National Politics

By Zachary Cohen and Holmes Lybrand, CNN Roger Stone, a staunch ally of former President Donald Trump, met briefly Friday with the House select committee investigating the January 6 riot and asserted his Fifth Amendment rights to every question asked, he said. Stone emerged from the deposition after only 90 minutes and told reporters he

By Kate Sullivan, CNN President Joe Biden on Friday pledged to “keep up the fight” to pass voting rights legislation that remains stalled in Congress due to Republican opposition, as he delivered the commencement address at a historically Black university in South Carolina. “I’ve never seen anything like the unrelenting assault on the right to

By Natasha Bertrand, Jim Sciutto and Katie Bo Lillis, CNN Russia has continued to amass new troops near Ukraine’s border in recent days, despite President Joe Biden urging Russian President Vladimir Putin to de-escalate tensions during a virtual meeting last week. More Russian military units have been sent to the border area in recent days,

By Lauren Fox and Daniella Diaz, CNN Trump administration officials made “deliberate efforts to undermine the nation’s coronavirus response for political purposes,” the House Select subcommittee on the coronavirus crisis led by Democrats said in a report released Friday. The committee, which spent months working to interview former Trump officials, said the administration worked to

By Gabby Orr and Manu Raju, CNN Just before Donald Trump took the stage at an August rally in Alabama that was meant to boost GOP Rep. Mo Brooks‘ US Senate bid, the former President ran into one of Brooks’ primary opponents offstage. The previously unreported encounter between Trump and Katie Boyd Britt was described

By Leyla Santiago and Sara Weisfeldt, CNN Tucked away in the back of an office in a Florida strip mall is a tidy storage room filled with hundreds of navy blue t-shirts, hats, flags and even Christmas decor. “We have ornaments,” Tiffany Justice points out proudly, quick to show a version of a Thomas Jefferson

By Oren Liebermann, CNN Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott asserted the Pentagon has no authority to punish unvaccinated members of the state National Guard, joining other Republican governors who have called on Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to withdraw or otherwise nullify the military’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate. In a Thursday letter to Austin, Abbott wrote that

By Ariane de Vogue and Tierney Sneed, CNN The Department of Justice asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to allow a vaccine mandate aimed at certain extra health care workers to go into effect nationwide, marking the first time the justices have been asked to weigh in on a federal mandate the Biden administration put

By Manu Raju, Chief Congressional Correspondent Anger is growing in Democratic ranks over the failure to get President Joe Biden’s sweeping agenda through this year despite unified control of Congress, with their party already bracing for what could be a brutal Election Day in next November’s midterms. Major issues they promised to deliver on, such