Politics

By Paul P. Murphy, CNN Two leaders of True the Vote, a prominent right-wing group that promotes debunked voter fraud conspiracies, were jailed this week after a federal judge in Texas found them in contempt of court. The group’s president Catherine Engelbrecht and onetime board member Gregg Phillips were taken into custody Monday after defying

By Jeff Zeleny, Chief National Affairs Correspondent Rep. Liz Cheney returned to the campaign trail Tuesday night, receiving a standing ovation more than 1,600 miles from her Wyoming home — and a world away from the Republican politics that have been her family’s lifeblood. She will be leaving office in two months, following a resounding

By Oren Liebermann, CNN A year after a fuel leak sickened families and forced the Pentagon to shut down the Red Hill fuel storage facility in Hawaii, the Navy laid out its nearly 5-year plan to permanently close the World War II-era facility. The Navy intends to remove the remaining fuel from the storage tanks

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter A federal judge based in Mississippi has released a scorching order expressing frustration with the Supreme Court’s Second Amendment opinion issued last summer and ordered the Justice Department to brief him on whether he needs to appoint an historian to help him decipher the landmark opinion. The

By Barbara Starr, Alex Marquardt and Natasha Bertrand, CNN United States and Saudi Arabia have shared intelligence with each other that indicates that Iran may be planning an imminent attack on energy infrastructure in the Middle East, particularly in Saudi Arabia, a US official tells CNN. A Saudi official told CNN that that Saudi Arabia

By Holmes Lybrand Allison Fluke-Ekren, a Kansas woman who led an all-female ISIS battalion in Syria, was sentenced to 20 years in prison Tuesday in a federal courtroom in Alexandria, Virginia. In June, Fluke-Ekren pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to provide support to ISIS, telling the judge she didn’t know that some of

By Whitney Wild, CNN A federal watchdog is accusing the Architect of the Capitol, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump, of ethics violations over an offer to provide tours to “patriots” weeks before the November 2020 election. The inspector general with oversight over J. Brett Blanton, the Architect of the Capitol, found that

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN After the US Capitol attack on January 6, 2021, members of the Oath Keepers met for a late-night dinner at an Olive Garden in suburban Virginia and spent hundreds of dollars on an Italian feast. “ALCON: Going to eat at Olive Garden,” Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes allegedly said to an

By Sonia Moghe, CNN After hinting some charges may be dropped in the foreign lobbying trial of longtime Donald Trump ally Tom Barrack, a federal judge on Tuesday is allowing the charges to stand and the case may soon go to the jury. US District Judge Brian Cogan indicated in court on Monday that he

By Ariane de Vogue, Sara Murray and Tierney Sneed, CNN The Supreme Court declined on Tuesday to block a subpoena for Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham to testify in front of an Atlanta special grand jury investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. There were no public dissents from the order. The South

By Veronica Miracle, Julia Jones and Zachary Cohen, CNN David DePape, the man accused of violently attacking Paul Pelosi last week, entered a not guilty plea Tuesday to all state charges during his initial appearance in court. He also waived his right to a hearing within 10 days at his arraignment at a San Francisco

By Whitney Wild, CNN US Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger said the agency has “engaged in a review” of the incident and said the current political climate calls for more resources for the physical safety of members of Congress, in the aftermath of the attack on Paul Pelosi in San Francisco last week. “We believe

By Zachary Cohen, Annie Grayer and Gabby Orr, CNN The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection is “in discussions” with former President Donald Trump’s attorneys about testifying under oath in the probe, Republican Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, the vice chairwoman of the panel, said Tuesday. Cheney’s comments came days after CNN