Politics

By Greg Clary Former President Donald Trump said he is endorsing former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in her bid to fill Alaska’s at-large US House seat left vacant by the death last month of longtime Republican Rep. Don Young. “Sarah shocked many when she endorsed me very early in 2016, and we won big,” Trump

By Arlette Saenz Former President Barack Obama will join President Joe Biden at an event on the Affordable Care Act at the White House this week, a source familiar with the plans says, marking the first time the former President will appear publicly at the White House since leaving office. Biden is scheduled to deliver

By Jeremy Herb, CNN Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday that the State Department would help document any atrocities the Russian military committed against Ukrainian civilians, following new images from AFP out of a town northwest of Ukraine’s capital of Kyiv with the bodies of at least 20 civilian men found lying strewn across

By Eric Bradner, CNN Desperate to prove Ohio isn’t a lost cause, Democratic candidates for governor and an open Senate seat are attempting to steer clear of culture wars and tap into a vein of economic populism that has eluded them in the increasingly red state in recent decades. It hasn’t been long since Democrats

By Simone Pathe, CNN The House committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the US Capitol is racing against a political clock to get to the bottom of what happened that day, and in the lead-up to the attack. While two Republicans sit on the nine-member panel, it’s a committee created by a Democratic-controlled

By Barbara Starr, Jim Sciutto, Alex Marquardt, Jeremy Herb, and Katie Bo Lillis CNN Russia has revised its Ukraine war strategy to focus on trying to take control of the Donbas and other regions in eastern Ukraine with a target date of early May, according to several US officials familiar with the latest US intelligence

By Aileen Graef and Ellie Kaufman, CNN The Department of Defense announced Saturday the repatriation of Sufiyan Barhoumi from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba to his native county of Algeria. Barhoumi was cleared for transfer in August 2016, but had continued to be held in Guantanamo while he waited for the US government

By Sam Fossum First lady Jill Biden brought to life the USS Delaware in a commissioning ceremony for the Virginia-class submarine at the Port of Wilmington on Saturday. “It’s difficult to put into words how much it means to be a part of the USS Delaware family. It’s an incredible honor that I take seriously.

By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Anti-abortion advocates had a lot to celebrate this week, including the passage of what a Republican bill sponsor in Kentucky dubbed one of the “most significant” pieces of anti-abortion legislation “in a generation.” Arizona’s Republican governor, meanwhile, signed into law a ban on most abortions after 15 weeks, similar to the

By Chandelis Duster and Priya Krishnakumar, CNN As the nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court has ignited a discussion about the historic lack of diversity on the nation’s highest court, her ascendance has also renewed focus on the absence of Black judges on the federal judiciary’s lower courts. Of the 3,852 people