National Politics

By Lauren del Valle and Kara Scannell, CNN Michael Avenatti was convicted Friday of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft for stealing from Stormy Daniels. Prosecutors alleged that Avenatti — who helped negotiate the $800,000 advance for Daniels’ October 2018 book “Full Disclosure” — defrauded his former client by instructing her literary agent to send

By Michael Warren and Alex Rogers, CNN In the Pennsylvania Senate race, one candidate is accusing a rival of having “dual loyalties” to the US and a foreign country. In turn, that rival is charging his opponent with being too cozy with China. But these aren’t candidates from opposing parties. They are hedge-fund executive David

By Kate Sullivan, CNN President Joe Biden on Friday touted the January jobs report that was significantly better than what most economists had predicted, given the rapid surge of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus. “Our country is taking everything that Covid has to throw at us and we’ve come back stronger,” Biden said, speaking

By Clare Foran, Katie Lobosco and Kristin Wilson, CNN The House of Representatives voted Friday to make sweeping investments in American manufacturing and scientific research as well as changes to trade policy in an effort to make the US more competitive on the global stage and counter China’s growing economic influence. Congressional Democrats are searching

By Jeff Zeleny, Kevin Liptak and Phil Mattingly, CNN Politics is never far removed from the selection of any Supreme Court justice, but the political winds are blowing with unusual ferocity around J. Michelle Childs, a federal judge from South Carolina who is among those on a short list to fill President Joe Biden’s first

By Jamie Crawford, National Security Producer An Atlanta-area district attorney investigating former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia expects a special grand jury for the case to see a lot of activity in June and July, according to reporting from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Thursday. CNN reported last week

By Andy Rose and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN A Republican bill that would have overhauled elections in Arizona — including giving the state legislature the power to reject election results — proved to be too much even for state GOP leaders this week. Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers, a Republican, quietly doomed House Bill 2596 on

By Kristin Fisher, CNN Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin encouraged CEOs from more than two dozen of America’s largest defense companies to accelerate hypersonic weapons development during a high-level meeting Thursday. Two CEOs who participated in the meeting said Austin spoke of the matter in urgent terms and described China as a threat in this field.

By Geneva Sands and Sean Lyngaas, CNN The Department of Homeland Security has established a Cyber Safety Review Board to examine “significant cybersecurity events,” a move aimed at ramping up protection of US networks and infrastructure. The board, which will include government officials and outside cybersecurity executives, will assess past incidents and provide recommendations to