National Politics

By Donald Judd and Maegan Vazquez, CNN The Biden administration on Thursday rolled out free at-home Covid-19 tests that are designed to be more accessible for people who are blind or visually impaired. White House Covid-19 response coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha said the administration will provide more accessible, rapid self-tests to Americans across the country

By Joan Biskupic, CNN legal analyst & Supreme Court biographer For more than a decade, individual Supreme Court conservatives lamented lower court decisions that endorsed gun regulations, as their own court failed to expand a 2008 ruling that said the Second Amendment protects a right to a handgun in the home for self-defense. One of

By Barbara Starr and Oren Liebermann, CNN The Biden administration on Thursday announced an additional $450 million in military aid for Ukraine, with the US giving the war-stricken country four more multiple launch rocket systems and artillery ammunition for other systems. The package, which will be drawn from existing Defense Department stocks, also includes 18

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter While Justice Clarence Thomas spent 63 pages in a 6-3 majority opinion Thursday painstakingly explaining the court’s reasons for striking down a New York conceal carry gun law and changing the way judges will analyze a host of other gun regulations going forward, his colleague Samuel Alito

By Tierney Sneed Justice Clarence Thomas opened the floodgates for all sorts of gun safety laws to be challenged in federal court. The 6-3 Supreme Court decision striking down a type of gun carry restriction embraced by only six states, will have the effect of making all sorts of regulations all across the country vulnerable

By Kaitlan Collins, CNN Several of Donald Trump‘s closest allies sat for interviews with a British filmmaker during his final weeks as president after being assured they had editorial input over the final product, according to two people familiar with the situation, a claim the filmmaker’s team has denied. Multiple people said they had been

By Tierney Sneed, Ariane de Vogue and Chandelis Duster, CNN The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled in favor of a death row inmate in Georgia who is challenging the state’s lethal injection protocol and seeks to die by firing squad — a method not currently authorized in the state. The court said the inmate could

By Ariane de Vogue and Tierney Sneed, CNN The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a New York gun law enacted more than a century ago that places restrictions on carrying a concealed handgun outside the home — an opinion marking the widest expansion of gun rights in a decade. “Because the State of New

By Tierney Sneed and Ariane de Vogue, CNN The Supreme Court limited the ability to enforce Miranda rights in a ruling Thursday that said that suspects who are not warned about their right to remain silent cannot sue a police officer for damages under federal civil rights law even if the evidence was ultimately used

By Tierney Sneed and Ariane de Vogue, CNN The Supreme Court said on Thursday that two Republican leaders of North Carolina’s legislature could step in to defend the state’s voter ID law even though the state’s attorney general, a Democrat, is already doing so. The opinion will make it easier for other state government officials