By David Wright, CNN Mark Lamb, the sheriff of Pinal County, has filed paperwork to run for Senate in Arizona, entering the unpredictable three-way race for the seat currently held by independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema. Lamb is the first prominent Republican to formally join the primary, which could escalate further with the entry of Kari
Continue Reading By Annie Grayer and Clare Foran, CNN Democratic Rep. Jennifer Wexton of Virginia announced on Tuesday that she has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. The congresswoman, 54, said in a video released by her office that she is “doing well” and “feeling good and staying strong.” “I’ve got a positive attitude and I’ve got the
Continue Reading By David Wright, CNN Bernie Moreno, a wealthy Ohio businessman, has filed paperwork to run for Senate in 2024 and challenge Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown in what’s likely to be one of the most competitive races of the upcoming cycle. Moreno is now the second Republican to officially jump into the race after state Sen.
Continue Reading By Em Steck, Olivia Alafriz and Andrew Kaczynski, CNN After the Michigan Republican Party faced intense backlash for using Holocaust imagery on its social media to oppose what it says are Democrats’ restrictive gun proposals, the new chair of the state GOP party did not apologize — in fact, she doubled down on the party’s
Continue Reading By Fredreka Schouten and Marshall Cohen, CNN First, the Shasta County Board of Supervisors in rural northern California voted to cancel its contract with Dominion Voting Systems, citing public distrust of the company’s machines. Then, the supervisors agreed to shift to hand-counting ballots in future elections after receiving written assurance from one of the most
Continue Reading By Joan Biskupic, CNN Senior Supreme Court Analyst The Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade last June was decades in the making, culminating in a dramatic evisceration of women’s constitutional privacy rights and ability to obtain an abortion. The new controversy over medication abortion, which has burst relatively suddenly on the legal scene, has
Continue Reading By Kevin Liptak, CNN When President Joe Biden was isolating with Covid in the White House last summer, atop the stack of books on his desk was a 320-page paperback: “JFK in Ireland.” The last Irish Catholic president visited his ancestral homeland in 1963, five months before his assassination. He told his aides afterwards it
Continue Reading By Zachary Cohen, Natasha Bertrand and Kylie Atwood, CNN The Biden administration is scrambling to assess and contain the fallout from a major leak of classified Pentagon documents that has rattled US officials, members of Congress and key allies in recent days. The Justice Department is investigating how the trove of highly sensitive documents, which
Continue Reading By Andi Babineau and Jeremy Harlan, CNN Tina Peters — the former clerk of Mesa County, Colorado, and the state’s most prominent 2020 election denier — was sentenced by a judge Monday to home detention and community service after she was found guilty last month of obstructing a government operation. Peters was sentenced to four
Continue Reading By Nikki Carvajal, CNN President Joe Biden signed legislation Monday to end the national emergency for Covid-19, the White House said, in a move that will not affect the end of the separate public health emergency scheduled for May 11. A White House official downplayed the impact of the bill, saying the termination of the
Continue Reading By Kara Scannell and Kristen Holmes, CNN Former President Donald Trump is expected to be back in New York City to face another legal battle Thursday — this time in a civil lawsuit filed by New York Attorney General Letitia James, multiple sources told CNN. Trump is scheduled to sit for another deposition for the
Continue Reading By Jennifer Hansler, CNN The US State Department on Monday officially designated Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich as wrongfully detained by Russia. “Today, Secretary Blinken made a determination that Evan Gershkovich is wrongfully detained by Russia,” State Department principal deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel said in a statement. The designation gives further backing to the
Continue Reading By Sean Lyngaas, Brian Fung and Donie O’Sullivan, CNN Days after the Pentagon announced it was investigating the leak of more than 50 classified documents that turned up on social media sites, dozens of them remain viewable on Twitter. Photos of the leaked documents first appeared on a social media platform called Discord weeks earlier
Continue Reading By Sean Lyngaas, Brian Fung and Donie O’Sullivan, CNN Days after the Pentagon announced it was investigating the leak of more than 50 classified documents that turned up on social media sites, dozens of them remain viewable on Twitter. Photos of the leaked documents first appeared on a social media platform called Discord weeks earlier
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A Columbia businessman and experienced political campaigner said Monday that he’s exploring whether he’s the person to keep Boone County’s state Senate seat in Republican hands
Continue Reading By Annie Grayer and Alayna Treene, CNN House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan issued a subpoena to FBI Director Christopher Wray on Monday for documents as House Republicans investigate the circumstances surrounding a since-withdrawn memo from the bureau’s Richmond field office that focused on extremism in the Catholic Church. This probe, led by Jordan and conducted
Continue Reading By Jennifer Hansler, CNN The US State Department on Monday officially designated Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich as wrongfully detained by Russia. “Today, Secretary Blinken made a determination that Evan Gershkovich is wrongfully detained by Russia,” State Department principal deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel said in a statement. The designation gives further backing to the
Continue Reading By Zachary Cohen, Natasha Bertrand and Kylie Atwood, CNN The Biden administration is scrambling to assess and contain the fallout from a major leak of classified Pentagon documents that has rattled US officials, members of Congress and key allies in recent days. The Justice Department is investigating how the trove of highly sensitive documents, which
Continue Reading By Tierney Sneed and Ariane de Vogue, CNN The Justice Department and a manufacturer of medication abortion drugs asked a federal appeals court on Monday to put on hold a judge’s ruling that could make the drug unavailable nationwide after Friday. The requests, filed on Monday before the US 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, are
Continue Reading The Justice Department is seeking clarification from a federal judge in Washington state about how the Food and Drug Administration should comply with his order ensuring the availability of abortion pills in some parts of the country if a separate judge’s order halting the FDA’s approval of the drug goes into effect on Friday. The
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