Politics

By Gabby Orr and Melanie Zanona, CNN Former President Donald Trump didn’t plan to invite Alabama Senate hopeful Katie Britt to meet with him at Mar-a-Lago this month. He already had his man in the race — conservative firebrand Mo Brooks — and wasn’t keen on endorsing a second candidate, despite briefly considering it amid

By Jim Sciutto and Katie Bo Williams, CNN US intelligence officials are concerned that Kyiv could fall under Russian control within days, according to two sources familiar with the latest intelligence. The sources said that the initial US assessment from before the invasion — which anticipated that the Ukrainian capital would be overrun within one

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN Frantic to show voters they’ve accomplished more ahead of the November midterm elections, a small group of House Democrats is circulating what it calls a “common sense” agenda of 77 bills they say could quickly head to President Joe Biden’s desk, all with tangible impacts on key issues. Deliberately, the bills

By Annie Grayer, Katelyn Polantz and Zachary Cohen, CNN The Democrat-led House Oversight Committee has indicated to the National Archives it’s expanding its investigation into former President Donald Trump‘s mishandling of government documents after he left the presidency by asking the Archives in a new letter for more information, including the torn-up pieces of paper

By Shawna Mizelle, CNN Former President Jimmy Carter said Thursday that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine violates international law and “threatens security” in Europe and around the globe, joining the other living former Presidents in condemning the Kremlin’s attack on its neighbor. “Russia’s unprovoked attack on Ukraine using military and cyber weapons violates international law and

By Jeff Zeleny and John Harwood, CNN President Joe Biden will announce his Supreme Court nominee on Friday, a source familiar with the decision tells CNN. He informed his choice in a call on Thursday evening, another person familiar with the process said, extending the offer on the eve of the announcement. He is placing

By Jennifer Hansler and Paul LeBlanc, CNN Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky remains a “prime target for Russian aggression,” US State Department spokesperson Ned Price said Thursday evening amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Speaking with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on “The Situation Room,” Price said Zelensky “does, in many ways, represent — even personify — the democratic

By Kristin Fisher, CNN The head of Russia’s space agency says new US sanctions have the potential “to destroy our cooperation” on the International Space Station. There are currently four NASA astronauts, two Russian cosmonauts and one European astronaut living and working on board the orbiting outpost. After President Joe Biden announced new sanctions Thursday

By Jeremy Herb and Phil Mattingly, CNN US President Joe Biden unleashed sweeping sanctions Thursday responding to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s attack on Ukraine that target Moscow’s banking, technology and aerospace sectors, though the US and Europe stopped short of several key steps to target Moscow — and Putin himself. Still, the scale of the

By Alex Rogers and Manu Raju, CNN Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe, a leading conservative Republican and veteran of the Senate, announced on Friday that he will resign in January 2023, sparking a special election this November. “It is bittersweet, but with a clear heart, that Kay and I announce that at the end of the

By Kara Scannell, CNN The abrupt resignations of two top prosecutors investigating former President Donald Trump and his business cast into doubt the future of the long-running probe as the clock winds down on the current grand jury and prosecutors debated whether they have a case. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has been gearing up

By Melanie Zanona and Daniella Diaz, CNN Key Republican voices from across Capitol Hill — who have been coordinating their messaging on the crisis in Ukraine — have been purposely measured in their criticism of President Joe Biden in the immediate wake of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, with top GOP lawmakers deliberately critiquing the