National Politics

By Marshall Cohen, Zachary Cohen and Alex Rogers, CNN The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, Capitol Hill insurrection reconvened Tuesday for a hastily scheduled hearing, featuring blockbuster testimony from Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson. Hutchinson has cooperated extensively with the investigation, having sat for four closed-door depositions. She revealed how then-President

By Rachel Janfaza, Ethan Cohen, Melissa Holzberg DePalo, Clara Grudberg and Nicholas Anastacio, CNN It’s primary election day in Illinois, Colorado, New York, Oklahoma and Utah. There are also primary runoffs in Mississippi and South Carolina, and a special election to fill an open US House seat in Nebraska. Among the key races Tuesday are

By Tierney Sneed A Texas state court has issued a temporary restraining order against certain local and state officials, barring them from enforcing a nearly century-old abortion ban in the state. The order will have the effect of allowing some Texas clinics — at least for a short period — to resume the procedure for

By Sam Woodward, CNN The top aide to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows who testified before the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot on Tuesday was a young, fast-rising star in the Trump administration. Cassidy Hutchinson, 26, was a staff assistant at the Office of Legislative Affairs before

By Mick Krever and Jennifer Hansler, CNN The pro-Russian captors of two Americans captured during a battle near Kharkiv, Ukraine, earlier this month are reportedly “willing to negotiate,” one captive’s mother told CNN on Tuesday. Bunny Drueke said that her son, Alexander John-Robert Drueke, spoke in recent days — under duress — with an official

By Gabby Orr and Pamela Brown, CNN Aides to former President Donald Trump were left speechless amid the first half of Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony on Tuesday, acknowledging to CNN that her testimony was “a bombshell” with potentially huge repercussions for Trump. Trump was already bracing for an explosive day of testimony from Hutchinson, who previously

By Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden said Tuesday the discovery of at least 50 dead migrants in a truck in Texas is “horrifying and heartbreaking” and underscores the need to go after criminal trafficking rings. “Exploiting vulnerable individuals for profit is shameful, as is political grandstanding around tragedy, and my administration will continue to

By Eric Bradner, CNN A version of this story appeared in the CITIZEN BY CNN newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. Tina Peters, the Mesa County clerk and Colorado’s most prominent voter fraud conspiracy theorist, is vying for the GOP nomination for secretary of state in Tuesday’s primary. A

By Oren Liebermann, CNN The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade will have “significant implications” for the Defense Department, the Pentagon said on Tuesday, but service members and other Defense Department health care beneficiaries will continue to have access to health care for covered abortions. The decision will affect the readiness of the

By Kate Sullivan, CNN White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Tuesday that using federal lands for abortion services would have “dangerous ramifications,” rejecting calls from several Democratic lawmakers for President Joe Biden to allow abortion providers to work from federal property in states where the procedure is banned. “We understand the proposal is well-intentioned,

By Jennifer Hansler and Kevin Liptak, CNN The United States government took a slew of actions against Russia on Tuesday, sanctioning those whom it says support Russia’s defense industrial base, designating Russian military units for human rights abuses in Ukraine and implementing a ban on new imports of Russian gold. The moves are the latest

By Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden departed the first of his two summits in Europe this week committing with other top world leaders to back Ukraine in its war against Russia “for as long as it takes.” But exactly how long that might be remains an open question — and a source of anxiety