National Politics

By Eric Bradner, CNN Former President Donald Trump’s endorsement of J.D. Vance in Ohio’s Republican Senate contest has shaken up the race, scrambling alliances and flipping rivals’ strategies in the final days before the May 3 primary. “It’s created a bit of chaos in the race, and it continues to be a jump ball,” said

By Kaitlan Collins, CNN President Joe Biden will travel to Alabama on Tuesday to visit a Lockheed Martin facility that manufactures Javelin anti-tank missiles, among other weapons being sent to Ukraine, the White House said Wednesday. Javelin missiles are among the most in-demand items for the Ukrainian military as it fights off the Russian invasion.

By Ryan Nobles and Jamie Gangel, CNN Former GOP Rep. Denver Riggleman of Virginia, who has served as a staff member to the January 6 select committee, will leave that position in the coming weeks to begin work with a nonprofit organization in Ukraine. Two sources familiar with the move told CNN that Riggleman’s upcoming

By Kara Scannell, CNN Former President Donald Trump has appealed a judge’s civil contempt order imposing a $10,000 daily fine for failing to comply with a subpoena from the New York attorney general for records tied to an investigation into the Trump Organization’s finances. Trump’s fine went into effect on Tuesday after Judge Arthur Engoron

By Ella Nilsen, CNN US Climate Envoy John Kerry warned Wednesday that world leaders will blow through a critical climate-change threshold unless they dramatically accelerate the transition to clean energy. “Let me be absolutely clear: we’re heading to well over 2 degrees right now — 2.7, or something like that,” Kerry said, speaking at Foreign

By Manu Raju, Melanie Zanona and Lauren Fox, CNN At a closed-door Republican conference meeting Wednesday, House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy gave a full-throated defense of his recently leaked comments where he expressed concern about far-right House Republicans inciting violence in the aftermath of the January 6 insurrection. The California Republican said Wednesday that the

By Gabby Orr, CNN Not since Anthony Scaramucci was fired a mere 10 days into his White House gig has someone fallen out of Donald Trump‘s favor as quickly as David McIntosh. At an April 9 rally in North Carolina, the former President appeared delighted with the Club for Growth chief. “He’s a winner. He’s

By Lauren Fox and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas faced off Wednesday with Republican members of Congress in a series of high-profile hearings that put the secretary and the administration’s immigration policies in the spotlight ahead of the midterm elections. Republican Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas took issue with Mayorkas’

By Kara Scannell, CNN Lawyers for the New York State Attorney General’s Office said they are nearly finished with their civil investigation into the Trump Organization, after taking steps to unravel the real estate company’s assets that they described as being as complex as a “Russian nesting doll.” They still want to search two cell

By Paul LeBlanc and Andy Rose, CNN Oklahoma Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt on Tuesday signed a new law that bans nonbinary gender markers on birth certificates in the state. The legislation, which cleared the Oklahoma state legislature in recent weeks, states: “The biological sex designation on a certificate of birth issued under this section shall

By Ellie Kaufman, CNN A two-star Air Force general will pay more than $50,000 in fines after being found guilty of abusive sexual contact in a military court over the weekend in connection with a 2018 incident, according to a release from the US Air Force. A military judge on Tuesday sentenced Maj. Gen. William