Politics

By Kevin Liptak, CNN Powerful storms like the ones that tore through parts of the central United States this weekend are the “new normal” in an era of climate change, the top federal emergency management official said on Sunday. Deanne Criswell, the FEMA administrator, said her agency was prepared to bolster resilience in the face

By Daniel Dale A television attack ad from conservative Super PAC Club for Growth Action uses egregiously deceptive editing to build its case that Pat McCrory, a Republican candidate for a US Senate seat in North Carolina, is a “Trump-hater” and “liberal faker.” Facts First: The attack ad dishonestly sliced and diced remarks McCrory made

By Tami Luhby, CNN When President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats temporarily expanded the child tax credit this spring, they repeatedly touted that it would help cut child poverty nearly in half. But that depended in part on the enhanced credit getting to the neediest of American families — those with incomes so low they

By Sonnet Swire, CNN Former White House trade adviser Peter Navarro has refused to comply with a Congressional subpoena for documents related to the Trump administration’s response to the coronavirus, saying the former president ordered him not to, according to a letter Navarro wrote to the subcommittee investigating. Navarro served as one of former President

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN The Department of Homeland Security’s top cyber official on Saturday urged government and private-sector organizations to address a critical flaw in widely used software that hackers were actively using to try to breach networks. DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency ordered federal civilian agencies to update their software. And Jen Easterly,

By Kylie Atwood Each day there has been “more and more convergence” between the US and European allies about the costs that would be inflicted on Russia if they invade Ukraine, a senior State Department official said in a briefing with reporters after Secretary of State Tony Blinken met with G7 allies. “I think we

By Annie Grayer, CNN A lawyer for Mark Meadows says the former Trump White House chief of staff was the recipient of a PowerPoint document detailing ways to undermine the count of the 2020 election but did nothing with it, according to the New York Times. The 38-page document, which is among thousands of pages

By Kylie Atwood, CNN The Biden administration has reviewed military options that could be part of an effort to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, if a multilateral deal between the United States, Iran and other nations on Tehran’s nuclear program is not salvaged, according to administration officials. In October, at the direction of

By Donald Judd, CNN President Joe Biden lamented hyper-partisanship in Washington in his first late-night interview since taking office, saying that while he used to have a cordial relationship with Republicans, “the Big Lie … makes it awful hard.” Biden appeared on “The Tonight Show” on Friday, telling host Jimmy Fallon that “QAnon and extreme

By Marshall Cohen and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN Of the 50-plus defendants who have been sentenced for their role in the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, fewer than half were sent to jail for their crimes. Most received an assortment of lesser penalties, including brief terms of house arrest, a couple years of probation,

By Joan Biskupic, CNN legal analyst & Supreme Court biographer Chief Justice John Roberts wrote a razor-sharp opinion Friday emphasizing that Texas’ abortion law defies Supreme Court precedent and should expose the many state officials who play a key role in the “scheme” to federal lawsuit. But the chief failed to win a crucial fifth

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN A top State Department official traveled to Venezuela this week and met with detained Americans as the Biden administration continues to seek their release, multiple sources confirmed to CNN Friday. Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs Roger Carstens’ quiet visit to the capital city of Caracas represents a significant development as

By Marshall Cohen and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN A federal judge on Friday upheld the Justice Department’s decision to use a felony obstruction law against US Capitol rioters, a major victory for prosecutors who have used the statute to charge hundreds of Donald Trump supporters who were involved in the January 6 insurrection. Several other defendants

By Hannah Rabinowitz, Gloria Borger, Tierney Sneed and Holmes Lybrand, CNN In the weeks leading up to January 6, one of Donald Trump’s campaign lawyers wrote memos outlining how she believed then-Vice President Mike Pence could reject electoral college votes and overturn the 2020 election, including one theory that he could ignore a federal law.

By Fredreka Schouten Just days after launching a bid for Georgia governor, Republican David Perdue on Friday deepened his support of election fraud conspiracies by filing a lawsuit that seeks to inspect absentee ballots from the 2020 election. The lawsuit alleges that thousands of counterfeit or fraudulent ballots were counted in Fulton County, the state’s