Politics

By Melanie Zanona, CNN GOP Sen. Rick Scott of Florida faced intense backlash from Democrats and members of his own party for proposing a legislative agenda. House Republicans, however, aren’t worried about opening themselves up to potential attacks as they prepare to unveil an official policy platform. “The difference between us and Rick Scott: Rick

By Ryan Nobles, Annie Grayer, Zachary Cohen and Jamie Gangel, CNN The House Select Committee investigating the January 6 riot has in its possession more than two dozen text messages, 29 in total, between former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, a conservative activist and the wife of Supreme

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN The United States has indicted four Russian men, including three Russian intelligence officers, for alleged hacking campaigns that targeted hundreds of energy companies around the world from 2012 to 2018, the US Justice Department said Thursday. The indictments cover activity from years ago but underscore Russian hacking capabilities against critical infrastructure

By Kevin Liptak, CNN A day of crisis talks in Brussels ended Thursday with Western leaders touting unprecedented levels of unity, even as they reinforced the now-familiar limits to their approach. Looming over the gathering was the haunting question of what Russian President Vladimir Putin may do to unblock a battlefield stalemate in Ukraine. Leaders

By Maegan Vazquez and Sam Fossum, CNN President Joe Biden on Thursday dismissed the challenge posed by a potential rematch with Donald Trump in 2024, saying he’d be “very fortunate” to face Trump again despite polling suggesting that such a contest would be very close. The remarks are especially notable coming during an emergency overseas

By Jessica Schneider, Ethan Cohen and Tierney Sneed, CNN The Justice Department filed a federal lawsuit against Texas’ Galveston County on Thursday, alleging the redistricting plan for its county government discriminates against Black and Hispanic voters. This marks the third lawsuit the Biden administration has filed in Texas related to voting rights in recent months,

By Annie Grayer and Ryan Nobles, CNN The House select committee investigating the US Capitol riot will consider whether to recommend that two former advisers to former President Donald Trump be held in contempt for not cooperating with its investigation and to refer them to the Justice Department for possible prosecution. On Monday, the committee

By Ella Nilsen, CNN John Kerry, President Joe Biden’s Special Envoy for Climate, told CNN he plans to stay in his current role through at least the next major international climate summit in November. “There’s no plan to do otherwise at this point in time, certainly,” Kerry told CNN Thursday. “I haven’t even thought about

By Kate Bennett, CNN After a two-year hiatus due to concerns over the spread of Covid-19, the White House Easter Egg Roll is set to take place April 18, according to a release from the White House. The Easter Egg Roll is the most popular publicly attended annual event hosted by the White House, which

By Ryan Nobles, Annie Grayer and Alex Rogers, CNN Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama repeated his claim Thursday that former President Donald Trump has personally asked him to work to rescind the 2020 election, remove Joe Biden from office and install Trump in his place. “The President has asked me to rescind the election of

By Marshall Cohen and Katelyn Polantz, CNN Former President Donald Trump filed a sprawling federal lawsuit on Thursday against Hillary Clinton, the Democratic National Committee and 26 other people and entities that he claims conspired to undermine his 2016 campaign by falsely tying him to Russia. The lawsuit names a wide cast of characters that

By Marshall Cohen, CNN Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican running for reelection, is the latest lawmaker to face a candidacy challenge over her actions before the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. The challenge was filed by the same coalition of constitutional scholars and liberal activists who unsuccessfully tried to block

By Eva McKend, CNN Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Wednesday signed a bill that will make hundreds of dollars available to some Georgians in the coming weeks. Passed by the Republican-controlled legislature earlier this month, the legislation uses more than $1 billion of surplus government funds to provide income tax refunds for state residents who

By Ben Kirby and Alicia Lloyd, CNN Hillary Clinton remembered former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright as “a great person and a wonderful friend to me and literally so many others,” in an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour Thursday. Albright died Wednesday at 84 years old from cancer, according to a family statement. “I

By Dianne Gallagher and Wesley Bruer, CNN Debra Meadows, the wife of former congressman and Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows, signed voter forms attesting she resided at a Macon County, North Carolina, mobile home that reports indicate the couple never lived in. On registration forms, both Debra and Mark Meadows indicated their residency at

By Ariane de Vogue and Devan Cole, CNN The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that a Texas death row inmate could have his spiritual adviser pray aloud and “lay hands” on him during his execution, establishing new guidelines that will govern similar requests in other prisons across the country. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the