National Politics

By Kristina Sgueglia, CNN A Republican elections official in an upstate New York county is accused of illegally using personal identifying information of voters to apply for absentee ballots that are alleged to have been used in 2021 elections, the Department of Justice said Tuesday. Jason Schofield, the Republican Board of Elections commissioner of Rensselaer

By Annie Grayer and Zachary Cohen, CNN The House Oversight Committee is asking the Federal Protective Services, which provides security to approximately 9,000 federal facilities, for information about how it is protecting federal employees in light of the increase in threats against its workforce. The uptick in threats follows the FBI’s search of former President

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN Three Iranian nationals carried out a scheme to hack hundreds of organizations in the US and around the world, in some cases extorting them for personal monetary gain, the Justice Department alleged in an indictment unsealed on Wednesday. The alleged victim organizations ranged from a domestic violence shelter in Pennsylvania, a

By Kylie Atwood, CNN President Joe Biden plans to nominate Lynne Tracy, a career diplomat currently serving in Armenia, as the next US ambassador to Russia, according to three sources familiar with the matter. Tracy, who speaks Russian and was the No. 2 diplomat in Moscow from 2014 to 2017, would be the first female

By Kate Sullivan, Chris Isidore, Phil Mattingly and Maegan Vazquez, CNN Railroad and union officials are currently meeting with Labor Secretary Marty Walsh at the Labor Department in Washington, according to the White House, as the Biden administration tries to help avoid a freight rail strike that could cause massive supply chain disruptions and have

By Daniel Dale, CNN More than half of the Republican nominees for the 35 US Senate seats being contested in the 2022 midterms have challenged the legitimacy of the 2020 election — rejecting, raising doubts about or taking steps to overturn President Joe Biden’s victory. A CNN analysis found that at least 19 of this

By Gregory Krieg, Eric Bradner and Dan Merica, CNN Voting in the 2022 midterm primaries is over. The countdown to Election Day is on, and Republicans hoping to retake control of Congress from Democrats are confronting headwinds in several key races where nominees backed by former President Donald Trump face tough general election fights. The

By Kylie Atwood, CNN The Biden administration has worked with Switzerland and Afghan economists to set up a new fund to put billions of dollars in frozen Afghan money to use to promote economic stability in the country, according to two senior US officials. The US is moving $3.5 billion to the new “Afghan Fund,”

By Nikki Carvajal and Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden delivered a speech in Detroit on Wednesday announcing the approval of the first $900 million for electric vehicle chargers across the country, which he says will help build charging stations across 35 states. “It used to be that to buy an electric car, you had

By Dan Merica, CNN Karoline Leavitt, a former aide in Donald Trump’s White House whom CNN projected would win the Republican nomination in New Hampshire’s 1st Congressional District, could become one of the first members of Generation Z elected to Congress this year. Leavitt’s victory is the latest result in the trend of Gen Z

By Evan Perez, Sara Murray and Jeremy Harlan, CNN Mike Lindell, CEO of My Pillow and prominent backer of former President Donald Trump‘s false voter fraud claims, said Tuesday the FBI served him with a grand jury subpoena for the contents of his phone as part of an investigation into a Colorado election security breach.

By Eric Bradner, Gregory Krieg and Dan Merica, CNN New Hampshire state Senate President Chuck Morse conceded the Republican Senate primary Wednesday morning to Don Bolduc, a retired Army brigadier general and election denier who has embraced former President Donald Trump’s approach to politics — a letdown for the GOP establishment in the race to

By Ellie Kaufman, CNN The US Congressional Naming Commission is recommending the US Navy rename two ships whose names have ties to the Confederacy: the USS Chancellorsville and the USNS Maury, commissioners said Tuesday. The USS Chancellorsville, a US Navy Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser, was named for the battle of Chancellorsville in 1863 during the American

By Amy Simonson and Paul LeBlanc, CNN The West Virginia Legislature on Tuesday passed a bill that will prohibit nearly all abortions except to save a pregnant person’s life or in certain cases that involve rape or incest. House Bill 302, passed the state Senate in a 22-7 vote, and the House gave it final

By Hannah Rabinowitz and Holmes Lybrand, CNN Three January 6, 2021, rioters involved in one of the most brutal assaults on police during the attack at the US Capitol were found guilty on Tuesday of several felonies following a bench trial before a federal judge. Patrick McCaughey was found guilty of nine counts, including assault

By Kristin Wilson and Clare Foran, CNN The US House of Representatives held a moment of silence Tuesday evening in honor of the late Queen Elizabeth II, who died last week at the age of 96. The House also agreed to a resolution expressing “that the House of Representatives of the United States of America

By Ella Nilsen and Manu Raju, CNN A deal cut to secure the support of Sen. Joe Manchin for the Democrats’ controversial Inflation Reduction Act is now creating problems for another major issue looming over Congress: Funding the government to avoid a shutdown by month’s end. As he vowed to support the sweeping health care

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN Former Gov. Bill Richardson and his team were in Moscow this week and held meetings with Russian leadership, CNN has learned. The details around those meetings were not immediately clear. Richardson, the former New Mexico governor and diplomat, and his namesake center privately work on behalf of families of hostages and