National Politics

By Zachary Cohen and Jason Morris, CNN A Republican county official in Georgia escorted two operatives working with an attorney for former President Donald Trump into the county’s election offices on the same day a voting system there was breached, newly obtained video shows. The breach is now under investigation by the Georgia Bureau of

By Clare Foran, Daniella Diaz and Ted Barrett, CNN Lawmakers are returning to Washington after the August recess for a pre-midterm elections sprint when preventing a government shutdown will be their top legislative item, but positioning before voters go to the polls will be their driving political priority. The political environment has shifted in the

By Blake Ellis and Melanie Hicken, CNN Texas state Sen. Eddie Lucio, Jr. has voted for anti-abortion legislation more than a dozen times in the last decade. He was one of the state lawmakers who both sponsored and voted for the controversial “Heartbeat Bill,” which criminalized abortion as soon as a fetus’ heartbeat is detected

By Gregory Krieg, CNN Geoff Diehl, a former state lawmaker endorsed by ex-President Donald Trump, will win the Republican nomination for Massachusetts governor, CNN projects, setting up a showdown with Democratic state Attorney General Maura Healey. Republican Gov. Charlie Baker’s decision not to seek reelection this year upended the Bay State political world, setting off

By Simone Pathe, CNN A lot can change in a couple of months. Democrats now face a midterm environment that looks decidedly brighter than it was in the middle of the summer. There were glimmers of optimism back in July for the party trying to hold on to its narrow Senate majority, in the immediate

By Eric Bradner, Gregory Krieg, Dan Merica, Michael Warren and Jeff Zeleny, CNN The two-month sprint to the midterm elections is set to take place on political terrain that is much less settled than Republicans had hoped it would be, with improving economic news, a raging battle over abortion rights and former President Donald Trump’s

By Mary Kay Mallonee, CNN Leonard Francis, the former military contractor known as “Fat Leonard” who orchestrated the largest corruption scandal in US Navy history, is on the run after escaping house arrest in San Diego by cutting off his GPS monitoring ankle bracelet, according to the US Marshals Service. The escape, first reported by

By: CNN Judge Aileen Cannon released a ruling on Monday responding to former President Donald Trump’s bid for a special master to review evidence the FBI seized at his Mar-a-Lago resort last month. Read the judge’s ruling here: The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2022 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.

By Tierney Sneed, Marshall Cohen, Jeremy Herb and Holmes Lybrand, CNN A federal judge has granted former President Donald Trump’s request to appoint a “special master” to review materials that the FBI seized from Mar-a-Lago last month. The decision, from Trump-appointed District Judge Aileen Cannon, is a significant victory for the former President, who has

By Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden has been celebrating Labor Day in Pittsburgh on-and-off for more than a decade, twice using the city’s parade as a testing ground while he contemplated a presidential run. When he returned to the city Monday, other races were front and center, including Pennsylvania’s increasingly nasty Senate contest. Yet

By Evan Perez and Daniella Diaz, CNN The top Republican on the House Oversight Committee criticized the Treasury Department on Saturday for declining his request to provide banking Suspicious Activity Reports on Hunter Biden and others, according to a press statement. Kentucky Rep. James Comer accused the department of trying to “run cover for the

By Dan Merica, CNN Democrats focused on secretary of state races this year have a warning for their party: If you think the aftermath of the 2020 election was troubling, 2024 could be even worse if we fail to invest in these campaigns. As then-President Donald Trump fumed about his loss following the 2020 election,

By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Editor’s note: This story originally published on September 5, 2022. It has been updated with additional developments. Voters in a small number of states will decide in this week’s midterm elections how those states should handle the abortion issue. Abortion rights have taken on an increased significance and become a top