Politics

By Annie Grayer, CNN House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer has sent a letter to the US Secret Service requesting the visitor logs from President Joe Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, where more classified documents have been found. In the letter, Comer, a Kentucky Republican lawmaker, says there has been a “lack of transparency” from

By Katie Bo Lillis, Kylie Atwood and Alex Marquardt, CNN US officials believe that Russian intelligence officers directed a Russian White supremacist group to carry out a letter-bombing campaign that rocked Madrid late last year, targeting the prime minister, the American and Ukrainian Embassies as well as the Spanish defense ministry, according to current and

By Daniel Dale, CNN Since winning a difficult battle to become speaker of the House of Representatives, Republican Kevin McCarthy has made public claims that are misleading, lacking any evidence or plain wrong. Here is a fact check of recent McCarthy comments about the debt ceiling, funding for the Internal Revenue Service, the FBI search

By Kristen Holmes, CNN Former President Donald Trump will make a stop Saturday in Salem, New Hampshire, ahead of a campaign event in South Carolina, two sources familiar with the plans told CNN. Trump is expected to deliver the keynote address at the New Hampshire Republican Party’s annual meeting. Fox News was first to report

By Hannah Rabinowitz and Holmes Lybrand, CNN Three members of the Oath Keepers and a fourth person associated with the far-right militia group were convicted of seditious conspiracy by a Washington, DC, jury on Monday for their role in the January 6, 2021, insurrection. The four men — Roberto Minuta, Joseph Hackett, David Moerschel and

By Kara Scannell and Lauren del Valle, CNN The former head of counterintelligence for the FBI’s New York field office was charged in two separate indictments Monday for allegedly working with a sanctioned Russian oligarch after he retired and concealing hundreds of thousands of dollars he received from a former employee of an Albanian intelligence

By Steve Contorno and Kit Maher, CNN Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Monday that the state is blocking a new Advanced Placement course on African American Studies because it included the study of “queer theory” and political movements that advocated for “abolishing prisons.” “That’s a political agenda,” DeSantis said at a press conference in Jacksonville.

By Brian Fung, CNN A high-stakes legal battle over social media moderation remains in limbo after the Supreme Court on Monday delayed saying whether it will hear three cases that could decide the constitutionality of Texas and Florida laws letting users sue online platforms for alleged political censorship. The cases — viewed as a bellwether

By Jeremy Diamond, Phil Mattingly, Kevin Liptak and Evan Perez, CNN President Joe Biden was facing the prospect of an imminent federal investigation after the discovery of classified documents at his former Washington office in November — and it was up to Bob Bauer, his personal attorney, to break the news to the White House,

By Hannah Rabinowitz and Holmes Lybrand, CNN An Arkansas man who was infamously photographed putting his feet on a desk inside then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office during the January 6, 2021, insurrection was found guilty on eight counts by a Washington, DC, jury Monday. Richard Barnett, 62, also known as “Bigo,” was charged with eight

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN Siamak Namazi, an Iranian-American wrongfully detained in Iran, ended his week-long hunger strike Monday. Namazi launched the strike last Monday to mark seven years since he was left behind in a prisoner swap that brought other Americans home. Namazi, who has been detained in Iran since 2015, penned a letter to

By Katie Lobosco, CNN The Republican-controlled House has made the Internal Revenue Service a political target after Democrats bolstered the agency with new funding last year. Within the first week of the new Congress, a dozen GOP lawmakers introduced a bill that would abolish the IRS altogether and replace the entire federal tax code with

By Pamela Brown and Gregory Krieg, CNN Cascading revelations about New York Rep. George Santos‘ pattern of lies and deception are putting increased scrutiny on powerful New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, the fourth-ranking House Republican and a vocal supporter of Santos during his 2022 campaign. Stefanik was a key validator for Santos in their shared