National Politics

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN Microsoft used a federal court order to try to cut off cybercriminals’ access to a hacking tool that has been used in nearly 70 ransomware attacks on health organizations in more than 19 countries, the tech giant said Thursday. It’s one of the biggest moves yet by tech firms and hospitals

By Jennifer Agiesta, CNN Polling Director Just a third of Americans say President Joe Biden deserves to be reelected, according to a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS, as a majority in his party say they would like to see someone else as the Democratic nominee for president next year. The survey fielded throughout the

By Sydney Kashiwagi, CNN A bipartisan group of congressional leaders has invited South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol to speak before a joint session of Congress on April 27 to mark the 70th anniversary of the alliance between the US and the Republic of Korea. The invitation was extended to Yoon by Republican House Speaker

By Jeremy Herb, Kara Scannell and Lauren del Valle, CNN Judge Juan Merchan, the judge overseeing Donald Trump’s criminal case in New York, donated $35 in political contributions to Democrats in 2020, including a $15 contribution to the campaign of Trump’s opponent, President Joe Biden. The political donations are undoubtedly small, but they nevertheless raise

By Tierney Sneed, CNN Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife, conservative activist Ginni Thomas, have gone on several luxury trips involving travel subsidized by and stays at properties owned by a GOP megadonor, according to a new bombshell ProPublica report published Thursday. The hospitality was not disclosed on Thomas’ public financial filings with the Supreme

By Annette Choi, CNN At least 417 anti-LGBTQ bills have been introduced in state legislatures across the United States since the start of the year — a new record, according to American Civil Liberties Union data as of April 3. That’s already more than twice the number of such bills introduced all of last year.

By Betsy Klein, CNN A new, oversized set of floppy ears will take their place on the White House’s Truman Balcony on Monday. It’s time for the annual White House Easter Egg Roll, the festive — if kitschy — annual tradition dating to the 1870s. And this year, the iconic Easter Bunny, normally played by

By Jack Forrest, CNN Transgender women and girls in Kansas will no longer be allowed to compete on sports teams from kindergarten through college consistent with their gender, after state lawmakers on Wednesday overrode a veto from their governor to enact the restriction. The law is set to take effect on July 1. Gov. Laura

By Rashard Rose, Eric Bradner and David Wright, CNN Environmental lawyer and anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission to run for president in 2024 as a Democrat. The filing was confirmed Wednesday by his campaign treasurer, John E. Sullivan. Kennedy will officially announce his candidacy on April

By Jack Forrest, CNN Michigan’s Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Wednesday signed a repeal of the state’s 1931 abortion ban, which the Democratically controlled state legislature had passed last month. “This is long overdue,” the Democratic governor, who campaigned on protecting abortion rights last fall, said in a statement on Twitter. The ban’s repeal came a

By Jeremy Herb, CNN Tuesday’s arraignment of former President Donald Trump was a whirlwind of historic firsts as Trump was arrested and faced the first ever criminal charges against a former US president. Now the wait begins for the long slog of the judicial system to play out, with the next scheduled actions in court

By Tierney Sneed The case that Manhattan prosecutors have brought against former President Donald Trump for allegedly falsifying business records to disguise hush money payments related to the 2016 campaign presents novel legal questions that make the prosecution risky — but not impossible — legal experts say. How Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has laid

By Sara Murray, Katelyn Polantz and Devan Cole, CNN Mike Pence will not appeal a federal court ruling ordering him to testify in a special counsel probe into efforts by Donald Trump and his allies to subvert the 2020 election, a spokesman for the former vice president said Wednesday, teeing up a historic moment in

By Zachary Cohen, CNN Former top national security officials have told prosecutors and testified to a federal grand jury that they repeatedly told former President Donald Trump and his allies that the government didn’t have the authority to seize voting machines after the 2020 election, CNN has learned. Ken Cuccinelli, the former second in command

By Dianne Gallagher and Devon M. Sayers, CNN North Carolina Republicans gained a veto-proof supermajority in the state House after a Charlotte-area Democrat announced Wednesday she was switching parties. State Rep. Tricia Cotham, who won as a Democrat in her blue district last fall by nearly 20 points, said at a news conference in Raleigh