National Politics

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN President Joe Biden’s pick to helm US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Ed Gonzalez, is withdrawing from consideration, Gonzalez announced in a tweet on Monday, leaving the agency without permanent leadership as the administration tries to usher forward its immigration agenda. Biden tapped Gonzalez to serve as ICE director last year. But

By Gregory Krieg and Eva McKend, CNN Community organizer Kina Collins‘ first challenge to Illinois Rep. Danny Davis was a flop. In that four-way Democratic primary race in 2020, Collins barely finished second — more than 45 points behind the victorious incumbent. Two years later, Collins is again trying to unseat Davis, who is seeking

By Lauren del Valle, CNN A New York state judge on Monday struck down a new law that would allow noncitizens to vote in local elections in New York City. Under the legislation passed by the New York City Council in December, noncitizens who have lived in the city for at least 30 days and

By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Having achieved the generational dream of seeing Roe v. Wade overturned, the largest and oldest anti-abortion group in the US is now taking its fight to the state level, with a particular focus on restricting medication abortion. At a joyous National Right to Life Committee convention over the weekend in Atlanta,

By Kate Sullivan and Donald Judd, CNN Public tours of the White House will resume a full operating schedule on July 19 for the first time since they were suspended in 2020 because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the White House announced Monday. Limited tours of the White House resumed earlier this year on Fridays and

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN An “intense, ongoing” cyberattack has hit the websites of government agencies and private firms in Lithuania, the Baltic country’s defense ministry said Monday. A Russian-speaking hacking group, known as Killnet, claimed responsibility for at least some of the hacks, saying they were in retaliation for Lithuania blocking the shipment of some

By Ariane de Vogue and Chandelis Duster, CNN The Supreme Court on Monday ruled in favor of two doctors who were convicted of prescribing dangerous opioids without valid medical justification in violation of federal law. Lawyers for the doctors appealed their convictions, arguing that a jury should have been able to consider whether they reasonably