National Politics

By Fredreka Schouten and Kelly Mena, CNN A version of this story appeared in the CITIZEN BY CNN newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. Election officials in Arizona could face criminal charges if a noncitizen registers to vote on their watch. In Iowa, a law enacted last year makes

By Melanie Zanona, CNN House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy heaped praised on former President Donald Trump at a Dallas fundraiser on Monday evening, calling him Republicans’ “secret weapon” and suggesting he could become president again, according to sources in the room. When Trump took the stage at the event raising money for the House GOP’s

By Simone Pathe and Gregory Krieg, CNN Fewer competitive House districts means that some of 2022’s most consequential congressional elections are happening well before November. The real action in many districts is this spring and summer as Republican and Democratic candidates jockey for their parties’ nominations. But some primaries are more interesting than others; either

By Kate Sullivan, CNN President Joe Biden on Tuesday blamed the Covid-19 pandemic and Russia’s war in Ukraine for troubling economic news as he and his administration went on the defensive over mounting inflation and rising gas prices. The President’s speech at the White House was advertised by his advisers as being focused on his

By Alex Rogers, CNN A House panel will hold an open congressional hearing next Tuesday about UFOs for the first time in over 50 years. It will focus on a Pentagon program that was established last year after the US intelligence community released a preliminary assessment on 144 reports of “unidentified aerial phenomena” since 2004

By Kate Sullivan, CNN A bipartisan group of more than 100 mayors on Tuesday endorsed President Joe Biden‘s nominee to run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives as the White House races to garner enough support to get Steve Dettelbach confirmed by the Senate. The group sent a letter from the US Conference

By Daniel Dale, CNN A former Democratic congressional candidate went viral on Twitter over the weekend with a false claim that Tennessee has banned Plan B, a pregnancy-preventing emergency contraceptive known as a “morning-after pill.” Pam Keith’s inaccurate tweet came five days after Politico revealed a February draft opinion in which a Supreme Court majority

By Kaitlan Collins, CNN US officials found Russian President Vladimir Putin muted and subdued when he delivered his Victory Day address on Monday, further obscuring their attempts to ascertain the Russian leader’s ultimate objectives in Ukraine. Officials inside the Biden administration have been contemplating ways Putin could exit his unprovoked war should he choose to

By Sean Lyngaas and Zachary Cohen, CNN The Biden administration is building out a nascent White House office for strengthening federal cybersecurity policy and strategy by hiring a prominent Microsoft executive and a former CIA official, multiple people familiar with the matter told CNN. They are some of the biggest hires yet for the Office

By Kylie Atwood, CNN The US is providing more than $800 million in new humanitarian assistance to the Syrian people to continue helping those impacted by the Syrian war, US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield announced while speaking in Brussels at a conference to support Syria. “This war has been going on for

By Gregory Krieg, Jeff Zeleny and Dan Merica, CNN Another primary day, another test of the force of former President Donald Trump‘s grip on the Republican Party. On Tuesday, a proxy battle over the governor’s office in Nebraska will be decided between a candidate backed by the state’s top Republican, term-limited Gov. Pete Ricketts, and

By Tami Luhby, CNN States are expected to receive a total of more than $100 billion in extra federal Medicaid funds to help them get through the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation analysis released Tuesday. That’s more than double what they are projected to spend on the growth in Medicaid enrollees. The

By Dan Merica and Jeff Simon, CNN If Rep. Alex Mooney wants voters in West Virginia to know one thing about his campaign, it’s that he — not his Republican primary opponent, Rep. David McKinley — is the candidate backed by former President Donald Trump. And Tuesday’s incumbent-on-incumbent primary in a deep red state that

By Manu Raju, Melanie Zanona and Ted Barrett, CNN Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell slightly nudged the door open last week when he said “it’s possible” the GOP could move to ban abortion nationwide. Republicans on Monday quickly shut it. “I don’t think it’s really an appropriate topic for Congress to be passing a national

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice Eighteen national media outlets led by CNN are asking a court to make public secret court filings in former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows’ lawsuit against the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack. The House’s ongoing standoff with Meadows has

By Allie Malloy, CNN White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Monday that the US Food and Drug Administration is “working around the clock” to address the baby formula shortage, as manufacturers say they’re producing at full capacity and making as much formula as they can — but it’s still not enough to meet current