National Politics

By Tierney Sneed The House’s January 6 committee laid out on Wednesday its most comprehensive view yet for how former President Donald Trump’s conduct up to and during the insurrection may have amounted to a crime. The arguments came in a court filing where a key player in the “conspiracy” alleged by the committee is

By Ali Zaslav and Morgan Rimmer, CNN Democratic Sen. Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico has returned to work full time about one month after suffering a stroke. He was greeted with a standing ovation from his colleagues, and hugs from some Democratic senators when he arrived at his first in-person committee hearing since his

By Kyung Lah, Jeff Zeleny and Rachel Janfaza, CNN Arizona Republican Gov. Doug Ducey announced Thursday he would not be a candidate for US Senate in 2022, ending speculation about whether he would reconsider his previous stance against seeking the party’s nomination to challenge Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly this fall. In a letter to donors

By Clare Foran and Kristin Wilson, CNN The House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday aimed at helping veterans exposed to toxic burn pits. The final vote was 256 to 174, with 34 Republicans joining all Democrats in voting for the legislation. The legislation is called the Honoring our PACT Act, which stands for Promise

By Kevin Liptak, Betsy Klein, Phil Mattingly, Kaitlan Collins and Kate Sullivan, CNN President Joe Biden imposed new sanctions Thursday on eight members of the Russian elite, along with members of their families, as he warned Russia is intensifying its bloody invasion of Ukraine with indiscriminate bombing. The new sanctions are the Biden administration’s latest

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter The Supreme Court said Thursday that the US government can — in the name of national security — shield the testimony of two former government contractors from a terrorism suspect who seeks to use the information in a criminal proceeding abroad. Abu Zubaydah, who the government says

By Tierney Sneed, CNN If a federal judge is ruling against a Biden administration policy, there is a good chance the judge’s courtroom is in Texas. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and conservative groups have launched an unrelenting, and mostly successful, legal war against President Joe Biden‘s agenda on immigration, health care and other issues.

By Andy Rose, CNN Michael J. Madigan, the former speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives, was indicted by a grand jury Wednesday on 22 federal charges related to racketeering, bribery and attempted extortion, prosecutors said. The indictment accuses Madigan, 79, of using his political power to obtain bribes and steer business toward his private

By Katelyn Polantz and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN Searing audio and emotional testimony from the US Capitol Police will be a cornerstone of the first January 6 criminal trial, prosecutors made clear Wednesday on the first day of witness testimony and evidence presentation against a defendant from Texas. In federal court in Washington, prosecutors unveiled audio

By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN South Dakota on Wednesday gave final passage to a bill further restricting access to abortions through medication, the first state this legislative session to impose such a restriction. The bill, House Bill 1318, was proposed last month by Republican Gov. Kristi Noem as she sought to curb access to the abortion

By Geneva Sands, CNN The United States returned several stolen artifacts to France on Wednesday, including five gold bars from a 1746 shipwreck after a decades-long investigation led US federal agents to seize the items from an online auction in California. Seven artifacts were transferred from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations to