By Dan Merica, CNN The Republican Senate primary in Alabama is headed to a runoff, CNN projects, after none of candidates hoping to succeed retiring GOP Sen. Richard Shelby were able to win more than 50% of the vote. Katie Britt, a former Shelby aide who later led the Business Council of Alabama, and US
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By Eric Bradner, CNN Georgia Republicans have nominated former football star Herschel Walker to take on Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock, CNN projects, in what’s expected to be one of the most important US Senate races of the 2022 midterm elections. Walker, 60, who was urged to run by former President Donald Trump, is a political
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By Gregory Krieg, CNN Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton will win the Republican nomination for a third term in office, CNN projects, defeating state Land Commissioner George P. Bush in a runoff. Paxton, who has been beset by criminal probes and is under indictment, finished first in a four-way March 1 primary but failed to
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By Eric Bradner, CNN Georgia Republicans have nominated former football star Herschel Walker to take on Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock, CNN projects, in what’s expected to be one of the most important US Senate races of the 2022 midterm elections. Walker, 60, who was urged to run by former President Donald Trump, is a political
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Members of Missouri’s first public library union are asking their employer for raises and increased benefits, but where would that money come from?
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Hitachi Energy announced on Tuesday plans to invest more than $10 million in its Jefferson City factory.
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By Fredreka Schouten, CNN Five Republican candidates for Michigan governor could be deemed ineligible to appear on the primary ballot after the Michigan elections bureau found invalid signatures on their nomination petitions. The development could scramble the fast-approaching primary on August 2 and winnow the crowded field of 10 Republicans jockeying for the nomination to
Continue Reading By Fredreka Schouten, CNN Five Republican candidates for Michigan governor could be deemed ineligible to appear on the primary ballot after the Michigan elections bureau found invalid signatures on their nomination petitions. The development could scramble the fast-approaching primary on August 2 and winnow the crowded field of 10 Republicans jockeying for the nomination to
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By Devan Cole, CNN Indiana banned transgender women and girls from competing on public school sports teams consistent with their gender after the state’s Republican-led legislature voted Tuesday to override a veto issued earlier this year by their GOP governor in order to enact the controversial law. Indiana’s House of Representatives voted to override Gov.
Continue Reading By Devan Cole, CNN Indiana banned transgender women and girls from competing on public school sports teams consistent with their gender after the state’s Republican-led legislature voted Tuesday to override a veto issued earlier this year by their GOP governor in order to enact the controversial law. Indiana’s House of Representatives voted to override Gov.
Continue Reading By Maeve Reston, CNN Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger will defeat Trump-backed primary challengers, CNN projected Tuesday — a blow to the former President’s efforts to punish them for refusing to help him overturn the 2020 presidential election results. The losses of election deniers backed by Trump in the Peach
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By Phil Gast, CNN One led the South in a war against the United States. Another objected to welcoming African Americans into White society. All fought on behalf of the cause of enslaving Black people. The proposal announced on Tuesday by a congressionally appointed commission that would replace the names of Confederate commanders from nine
Continue Reading By Shawna Mizelle, CNN Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is being swept into another sensitive political matter, the latest in a series of headline-grabbing incidents for an official whose day-to-day duties typically render the position obscure. The Republican who serves as Georgia’s top elections official on Friday accepted a state judge’s recommendation that Republican
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By Hannah Rabinowitz and Holmes Lybrand, CNN The Justice Department on Tuesday released new videos of a now-infamous meeting between Enrique Tarrio and Stewart Rhodes — the leaders of the two most prominent extremist organizations connected to January 6 — that took place in a Washington, DC, hotel garage just 24 hours before the attack.
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By Marshall Cohen, CNN A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that a post-Civil War amnesty law doesn’t protect future insurrectionists, a legal victory for the liberal activists who have tried to disqualify Republican lawmakers based on their role in the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. The decision from the Fourth Circuit Court of
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By Oren Liebermann, Devan Cole, Barbara Starr and Ellie Kaufman, CNN The congressional naming commission which was set up to remove Confederate names from military bases has unveiled proposals to rename nine bases on Tuesday. The proposed names include women, African-American, Native American and Latino service members, a nod to the diverse ranks the US
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By Tierney Sneed and Katelyn Polantz, CNN An Iraqi national living in Columbus, Ohio, was arrested Tuesday and faces federal charges related to an alleged plot to assassinate former President George W. Bush, the Justice Department announced. Shihab Ahmed Shihab Shihab has been charged with aiding and abetting the attempted murder of a former United
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By Rachel Janfaza, Ethan Cohen and Melissa Holzberg DePalo, CNN It’s election day again with primary races and runoffs taking place Tuesday in five states: Georgia, Texas, Alabama, Arkansas and Minnesota. Senate primaries are taking place in Georgia — a key state in the fight for control of the chamber — as well as in
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By Fredreka Schouten and Kelly Mena, CNN A version of this story appeared in the CITIZEN BY CNN newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. Once-sleepy secretary of state contests are taking on new urgency in the aftermath of efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn
Continue Reading By Jennifer Hansler, CNN A group of more than 80 senators across both parties have committed to expediting the approval of Finland and Sweden’s NATO membership applications in the Senate and called on President Joe Biden to do the same in the executive branch. In the letter to Biden sent Tuesday, the senators also said
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