National Politics

By Steve Contorno, CNN To take on the herculean task of challenging Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis this fall, Florida Democrats are going with someone familiar over “something new.” For the second time in eight years, Democratic voters will elect Charlie Crist as their nominee for governor, CNN projects, choosing the seasoned veteran over Agriculture Commissioner

By Gregory Krieg, Steve Contorno and Dan Merica, CNN Some of the final pieces of the midterm puzzle came into focus as Tuesday primaries in New York, Florida and Oklahoma locked in key parts of the November election slate. But it was a special election in Upstate New York that provided clearest message yet: The

By Donie O’Sullivan and Brian Fung, CNN Twitter’s former head of security will take part in closed-door briefings this week on Capitol Hill following his explosive whistleblower report alleging serious and widespread security vulnerabilities at the company, according to the group representing him. The expected appearance by Peiter “Mudge” Zatko comes as Twitter faces increasing

By Kacey Cherry, CNN Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to driving under the influence of alcohol in May. Judge Joseph Solga sentenced Pelosi to five days in jail but he will receive credit for two days already served and two days for conduct credit. His remaining one

By Ali Zaslav, Ted Barrett and Clare Foran, CNN Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told an audience in Kentucky on Monday that he expects the outcome of the upcoming midterm elections “to be very, very close either way” in the Senate and that he believes democracy in the United States is on solid ground. McConnell

By Tierney Sneed, Evan Perez, Jamie Gangel and Kristen Holmes, CNN The National Archives told former President Donald Trump‘s legal team in May that it was sharing hundreds of pages of classified material it had retrieved in January with the FBI and other entities in the intelligence community so that an assessment could be done

By Michael Warren, CNN Herschel Walker, the Republican Senate nominee in Georgia, criticized the spending provisions in the newly passed health care and climate law, including money allocated for an urban forestry program which he dismissed as unnecessary. “[A] lot of money it’s going to trees. Don’t we have enough trees around here?” Walker said

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN A group of nine bipartisan senators called on Secretary of State Antony Blinken to immediately designate an American teacher sentenced to 14 years in Russian prison as “wrongfully detained,” a classification that would allow the US government to undertake active diplomatic efforts to secure his release. In a letter Tuesday, the

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN In Washington, Democratic Reps. Carolyn Maloney and Jerry Nadler are two powerful committee chairs: Oversight and Judiciary. Back home in New York, they’re two politicians in their mid-70s trying to avoid much attention as they try not to be the one forced to leave Congress. That has led to relationships fully

By Gregory Krieg and Steve Contorno, CNN The tail-end of the August primary season arrives on Tuesday, with elections in New York, Florida and Oklahoma. New York’s long and messy redistricting process pushed its US House and state Senate primaries back nearly two months, setting up a contentious clash between incumbents, charges of voter-shopping against