Politics

By Maeve Reston and Donald Judd, CNN Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, Republicans have whipped up anger within their base over pandemic restrictions, masking and school closures. Now weeks before the midterm election, high-profile GOP candidates are framing a new decision about Covid-19 vaccines for children as the next front in the battle

By Ed Lavandera, CNN Correspondent Voter fraud charges against a Texas man accused of voting illegally in the 2020 Democratic primary were dropped Friday. Hervis Rogers said he waited more than six hours to vote in the March 2020 Super Tuesday primary in Houston, and was the last person to vote at a polling location

By Tierney Sneed and Ariane de Vogue, CNN Sen. Lindsey Graham asked the Supreme Court on Friday to block a subpoena from the Atlanta-area special grand jury investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. The South Carolina Republican filed the emergency request at the high court after the 11th US Circuit Court

By Dan Merica, CNN A series of top Democratic campaigns across the country have released ads with the same surrogate this week: Former President Barack Obama. Ahead of a more forceful return to the campaign trail next week, with trips to four battleground states, the former President has appeared in a range of television, radio

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN An attorney for Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes argued Friday that despite his client’s “rhetoric and bombast,” he never instructed his followers to enter the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, and never activated the so-called quick reaction force the far-right group had amassed in the Washington, DC, area. In one

By Matt Egan, CNN President Joe Biden took a victory lap on Friday for the biggest one-year drop in the federal deficit in American history. That’s despite the fact that deficits remain historically high and all of the record-breaking $1.4 trillion deficit drop is driven by the fact that emergency Covid spending has lapsed. Hours

By Holmes Lybrand A January 6 rioter who carried two loaded handguns onto US Capitol grounds during the insurrection was sentenced to 60 months in jail on Friday after pleading guilty to assaulting an officer that day and unlawfully carrying a firearm. Mark Mazza, 56, entered the Capitol grounds armed with two handguns, one of

By Maegan Vazquez and Phil Mattingly, CNN President Joe Biden on Friday gave a window into how he’s preparing for a looming political showdown over the debt ceiling, stating unequivocally that he will not relent to Republican lawmakers threatening to send the nation into default if he doesn’t meet their demands, but adding that he

By Melissa DePalo and Ethan Cohen, CNN More than 5.8 million ballots have been cast across 39 states in the 2022 midterm elections, according to data from election officials, Edison Research and Catalist. In the battleground states of Arizona and Pennsylvania, Democrats are far outpacing Republicans in pre-election ballots cast, according to data from Catalist,

The House January 6 select committee announced on Friday that it has officially sent a subpoena to former President Donald Trump. The committee issued the subpoena to try to compel Trump to sit for a deposition under oath and to provide documents. Read it here: The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2022 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner

By Shania Shelton, CNN Documents containing highly sensitive intelligence about Iran and China were among those recovered by the FBI from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, The Washington Post reported on Friday. Disclosure of the documents’ contents could expose US intelligence-gathering methods, people familiar with the matter told the Post. At least one of

By Kylie Atwood, CNN Top British, French and German diplomats wrote to the UN Secretary General on Friday urging the UN to investigate Iran’s transfer of drones to Russia, given their conclusion that the transfer violates a UN Security Council resolution which restricts certain arms transfers to or from Iran, according to a letter reviewed

By Denise Royal and Leyla Santiago, CNN A Florida judge on Friday dismissed the case of a Miami man who was arrested on charges related to election fraud in August, saying state prosecutors acted beyond their authority. Robert Wood, 56, was charged with lying on voter forms and illegally voting. He is one of more