National Politics

By Bob Ortega, CNN Investigates Brandon Steele, a second-term Republican in West Virginia’s House, worked hard this year to get his colleagues to pass his “Second Amendment Preservation Act.” It seeks to bar state or local police from enforcing new federal gun restrictions the Biden administration might adopt. Mind you, Steele himself concedes he doesn’t

By Daniel Dale, CNN President Joe Biden was asked by a Fox News reporter on Wednesday about a Wall Street Journal article last week that had reported “the Biden administration is in talks to offer immigrant families that were separated during the Trump administration around $450,000 a person in compensation.” The reporter asked Biden if

By Melanie Zanona and Ella Nilsen, CNN As global temperatures rise, some congressional Republicans are feeling the pressure to show they’re embracing climate change and offer up their own plan for how to deal with it. But those same Republicans are also running smack dab into a familiar obstacle: former President Donald Trump, their de

By Marshall Cohen CNN Illustration by Alberto Mier A full year after the 2020 presidential election, new details are still emerging about former President Donald Trump’s unprecedented effort to overturn the results. Many of Trump’s actions were done in public view, including dozens of ill-fated lawsuits and tweets that undermined the electoral process. But congressional

By Eric Bradner, CNN With his victory in the Virginia gubernatorial race, Glenn Youngkin wrote a new Republican playbook for keeping Donald Trump’s base engaged without alienating the voters who were repelled by the former President in recent elections. That’s despite running against a rival, Democratic former Gov. Terry McAuliffe, whose closing message — in

By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN The Washington National Cathedral on Friday will host a funeral for the late Secretary of State Colin Powell, who died on October 18 from complications from Covid-19. Although the funeral will be closed to the public, CNN will be carrying live coverage of the funeral service honoring Powell, who served in

By Kristin Fisher, CNN Six months after being tapped to lead the White House’s National Space Council, Vice President Kamala Harris will announce the council’s first meeting of the Biden administration during a visit Friday to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. The meeting will be held on December 1, according to a White

By Sara Murray and Jason Morris, CNN When former President Donald Trump fired off a letter in September demanding that Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger decertify the election, investigators in Georgia were paying attention. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis made clear to her staff she wanted that letter — the original copy, complete

By Devan Cole, CNN LGBTQ advocates filed a federal lawsuit Thursday seeking to overturn Tennessee’s anti-trans sports ban, which they say violates the constitutional rights of a trans high school athlete in the state. The lawsuit was brought by the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Tennessee and the pro-LGBTQ rights group Lambda Legal

By Kaitlan Collins, CNN A White House official tested positive for Covid-19 during President Joe Biden’s foreign trip and is now quarantining in Scotland, another White House official confirmed Thursday. The aide, whom the White House is not identifying out of privacy concerns, tested positive on Tuesday — Biden’s last day attending the global climate

By Kylie Atwood, CNN The State Department notified Congress of a new $650 million arms sale to Saudi Arabia today, according to a State Department spokesperson. The sale comes as the Biden administration continues to grapple with the US-Saudi relationship that has been strained in recent years following the murder of US-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi

By Christopher Hickey and Nicki Camberg, CNN Virginia Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin notably improved the GOP’s standing with younger voters, moderates, independents and White women since the last gubernatorial election in 2017. Youngkin’s inroads among these swing voters, seen in an analysis of CNN’s exit polls from 2017 and 2021, made him the first Republican to