Category: Politics

CNN  —  Rep. George Santos began his third week as a congressman with an array of questions still swirling around the New York Republican’s personal and campaign finances. He ended the week with even more unanswered questions – after his campaign submitted a raft of changes to federal election regulators, including appearing to install a

Court releases video of attack on Paul Pelosi San Francisco Superior Court released video and audio recorded during last year’s attack on Paul Pelosi after a California court ruled the district attorney’s office must make the materials public. The footage shows the chaos of the moment in which alleged assailant David DePape attacked the husband

Capitol Hill community remembers fallen police officer 03:41 – Source: CNN Politics of the Day 17 videos Capitol Hill community remembers fallen police officer 03:41 Now playing – Source: CNN ‘Mistakes were made’: Pence on classified documents found at his home 02:37 Now playing – Source: CNN Court releases video of attack on Paul Pelosi

Dana Point, California CNN  —  Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel was elected to a fourth consecutive term Friday after winning the support of about two-thirds of the RNC members who gathered here for their winter meeting. McDaniel fended off a stronger-than-expected challenge from Harmeet Dhillon, an RNC committeewoman from California and an attorney who

Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images CNN  —  The Justice Department announced new arrests Friday in a plot to kill a New York-based journalist and human rights activist who is critical of the Iranian government. The three men charged, who are allegedly part of an Eastern European criminal organization with ties to Iran, are facing murder-for-hire and money

CNN  —  A federal judge on Friday delayed the contempt of Congress trial for former Donald Trump adviser Peter Navarro, likely for months, to allow for additional pre-trial debate over the role executive privilege could play when the case goes to a jury. Over the course of a nearly two-hour hearing Friday, US District Judge

Book reveals why prosecutors didn’t charge Trump over hush money payments 02:08 – Source: CNN Politics of the Day 16 videos Book reveals why prosecutors didn’t charge Trump over hush money payments 02:08 Now playing – Source: CNN Court releases video of attack on Paul Pelosi 03:35 Now playing – Source: CNN Manchin: McCarthy didn’t

CNN  —  Twitter and Tesla CEO Elon Musk met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries at the US Capitol in Washington on Thursday evening. McCarthy, leaving the meeting with Musk in his office, declined to comment other than to say: “He came for my birthday.” The California Republican turned 58 on

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 Christopher Wray

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 sanctions meant