National Politics

By Shawna Mizelle, CNN Everett R. Berryman Jr. was 11 years old when the Supreme Court handed down the landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, which made racial segregation in public schools illegal. But supervisors in Prince Edward County, Virginia, where Berryman was attending public school, had no intention of complying. Five years

By MJ Lee and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN The split screen was striking. President Joe Biden in Warsaw, Poland, expressed unequivocal support for refugees borne out of Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine. Back home, his administration just hours later announced its toughest policy yet aimed at turning away migrants, many of whom are fleeing persecution and

By Alayna Treene and Zachary Cohen, CNN The House select committee on China will feature four high-profile witnesses during its first hearing Tuesday at 7 p.m. ET, including former President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, H.R. McMaster, and top China expert and former deputy national security adviser, Matthew Pottinger, sources familiar with the hearing told

By Tierney Sneed and Katelyn Polantz, CNN A federal appeals court on Thursday questioned the access that Justice Department prosecutors can have to a GOP lawmaker’s phone seized as part of the special counsel investigation into 2020 election subversion. At a partially public hearing Thursday, the US DC Circuit Court of Appeals grappled with the

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN A 28-year-old Russian man accused of developing and selling a hacking tool used to obtain the login information for tens of thousands of computers worldwide was arrested in the country of Georgia and extradited to the US, the Justice Department said Wednesday. Dariy Pankov is accused of advertising access to more

By Kristen Holmes and Eric Bradner, CNN Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday visited the site of a train derailment, criticizing President Joe Biden’s administration’s handling of the railway disaster that spewed toxic chemicals in East Palestine, Ohio, 19 days earlier. His trip to one of the most conservative regions of the deep-red state came

By Oren Liebermann, CNN A US strike in Somalia killed seven al-Shabaab fighters on Tuesday, US Africa Command said in a statement. The strike was carried out at the request of the Somali government and was a “collective self-defense strike,” AFRICOM said. The strike was carried out approximately 320 miles northeast of Mogadishu. “Given the

By Maegan Vazquez, Pete Muntean and Aileen Graef, CNN A fiery train wreck that released toxic materials in an Ohio town is raising new questions in the halls of the nation’s capital over the regulation of the rail industry and if stricter measures could have prevented the disaster. News of the East Palestine, Ohio, derailment

By Katelyn Polantz, Kara Scannell and Paula Reid, CNN A law firm that represented former Donald Trump strategist Steve Bannon during his fight against a subpoena from the House January 6 committee and other cases is suing Bannon for nearly $500,000 in unpaid legal bills. The lawsuit states that Davidoff Hutcher & Citron LLP worked

By Haley Britzky, CNN The US Defense Department has released a selfie taken in the cockpit of a U-2 spy plane, as an airman flew above the Chinese surveillance balloon that was shot down by the US military earlier this month. The selfie, taken by the pilot of the U-2, shows the shadow of the

By Hannah Rabinowitz, Holmes Lybrand and Katelyn Polantz, CNN Lawyers for a Proud Boys member on trial for seditious conspiracy related to his alleged role in the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol are taking steps to subpoena former President Donald Trump to testify as a witness for the defense. It’s a longshot

By Sam Fossum, CNN The Biden administration on Wednesday sanctioned a network of Sinaloa Cartel members and associated entities for their involvement in the illegal and deadly fentanyl and methamphetamine trade, providing chemicals to “super labs” that produce illicit drugs for the cartel once run by the notorious drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán. In

By Pete Muntean, MJ Lee and Maegan Vazquez, CNN Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg will visit the site of the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, on Thursday. The secretary has come under intense pressure from East Palestine residents and other critics to visit the town in the wake of the February 3 derailment of a