National Politics

By Priscilla Alvarez and Sean Lyngaas, CNN The Department of Homeland Security and the White House are defending a new initiative to help target disinformation amid fierce criticism from Republicans who cast the effort as overreach and attacked its leader. Last week, DHS announced an interagency team, dubbed the “Disinformation Governance Board,” to coordinate department

By Manu Raju, CNN Chief Congressional Correspondent Last week, Sen. Joe Manchin was angry. The Democratic senator had seen a TV ad run by GOP Rep. Alex Mooney — the Trump-backed candidate in a primary for a US House seat in West Virginia — suggesting that his Republican opponent, Rep. David McKinley, backed President Joe

By Whitney Wild, CNN Federal law enforcement tracked the potential for election-related violence as far back as August 2020, which is earlier than previously known, according to a government report released Monday. The Government Accountability Office said in its report that federal agencies had tracked the potential violence on social media and other websites. Furthermore,

By Kasie Hunt, CNN Where’s the plan? That’s the question at the heart of a deep divide inside the Democratic Party over immigration and the Biden administration’s plan to end Title 42, the pandemic-era policy that allowed border patrol agents to turn migrants back to their home countries more than 1.7 million times. So far,

By Jasmine Wright, CNN Vice President Kamala Harris tested negative for Covid-19 on Monday, the vice president’s spokesperson said in a statement, nearly a week after she tested positive. Harris will return to the White House on Tuesday, her spokesperson Kirsten Allen noted, and wear a “well-fitting mask” while around others for an additional five

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN A year-long Pentagon pilot program found an array of software vulnerabilities at dozens of defense contractors as Russian and Chinese hackers continue to try to steal sensitive data from the US defense industrial base. The goal of the “Vulnerability Disclosure Program” (VDP) is to find and fix flaws in the email

By Sara Murray and Jason Morris, CNN A special grand jury has been selected to hear evidence in an investigation into whether former President Donald Trump and his allies committed any crimes in their efforts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, a Democrat, has been investigating whether Trump

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN In the weeks after the 2020 presidential election, Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose was clear: He had faith in Ohio’s election results and little patience for politicians of either party who make baseless claims of election wrongdoing. “I think it’s irresponsible when Republicans say an election was stolen and don’t

By Paul LeBlanc, CNN The moment CNN’s Sara Sidner arrived in Lviv, Ukraine this weekend, an air raid siren was going off — an alert, she tweeted, that gives “a heightened sense of what it is to be alive and the possibility of random death.” For a better understanding of the environment on the ground,