Politics

By Whitney Wild, Annie Grayer and Melanie Zanona, CNN More than 80 officials from law enforcement and federal agencies have testified to the House committee investigating the Capitol insurrection, including members of the Secret Service, in what investigators believe will be the most extensive review yet of security failures that led to the US Capitol

By Caroline Kelly, CNN Madeleine Albright, the first female US secretary of state and who helped steer Western foreign policy in the aftermath of the Cold War, has died. She was 84 years old. The cause was cancer, Albright’s family said in a statement Wednesday. Albright was a central figure in President Bill Clinton’s administration,

By Jennifer Hansler and Jeremy Herb, CNN The US government has formally declared that members of the Russian armed forces have committed war crimes in Ukraine, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement Wednesday. The official US declaration that Moscow’s troops had violated the laws of conflict comes after Blinken, President Joe Biden

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas missed a third day of oral arguments on Wednesday after being hospitalized six days ago to receive treatment for what a court spokesperson described as an infection. Thomas entered Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, DC, Friday after experiencing flu-like symptoms. He has

By Alex Rogers, CNN Indiana GOP Sen. Mike Braun told local reporters on Tuesday that states should decide the legality of interracial marriage, before maintaining that he misunderstood the questions and condemned “racism in any form.” Asked if he would “be OK” with the US Supreme Court leaving the question of interracial marriage to the

By Andy Rose and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN The Republican-controlled Oklahoma House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a bill that would ​ban most abortions at any point in a pregnancy and would allow private citizens to enforce the law through civil litigation. The bill would go further than a Texas law it’s modeled after that bans

By Clare Foran, CNN President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee, Ketanji Brown Jackson, faced another round of questions from lawmakers on the Senate Judiciary Committee during the third day of her historic confirmation hearings. Jackson continued to defend her experience and credentials as she faced criticisms from Republican senators over her judicial philosophy and legal

By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN Most Americans think it’s important that the demographics of the Supreme Court resemble the country as a whole, new polling finds. And a majority believe Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the Court holds potential historical significance. In a new Monmouth University survey, 69% of Americans say it’s at least somewhat important