly jabbed at former President Donald Trump in a tweet amid reports that he periodically flushed papers down the toilet in the White House residence. “Just in time for Galentine’s Day, and the news that Trump was flushing documents down White House toilets…,” Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate

By Dan Berman, CNN Whether it’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, handling of sensitive White House documents or the finances of his namesake business, the volume of investigations involving former President Donald Trump is staggering. Trump is being sued by lawmakers and police officers, his niece Mary Trump, magazine writer E. Jean Carroll,

By Kylie Atwood and Oren Liebermann, CNN The United States has moved some US forces out of Ukraine and ordered the evacuation of most of its embassy staff on Saturday as fears mount that a Russian invasion of the country could take place in the next few days. The moves are signs of growing concerns

By Natasha Bertrand, Maegan Vazquez, Jasmine Wright and Donald Judd, CNN President Joe Biden warned Russian President Vladimir Putin that the US and its allies will respond “decisively and impose swift and severe costs” on Russia should Putin decide to invade Ukraine. In a roughly hour-long phone call, the White House said Biden made clear

By Tierney Sneed, CNN A contentious decision from the US Supreme Court in a Voting Rights Act case from Alabama this week previewed what could be a momentous legal battle over the 1965 law, which over the past several years has been repeatedly whittled down by the conservative justices. After lower courts ordered Alabama to

By Fredreka Schouten A federal judge has temporarily blocked several Texas counties from pursuing criminal charges against public officials who encourage voters to use mail ballots in next month’s primary election. The preliminary injunction marks a victory for officials in Harris County, home to Houston, who argued that the controversial provision in a new Texas

By Darya Tarasova, Sharon Braithwaite, Kara Fox, Katya Krebs and Tim Lister, CNN Russia blasted Western countries and media for spreading a “large-scale disinformation campaign” over a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine, saying Friday that they were doing so “to divert attention from their own aggressive actions.” The Russian Foreign Ministry statement comes just hours

By Gabby Orr, Pamela Brown and Paula Reid, CNN Worried that a trove of White House records that had been brought to Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate contained classified material, a top official in the former President’s orbit warned his aides last fall: Do not touch those boxes. The senior official in Trump’s inner circle did