National Politics

By Chandelis Duster and Suzanne Malveaux, CNN Civil rights leaders are vowing to keep pressure on Congress to pass voting and election bills and to honor Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy, in the face of Senate delays on the legislation. For Martin Luther King III, son of the late civil rights leader who would have

By Maeve Reston, CNN Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs — best known nationally for taking a stand against former President Donald Trump’s claims of election fraud — entered this year’s governor’s race as the prohibitive favorite among Democrats. But her involvement in an employee termination seven years ago threatens to weaken her candidacy in

By Eva McKend, CNN Glenn Youngkin, a former private equity co-CEO who has never served in elected office before, was sworn in as the 74th Governor of Virginia Saturday afternoon; the first Republican to do so in the Commonwealth since 2010. “In this last election, we heard from more voters than ever before, 25% more,

By Dan Merica, CNN If Democrats are going to preserve their Senate majority after the 2022 midterm elections, the race to replace retiring Republican Sen. Pat Toomey represents a crucial offensive opportunity for a party desperate for a sliver of hope. That reality has intensified the pressure on the state’s Democratic primary, with a range

By Maegan Vazquez, CNN The website for the newly established federal effort to distribute Covid-19 rapid tests by mail across America will launch for requests on January 19, but will be limited to four rapid tests per residential household, according to senior administration officials. According to senior administration officials on a call with reporters on

By Zachary Cohen and Curt Devine, CNN Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes has spewed violent rhetoric and whipped up unsubstantiated fears about secret government plots and imminent civil war for more than a decade with the help of another purveyor of extremism: conspiracy monger and internet powerhouse Alex Jones. Jones, who has built a staggering

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN The US believes that Russia’s domestic intelligence agency has arrested the hacker responsible for the May ransomware attack that forced a major US fuel pipeline to shut down for days, a senior Biden administration official told reporters Friday. It appears to mark a rare instance of US-Russian cooperation against a major

By Kelly Mena, CNN Hundreds of mail-in ballot applications are being rejected in some of Texas’s largest counties because of the new voting law passed by the Republican-led state legislature last year, according to multiple election officials. Election officials in Harris County, Travis County and Bexar County say they are rejecting a high volume of

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear an appeal from a high school football coach who was barred from taking a knee to pray on the field after football games. It is the latest religious liberty dispute to reach a conservative majority on the high court

By Lauren del Valle, CNN A former White House adviser to former President Barack Obama pleaded guilty to one federal count of wire fraud for stealing more than $200,000 from a charter school network he helped found and attempting to launder the funds to get a lower interest rate on a mortgage for a Manhattan

By Katie Lobosco, CNN The US Treasury Department warned Arizona Friday that it’s at risk of losing some of its federal Covid-19 relief funds because two of its grant programs prioritize schools that don’t require children to wear masks. If Arizona does not make changes to those programs within 60 days, the Treasury Department could

By Tierney Sneed, CNN As the Justice Department’s January 6 investigation takes a new turn with the use — for the first time in the Capitol attack prosecutions — of the seditious conspiracy charge, the founder of the Oath Keepers and another individual facing the charge made their first appearances in court Friday. The Justice

By Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden was not making a “human” comparison between opponents of pending voting rights bills and historical racists and segregationists in his address in Atlanta this week, the White House says. In his speech calling for new voter protections, Biden asked whether lawmakers wanted “to be the side of Dr.