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By Lauren del Valle and Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — A New York Supreme Court judge ruled that 2018 communications with adult film star Stormy Daniels should not sideline defense attorney Joe Tacopina from representing former President Donald Trump in his criminal trial related to an alleged hush money scheme to silence Daniels. Daniels’ communications

By Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — The Marine Corps ordered a pause in flight operations following three crashes in the last six weeks, including Sunday’s incident in which an F-35B fighter jet went missing after the pilot ejected. The pause, ordered by Acting Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. Eric Smith, will last two days,

CNN By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom mocked House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s decision to launch an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, describing the Republican majority’s actions as “student government” in an interview with CNN. Still, Newsom told CNN’s Dana Bash on Monday that he doesn’t “love” the use of family

By Jeff Zeleny, Chief National Affairs Correspondent Des Moines, Iowa (CNN) — Donald Trump is testing the resilience of his evangelical support in Iowa, a key constituency that could solidify – or slow – his march to the Republican presidential nomination. The former president’s latest comments on abortion, in which he called Florida’s six-week ban

By Devan Cole, CNN Washington (CNN) — Indiana’s Republican attorney general is facing three professional ethics charges stemming from public statements he made last year about a state doctor he sought to punish for providing abortion services to a 10-year-old Ohio rape victim. In a 56-page complaint filed Monday with Indiana’s Supreme Court Disciplinary Commission,

By Melanie Zanona, Haley Talbot and Manu Raju, CNN (CNN) — Tensions are flaring inside the House Republican conference as it barrels toward a government shutdown, with the infighting spilling out into public view and growing increasingly nasty. “This is stupidity,” New York Rep. Mike Lawler said of GOP hardliners’ demands on spending, prompting the

By Hannah Rabinowitz and Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — A Colorado judge said Monday she hopes to decide by Thanksgiving whether the 14th Amendment’s ban on insurrectionists holding office means former President Donald Trump is disqualified from appearing on the state’s presidential ballot in 2024. Judge Sarah Wallace made the comments at a hearing in

By Shawna Mizelle, CNN Washington (CNN) — The release on Monday of the Americans who were wrongfully detained in Iran ends a years-long saga that included lengthy detentions in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison, which is known for its long record of human rights abuses. Emad Shargi, Morad Tahbaz and Siamak Namazi are among the five

By Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — Hunter Biden’s attorneys are seeking to have his initial court appearance handled remotely over a video link, a federal judge said Monday. A federal magistrate judge asked prosecutors and defense attorneys to weigh in by Wednesday about how to handle the initial appearance for Hunter Biden, President Joe Biden’s

By Kristen Holmes and Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump will skip the second Republican presidential primary debate in California next week and instead will travel to Detroit to deliver a speech to an audience that will include current and former union members, according to a source familiar with his plans. His

By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom mocked House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s decision to launch an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, describing the Republican majority’s actions as “student government” in an interview with CNN. Still, Newsom told CNN’s Dana Bash on Monday that he doesn’t “love” the use of family connections

By Morgan Rimmer, CNN (CNN) — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said that he is not ready to abandon the short-term government funding deal negotiated by members of the House Freedom Caucus and Main Street Caucus, despite warnings from multiple conservative members that they will oppose the deal. “Have they read it? One thing I always

By Kyle Feldscher and Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The Iranian government now has access to $6 billion of their funds to be used for humanitarian purposes as a part of a wider deal that allowed five Americans who had been imprisoned in Iran to go free. The money – which had been held in

CNN By Kyle Feldscher and Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The Iranian government now has access to $6 billion of their funds to be used for humanitarian purposes as a part of a wider deal that allowed five Americans who had been imprisoned in Iran to go free. The money – which had been held

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has long been a pointed critic of former President Donald Trump’s conduct on a January 2, 2021, phone call in which Trump told numerous lies about supposed election fraud and pressured Raffensperger to somehow “find” enough votes to overturn his defeat in

By Melanie Zanona, CNN (CNN) — In 2020, every single Republican who flipped a Democratic House seat was either a woman, veteran or minority. Now, House Republicans are looking to replicate that same playbook in 2024 – when Donald Trump could once again be at the top of the ticket. GOP officials have put a

By Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump plans to ramp up his campaign in Iowa over the next several weeks as he looks to solidify his lead over GOP 2024 field in the state that will hold the first presidential nominating contest, according to a Trump campaign spokesperson.  Trump plans to make

By Marshall Cohen, Katelyn Polantz and Devan Cole, CNN Atlanta (CNN) — A federal judge was skeptical Monday of former Trump-era Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark’s efforts to move his Georgia election subversion case to federal court. The case stems from Clark’s efforts to use his senior role at the Justice Department to help former

CNN Opinion by Peter Bergen, CNN (CNN) — Editor’s note: Peter Bergen is CNN’s national security analyst, a vice president at New America, a professor of practice at Arizona State University and the host of the Audible podcast “In the Room With Peter Bergen,” also on Apple and Spotify. Bergen is on the advisory council

By Jennifer Hansler, Mostafa Salem, Becky Anderson and Rob Picheta, CNN Doha and Washington (CNN) — Five Americans freed from Iranian detention on Monday are on their way back to the United States after initially stopping in Doha, Qatar, according to a US official and a source familiar with the matter. The five, all of

By Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump acknowledged in a new interview that, despite receiving counsel from multiple people that the 2020 election was not stolen, he pushed ahead anyway with his false claims to try and overturn the results. The comments to NBC’s “Meet the Press” directly address a central premise

CNN By Jennifer Hansler, Mostafa Salem, Becky Anderson and Rob Picheta, CNN Doha and Washington (CNN) — Five Americans freed from Iranian detention on Monday are on their way back to the United States after initially stopping in Doha, Qatar, according to a US official and a source familiar with the matter. The five, all

CNN By Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — Hunter Biden sued the Internal Revenue Service on Monday, alleging its agents illegally released his tax information and that the agency failed to protect his private records. President Joe Biden’s son alleges the IRS unlawfully disclosed his tax return information and did not establish safeguards to ensure the

CNN By Jennifer Hansler, Mostafa Salem, Becky Anderson and Rob Picheta, CNN Doha and Washington (CNN) — Five Americans who had been imprisoned in Iran have been freed and are on a flight out of the country, a senior Biden administration official and a Qatari official briefed on the matter told CNN, as part of

CNN, POOL, FOX NEWS, HOUSE TV, ABC’S THIS WEEK By Melanie Zanona and Lauren Fox, CNN Washington (CNN) — House Republicans are moving ahead with a plan to temporarily fund the government while beefing up border security – a proposal that is dead on arrival in the Senate and even faces difficulties in the House,

By Melanie Zanona and Lauren Fox, CNN Washington (CNN) — House Republicans are moving ahead with a plan to temporarily fund the government while beefing up border security – a proposal that is dead on arrival in the Senate and could even face difficulties in the House, raising the likelihood of a government shutdown at

CNN By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump, who paved the way for the undoing of federal abortion rights protections, said that some Republicans “speak very inarticulately” about the issue and have pursued “terrible” state-level restrictions that could alienate much of the country. While avoiding taking specific positions himself, Trump said in

CNN By Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump said that he received counsel from numerous people shortly after the 2020 election but that it was his decision to push the false claim he won the presidency and try to overturn the results. “It was my decision, but I listened to some people,”

By Veronica Stracqualursi, Ebony Davis and Kit Maher, CNN Des Moines, Iowa (CNN) — With roughly four months until the Iowa caucuses, Republican presidential hopefuls spent Saturday courting the state’s conservative evangelical activists, an influential voting bloc in the Hawkeye State. Nearly all the major GOP candidates spoke at the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition’s

CNN, KTRK By Andrew Torgan and Daniel Wine, CNN (CNN) — Today is Constitution Day and Citizenship Day — a time to commemorate the signing of the US Constitution in Philadelphia on September 17, 1787. Take a little time today to familiarize yourself with the Constitution and reflect on the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.

