National Politics

By Paula Reid and Annie Grayer, CNN Bernard Kerik, the former New York City police commissioner, met with the House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol Hill insurrection for eight hours Thursday. Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat and the panel’s chairman, said the interview began Thursday morning. Kerik appeared virtually for the voluntary

By Dan Merica, CNN The Republican National Committee said Thursday in a letter to the Commission on Presidential Debates that it is prepared to “prohibit future Republican nominees from participating in CPD-sponsored debates” unless the commission makes a number of significant changes to its procedure. The letter, which was first reported by The New York

By Liz Stark The US Energy Department is launching a Clean Energy Corps to help implement the recent bipartisan infrastructure law and develop clean-energy solutions to the climate crisis, the agency announced Thursday. The Clean Energy Corps — which will comprise staff from over a dozen offices across the department — will also seek to

By Delano Massey, CNN The Senate on Tuesday passed a bipartisan bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal posthumously to Emmett Till, a teenager savagely killed in 1955 by White supremacists in Mississippi, and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, who decided to have an open-casket funeral because she “wanted the world to see what they did

By Jeremy Herb, Jennifer Hansler, Alex Marquardt and Kylie Atwood, CNN A senior US official warned Thursday that the “drumbeat of war is sounding loud” following a week’s worth of diplomacy between the West and Russia that wrapped up Thursday. The effort ended without clear breakthroughs over the tens of thousands of Russian troops amassed

By Kate Sullivan, Kaitlan Collins, Betsy Klein, Jeremy Diamond and Paul LeBlanc, CNN President Joe Biden on Thursday announced his administration would make “high-quality masks” available to Americans for free, as the US struggles to contain the new surge of the Omicron variant and hospitalizations from Covid-19 reach new highs. The President also announced his

By Chandelis Duster, CNN The US Army is offering a bonus up to $50,000, the largest amount ever, to some new recruits who enlist for six years in an effort to increase its ranks amid the coronavirus pandemic. “This is an opportunity to entice folks to consider the Army,” Brig. Gen. John Cushing, deputy commanding

By Michael Warren, CNN David McCormick, a Republican hedge fund executive, is running for the US Senate in Pennsylvania, he formally announced Thursday morning. As part of the rollout, the McCormick campaign released a TV ad featuring the 56-year-old speaking directly to the camera from a high-school gymnasium. “I’m Dave McCormick,” he says in the

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of Nikki Haley, former US ambassador to the United Nations and former Republican governor of South Carolina. Personal Birth date: January 20, 1972 Birth place: Bamberg, South Carolina Birth name: Nimrata Nikki Randhawa Father: Ajit S. Randhawa, professor and business owner Mother: Raj Kaur Randhawa, teacher

By Kate Bennett, CNN Melania Trump’s announcement last week that she was autographing and auctioning a hat for personal profit with two other items — for an opening bid of $250,000 — has left even those who know the former first lady well puzzling over her decision. She always viewed the role differently than most

By Tami Luhby, CNN When Pedro Peña lost his job as a restaurant cook at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, he applied for Medicaid to replace his job-based insurance. A diabetic, Peña understood the importance of being covered. But the Miami resident was repeatedly turned down for public health insurance because Florida is among

By Melanie Zanona and Manu Raju, CNN Members of the far right are already agitating to launch impeachment proceedings against President Joe Biden if the GOP is in power in Congress next year. Some leading Republicans want to spotlight former President Donald Trump’s false claims of voter fraud. And key House and Senate Republicans are