National Politics

By Melanie Zanona and Manu Raju, CNN House Republicans are starting to grow pessimistic about their chances of winning a massive majority in the midterm elections, putting some allies of GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy on edge over his future. While GOP lawmakers are still confident they will be able to recapture the House this fall

By Steve Contorno, CNN Fresh off winning his party’s nomination for governor, Rep. Charlie Crist had a sobering message for Democrats across the country: Send money to Florida or you may end up with President Ron DeSantis someday. “It is the Democrats’ last chance to stop him and it’s going to be a lot cheaper

By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN The Michigan Republican Party on Saturday nominated two candidates for statewide office who have denied the results of the 2020 presidential election and would have oversight of the state’s elections if they win in November. Party delegates formally nominated Kristina Karamo for secretary of state and Matthew DePerno for state attorney

By Tierney Sneed A federal judge scheduled a hearing for Thursday to consider former President Donald Trump’s request for a “special master” to oversee the FBI’s review of evidence seized at Mar-a-Lago. In doing so, the court put the parties on notice that she had a “preliminary intent” to appoint the special master, a third-party

By Jim Acosta, CNN Utah independent Senate candidate Evan McMullin has accused a motorist of brandishing a firearm and pointing it at him and his wife as the couple was driving home from a campaign event in April. The allegation is described in a “victim impact statement” filed by McMullin in the District Court for

By Jeremy Herb and Annie Grayer, CNN Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines has sent a letter to the House Intelligence and House Oversight committee chairs, saying the intelligence community is conducting a damage assessment of the documents taken from former President Donald Trump‘s home in Mar-a-Lago, according to a letter obtained by CNN. “The

By Steve Contorno, CNN Charlie Crist, the Democratic nominee for Florida governor, has picked as his running mate Karla Hernández-Mats, the head of the teachers union in Miami-Dade County, in a clear sign that he intends to put education at the center of his campaign against Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. Crist announced Hernández-Mats as his

By Daniel Dale, CNN Georgia pastor Raphael Warnock won a seat in the US Senate in 2021 with the help of cheery campaign ads featuring a cute dog. Now Warnock’s Republican opponent in the 2022 midterms, former football star Herschel Walker, is accusing him of lying about the nature of his connection to Alvin the

By Zachary B. Wolf, CNN In order to take the next giant leap for mankind and put a person on Mars, NASA first wants to go back to the moon, 50 years after the last Apollo mission. A spectacular baby step comes Monday with, weather and mechanical issues permitting, the Artemis I mission, as the

By Oren Liebermann, CNN As the war in Ukraine has passed the six-month mark, US and European officials say Ukraine has successfully used a method of resistance warfare developed by US special operations forces to fight back against Russia and bog down its vastly superior military. The Resistance Operating Concept was developed in 2013 following

By CNN staff Former President Donald Trump responded Friday to a judge’s request that he elaborate on his request that the court appoint a “special master” to oversee the review of evidence recovered from the search of his Mar-a-Lago residence. Read the filing below. The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2022 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros.

By Tierney Sneed, CNN Former President Donald Trump responded Friday to a judge’s request that he elaborate on his request that the court appoint a “special master” to oversee the review of evidence recovered from the search of his Mar-a-Lago residence with a 12-page filing that touched briefly on the newly released affidavit the FBI

By Paul LeBlanc and Dan Merica, CNN Doug Mastriano, the Republican gubernatorial nominee in Pennsylvania, posed in a Confederate military uniform in a 2013-14 faculty photo at the Army War College, a picture obtained by Reuters shows. Faculty at the school, where Mastriano worked at the time, were given the choice to dress as historical

By Kylie Atwood, CNN The US State Department has asked Russia to release American citizen Marc Fogel on humanitarian grounds, his family and his lawyer told CNN. His legal team believes the request was made because of his age and his health condition, though the State Department did not provide them with details about the