Politics

By Alex Rogers and Manu Raju, CNN Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell didn’t get the candidate he wanted in New Hampshire. He’s seen states like Pennsylvania and Arizona turn into brutal primary fights. And he’s had to deal with the constant barrage of attacks from former President Donald Trump over his leadership. But the 2022

By Betsy Klein, CNN The White House touted a series of positive milestones for the administration’s pandemic response Tuesday as the nation experiences rising Covid-19 cases and concerns about the new Omicron variant. It comes as the US is experiencing rising cases — the highest case count since September — with nearly 60,000 people currently

By Natasha Bertrand, Katie Bo Lillis, Jim Sciutto and Kylie Atwood, CNN The Biden administration is exploring options for a potential evacuation of US citizens from Ukraine if Russia were to invade the country and create a dire security situation, half a dozen sources tell CNN. The contingency planning is being led by the Pentagon,

By Tierney Sneed, CNN US District Judge Carl Nichols on Tuesday set a July 18 start date for the trial of Steve Bannon, the ex-adviser to former President Donald Trump who has been charged with contempt of Congress. The schedule puts the high-profile case front-and-center as the 2022 midterm campaign is full swing, though Bannon

By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Then-President Donald Trump’s blood oxygen level dipped down to a “dangerously low level” hours after he announced back in October 2020 that he tested positive for Covid-19, according to his former chief of staff Mark Meadows. In a new book about his time working in the White House, Meadows says that

By Jessica Schneider, CNN David Schoen has stepped forward to represent conservative firebrand Steve Bannon in his contempt of Congress case after two previous stints defending self-proclaimed “dirty trickster” Roger Stone, and even former President Donald Trump. But Schoen insists politics is not playing into his decision. Instead, Schoen says his three-decade-long career as a

By Jasmine Wright and Jacqueline Howard, CNN Vice President Kamala Harris officially marked the White House’s first ever Maternal Health Day of Action on Tuesday when she hosts a summit with lawmakers, Cabinet secretaries and celebrities, a White House official said Harris issued a nationwide call to action to the private and public sectors and

By Maegan Vazquez, CNN The White House says President Joe Biden told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday that the United States is prepared to launch strong economic measures should Russia invade Ukraine — signaling that these new measures would pack a bigger punch than the sanctions issued in 2014 that failed to stop Russia

By Ariane de Vogue and Paul LeBlanc, CNN A controversial commission set up by President Joe Biden to explore changes to the US Supreme Court concluded in a draft final report Monday that there was “profound” disagreement over whether to add more seats to the bench but suggested more consensus for term limits for the

By Jamie Gangel, Michael Warren and Ryan Nobles, CNN Marc Short, the former chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence, is cooperating with the January 6 committee, a significant development that will give investigators insight from one of the highest-ranking Trump officials, according to three sources with knowledge of the committee’s activities. CNN is

By Natasha Bertrand, CNN President Joe Biden is set for one of the most critical calls of his presidency on Tuesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin, as he gets stark warnings from the US intelligence community that Russia is preparing to invade Ukraine as soon as next month. Amid “deep concern” about Russia’s planning for