Politics

By Evan Perez, CNN Justice Correspondent The Justice Department is ending its three-year-old China Initiative, a national security program intended to thwart China’s intelligence activities in the US, including those aimed at stealing emerging technology from research universities, in the wake of a string of dismissals of cases and complaints that it fueled suspicion and

By Clare Foran, CNN Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas on Wednesday offered rare praise for President Joe Biden over sanctions targeting the company behind a controversial pipeline that has become a flashpoint in the intensifying Ukraine-Russia crisis. Biden said Wednesday that he was moving ahead with sanctions on the company in charge of building

By Natasha Bertrand, Kevin Liptak and Phil Mattingly, CNN President Joe Biden said Wednesday he was moving ahead with sanctions on the company in charge of building Russia’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline after blocking such measures last year using a national security waiver. “Today, I have directed my administration to impose sanctions on Nord

By Kara Scannell, CNN Allen Weisselberg, the former chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, has asked a judge to dismiss the tax fraud indictment against him, saying it violates the immunity he was given in the federal investigation into Michael Cohen, a former personal attorney to former President Donald Trump, and that certain charges

By Simone Pathe, CNN The chairman of Senate Republicans’ campaign operation on Tuesday unveiled his vision for the future of the GOP, which was quickly met with a retort from the White House. “I’ll warn you; this plan is not for the faint of heart,” Sen. Rick Scott of Florida, the chairman of the National

By Manu Raju, Alex Rogers and Ali Zaslav, CNN The Missouri Senate Republican race officially began on Tuesday, as the candidates filed their campaigns and quickly aimed their sights on former Gov. Eric Greitens, the apparent frontrunner who resigned in 2018 amid a sex scandal and charges of campaign misconduct. Rep. Vicky Hartzler said Greitens

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN Minutes after President Joe Biden announced new sanctions on Russian banks and elites on Tuesday, a senior FBI cyber official asked US businesses and local governments to be mindful of the potential for ransomware attacks as the crisis between the Kremlin and Ukraine deepens. Russia is a “permissive operating environment” for

By Shawna Mizelle, CNN Ukraine’s foreign minister on Tuesday said that “no sanctions will be enough” until Russian forces leave Ukraine, a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin recognized two separatist regions in the country as independent and announced he would deploy “peacekeeping” forces there. “No sanctions will be enough until Russian boots withdraw from

By Maegan Vazquez and Donald Judd, CNN President Joe Biden on Tuesday pledged that his administration is using “every tool at our disposal” to limit the effect on gas prices in the US of sanctions he announced against Russia, acknowledging that Americans will likely see rising prices at the pump in the coming months. However,