By Kayla Tausche, CNN (CNN) — Senior White House aides huddled multiple times this week to discuss policy options to keep a lid on gasoline prices, officials told CNN, as prices continued rising steadily in recent weeks amid strong economic demand, refinery issues, extreme weather, and geopolitical tensions. In the meetings – which included national

By Jessica Dean and Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — Nick Iarossi, a lobbyist and longtime supporter of Gov. Ron DeSantis, approached the Florida Republican in July with a frank suggestion: Talk more about yourself. More specifically, talk more about your military service. “I literally said, ‘Why haven’t you told anybody,’” Iarossi said. “He kind of

By Whitney Wild and Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — The Republican-controlled Wisconsin State Assembly has voted to change how the state’s legislative maps are drawn – a major shift in strategy as Republicans face the possibility that the new liberal majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court could throw out the current electoral maps, which give

CNN By Katelyn Polantz and Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Justice Department prosecutors want US District Judge Tanya Chutkan to reel in Donald Trump’s public statements in the federal 2020 election interference case against him, asking her to place a court order limiting what he can say, according to a newly released filing. The request

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — The North Carolina man who live-streamed threats in 2021 to detonate alleged explosives in his truck parked on a sidewalk blocks from the US Capitol was sentenced to five years probation Friday after a judge found the man had been suffering from a significant psychiatric episode at the time.

By Katelyn Polantz and Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Justice Department prosecutors want US District Judge Tanya Chutkan to reel in Donald Trump’s public statements in the federal 2020 election interference case against him, asking her to place a court order limiting what he can say, according to a newly released filing. The request for

By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — The senior US general for the Middle East has ordered additional interviews be conducted regarding the 2021 Abbey Gate bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan, which killed 13 US service members during the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, the US military announced Friday. The additional interviews are the result of an internal

CNN By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden remains focused on his work after a week that saw the launch of an impeachment inquiry and the indictment of his son, according to aides, even as the developments pose new challenges heading into next year’s campaign. Hunter Biden was indicted Thursday by special counsel

By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden remains focused on his work after a week that saw the launch of an impeachment inquiry and the indictment of his son, according to aides, even as the developments pose new challenges heading into next year’s campaign. Hunter Biden was indicted Thursday by special counsel David

By Donald Judd (CNN) — President Joe Biden next week will hold his first face-to-face meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu since the Israeli leader came back into office. Biden will meet Netanyahu on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, before hosting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Washington later in the week.

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump made false claims about a variety of people and subjects, notably including Florida governor and Republican presidential primary rival Ron DeSantis, in an interview this week with conservative host Megyn Kelly. Trump claimed that Florida under DeSantis “sort of had a mandate” on Covid-19

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on Friday implored Americans to “own even the darkest parts of our past” in a speech commemorating 60 years since the deadly 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. “History is also our best teacher. Yes, our past is filled with too much violence, too

By Lauren Fox, Morgan Rimmer and Haley Talbot, CNN (CNN) — A chaotic week on Capitol Hill yielded no serious progress as Congress stares down a spending deadline at the end of the month with lawmakers acknowledging a government shutdown is not only possible at this point, but may soon be inevitable. That’s particularly true

By Tierney Sneed, Hannah Rabinowitz and Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — Twitter turned over at least 32 direct messages from former President Donald Trump’s account – @realDonaldTrump – to special counsel Jack Smith earlier this year as part of the federal election subversion investigation, according to newly unsealed court filings. In seeking the messages, prosecutors

By Gregory Krieg, Daniel Strauss and Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — Republican Dave McCormick, a former hedge fund executive and Gulf War veteran, is expected to launch a second bid for US Senate in Pennsylvania, according to two sources familiar with his plans, seeking to challenge three-term Democratic Sen. Bob Casey more than a year

By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s political fate is now in the hands of the state Senate, which began private deliberations in Paxton’s impeachment trial just before noon Central time Friday after House impeachment managers and the attorney general’s defense attorneys delivered their closing arguments. It’s not yet clear when

By Lauren del Valle, CNN (CNN) — Three men were acquitted Friday on all charges against them in connection to allegations that they were involved in a 2020 plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Eric Molitor, William Null and Michael Null were each acquitted on one count of providing material support for a terrorist

By Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — The presidential campaigns of former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will clash out in the open and behind closed doors on Friday as their fight for the future of the GOP intensifies. The two leading presidential candidates are expected in Washington, D.C., for a pair of

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration on Friday imposed sanctions on more than two dozen Iranian individuals and entities tied to the violent suppression of protests following the death of Mahsa Amini one year ago. The new sanctions are the latest tranche in response to Tehran’s brutal crackdown on the protestors who

