Politics

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN The US Treasury Department on Thursday designated the Wagner Group, a Russian private mercenary organization heavily involved in the war in Ukraine, as a significant transnational criminal organization, and imposed a slew of sanctions on a transnational network that supports it. The US Department of State concurrently announced a number of

By Clare Foran and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff announced a 2024 Senate bid on Thursday, launching a campaign for Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s seat in what is shaping up to be a competitive Democratic primary. “I look forward to campaigning hard in this race, meeting Californians where they are, and listening to what

By Katelyn Polantz, Kaitlan Collins and Casey Gannon, CNN Former Trump-era Department of Homeland Security official Ken Cuccinelli is testifying before a federal grand jury in Washington, DC, on Thursday. Cuccinelli headed into the grand jury area just before 10 a.m. ET at the federal courthouse, where prosecutors looking at efforts to undermine the 2020

By Natasha Bertrand and Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden is considering making a trip to Europe around the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine next month, two senior administration officials tell CNN. A trip is not yet confirmed, and details have yet to be finalized. But one of the officials said that one

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN The FBI has seized the computer infrastructure used by a notorious ransomware gang which has extorted more than $100 million from hospitals, schools and other victims around the world, US officials announced Thursday. FBI officials since July have had extraordinary access to the so-called Hive ransomware group’s computer networks, FBI Director

By Kevin Flower and Jack Forrest, CNN Video and audio recorded last year during the attack on Paul Pelosi in the San Francisco home he shares with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will be released on Friday, according to the San Francisco Superior Court. The released material will include 911 audio calls, police body camera

By Sugam Pokharel, CNN The United States has announced visa restrictions on individuals believed to be “undermining the democratic process” in a recent election in Nigeria. “These individuals will be found ineligible for visas to the United States under a policy to restrict visas of those believed to be responsible for, or complicit in, undermining

By Jeff Zeleny and Gabby Orr, CNN A fresh family feud is boiling inside the Republican Party. As the GOP begins looking ahead to the 2024 presidential campaign — and following a disappointing midterm election and a disorderly race to elect House Speaker Kevin McCarthy — members of the Republican National Committee are set to

By Nectar Gan, CNN A former graduate student in Chicago was sentenced to eight years in prison Wednesday for spying for the Chinese government by gathering information on engineers and scientists in the United States. Ji Chaoqun, a Chinese national who came to the US to study electrical engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology

By Leyla Santiago and Jack Forrest, CNN Efforts are underway in Florida counties to comply with a law championed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis that requires the approval of books in classroom libraries. Manatee County School District teachers are experiencing “fear” and “confusion” as the district works to implement HB 1467, which requires that books

By Ali Zaslav, Jessica Dean and Nicky Robertson, CNN Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner and Vice Chairman Marco Rubio expressed deep disappointment Wednesday over the panel’s inability to access the classified documents that have been found in the possession of two presidents — a sign of bipartisan frustration over the issue. Warner, a Democrat

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN Cybercriminals hacked employees of at least two US federal civilian agencies last year as part of a “widespread” fraud campaign that sought to steal money from individuals’ bank accounts, US cybersecurity officials revealed Wednesday. In one case, the unidentified hackers posed as tech support, convinced a federal employee to call them

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN A lawyer for a Wisconsin-based political treasurer said Wednesday that officials in embattled New York Rep. George Santos‘ campaign listed him as the new treasurer of several Santos-affiliated campaign committees without his authorization. New filings with the Federal Election Commission on Wednesday afternoon described Thomas Datwyler as the treasurer of the

By Haley Britzky, CNN Criminal charges have been dropped against an Afghan national who served with the US military in Afghanistan and was apprehended after fleeing to the US by crossing the southern border with Mexico. Abdul Wasi Safi, called Wasi, served alongside US special operations forces in Afghanistan as an Afghan special forces soldier