Politics

By Kevin Liptak, CNN The White House says it will no longer describe a potential Russian invasion of Ukraine as “imminent,” suggesting the word sent an unintended message when officials used it last week. “I used that once. I think others have used that once. And then we stopped using it because I think it

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of Nancy Pelosi, a US representative from California. Personal Birth date: March 26, 1940 Birth place: Baltimore, Maryland Birth name: Nancy Patricia D’Alesandro Father: Thomas D’Alesandro, Baltimore mayor and US congressman Mother: Annunciata (Lombardi) D’Alesandro Marriage: Paul F. Pelosi (1963-present) Children: Nancy, Christine, Jacqueline, Paul and

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Retired Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who served on the National Security Council and emerged as a star witness against then-President Donald Trump during the 2019 Ukraine impeachment, is suing Donald Trump Jr., Rudy Giuliani and former Trump White House staffers, alleging they conspired against him. Vindman, in a new lawsuit

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice The National Archives decided on Tuesday that it will turn over former Vice President Mike Pence’s records to the House Select Committee early next month, after former President Donald Trump said he wanted to keep secret more than 100 documents. This is the first set of records

By Natasha Bertrand, Barbara Starr and Jeremy Herb, CNN President Joe Biden has formally approved the deployment of 3,000 US troops to Poland, Germany and Romania, the Pentagon announced Wednesday, in a move to bolster NATO countries in Eastern Europe with tens of thousands of Russian troops amassed along Ukraine’s border. The deployments to Eastern

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN The FBI is asking US businesses to report any uptick in Russian hacking threats — the latest effort to prepare for potential Russian cyberattacks on US organizations amid Russia’s troop buildup on Ukraine’s border. “Have you identified any efforts by known or suspected Russian [hacking groups] to test exploitation capabilities, develop

By Tierney Sneed The path that took US District Judge J. Michelle Childs to a public honors college in Florida is about as unconventional as the rest of the eclectic professional journey that has now put the South Carolina jurist in contention for a seat on the Supreme Court. She landed at the University of

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter Editor’s note: Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings began Monday. Click here for updates. Six days after President Joe Biden‘s inauguration, White House counsel Dana Remus put in a call to Ketanji Brown Jackson to see if the judge might be interested in a new

By Joan Biskupic, CNN legal analyst & Supreme Court biographer As a 35-year-old assistant US solicitor general, Leondra Kruger stood before the US Supreme Court in October 2011 with a religious liberty case that was an outright loser. The justices immediately pounced on her claim, made on behalf of the Obama administration, that First Amendment

By Donald Judd and Kate Sullivan, CNN President Joe Biden on Wednesday relaunched the White House’s “Cancer Moonshot” initiative, committing the nation to working toward reducing the death rate from cancer by at least 50% over the next 25 years. “We can do this. I promise you, we can do this. For all those we