By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden on Friday called on major American automakers to improve their offer to workers as a strike of the United Auto Workers poses a political and economic test for the White House. Speaking as walkouts began at three plants in the Midwest, Biden said he “respected” workers’

By Katie Bo Lillis and Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — China appears to have suspended its surveillance balloon program following a major diplomatic incident earlier this year, when one of the country’s high-altitude spy balloons transited the United States, multiple sources familiar with US intelligence assessments told CNN. US officials believe that Chinese leaders have

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — Special counsel Jack Smith argued against Donald Trump’s request that US District Judge Tanya Chutkan recuse herself from the federal election subversion case against the former president, saying in a new filing that Trump had taken the judge’s comments in Capitol rioter cases “out of context in order to

CNN By Kit Maher and Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis criticized Donald Trump for claiming he doesn’t know who gave Dr. Anthony Fauci a presidential commendation that the former president awarded him. “It literally says President Trump awards commendation. Is this the immaculate commendation or something like that? Did this just

By Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — A New York state appellate court judge has put the civil fraud trial involving the New York attorney general’s office and former President Donald Trump on temporary hold, raising questions about whether the trial will begin next month as planned, according to three people familiar with the court ruling.

CNN By Melanie Zanona, Annie Grayer and Manu Raju, CNN (CNN) — Facing renewed threats to his speakership, Kevin McCarthy is making a strategic bet: his critics don’t have the votes to oust him – and if they do, he’ll grind it out on the floor again as he did back in January. The speaker

CNN By Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump said Thursday that he discussed pardoning himself in the final days of his presidency but dismissed the option to do so. “I could’ve pardoned myself. Do you know what? I was given an option to pardon myself. I could’ve pardoned myself when I left.

By Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump said Thursday that he discussed pardoning himself in the final days of his presidency but dismissed the option to do so. “I could’ve pardoned myself. Do you know what? I was given an option to pardon myself. I could’ve pardoned myself when I left. People

By Kit Maher and Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis criticized Donald Trump for claiming he doesn’t know who gave Dr. Anthony Fauci a presidential commendation that the former president awarded him. “It literally says President Trump awards commendation. Is this the immaculate commendation or something like that? Did this just happen

By Em Steck and Andrew Kaczynski, CNN (CNN) — In 2019, then-Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy vehemently criticized Democrats for initiating an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump without first passing a budget and securing government funding to prevent a shutdown. Fast forward four years later and McCarthy, now the House Speaker, is pushing

By Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Election officials in key states have recently rejected calls to unilaterally remove former President Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot and are saying courts should decide whether he’s disqualified by the 14th Amendment’s “insurrectionist ban.” The secretaries of state who oversee elections in Michigan, Georgia, New Hampshire and Minnesota

By Melanie Hicken and Pamela Brown, CNN (CNN) — The US Senate has launched a formal inquiry into the Coast Guard’s handling of a secret, yearslong investigation that found rapes, sexual assaults and other serious misconduct at the agency’s academy had been ignored and, at times, covered up by high-ranking officials. Dubbed “Operation Fouled Anchor,”

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — In a campaign speech at a rally in South Dakota on Friday, former President Donald Trump delivered lengthy and detailed criticism of the US economy under President Joe Biden – accusing Biden of deceiving the public on the subject of “Bidenomics.” But many of the economic claims Trump

By Holmes Lybrand and Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — The Department of Homeland Security released a threat assessment for 2024 on Thursday, outlining current and future threats the US faces, including possible violence during the 2024 election season and on the Southern border. In the report, the department said it expects next year’s election to

By Devan Cole, CNN Washington (CNN) — Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito extended a pause Thursday on a ruling that limits the ability of the White House and other key federal agencies to communicate with social media companies about content related to Covid-19 and elections the government views as misinformation. In a brief order, Alito

By Melanie Zanona, Annie Grayer and Manu Raju, CNN (CNN) — Facing renewed threats to his speakership, Kevin McCarthy is making a strategic bet: his critics don’t have the votes to oust him – and if they do, he’ll grind it out on the floor again as he did back in January. The speaker is

By Jennifer Hansler, Kevin Liptak and Melanie Zanona, CNN (CNN) — US President Joe Biden plans to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky next week around the United Nations General Assembly meetings, according to multiple officials familiar with the plans. It remained unclear whether the meeting would occur in New York or later in the

