National Politics

By Daniel Dale, CNN In the wake of the Tuesday mass shooting at an elementary school in Texas, Twitter users went viral by making false claims about two of the state’s most prominent politicians: Gov. Greg Abbott and Sen. Ted Cruz, both Republicans. False claim about a threat from Abbott’s office On Thursday, a Twitter

By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN Americans’ attitudes toward student debt relief are sharply divided along partisan and generational lines, polling shows — with far less of a divide between those who have a college degree and those without one. President Joe Biden announced last month that he was weighing options to address his campaign pledge to

By Eric Bradner and Jeff Zeleny, CNN Former President Donald Trump and other GOP leaders rejected efforts to overhaul gun laws and mocked Democrats and activists calling for change Friday at the National Rifle Association’s annual convention. The gathering this weekend in Houston is taking place 280 miles east of the South Texas town of

By Annie Grayer and Ryan Nobles, CNN House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy sent a letter via his lawyer to the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, outlining why he will not comply with his subpoena as it stands and delivering a list of demands in order to move

By Holmes Lybrand and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN A January 6 rioter and alleged White supremacist was convicted Friday on all five charges he faced after hitching his case to the claim that he didn’t know Congress met at the United States Capitol. “I thought there were several buildings called ‘Capitol building,’” Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, an alleged

By Sara Murray and Jason Morris, CNN An Atlanta-area district attorney investigating Donald Trump‘s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results has subpoenaed half a dozen officials from the Georgia secretary of state’s office, according to copies of the documents obtained by CNN. The flurry of activity comes as a special grand jury is set

By Marshall Cohen, CNN The jury in the trial of Michael Sussmann, the Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer charged by special counsel John Durham as part of his inquiry into the origins of the FBI’s Trump-Russia probe, will resume deliberations on Tuesday. Sussmann is charged with one felony count of making a false statement to the

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto expressed optimism that “sooner or later, Finland and Sweden will be members of NATO” and said discussions with the Turkish government would continue as Ankara threatens to block the two nations from joining the defensive alliance. In an interview with CNN in Washington, DC, Friday, Haavisto

By Dan Merica, CNN Pennsylvania Senate candidate Mehmet Oz released a video on Friday in which the celebrity doctor calls himself the “presumptive Republican” nominee on the same day counties can begin recounting ballots in the commonwealth’s tight GOP primary. Oz currently holds a roughly 900-vote lead over former hedge fund executive Dave McCormick in

By Kara Scannell A federal judge dismissed former President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the New York attorney general that sought to stop her civil investigation into the Trump Organization. Judge Brenda Sannes said Trump could have raised the same claims in state court. Trump sued last year alleging New York Attorney General Letitia James violated

By Jasmine Wright, CNN Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff on Saturday will attend the memorial service of Ruth Whitfield, one of the victims of the mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, the White House said. The second family will also meet with families of other victims to offer their condolences, a

By Betsy Klein and Kate Sullivan, CNN President Joe Biden on Friday called on this year’s graduating class at the US Naval Academy to be “defenders of democracy” in an address outlining the many challenges the world and the graduates now face, including Russia’s war on Ukraine. The President reiterated his oft-used line that the

By Barbara Starr and Jeremy Herb, CNN The US intelligence community is trying to determine whether North Korea tested a ballistic missile with properties the US has not seen before earlier this week, according to three US officials. North Korea’s launch of three ballistic missiles on Wednesday included one that flew an unusual trajectory, according