National Politics

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN A Georgia man who drove cross-country with an assault rifle and threatened to kill House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was sentenced to 28 months behind bars in an emotional hearing on Tuesday. Cleveland Meredith Jr. pleaded guilty in September to sending threatening communications. Though he missed the January 6 rally because of

By Manu Raju and Alex Rogers, CNN Sen. Joe Manchin has a big choice to make — and it’s not just whether to give President Joe Biden’s sweeping agenda a decisive vote of approval. The West Virginia Democrat is weighing whether to run for reelection in 2024 in a state that Donald Trump won by

By Zachary Cohen, CNN The Democratic-controlled House voted Tuesday night to recommend that the Department of Justice pursue criminal charges against former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows for failing to appear for a deposition with the select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. The vote was 222-208. Two Republicans

By Betsy Klein and Kate Sullivan, CNN President Joe Biden on Tuesday marked nine years since the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School by pointing to his administration’s efforts to combat gun violence as Democratic-led efforts to pass tougher gun laws have repeatedly failed in Congress. “Twenty precious first graders, six heroic educators, a

By Maeve Reston, CNN The former state employee who is at the center of the controversy over whether South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem intervened to help her daughter obtain a real estate appraiser license testified before state lawmakers on Tuesday that Noem’s daughter was given an extra chance to correct her work so that her

By Jessica Schneider, CNN More than two dozen members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers are being sued by District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine in an effort to recover the millions of dollars the city spent to defend the US Capitol during the January 6 attack. The lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal

By Daniella Diaz, CNN The House voted 219-212 Tuesday to pass Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar’s legislation to create a special envoy to combat Islamophobia, a week after progressives introduced a separate resolution to strip Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of her committee assignments following her anti-Muslim comments calling the Minnesota Democrat a terrorist. The bill would

By Gabby Orr, CNN As former Vice President Mike Pence weighs his future in politics — laying the groundwork for a possible presidential campaign in 2024 and supporting Republican candidates who face reelection next fall — former President Donald Trump said Pence is “mortally wounded” inside the GOP. Video posted to social media shows Trump,