National Politics

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN US officials are on alert for multifaceted election interference threats from adversaries like Iran, China and Russia — including hacking, disinformation and influence operations — as the midterm elections approach, FBI Director Christopher Wray said Tuesday. “We have to be concerned about hybrid threats,” Wray said at a cybersecurity conference at

By Clare Foran and Kristin Wilson, CNN The Democrat-led House of Representatives on Tuesday voted to pass a bill that would enshrine protections for same-sex marriage into federal law. The bipartisan final vote was 267 to 157 with 47 Republicans joining with Democrats to vote for the bill. It’s not clear, however, whether the bill

By Maegan Vazquez and Kate Bennett, CNN Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska is at the White House on Tuesday to privately meet with first lady Jill Biden and take part in a larger bilateral meeting with American officials. Zelenska was greeted at the White House by President Joe Biden and Jill Biden. The President handed

By Ryan Nobles, Zachary Cohen, Annie Grayer and Whitney Wild, CNN The US Secret Service produced an “initial set of documents” to the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection on Tuesday, in response to a subpoena last week that was issued amid reports of potentially missing text messages from the day of

By Melissa Holzberg DePalo, CNN It may take a few days, or even longer, to determine who will win Maryland’s various primaries on Tuesday — and that’s because of how the state counts mail-in ballots. On election night, counties will report Election Day votes and early-in person votes. But election officials cannot begin canvassing mail

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN The Russian hackers behind a sweeping 2020 breach of US government networks have in recent months continued to hack US organizations to collect intelligence while also targeting an unnamed European government that is a NATO member, cybersecurity analysts tell CNN. The new findings show how relentless the hacking group — which

By Ryan Nobles, Zachary Cohen and Annie Grayer, CNN Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, chairman of the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection, has tested positive for Covid-19, his office announced Tuesday. “I tested positive for COVID-19 yesterday, and I am experiencing mild symptoms,” Thompson said in a statement. “Gratefully, I

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN The US Justice Department seized approximately half a million dollars that North Korean government-backed hackers had either extorted from US health care organizations or used to launder ransom payments, deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said Tuesday as she touted an aggressive US strategy to claw back money for victims of ransomware

By Betsy Klein and Kevin Liptak, CNN The White House is preparing a plan to take executive action on climate after Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin last week torpedoed his party’s efforts on sweeping legislation. President Joe Biden said last week that he would take “strong executive action” on climate, but did not provide details on

By Eric Bradner and Shania Shelton, CNN Maryland Republicans chose state lawmaker Dan Cox, an election denier who has taken a series of hard-line conservative positions, as their nominee for what will be one of the most difficult governor’s offices for the party to hold in November’s midterms, CNN projected. Elections officials on Tuesday night

By Sonia Moghe, CNN Two people have been charged with running a years-long scheme that took in at least $27 million from foreign investors, which involved false promises for green cards in exchange for investments, funding a fake school and promising access to prominent American politicians, including former President Donald Trump, in exchange for money

By Tierney Sneed, CNN Casino mogul and Republican megadonor Stephen Wynn asked a federal court on Monday to toss out a civil suit the Justice Department brought against him earlier this year seeking an order that he register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. Wynn — addressing the DOJ allegations that he was acting as

By Shawna Mizelle The US Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia will not prosecute members of a production team for “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” after they were arrested last month by US Capitol Police as the team filmed a comedy segment at the US Capitol. “The United States Capitol Police was just

By Barbara Starr and Ellie Kaufman, CNN As the Biden administration approaches the one-year anniversary of its chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in August of 2021, it is struggling with how to mark the milestone and try to make progress in understanding America’s longest war through several study efforts. Because of the nature of the withdrawal

By Manu Raju, CNN Chief Congressional Correspondent Republican Sen. Rand Paul chided Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell on Monday after President Joe Biden decided not to nominate a conservative to a federal district courtship in their home state of Kentucky, intensifying a blame game over what McConnell believed could have been a rare Republican victory