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By Jennifer Hansler, Kylie Atwood, Natasha Bertrand, Katie Bo Lillis and Jim Sciutto, CNN US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday that a Russian invasion of Ukraine “could begin at any time,” including during the Beijing Winter Olympics, and the United States continues “to see very troubling signs of Russian escalation, including new forces

By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN Voters begin the midterm year primarily focused on economic issues, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS in January and February. The survey also showed that Democrats are suffering an early deficit in enthusiasm about voting, a dynamic that could be compounded by voters’ concerns over the economy. A

By Annie Grayer and Melanie Zanona, CNN Former Vice President Mike Pence was under immense pressure to overturn the 2020 presidential election when fellow Republicans turned to an under-the-radar source for reassurance: his older brother, GOP Rep. Greg Pence. It was late December 2020, and Greg Pence had just received his Covid shot in the

By Katie Bo Lillis, Natasha Bertrand and Kylie Atwood, CNN For months, the Biden administration has fueled alarming headlines and surprised Washington with a remarkable drumbeat of official disclosures of previously classified intelligence revealing Russian moves as Moscow masses troops on the Ukrainian border. Administration officials tell CNN the disclosures have been carefully coordinated among

By Katelyn Polantz and Laura Jarrett, CNN Reports of former President Donald Trump’s possible mishandling of federal documents found at his Mar-a-Lago resort have prompted legal experts to handicap: Could Trump be charged with a crime? Some were quick to speculate yes, though it’s not clear a former president could be charged by the Justice

By Simret Aklilu, CNN Rep. Liz Cheney on Thursday hit back at critics of the House select committee investigating January 6, saying the panel will move ahead with its investigation of the US Capitol attack regardless of criticism or intimidation attempts. Cheney, writing in a Wall Street Journal op-ed published Thursday, vowed that the committee,

By Manu Raju and Ted Barrett, CNN American consumers are feeling the squeeze from inflation — as are Senate Democrats facing voters in nine months. The Senate’s most vulnerable Democrats are all calling on the Biden administration to do more to address the pain consumers are feeling from the cost of rising goods — and

By Holmes Lybrand and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN A deputy attorney general in Virginia resigned Thursday after Facebook posts resurfaced in which she called rioters who had stormed the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, “patriots” and made reference to the “deep state.” Monique Miles, a now-former deputy for Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares, is the

By Tierney Sneed and Tami Luhby, CNN Republican attorneys general in three states filed a federal lawsuit on Thursday challenging President Joe Biden’s move to raise the minimum wage for federal contractors to $15 an hour. The case — filed on behalf of Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi — argues that Biden did not have the

By Devan Cole, CNN Recent controversies over the certification of the Equal Rights Amendment and improper record-keeping of Trump-era documents have pushed the nation’s chief archivist, whose typical pro forma responsibilities render him unknown to all but the most knowledgeable Washingtonians, into the middle of several high-profile political dramas. David Ferriero, who’s set to retire

By Hannah Rabinowitz and Holmes Lybrand, CNN Mark Leffingwell, a disabled Iraq War veteran who pleaded guilty to punching two police officers in the head on January 6, 2021, on Thursday became the 100th member of the mob that stormed the US Capitol to be sentenced in federal court, according to CNN records. Leffingwell was