National Politics

By Katie Bo Lillis and Natasha Bertrand, CNN The CIA inspector general has completed a review that has criticized the agency’s handling of the initial cases of a mysterious affliction known colloquially as “Havana Syndrome,” US officials said Friday. The review, which was delivered to both CIA Director Bill Burns and Congress this month, found

By Holmes Lybrand and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN Prosecutors on Friday began connecting the disparate threads of five alleged Oath Keepers and how they prepared for January 6, 2021, in the final hours of the second week of their trial. Over the past two weeks, the government has shown a Washington, DC, jury dozens of messages

By Marshall Cohen, CNN A federal judge on Friday threw out one of five charges against Igor Danchenko, the primary source for the infamous Trump-Russia dossier, in a major setback for special counsel John Durham’s investigation. The judge dropped one of the five false-statement charges, specifically pertaining to the allegation that Danchenko lied to the

By Zachary Cohen, Sara Murray and Jason Morris, CNN A pro-Trump operative who was caught on tape participating in a Georgia voting system breach after the 2020 election has testified before the special grand jury investigating efforts to overturn the outcome in that state, two sources familiar with the matter tell CNN. Scott Hall, a

By Michael Warren, CNN Gabriel Burks, like most Black people in Georgia, nearly always votes for Democrats. But this November, he’ll be voting for Republican Gov. Brian Kemp. “Kemp hasn’t done nothing wrong as a governor,” the 49-year-old dad told CNN at the Georgia National Fair last week as he watched his son go down

By Daniel Dale, CNN Former President Donald Trump was subpoenaed Thursday by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Trump’s response: his usual election lies. In a rambling 14-page letter to committee chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson, Trump did not say whether he would comply with the subpoena. Instead, he repeated

By Kristen Holmes and Sara Murray, CNN Former President Donald Trump on Friday does not say whether he will comply with the subpoena by the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, Capitol Hill insurrection, in a lengthy response to the committee posted on Truth Social. In a letter addressed to committee chairman Democratic

By Dan Merica, CNN Pennsylvania Republican Senate nominee Mehmet Oz again tried to distance himself from the mocking tone his campaign has taken with his Democratic opponent John Fetterman’s recovery from a near fatal stroke, telling NBC in an interview Friday that he would not talk to his own patients the way his campaign talked

By Kevin Liptak, CNN Western sanctions have sharply curtailed Russia’s ability to replenish the munitions it is using in Ukraine, according to a new analysis from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, forcing Moscow to task its intelligence services with finding ways to evade restrictions and procure the critical technology and parts to

By Dan Merica, Gabby Orr and Gregory Krieg, CNN In Georgia’s already contentious Senate race, Friday’s debate between Republican Herschel Walker and Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock in Savannah will provide the highest stakes moment yet. The Senate contest, one of the most competitive in the country and key to winning control of the chamber, has

By Jeff Zeleny and Kevin Liptak, CNN As President Joe Biden headed West this week, Air Force One flew over a string of states where marquee Senate and House races will determine which party controls Congress next year. It didn’t land in any of them. The President’s rare, four-day visit is unfolding with a careful

By Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, CNN A Democratic House candidate in New Mexico, campaigning as a moderate in a tightly contested race, deleted tweets attacking the oil and gas industry, rationalizing rioting in summer 2020, and comparing the Trump administration to the Ku Klux Klan. The deleted tweets reviewed by CNN’s KFile on the

By Paul LeBlanc, CNN Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont was discharged from the hospital on Friday, following an “uneventful night” of “tests and observation,” according to a statement from his office. His office said in a statement on Thursday evening that the senator was hospitalized “as a precaution” after “not feeling well.” Leahy, 82, had

By Dan Merica and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Democrat Mandela Barnes and Republican Sen. Ron Johnson sparred over their respective ties to the middle class and their views on crime in the second and possibly final Wisconsin Senate debate. Barnes was clearly eager to attack Johnson — perhaps an acknowledgment that the Democratic lieutenant governor is

By Eric Bradner, CNN Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said in a debate Thursday night that voters “cannot trust” her Republican challenger, Tudor Dixon, to respect the outcome of a state referendum on abortion rights, because Dixon has not accepted the outcome of the 2020 election. Whitmer has placed her support for abortion rights at

By Alex Marquardt, CNN Since they first started arriving in Ukraine last spring, the Starlink satellite internet terminals made by Elon Musk’s SpaceX have been a vital source of communication for Ukraine’s military, allowing it to fight and stay connected even as cellular phone and internet networks have been destroyed in its war with Russia.

By Kara Scannell Donald Trump Jr., a top executive at the Trump Organization, told New York investigators that he was not involved in preparing the real estate company’s financial statements at the center of a $250 million lawsuit and that his knowledge of accounting rules is limited to a college course, according to excerpts of