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — Iranian state-backed hackers have targeted satellite, defense and pharmaceutical firms in the US and around the world to gather intelligence and to possibly build out domestic production in those industries amid heavy US sanctions, Microsoft analysts said Thursday. The hackers have since February successfully broken into a few dozen

By Whitney Wild and Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Senate voted Thursday to fire the state’s top elections administrator, Meagan Wolfe – a move that immediately triggered a legal battle over who will oversee voting in one of the nation’s most important presidential swing states as the 2024 election approaches. The 22-11

By Marshall Cohen, Kara Scannell and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, has been indicted by special counsel David Weiss in connection with a gun he purchased in 2018, the first time in US history the Justice Department has charged the child of a sitting president. The three charges include

CNN By Amy Simonson, CNN (CNN) — Surveillance video from a performing arts theater in Denver shows Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert being escorted out of the musical “Beetlejuice” on Sunday after “multiple complaints” from patrons. The Buell Theater surveillance video, obtained by CNN affiliate KUSA, shows officials addressing Boebert and her companion at their seats

CNN By Tierney Sneed and Zachary Cohen, CNN Washington (CNN) — A Georgia judge shut down the effort by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to have all 19 defendants, including former President Donald Trump, to be tried together in October in the Georgia election subversion case. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee announced

By Arlette Saenz and Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden plans to deliver a speech focused on threats to democracy in the coming weeks, according to two sources familiar with the plans. Democratic donors gathered in Chicago for a fundraising retreat learned of the plans Wednesday, a source familiar with the remarks said.

By Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration has notified Congress that it will withhold $85 million in aid to Egypt that had been conditioned on Egypt’s progress on human rights issues and the release of political prisoners, instead diverting that money to Taiwan and Lebanon, a person with direct knowledge told CNN. The

By Tierney Sneed and Zachary Cohen, CNN Washington (CNN) — A Georgia judge shut down the effort by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to have all 19 defendants, including former President Donald Trump, to be tried together in October in the Georgia election subversion case. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee announced Thursday

By Aaron Pellish (CNN) — As he looks to break through in the 2024 GOP primary, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott rolled out an economic plan on Thursday that takes aim at President Joe Biden’s policies and calls for making permanent former President Donald Trump’s tax cuts. “The 2024 election will be pivotal for your

By Ethan Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The rule-making panel of the Democratic National Committee will meet Thursday in Washington, DC, with several questions about the party’s 2024 presidential nominating calendar still unresolved. The biggest question is the timing of the nominating contests in the longtime early-voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire. Earlier this year,

By Donald Judd (CNN) — President Joe Biden is expected to deploy new attacks on Republicans in an economic speech on Thursday, just weeks ahead of a deadline to keep the government open past the end of the month. White House senior adviser Anita Dunn pitched Biden’s speech as “another major economic address today laying

By Annie Grayer and Melanie Zanona, CNN (CNN) — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy unilaterally gave his conference the green light to launch an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. Now the harder work begins. The pressure is on for House Republicans to use the spotlight McCarthy gave them to produce evidence of wrongdoing by Biden

By Jeremy Herb, Zachary Cohen and Sara Murray, CNN (CNN) — The two Georgia election subversion defendants headed to trial next month will get access to more information from prosecutors, including grand jury materials and details about unindicted co-conspirators, a judge decided Thursday. Fulton County prosecutors on Thursday provided the names of the 30 unindicted

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden’s aides privately acknowledge a rematch with Donald Trump in 2024 could be his best path to reelection, but they are terrified by what would happen if he lost – which operatives on his campaign and throughout the Democratic Party worry is a very real possibility. It’s

By Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — The Pentagon’s watchdog is establishing a new team in Ukraine to monitor ongoing US security assistance to Kyiv as a growing number of Republicans call for more oversight into how the money is being used. The Defense Department inspector general said a senior representative from the US began work

By Kit Maher and Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration is advising people under the age of 65 against getting the new Covid-19 booster shots from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna, contradicting federal health officials’ guidance. DeSantis, a 2024 Republican presidential contender, said he won’t allow federal officials who green-lit the new boosters

CNN By Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria in an interview Wednesday that he never recommended a US military attack on Iran during the Trump administration, pushing back on claims made by former President Donald Trump and his White House chief of

