National Politics

By Ariane de Vogue and Devan Cole, CNN The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that a Texas death row inmate could have his spiritual adviser pray aloud and “lay hands” on him during his execution, establishing new guidelines that will govern similar requests in other prisons across the country. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the

By Rachel Janfaza, CNN Sunrise Movement, the youth-led climate activist group, on Thursday announced its endorsements of Summer Lee in Pennsylvania’s 12th Congressional district, Nida Allam in North Carolina’s 4th Congressional district and Erica Smith in North Carolina’s 1st Congressional district, further bolstering progressive support behind the three Democratic candidates for the US House of

By Allie Malloy, Kevin Liptak and Maegan Vazquez, CNN The United States will welcome up to 100,000 Ukrainians and others fleeing Russia’s aggression, a senior administration official announced Thursday. “To meet this commitment, we are considering the full range of legal pathways to the United States,” the official said, which includes US refugee admissions program,

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. Personal Birth date: May 15, 1937 Death date: March 23, 2022 Birth place: Prague, Czechoslovakia Birth name: Marie Jana Korbelova Father: Josef Korbel, diplomat Mother: Mandula Korbel Marriage: Joseph Albright (1959-1983, divorced) Children: Katharine, 1967; Anne and Alice

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN The Biden administration will soon release a federal regulation that overhauls the US asylum system to settle claims at a faster pace and help alleviate the immigration court backlog. The new rule gives asylum officers more authority by allowing them to hear and decide asylum claims — cases that are usually

By Jessica Campisi and Brandon Griggs, CNN Since the US Supreme Court was established in 1789, 115 justices have served on the bench. Of those, 108 have been White men. Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Biden’s Supreme Court nominee, would help broaden the diversity of the court. Jackson, who is African American, would succeed justice Stephen

By Kaitlan Collins, CNN Four days after Russia invaded Ukraine, President Joe Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan authorized a team of officials to quietly map out potential ways the US could respond if Russian President Vladimir Putin took an extreme step, including deploying chemical, biological or nuclear weapons, a senior administration official told CNN.

By Jasmine Wright, CNN When 16-year-old Samiya Williams first saw Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson standing next to President Biden as he formally announced her nomination in February, she knew that one day she would follow in Jackson’s footsteps. “My dreams have just gotten so much bigger, it seems like overnight,” Williams told CNN in an

By Joan Biskupic, CNN legal analyst & Supreme Court biographer Beyond the hyperbole and theatrics that have punctuated this week’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearings, a portrait of Ketanji Brown Jackson as jurist has begun to emerge. Like the justice she would succeed, Stephen Breyer, Jackson leaned on multi-part legal methods and data points. She emphasized

By Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden is set to gather with world leaders in Brussels, Belgium, on Thursday for emergency summits to respond the war in Ukraine, a consequential visit that comes as the West continues to grapple with how to disrupt Russia’s invasion. During his time in Belgium, the White House says, Biden

By Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden emerged from a series of emergency summits in Brussels touting unity in the Western response to Russia as allies worked behind the scenes to formulate their plans for the next phase of the war in Ukraine. Biden said he supported ejecting Russia from another summit, the Group of

By Andy Rose and Paul LeBlanc, CNN South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem on Wednesday signed a law that further restricts access to abortions through medication in the state, though the measure will not take effect immediately, pending a federal court case. The law, which cleared the state House and Senate in recent weeks, would make