National Politics

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN The US believes that Russia’s domestic intelligence agency has arrested the hacker responsible for the May ransomware attack that forced a major US fuel pipeline to shut down for days, a senior Biden administration official told reporters Friday. It appears to mark a rare instance of US-Russian cooperation against a major

By Kelly Mena, CNN Hundreds of mail-in ballot applications are being rejected in some of Texas’s largest counties because of the new voting law passed by the Republican-led state legislature last year, according to multiple election officials. Election officials in Harris County, Travis County and Bexar County say they are rejecting a high volume of

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear an appeal from a high school football coach who was barred from taking a knee to pray on the field after football games. It is the latest religious liberty dispute to reach a conservative majority on the high court

By Lauren del Valle, CNN A former White House adviser to former President Barack Obama pleaded guilty to one federal count of wire fraud for stealing more than $200,000 from a charter school network he helped found and attempting to launder the funds to get a lower interest rate on a mortgage for a Manhattan

By Katie Lobosco, CNN The US Treasury Department warned Arizona Friday that it’s at risk of losing some of its federal Covid-19 relief funds because two of its grant programs prioritize schools that don’t require children to wear masks. If Arizona does not make changes to those programs within 60 days, the Treasury Department could

By Tierney Sneed, CNN As the Justice Department’s January 6 investigation takes a new turn with the use — for the first time in the Capitol attack prosecutions — of the seditious conspiracy charge, the founder of the Oath Keepers and another individual facing the charge made their first appearances in court Friday. The Justice

By Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden was not making a “human” comparison between opponents of pending voting rights bills and historical racists and segregationists in his address in Atlanta this week, the White House says. In his speech calling for new voter protections, Biden asked whether lawmakers wanted “to be the side of Dr.

By Betsy Klein, CNN President Joe Biden is set to hold a news conference marking his first year in office next Wednesday, January 19, White House press secretary Jen Psaki announced Friday. “Next Wednesday, the President will hold a formal press conference at 4:00 p.m. in the afternoon,” Psaki told reporters at the press briefing.

By Katie Lobosco, CNN Some schools are struggling to remain open for in-person learning due to the latest coronavirus surge — but a lack of money isn’t the problem. Much of the $190 billion that Congress authorized for schools earlier in the pandemic has yet to be used. In a majority of states, less than

By Melanie Zanona, CNN Rep. John Katko of New York, one of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Donald Trump, announced Friday he will not seek reelection. In his announcement, Katko cited wanting to be more present with his family as part of the reason for his decision. “That’s why, after 32 years

By Tierney Sneed Health care workers covered by the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate will have until March 15 to be fully vaccinated in the 24 states where the requirement was reinstated by the Supreme Court, the agency implementing the policy said Friday. Twenty-five states and Washington, DC, continue to face a February 28 deadline for

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN As ambitious Republicans plot their return to power in the midterm elections and in statewide races across the country, a familiar face is ready and willing to help them capitalize on President Joe Biden’s sagging poll numbers on immigration. Stephen Miller, the architect of former President Donald Trump’s immigration policy, is

By Betsy Klein, CNN Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator Deanne Criswell announced at Friday’s White House press briefing new steps from the Biden administration to help alleviate staffing shortages at hospitals across the country amid the spread of the Omicron variant. On Thursday, an administration official told CNN, Criswell “directed an expansion of FEMA policy