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By Jason Morris and Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Federal prosecutors building a criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election have asked for all security video from Atlanta’s State Farm Arena around polling day, according to a subpoena sent to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s office. The letter

By Jeremy Herb and Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers and advisers are trying to figure out if there is evidence and witnesses they are unaware of that are bolstering special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election, according to multiple sources familiar with Trump team’s legal

By Manu Raju and Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump recently delivered the news to Rep. Matt Rosendale: He wouldn’t win the former president’s coveted endorsement if he runs in the GOP primary for the US Senate seat in Montana, according to a Trump ally, a decision with major implications in the high-stakes battle

By Shania Shelton, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday posted a campaign ad promoting his legislative wins by using clips from a recent speech GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene gave at the Turning Point Action Conference where she compared Biden to Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson. “Joe Biden had the largest

By Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries raised $29 million in the second quarter of 2023, bringing in a total of $62.4 million this year. The New York Democrat’s fundraising haul was $7.3 million more than what House Speaker Kevin McCarthy raised in Q2 – an impressive goal given it’s his

By Kit Maher (CNN) — A super PAC supporting Sen. Tim Scott’s presidential run is placing a $40 million TV and digital ad reservation – the largest amount booked for any presidential candidate so far in the 2024 race. Trust In The Mission, or TIM PAC, said Tuesday the ad buy will run September 7

By Andy Rose and Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — The Illinois Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the state’s historic move to ban cash bail is constitutional, overturning a lower court decision. In a 5-2 decision, the state’s highest court ruled that the measure, which eliminates the requirement that individuals post bail in order to be

By Jack Forrest, CNN (CNN) — Louisiana’s legislature utilized its Republican supermajority Tuesday to enact a ban on gender-affirming care for most minors, overriding its Democratic governor who had vetoed the bill. The law will take effect January 1, 2024. Gov. John Bel Edwards, who vetoed House Bill 648 last month, said in a statement

By Zachary Cohen, Marshall Cohen, Hannah Rabinowitz and Jessica Schneider, CNN (CNN) — Sixteen fake electors who signed certificates falsely claiming President Donald Trump won Michigan in the 2020 election have been charged with multiple felonies, state Attorney General Dana Nessel announced Tuesday. This is the first time any of the fake electors have been

By Steve Contorno and Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — Gov. Ron DeSantis, in an exclusive interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper on Tuesday, brushed aside concerns about the state of his presidential campaign, continued to downplay the conflict in Ukraine and steered clear of supporting national abortion restrictions similar to the six-week ban he signed in

By Kaitlan Collins, CNN (CNN) — Special counsel Jack Smith’s team has contacted former Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, who Donald Trump pressured to overturn the 2020 election, a source familiar with the outreach confirmed first to CNN. A spokesman for Ducey confirmed the outreach from Smith’s team, which has not been previously reported. “Yes, he’s

By Jeremy Herb, Kristen Holmes, Kaitlan Collins, Paula Reid and Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump said in a social media post he’s been informed by special counsel Jack Smith that he is a target of the criminal investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election, a sign he may soon be

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — The Massachusetts Air National Guardsman who is accused of posting a trove of classified documents to social media asked a judge to reconsider his detention on Monday, pointing out that he is charged with the same federal counts as former President Donald Trump and that prosecutors did not oppose

By Tierney Sneed, Jeremy Herb, Devon M. Sayers and Devan Cole, CNN Ft. Pierce, Florida (CNN) — US District Judge Aileen Cannon signaled she is likely to push back the start of a trial in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case beyond the mid-December date proposed by federal prosecutors – but appeared deeply skeptical of arguments

By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp ruled out running for president in 2024 and warned Republicans – including frontrunner Donald Trump – that they can’t win Georgia if they continue to spout false claims about election fraud from 2020. “If (Trump) continues to do that, he’s going to lose Georgia in

By Gregory Krieg, Jeff Zeleny and Jeff Simon, CNN (CNN) — West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin on Monday defended his flirtation with a third-party presidential campaign, telling voters at a No Labels forum at St. Anselm College in New Hampshire that he had no plans to play “spoiler” in the 2024 election. “I’ve never been

By Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The Georgia Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a long shot legal bid from former President Donald Trump to essentially shut down the Fulton County criminal probe into his attempts to overturn his 2020 election defeat in Georgia. The court said in a five-page opinion that Trump hadn’t demonstrated the

By Jack Forrest, CNN (CNN) — Abortions in Iowa will for now remain legal up to 22 weeks into a pregnancy after a judge on Monday temporarily blocked the state’s newly signed law that would ban the procedure as early as six weeks. The suit was filed last week by Planned Parenthood of the Heartland,

By Chandelis Duster, CNN (CNN) — Xochitl Torres Small was sworn in as deputy agriculture secretary of the US Department of Agriculture on Monday, making history as the first Latina in the No. 2 position. Her ascension to the position comes amid efforts by the USDA to rectify decades of discrimination against farmers of color

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — Millions of emails intended for Pentagon employees were inadvertently sent to email accounts in Mali over the last decade because of typos caused by the similarity of the US military’s email address and the domain for the West African country, according to a Dutch technologist who discovered the problem.

