National Politics

By Gregory Krieg, CNN Another election day in Georgia has brought a further round of defeats for former President Donald Trump and his chosen Republican candidates. Trump’s politics remain firmly rooted — and deeply influential — in almost every GOP race around the country, but the measure of his personal influence has taken a hit

By Clare Foran, Lauren Fox and Ali Zaslav, CNN The Senate on Tuesday made meaningful progress toward passing the first major federal gun safety legislation in a generation. Procedurally, the legislation still has a number of hurdles to clear in the Senate — it faces two more key votes to break a filibuster and then

By Jeremy Herb, CNN The House select committee on Tuesday unveiled new information showing the role that Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson played in pushing “fake” electors for then-President Donald Trump on January 6, 2021. A Johnson aide texted a staffer for then-Vice President Mike Pence that the Wisconsin Republican wanted to hand-deliver “fake” electors

By Lauren Fox, CNN Congress passed compromise legislation this week on gun safety that is now waiting to be signed into law by President Joe Biden. The compromise legislation on gun safety was unveiled on Tuesday, and is potentially the most significant new federal gun safety measure in decades. It includes money for school safety,

By Zachary Cohen, CNN Ivanka Trump, daughter and former senior White House adviser to then-President Donald Trump, said in an interview filmed in mid-December 2020 that her father should “continue to fight until every legal remedy is exhausted,” according to a source familiar with the footage. Ivanka Trump said in the interview clip, which was

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers delivered emotional testimony Tuesday about his resolve in the face of enormous pressure to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, vaulting the conservative Republican into the spotlight and the center of the national reckoning over the events of January 6, 2021. Back in Arizona,

By Nikki Carvajal and Phil Mattingly, CNN President Joe Biden on Tuesday ratcheted up his public back-and-forth with the US oil and gas industry as he looks to spread around the blame for the nation’s soaring gas prices. After remarks on the authorization of Covid-19 vaccines for children under 5 years old, Biden was asked

By Gregory Krieg, CNN Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar, the lone remaining anti-abortion Democrat in the House, will defeat progressive Jessica Cisneros in a runoff, CNN projects. The Texas Democratic Party announced the results of a recount in the race on Tuesday, which found Cuellar ahead by 289 votes. Cisneros, who also lost to Cuellar in

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN A call between detained WNBA star Brittney Griner and her wife, Cherelle Griner, has been rescheduled, the US State Department said Tuesday, after a “mistake” prevented the couple from speaking on their anniversary Saturday. State Department spokesperson Ned Price said Tuesday that the call “will take place in relatively short order”

By Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden visited a Washington, DC, vaccination clinic on Tuesday where children under the age of 5 are being immunized against Covid-19 — part of the first cohort of young kids to be immunized against the virus following the US Centers for Disease Control and