Politics

By Arlette Saenz, CNN Former President Barack Obama announced Sunday that he has tested positive for Covid-19. “I’ve had a scratchy throat for a couple days, but am feeling fine otherwise,” he said on his official Twitter account. Obama also said that his wife, former first lady Michelle Obama, has tested negative. “Michelle and I

By Em Steck, Drew Myers and Sam Woodward, CNN Before jumping into the Republican race for US Senate in Pennsylvania, Dr. Mehmet Oz regularly supported health insurance mandates and promoted Obamacare, taking positions that are unusual for a Republican candidate. A review by CNN’s KFile of hundreds of Oz’s television, radio, print and social media

By Jim Sciutto, Sam Fossum, Kaitlan Collins and Kylie Atwood, CNN Russia has asked China for military support, including drones, as well as economic assistance for its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, according to conversations CNN had with two US officials. The requests came after the invasion, one of the officials said. That official declined to

By Eric Bradner, CNN At gatherings in Washington and Philadelphia this week, President Joe Biden sought to rally Democrats around a midterm message that the party has delivered on its domestic promises. What Democrats need to do, he and other party brass argued, is make sure Americans know what they’ve accomplished. But he also admitted

By Alta Spells and Chris Youd, CNN The Georgia state Senate on Friday passed a bill that prohibits teaching certain concepts related to race and ethnicity in Georgia schools and state agencies. Senate Bill 377 passed Friday afternoon by 32-20, according to a tweet from the Senate Press Office. The bill — which passed along party lines with Republicans in support

By Kylie Atwood, Jennifer Hansler and Jeremy Herb, CNN With Russia’s war in Ukraine now in its third week, US and European officials have little optimism that the diplomatic channels can deliver a way out of the conflict at this point. Talks between Ukraine’s and Russia’s diplomats this week yielded no discernible progress. Supposedly safe

By Geneva Sands, CNN The Department of Homeland Security has uncovered “significant gaps” in its ability to detect potential domestic violent extremist threats within its ranks, citing unresolved issues of funding, training and consistency, according to a report released Friday. DHS officials have repeatedly pointed to domestic violent extremism as one of the most lethal

By Kelly Mena, CNN Thousands of mail-in ballots were rejected in Texas’ most populous county for the March primary because they did not meet requirements set by the state’s new voting law passed last year by the Republican-led state legislature, according to Houston-area election officials. Harris County election officials on Friday announced that of the

By Tierney Sneed, CNN Former Attorney General William Barr on Friday stood by his widely criticized comments before the 2020 election that mail voting was vulnerable to fraud, even as he condemned former President Donald Trump‘s false post-election claims that the 2020 contest had been stolen from him. “I stand by all of that,” Barr