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy on Monday named Sens. Ted Cruz and Mike Lee among several hard-line conservatives he would consider for the Supreme Court if elected, while also including the judges behind contentious rulings on abortion pills and the federal Covid-19 mask mandate on his list for possible

By Gregory Krieg, CNN (CNN) — Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose formally announced his candidacy for US Senate on Monday, joining a crowded Republican field hoping to challenge Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown. “It’s official: I’m running,” LaRose said on Twitter. “I’m on a mission to give back to the state that has given me

By Michelle Watson, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge in Oregon ruled on Friday that a new state gun law does not violate the US Constitution, keeping one of the toughest gun laws in the country in place. US District Court Judge Karin Immergut ruled that Ballot Measure 114’s restrictions on large-capacity magazines that hold

By Lauren Koenig and Shania Shelton, CNN (CNN) — A number of high-profile Jewish groups are denouncing Democratic presidential contender Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s false remarks that “Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese” people are “most immune” to Covid-19. Speaking at a dinner in New York City earlier this week, Kennedy said “there’s an argument that it

By Jennifer Hansler and Kylie Atwood, CNN Washington (CNN) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday urged the Senate to quickly advance the dozens of State Department nominees that remain pending due to holds put into place by Republican senators, decrying the impact of the holds on US national security, its standing in the

By Fredreka Schouten and David Wright, CNN Washington (CNN) — Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie raised $1.65 million over the first 25 days of his candidacy through June 30, according to the former New Jersey governor’s latest fundraising report. The total figure trails many of his rivals’ hauls but still puts him ahead of former

By Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — Two veterans of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ political operation are departing his presidential campaign to work with an outside group that will focus on boosting the Florida Republican in his race for the White House. The departing individuals are Dave Abrams, who previously led and later advised DeSantis’ communications team,

By David Wright and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN (CNN) — Former Vice President Mike Pence raised less than $1.2 million for his presidential campaign during the second fundraising quarter that ended June 30, according to a Pence adviser, lagging far behind several Republican rivals who have announced much larger fundraising hauls and signaling potential struggles ahead

By Haley Britzky and Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — A Russian surveillance aircraft flew above a US base in Syria for an “extended period of time” on Friday morning in what officials deemed an intelligence collecting mission, a senior defense official said. The aircraft, an Antonov An-30, flew over the At-Tanf garrison, the official said,

By Dan Berman, CNN Washington (CNN) — A federal appeals court on Friday temporarily blocked a controversial order that would have prevented the Biden administration from communicating with social media companies. Last week, US District Judge Terry Doughty in Louisiana ordered a slew of federal agencies and more than a dozen top government officials to

By Marshall Cohen (CNN) — Donald Trump is seeking a new court order to essentially neutralize the Fulton County investigation into the former president’s conduct after he lost the 2020 election, as potential indictments loom in Georgia. Trump’s lawyers filed petitions this week attempting to throw out the evidence collected last year by a special

By Melissa Alonso and Shania Shelton, CNN (CNN) — California voters will have the chance to remove language barring same-sex marriage from their state’s constitution in 2024’s general election. The California Senate passed a proposed constitutional amendment on Thursday that would repeal Proposition 8 – which voters approved in 2008 to ban the state from

By Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Federal prosecutors have interviewed the secretaries of state for both Pennsylvania and New Mexico in recent months as part of the ongoing investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election, according to two sources familiar with the probe. The interviews, which have not been previously reported, indicate that special

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Tucked into President Joe Biden’s ambitious, sweeping climate commitments is a crucially important goal that dates back to his campaign: Transforming the US electric grid to run entirely on clean energy by 2035. The goal could make or break Biden’s pledge to slash the country’s planet-warming emissions in half

By Clare Foran and Haley Talbot, CNN (CNN) — The House voted Friday to pass a sweeping defense policy bill following contentious debate and the adoption of controversial amendments that touched on hot-button social issues. The addition of amendments pushed by conservative hardliners related to abortion policy and transgender health care access as well as

By Fredreka Schouten, Kate Sullivan and Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — A revised personal financial disclosure filing from former President Donald Trump made public Thursday offered new details about the roughly $1 billion that he appears to have earned in his post-presidential life, including lucrative speaking engagements by Trump and his wife, along with more

By Dianne Gallagher, CNN (CNN) — A Georgia lawmaker who represents part of Atlanta in the state House of Representatives switched her party affiliation to Republican this week after repeatedly breaking with her former party on several key votes this session. State Rep. Mesha Mainor announced that she was leaving the Democratic Party for the

By Kaitlan Collins and Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law, testified before the grand jury investigating the aftermath of the 2020 election and the actions of the then-president and others, a source familiar with the testimony confirmed to CNN. Former Trump aide Hope Hicks also went before the grand jury, according

By Fredreka Schouten and Eva McKend, CNN (CNN) — South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott – whose presidential campaign announced this week that it has more than $21 million in cash reserves – is getting fresh attention from deep-pocketed donors looking for alternatives to the front-runners in the GOP primary, people familiar with the outreach say.

By Kylie Atwood, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration believes that a Chinese hacking operation which breached US government email systems, including the State Department, gave the Chinese government insights about US thinking heading into Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s trip to Beijing in June, according to two US officials. The hack – which Microsoft

By Tierney Sneed (CNN) — Special counsel Jack Smith told a federal judge Thursday that there was no reason to postpone scheduling a trial date in the classified documents case against Donald Trump, in a court filing that aggressively rejected the reasons the former president and his co-defendant gave for why the trial should be

By Manu Raju and Arlette Saenz, CNN (CNN) — Julie Su, President Joe Biden’s pick to be the next Labor secretary whose nomination has been stalled for months, now faces opposition from a key Democrat: Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia. With all Republicans planning to oppose her, she can only afford to lose one

By Paula Reid, Alayna Treene and Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — Investigators from the House Ethics Committee have begun reaching out to witnesses as part of a recently revived investigation into Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, focused on allegations that he may have engaged in sexual misconduct, illicit drug use or other misconduct. At least