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Democrats in Texas confront twin challenges of pandemic and restrictive new voting law

February 26, 2022 12:22 PM CNN Newsource

By Eric Bradner, CNN When Texas kicks off the 2022 election calendar with its primaries on Tuesday, the state will offer the first glimpse at how…

Inside the Biden administration’s monthslong effort to build a multi-country coalition to sanction Russia

February 26, 2022 11:13 AM CNN

CNN By Phil Mattingly, CNN Last October, as alarm spread through President Joe Biden‘s national security team over classified intelligence that…

Inside the months of work that allowed the US and its allies to turn Russia into a financial pariah overnight

February 26, 2022 11:13 AM CNN Newsource

By Phil Mattingly, CNN The speed and ferocity of financial sanctions being deployed against Russia in response to its invasion of Ukraine are without…

Fact-checking the first two days of CPAC

February 26, 2022 10:00 AM CNN Newsource

By Daniel Dale, CNN The first two days of the Conservative Political Action Conference featured a parade of speakers who described President Joe…

Biden seriously weighing whether to support expelling Russia from SWIFT

February 26, 2022 9:33 AM CNN

CNN, CNNBUSINESS By Kaitlan Collins, Phil Mattingly and Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden is seriously weighing whether to support expelling…

White House and EU nations announce expulsion of ‘selected Russian banks’ from SWIFT

February 26, 2022 9:33 AM CNN Newsource

By Kaitlan Collins, Phil Mattingly, Kevin Liptak and Donald Judd, CNN The White House, along with France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom and…

Inside Biden’s decision to pick Ketanji Brown Jackson for Supreme Court

February 26, 2022 7:49 AM CNN Newsource

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN President Joe Biden’s choice of Ketanji Brown Jackson for the Supreme Court came about like so many of his big…

US lobbying firms rush to cut ties with Russian businesses hit with sanctions

February 26, 2022 6:05 AM CNN Newsource

By Casey Tolan, Curt Devine and Daniel A. Medina, CNN In the years leading up to Russia’s attack on Ukraine, US lobbyists have raked in…

A roadmap to the 2022 midterm elections

February 26, 2022 3:00 AM CNN Newsource

By Terence Burlij, Melissa Holzberg DePalo and Ethan Cohen, CNN Voting ends in the first primaries for the 2022 midterm elections in a matter of…

Fact-checking fake videos of Ukraine conflict

February 26, 2022 1:00 AM CNN Newsource

By Tara Subramaniam, CNN The way the conflict in Ukraine has unfolded across social media has made it hard for many people to figure out what’s…

Fact-checking fake videos of Ukraine conflict

February 26, 2022 1:00 AM CNN

CNN By Tara Subramaniam, CNN The way the conflict in Ukraine has unfolded across social media has made it hard for many people to figure out…

Texas Republicans could be headed for a runoff in heated attorney general primary

February 25, 2022 6:34 PM CNN Newsource

By Gregory Krieg, CNN The most hotly contested statewide primary in Texas on Tuesday centers on the future of state Attorney General Ken Paxton, the…

Georgia GOP chair tells January 6 committee that Trump campaign directed alternate elector effort

February 25, 2022 6:08 PM CNN Newsource

By Katelyn Polantz, Annie Grayer and Holmes Lybrand, CNN The chairman of the Republican Party in Georgia on Friday told the House select committee…

CPAC speakers seek to set themselves apart as they condemn Putin

February 25, 2022 5:23 PM CNN Newsource

By Gabby Orr and Steve Contorno, CNN Despite its Trump-loving crowd, the annual Conservative Political Action Conference became a venue this week for…

Fundraisers and rent payments: Federal political spending at Trump businesses topped $1.4 million in his first year out of office

February 25, 2022 4:00 PM CNN Newsource

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN Federal political committees spent more than $1.4 million at Donald Trump’s businesses last year, a new tally shows…

Ukrainian staff of US Embassy in Kyiv ask State Department for urgent help

February 25, 2022 3:42 PM CNN Newsource

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN Ukrainian staff of the US Embassy in Kyiv are asking the State Department for urgent help as their country comes under…

The difference Ketanji Brown Jackson may make on the conservative-dominated Supreme Court

February 25, 2022 2:46 PM CNN Newsource

By Joan Biskupic, CNN legal analyst & Supreme Court biographer The Supreme Court is transforming the law in America, rolling back a half century…

US to impose sanctions on Putin following Ukraine invasion

February 25, 2022 12:56 PM CNN Newsource

By Phil Mattingly and Jeremy Herb, CNN The US will impose sanctions on Russian President Vladimir Putin, the White House announced Friday. The…

Biden nominates Ketanji Brown Jackson to be first Black woman to sit on Supreme Court

February 25, 2022 1:19 PM CNN

CNN By Jake Tapper, Ariane de Vogue, Jeff Zeleny, Betsy Klein and Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson to the…

Judge warns of US divisions and cites Russia’s attack on Ukraine while sentencing Capitol riot defendant

February 25, 2022 12:42 PM CNN Newsource

By Holmes Lybrand, Hannah Rabinowitz and Casey Gannon, CNN The man photographed carrying House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s lectern during the…

NATO Response Force activated for first time

February 25, 2022 11:15 AM CNN Newsource

By Barbara Starr and Jeremy Herb, CNN For the first time ever, the NATO Response Force has been activated as a defensive measure in response to…

Republicans attack Biden Supreme Court pick as pawn of ‘radical Left’

February 25, 2022 10:57 AM CNN Newsource

By Alex Rogers, CNN Senate Republicans have launched their attacks on Ketanji Brown Jackson, Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee, before the…

Ketanji Brown Jackson’s path to the Supreme Court

February 25, 2022 10:02 AM CNN Newsource

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter As President Joe Biden rifled through binders filled with pages of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s…

House January 6 committee to subpoena Kimberly Guilfoyle after she backed out of meeting

February 25, 2022 9:52 AM CNN Newsource

By Ryan Nobles, Annie Grayer, Zachary Cohen and Katelyn Polantz, CNN The House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol Hill riot tells…

Ketanji Brown Jackson’s path to the Supreme Court

February 25, 2022 9:18 AM CNN

CNN By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter As President Joe Biden rifled through binders filled with pages of Judge Ketanji Brown…

Ketanji Brown Jackson’s path to the Supreme Court

February 25, 2022 9:03 AM CNN Newsource

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter As President Joe Biden rifled through binders filled with pages of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s…

First on CNN: Biden to nominate Ketanji Brown Jackson to be first Black woman to sit on Supreme Court

February 25, 2022 8:26 AM CNN

CNN By Jake Tapper, Ariane de Vogue, Jeff Zeleny and Betsy Klein, CNN President Joe Biden has selected Ketanji Brown Jackson as his nominee to the…

Biden nominates Ketanji Brown Jackson to be first Black woman to sit on Supreme Court

February 25, 2022 7:10 AM CNN Newsource

By Jake Tapper, Ariane de Vogue, Jeff Zeleny and Betsy Klein, CNN President Joe Biden nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court on Friday,…

Biden to reveal his Supreme Court nominee on Friday

February 25, 2022 6:44 AM CNN

CNN By Jeff Zeleny and John Harwood, CNN President Joe Biden will announce his Supreme Court nominee on Friday, a source familiar with the decision…

US concerned Kyiv could fall to Russia within days, sources familiar with intel say

February 25, 2022 5:46 AM CNN

CNN By Jim Sciutto and Katie Bo Williams, CNN US intelligence officials are concerned that Kyiv could fall under Russian control within days,…