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By Phil Mattingly, CNN The speed and ferocity of financial sanctions being deployed against Russia in response to its invasion of Ukraine are without precedent. Over the weekend, the US and its Western allies took a series of dramatic steps that just days earlier were seen as unlikely. A number of Russian banks will soon

By Daniel Dale, CNN The first two days of the Conservative Political Action Conference featured a parade of speakers who described President Joe Biden as weak and incompetent, Democrats as leftist ideologues and Donald Trump’s presidency as a smashing success. Aside from such subjective assertions, the speakers in Orlando made some objectively false and misleading

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN President Joe Biden’s choice of Ketanji Brown Jackson for the Supreme Court came about like so many of his big decisions: after a long process, with a lot of wavering and discussion, and ultimately landing right where he had been headed from the outset. This is how Biden works. He starts

By Casey Tolan, Curt Devine and Daniel A. Medina, CNN In the years leading up to Russia’s attack on Ukraine, US lobbyists have raked in millions of dollars from Russian banks and financial firms paying to push their interests in Washington. Now, in the wake of the Russian invasion and new sanctions announced by President

By Terence Burlij, Melissa Holzberg DePalo and Ethan Cohen, CNN Voting ends in the first primaries for the 2022 midterm elections in a matter of days. Texas will kick things off on March 1, and the primary process will wrap up more than six months later on September 13 in Delaware, New Hampshire and Rhode

By Tara Subramaniam, CNN The way the conflict in Ukraine has unfolded across social media has made it hard for many people to figure out what’s real and what’s not. Cell phone videos from locals have circulated on Twitter, Facebook and TikTok, but some of the videos alleging to depict the situation on the ground

By Gregory Krieg, CNN The most hotly contested statewide primary in Texas on Tuesday centers on the future of state Attorney General Ken Paxton, the Republican who spearheaded a notorious failed legal challenge to the 2020 election results and, with a slew of corruption allegations hanging over his campaign, is now facing the prospect of

By Katelyn Polantz, Annie Grayer and Holmes Lybrand, CNN The chairman of the Republican Party in Georgia on Friday told the House select committee investigating the January 6 riot that the Trump campaign had directed the party in 2020 to put forward an alternate slate of electors after then-President Donald Trump lost the state’s vote,

By Holmes Lybrand, Hannah Rabinowitz and Casey Gannon, CNN The man photographed carrying House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s lectern during the January 6 riot was sentenced to 75 days in jail Friday after the judge warned about political divisions in the US, pointing to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a cautionary example. “We’re on a dangerous