National Politics

By Evan Perez and Christina Carrega, CNN The Justice Department announced on Friday that it is launching a task force to address the rise in threats against election officials, according to a memo sent to all federal prosecutors and the FBI. “The Department of Justice has a long history of protecting every American’s right to

By Evan Perez and Devan Cole, CNN The Justice Department is suing Georgia over new voting restrictions enacted as part of Republican efforts nationwide to limit voting access in the wake of President Donald Trump’s election defeat. The state law imposes new voter identification requirements for absentee ballots, empowers state officials to take over local

By Jason Morris, CNN A Georgia judge has dismissed most of a lawsuit seeking an inspection of Fulton County’s absentee ballots from the 2020 presidential election. It’s a potential setback to the Republican-led effort to undermine the legitimacy of the results in the state’s largest county, even though the case will proceed for the time

By Jeff Zeleny and Kate Sullivan, CNN President Joe Biden on Friday said his administration was doing everything in its power to be of assistance to those affected by a building collapsing in Florida that has left at least four people dead and more than 150 people missing. “It’s a tough, tough time. There’s so many people

By Mary Kay Mallonee and Devan Cole, CNN The first Capitol rioter to be sentenced for crimes committed on January 6 downplayed the deadly attack Thursday, days after she apologized to a federal judge for her actions during the riot. Anna Morgan-Lloyd, who spent 10 minutes inside the Capitol on January 6 and pleaded guilty

By Manu Raju and Clare Foran, CNN DC Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone told House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy on Friday that he should denounce conspiracies spread by Republican lawmakers about the January 6 insurrection and publicly condemn the 21 House Republicans who voted against awarding the Congressional Gold Medal to officers who defended the

By Maegan Vazquez, CNN Vice President Kamala Harris is visiting the southern border in El Paso, Texas, on Friday to visit a migrant processing center, following dogged criticism for not having visited the US-Mexico border and a rocky first foreign trip to Guatemala and Mexico earlier this month. The vice president is touring the El

Former Vice President Mike Pence rebuked former President Donald Trump on the question of overturning the results of the 2020 presidential election. Pence also said he will “always be proud” of his role in affirming the election results on January 6 following a deadly riot of Trump supporters at the US Capitol. CNN’s Whitney Wild reports.

By Donald Judd and Kate Sullivan, CNN President Joe Biden named Jessica Stern as the US Special Envoy to Advance the Human Rights of LGBTQI+ Persons on Friday, reinstating a position that existed under the Obama administration but was not filled by President Donald Trump/ Stern currently serves as executive director of OutRight Action International,

By Kevin Liptak and Kylie Atwood, CNN President Joe Biden met Afghanistan’s leaders at the White House on Friday at a precarious moment for their country: US troops are withdrawing, the coronavirus is raging, the Taliban are making territorial gains and American intelligence assesses the government they run could fall in a matter of months.

By Maeve Reston, CNN Nikki Haley took top billing at the Republican Party of Iowa’s Lincoln Day dinner Thursday night, decrying what she called Democrats’ “socialist” agenda and calling for a boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics as she became the latest potential 2024 contender to lay her marker in the first-in-the-nation caucus state.

By Michael Warren, CNN Former Vice President Mike Pence rebuked former President Donald Trump on Thursday night on the question of overturning the results of the 2020 presidential election. Pence also said he will “always be proud” of his role in affirming the election results on January 6 following a deadly riot of Trump supporters

By Katelyn Polantz and Dan Berman, CNN Dominion Voting Systems on Thursday accused right-wing lawyers Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani of coming to Washington, DC, to push election fraud claims in late 2020 because they wanted to rub elbows with nationally powerful Republicans, including then-President Donald Trump. “That’s the place they could get in-person audiences,”

By Lauren del Valle, CNN Former President Donald Trump staffer Anthony Scaramucci took the stand Thursday in a federal case against a former Chicago Bank executive whom Scaramucci says he helped get an interview for a potential spot in the administration. Stephen Calk, the former chairman and CEO of The Federal Savings Bank, is on

New video from inside a Biden-Harris campaign bus shows the 2020 incident where Trump supporters surrounded the bus, and allegedly collided with one staffer’s car.

A new book by reporter Michael Bender reports that President Donald Trump wanted the military to “beat the f*** out” of protesters in the aftermath of George Floyd’s killing.

By Lauren Hakimi, CNN A GOP congressman was called “racist” during a House Committee on Education and Labor virtual hearing Thursday, as he pressed Education Secretary Miguel Cardona over the teaching of critical race theory. Rep. Bob Good, a Virginia Republican, repeatedly pressed Cardona over the teaching of critical race theory and the 1619 Project.

By Zachary Cohen, CNN The top US general repeatedly pushed back on then-President Donald Trump’s argument that the military should intervene violently in order to quell the civil unrest that erupted around the country last year. Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley often found he was the lone voice of opposition to those demands during

By Devan Cole, CNN The Justice Department announced Thursday that it has charged a US Capitol riot suspect with assaulting a cameraman during the January 6 attack, saying the Illinois man is the first insurrection defendant to be arrested for allegedly harming a member of the media. Shane Jason Woods, 43, has been charged with

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN In Kansas, the secretary of state now needs the approval of a legislative committee to settle election-related lawsuits. In Arkansas, a new law empowers the state’s elections commission to investigate every aspect of an election “without limitation.” And in the key battleground state of Arizona, Republican legislators this week moved to