Politics

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN The Biden administration will help deliver cyber defense technologies and threat intelligence to US water utilities to try to bolster security for a sector that is often short of cash and personnel to deal with hacking threats, officials announced Thursday. The “100-day” plan to increase cybersecurity resources for some of America’s

By Daniel Dale, CNN The Gateway Pundit, a right-wing website known for peddling conspiracy theories, published another inaccurate article related to the 2020 election on Tuesday — and its false claims were echoed on Twitter by some Republican figures with substantial followings. The saga began with The Gateway Pundit’s initial headline. It read: “**HUGE BREAKING

By Marshall Cohen In the last few weeks, more details about how former President Donald Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election have come to light, specifically about an effort by his campaign to subvert the Electoral College process and install fake GOP electors in seven swing states. The situation is far from self-explanatory. It

By Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, CNN Former North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory said last year that not receiving an offer to teach at Duke University upon leaving the governorship was “blacklisting” and comparable to the refusal to serve Black Americans at lunch counters in the 1960s during segregation. McCrory, who is now running for

By Joan Biskupic, CNN legal analyst & Supreme Court biographer Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer can come across as a bookish government man, captivated by the nitty-gritty of regulations and convinced that Washington, on the whole, works. Ensconced in chambers lined with shelves of antique books on philosophy inherited from an uncle and strewn with

By Kevin Liptak, Phil Mattingly, Jeff Zeleny and Kaitlan Collins, CNN President Joe Biden received a much-needed political opening on Wednesday. But neither he, nor anyone close to him, appeared ready to celebrate it. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement plans were publicly revealed before the White House or the justice himself was expecting it,

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice Stewart Rhodes, the Oath Keepers leader accused of seditious conspiracy to overthrow the Biden presidency, will remain in jail as he awaits trial, a judge ruled on Wednesday. “It is the totality of the evidence showing Defendant’s leadership and strategic involvement in and advocacy for armed and

By Tierney Sneed, CNN Whatever issues Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema have caused for President Joe Biden’s legislative agenda, their records on Biden’s judicial confirmation efforts are a positive signal for the President as he seeks to replace the retiring Justice Stephen Breyer. Neither Manchin nor Sinema has voted against any of Biden’s

By Zachary Cohen and Annie Grayer, CNN Debunked election fraud claims made in Michigan by former President Donald Trump’s legal team ended up in a draft executive order directing the military to seize voting machines nationally, the state’s top election official said on Wednesday. Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson said that she shared the