Politics

By Kevin Liptak, MJ Lee and Phil Mattingly, CNN As if Democrats needed any more convincing Tuesday’s midterm elections carry enormous stakes, President Joe Biden offered a bluntly dire assessment during a fundraiser last Friday in Chicago. “If we lose the House and Senate, it’s going to be a horrible two years,” Biden told the

By Eric Bradner, Dan Merica and Gregory Krieg, CNN The 2022 midterms have arrived, as voters across the nation decide who will set the agenda in Washington and in statehouses across the country for the next two years — and who will set the ground rules for 2024. The House and Senate, where Democrats currently

By Jeremy Herb, Eric Levenson and Fredreka Schouten, CNN State and local elections officials said Tuesday’s voting in the midterm elections went smoothly overall, with a few isolated problems reported, including in the key swing state of Arizona where issues with voting machines sparked baseless claims about fraud. In Maricopa County, Arizona’s most populous, Republicans

By Shania Shelton, CNN The 2022 midterm elections will decide control of Congress, dozens of statewide positions and ballot measures on key issues in many states. This is a guide by poll-closing time for the notable races — both competitive and not — that are on the ballot. See race ratings for Senate, House and

By Holmes Lybrand and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN In a tense, head-to-head exchange with Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes, prosecutors used Rhodes’ own words from texts, speeches and interviews to suggest to the jury that the militia leader misled them when he testified he was unaware of other members’ activities on January 6, 2021, and was

By Paul LeBlanc and Jennifer Hansler, CNN A US citizen recently died in Ukraine, the US State Department said Monday, the latest known American to die in the country since Russia’s invasion in February. While the State Department did not name the individual, the International Legion of the Defense of Ukraine identified Timothy Griffin as

By Natasha Bertrand, Kylie Atwood and Oren Liebermann, CNN Senior US officials have in recent weeks been urging Ukraine to signal that it is still open to diplomatic discussions with Russia, amid concerns that public support for the country’s war effort could wane with no end to the conflict in sight and neither side willing

By Tricia Escobedo, CNN CNN’s John King has become synonymous with the “Magic Wall,” a touchscreen display featuring a vast array of up-to-date voting data on election night. His incredibly fast-paced breakdown of that data and his breadth of knowledge across the political spectrum has gained the attention of many news organizations, fans on social