National Politics

By Daniel Dale, CNN A 98-year-old World War II veteran, Pete DuPré, played the Star-Spangled Banner on the harmonica before the US women’s soccer team’s final pre-Olympics match, a Monday friendly against Mexico. Then a bunch of right-wing media outlets and commentators invented a false narrative about the American players. The US team’s activism —

By Omar Jimenez and Ashley Killough, CNN When Zalmay Niazy was a 9-year-old boy in Afghanistan, he said, he was playing with some friends one day when a group of Taliban rode into town and demanded that he bring them some bread — or else his family would be harmed. Terrified, he ran home, grabbed

By Gregory Wallace, CNN The way airlines handle extra, optional fees — such as the charges to check a bag or reserve a specific seat — could change under a set of rules being developed by the Biden administration. The rules — requiring faster refunds and upfront disclosure of fees — are under development at

By Ethan Cohen and Gregory Krieg, CNN Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams will be the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City, CNN projects, following the latest ranked-choice count of primary voters, a tally that for the first time included the lion’s share of nearly 126,000 absentee ballots cast. Former Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia

By Eric Bradner, Sara Murray and Ben Krolowitz, CNN Republican candidates in a spate of 2021 races and in the 2022 midterms are increasingly focusing their campaigns on the baseless claim that voter fraud was a rampant problem in the 2020 election. Some GOP contenders are still falsely asserting that former President Donald Trump was

By Jessica Campisi, CNN Republican Gov. Jim Justice issued a stark warning to West Virginians on Tuesday as he urged more of his state’s residents to get a Covid-19 vaccine: “If you’re not vaccinated, you’re part of the problem.” “If you’re out there in West Virginia, and you’re not vaccinated today, what’s the downside?” Justice

By Dan Merica, CNN President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will hold separate events Thursday to focus attention on Democratic efforts to combat voter suppression and protect voting rights nationwide, Democratic officials tell CNN. Harris will announce the expansion of the Democratic National Committee’s “I Will Vote” campaign with an event in the

By Natasha Bertrand, CNN The White House is racing to finalize a government-wide strategy on how to respond to ransomware attacks that will deter companies from paying out ransoms to cybercriminals as the Biden administration grapples with yet another major attack on a US firm by criminal actors believed to be based in Russia. For

By Devan Cole and Oren Liebermann, CNN The captain of the US Navy football team will be allowed to try to play in the National Football League after the US military reversed course on Tuesday and approved his request to delay his service. “Today, I have approved a plan by the Department of the Navy

By Tami Luhby, CNN Maryland is paying its jobless residents pandemic unemployment benefits — including the $300 federal supplement — for another 10 days after the state lost several court battles to end the programs on Saturday. Gov. Larry Hogan, a Republican, announced last month that he was terminating the three pandemic benefits measures on

By Em Steck, Andrew Kaczynski and Drew Myers, CNN Sen. Ron Johnson insisted again last week that he is not a climate change denier, but CNN’s KFile found video of him from just weeks earlier telling a Republican group that it is “bullsh*t.” “I don’t know about you guys, but I think climate change is

By Michael Warren, Em Steck and Andrew Kaczynski, CNN J.D. Vance, a venture capitalist and best-selling author who last week entered the Republican primary for Ohio’s open Senate seat in 2022, apologized for criticizing former President Donald Trump in now-deleted tweets. In deleted tweets first discovered by CNN’s KFile, Vance wrote in 2016 that he

By Annie Grayer, CNN Around 11 p.m. ET on January 6, Rep. Andy Kim was walking around the US Capitol with a trash bag in hand, trying to clean up after insurrectionists ransacked the building just hours earlier, when the New Jersey Democrat came across a plaque commemorating the cornerstone of the Capitol laid by

By Kate Sullivan, CNN President Joe Biden announced on Tuesday that the United States is projected to reach the mark of 160 million fully vaccinated Americans by the end of this week and that his administration will engage in targeted outreach to get more people vaccinated, after the nation fell short of his initial July