Politics

By Maeve Reston and Andy Rose, CNN Three top officials in Texas’ most populous county have asked the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division to send federal monitors to Harris County for the midterm elections to oversee what they view as an effort by Republican state officials to “chill voters’ trust in the election process”

By Bob Ortega, Audrey Ash, Curt Devine and Scott Bronstein, CNN Pop into a meeting of the Board of Elections in Spalding County, Georgia, and it may appear like any other eye-glazing gathering of bureaucrats being led by a no-nonsense chair. “We hang our political hats at the door when we come in and do the

By Gregory Krieg, Jessica Dean, Kim Berryman and Kit Maher, CNN As she window-shopped with friends on leafy West State Street, Jill Walters offered a blunt assessment of the Senate candidates battling it out in the Keystone State. “I don’t really love either of them,” she said here in Media, Pennsylvania, about a half-hour drive

By Sonia Moghe, CNN Former Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin testified on Thursday during the foreign lobbying trial of Tom Barrack, a former adviser to then-President Donald Trump, as the defense tried to knock down allegations that Barrack was acting as a foreign agent for the United Arab Emirates. Mnuchin testified about a meeting with Barrack

By Tierney Sneed, CNN A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected Sen. Lindsey Graham’s emergency request that it halt a subpoena for his testimony from the Atlanta-area grand jury investigating efforts to undermine the 2020 election in Georgia. The 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with a lower court judge in ruling that the

By Tami Luhby, CNN People can now choose their sex marker in their Social Security records, the Social Security Administration announced Wednesday. It’s the latest step in the Biden administration’s effort to be more inclusive of transgender Americans. While people will still need to show documentation to prove their identity, they will no longer need

By Sara Murray, Zachary Cohen and Evan Perez, CNN Prosecutors in Georgia have secured grand jury testimony from two prominent witnesses — former US Sen. Kelly Loeffler and former White House Counsel Pat Cipollone — in their investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in that state, sources familiar with the matter tell

By Hannah Rabinowitz and Holmes Lybrand, CNN Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes was skeptical that then-President Donald Trump would invoke the Insurrection Act in the lead up to January 6, according to new messages revealed Thursday, and was privately preparing to wage his own rebellion led by the far-right militia group. Investigators obtained the new

By Kevin Liptak, CNN The White House says Iranian military personnel have visited Crimea to assist with Russian operations targeting civilian infrastructure in Ukraine using drones. John Kirby, the communications coordinator at the National Security Council, said the presence of Iranian personnel was evidence of Tehran’s direct engagement in the conflict. “We can confirm that

By Betsy Klein, CNN More Americans are getting their Covid-19 updated booster shots, new data show, but Biden administration officials caution the recent uptake is still not enough as the winter months and the threat of new outbreaks approach. Data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention expected to be posted later Thursday

By Dan Merica, CNN After weeks of avoiding the abortion allegations against Georgia Republican Senate nominee Herschel Walker, Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock is putting money behind the accusations that have roiled the key race. Warnock’s campaign released a new television ad on Thursday that highlight the allegations that Walker paid for a woman’s abortion and