Politics

By Erica Orden, CNN Tom Barrack, a former adviser to former President Donald Trump, was charged Tuesday with illegal foreign lobbying on behalf of the United Arab Emirates for what federal prosecutors in Brooklyn described as an effort to influence the foreign policy positions of both the 2016 Trump presidential campaign and the subsequent incoming

By Michael Conte and Nicole Gaouette, CNN The Biden administration has missed a deadline by more than a month to impose legally required sanctions on Russia for the poisoning of opposition activist Alexey Navalny, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said Tuesday. “The administration has yet to impose congressionally mandated sanctions in response

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya said she gave the Biden administration a specific list of targets she would like to see sanctioned as she pushed for the United States and international community to ratchet up pressure on the Lukashenko regime. Tsikhanouskaya, who is in Washington for meetings with senior administration officials,

By Betsy Klein, CNN White House press secretary Jen Psaki acknowledged that there have been prior breakthrough cases among White House staffers in addition to the fully vaccinated official who CNN reported on Tuesday tested positive for Covid-19. “There have been. I will say that we, according to an agreement we made during the transition

By Kaitlan Collins and Brian Stelter, CNN The White House is trying to fix the problem of slowing Covid-19 vaccinations by engaging with an unlikely source: Fox News. The network, which Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch has called the “loyal opposition” to President Joe Biden’s White House, has been a hub for vaccine hesitancy and

By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN The Democratic National Committee has launched a new team that will focus on attracting Black and brown voters in an effort to maintain political power ahead of the 2022 midterms. DNC officials say the Coalitions & Community Engagement department will focus on partnering with organizers in targeted communities to reach

By Betsy Klein, CNN President Joe Biden honored the Super Bowl champions Tampa Bay Buccaneers at the White House Tuesday in a ceremony that featured quarterback Tom Brady cracking a joke about those who continue to deny that the President won the 2020 election. “Not a lot of people think that we could have won.

By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Two House lawmakers are proposing bipartisan legislation they hope will protect those under legal guardianships and conservatorships from abuse and exploitation amid pop star Britney Spears’ fight to end her years-long court-ordered conservatorship. Democratic Rep. Charlie Crist of Florida and Republican Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina on Tuesday unveiled their

By Marshall Cohen, CNN A third member of the far-right Oath Keepers group who stormed the US Capitol in a unified military formation pleaded guilty on Tuesday afternoon and will cooperate with prosecutors, according to court records. Caleb Berry, 20, pleaded guilty in DC District Court to two felonies — conspiracy and obstruction of a

By Kaitlan Collins, John Harwood and Annie Grayer, CNN A White House official and a senior aide in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office, who are both fully vaccinated, have tested positive for Covid-19, CNN has learned. A White House official confirmed that the White House staffer tested positive off campus. “In accordance with our rigorous

By Geneva Sands, CNN The Department of Homeland Security mandated additional cybersecurity measures this week for critical US pipelines, a move meant to protect against ransomware and other known threats months after a crippling cyberattack on one of America’s most important pipelines. On Monday, the Transportation Security Administration, a component of DHS, issued its second

By Betsy Klein, CNN The White House is reviewing whether social media platforms should be held legally accountable for publishing misinformation via Section 230, a law that protects companies’ ability to moderate content, White House communications director Kate Bedingfield said Tuesday. The Section 230 debate is taking on new urgency in recent days as the

By Jeff Zeleny, Chief National Affairs Correspondent Dena Cranley and Barbara Lynch have a blunt reality check for President Joe Biden: His repeated pleas for vaccinations are going largely unheeded and unheard. As Biden asked Americans once again on Monday to get vaccinated to slow the resurgence of Covid-19 cases across the country, the two

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN The United States will begin shipping more than 3 million additional Covid-19 vaccines to certain Central American countries on Tuesday, a White House official told CNN. The US plans to send ship 1.5 million doses of the Moderna vaccine to Honduras and 1.5 million Moderna doses to El Salvador through the

By Lauren Fox, CNN Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer didn’t blink. The Senate is voting Wednesday on beginning debate on a bipartisan infrastructure plan whether the bipartisan group is ready or not. It has enraged Republicans, but behind the scenes, multiple aides tell CNN that the bipartisan group continued “productive” talks well into the evening

By Dan Merica, CNN Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes announced a Senate run Tuesday in Milwaukee, adding yet another name to the already crowded Democratic primary race for the seat. Barnes made the announcement in a video in which he touts his record and pledges to take on issues like climate change, voting rights, health

By Kate Sullivan, CNN President Joe Biden is holding his second full Cabinet meeting on Tuesday to mark six months in office, and is expected to focus the discussion on Covid-19, infrastructure, climate and cybersecurity, a White House official tells CNN. Tuesday will be the first time Biden’s full Cabinet convenes in the Cabinet Room