By Paula Reid, CNN (CNN) — Attorneys for Hunter Biden have filed a civil lawsuit against former Trump White House aide Garrett Ziegler, alleging illegal hacking in violation of federal computer privacy laws. The suit, filed in federal court in California, accuses Ziegler of “accessing, tampering with, manipulation, altering, copying and damaging computer data that

CNN By Haley Talbot and Donald Judd, CNN (CNN) — Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday defended her approach to the first impeachment of then-President Donald Trump in 2019, in her first public comments on the Republican effort to launch an inquiry into President Joe Biden. Pelosi, in an exclusive interview with CNN’s Anderson

By Haley Talbot and Donald Judd, CNN (CNN) — Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday defended her approach to the first impeachment of then-President Donald Trump in 2019, in her first public comments on the Republican effort to launch an inquiry into President Joe Biden. Pelosi, in an exclusive interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper,

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge in Texas ruled Wednesday that a regulation intended to preserve the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program is unlawful, delivering a major blow to the Biden administration. Last year, the administration moved to preserve the program – which protects undocumented immigrants who were brought to

CNN By Clare Foran and Morgan Rimmer, CNN (CNN) — Utah Republican Sen. Mitt Romney announced Wednesday that he will not run for reelection to the Senate and called for a “new generation of leaders” as he criticized both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump. In a video message, Romney outlined a range

By Kevin Liptak, Betsy Klein and Arlette Saenz, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden’s team has begun to execute an impeachment playbook more than a year in the making: Discredit the investigators while sticking to the business of governing. Biden’s aides spent the August congressional recess honing their plans after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy suggested

By Kate Sullivan and Katie Lobosco, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump said Wednesday he wants to close the Department of Education and have state governments “run the education of our children,” pushing for a long-held Republican goal that has been endorsed by several other 2024 GOP candidates. “We’re going to end education coming

By Jeremy Herb and Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria in an interview Wednesday that he never recommended a US military attack on Iran during the Trump administration, pushing back on claims made by former President Donald Trump and his White House

By Amy Simonson, CNN (CNN) — Surveillance video from a performing arts theater in Denver shows Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert being escorted out of the musical “Beetlejuice” on Sunday after “multiple complaints” from patrons. The Buell Theater surveillance video, obtained by CNN affiliate KUSA, shows officials addressing Boebert and her companion at their seats inside

By Manu Raju, Lauren Fox and Sam Fossum, CNN (CNN) — House GOP leaders are engaged in talks with hard-right members in an urgent push to salvage their spending bill plans – but are now considering an abrupt change in strategy: Avoiding a government shutdown at month’s end. Republican leaders in the House had hoped

By Kristen Holmes and Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump has publicly and privately encouraged House Republicans’ push to impeach President Joe Biden ahead of their potential rematch in 2024, two sources close to the former president said. Trump has kept close tabs on the matter, the sources said – including speaking by phone

By Annie Grayer and Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — The FBI agent managing the team on the Hunter Biden criminal case testified to the House Judiciary Committee that US Attorney David Weiss had ultimate authority over the case, contesting testimony brought forward by whistleblowers. Thomas Sobocinski, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Baltimore

By Katelyn Polantz, Senior Reporter, Crime and Justice (CNN) — A federal appeals court has blocked federal prosecutors from obtaining a swath of cellphone records from a Pennsylvania Republican congressman who worked to overturn Donald Trump’s election defeat in 2020, in a ruling that could have dramatic legal implications that benefit federal lawmakers. The ruling

By Annie Grayer, Marshall Cohen and Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy made several unproven claims Tuesday while announcing the opening of a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. The Republican-led investigation will focus on “allegations of abuse of power, obstruction and corruption” by Biden, related to his family’s overseas business

CNN, WXYZ By Betsy Klein and Arlette Saenz, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden is trying to walk a fine line as the clock ticks toward a looming deadline for a possible UAW strike of the Big Three automakers, keeping in direct touch with the key players engaged in the negotiations. The situation has proved

By Kayla Tausche, Betsy Klein and Arlette Saenz, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden is trying to walk a fine line as the clock ticks toward a looming deadline for a possible UAW strike of the Big Three automakers, finding it more complicated than other labor negotiations that have threatened his economic story. Negotiators remain