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By Nicky Robertson, CNN (CNN) — Democratic Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware said Monday he will not seek reelection in 2024. “If there’s ever an opportune time to step aside and pass the torch to the next generation, it’s coming, and it will be here on January 3, 2025 at noon,” he said at a

By Kit Maher, Eva McKend and Greg Krieg, CNN (CNN) — South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott on Monday formally entered the Republican presidential primary, promising to take on “the radical left” and bring faith and conservative, business-friendly policies to the White House, as he seeks to upend a contest that has so far been dominated

By Jack Forrest, CNN (CNN) — C. Boyden Gray, the former White House counsel to former President George H.W. Bush and ambassador to the European Union, has died. He was 80. “We are saddened to learn of the passing of Ambassador C. Boyden Gray. From 1981-1993, Mr. Gray served President Bush as his closest and

By Clare Foran, Haley Talbot and DJ Judd, CNN (CNN) — The countdown is on, the stakes are high – and there is no still debt limit deal. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy told reporters on Monday that he had a “productive discussion” with President Joe Biden at the White House, but said a deal has

By Stephen Collinson, CNN Washington (CNN) — America is heading close to the brink of a self-imposed economic disaster with the Republican-led House refusing to pay the country’s debts unless President Joe Biden agrees on cuts to current and future spending and new curbs on social programs. Unless a compromise to raise the government’s borrowing

By Alayna Treene, Eva McKend and Shawna Mizelle, CNN (CNN) — South Dakota Sen. John Thune, the No. 2 Senate Republican, plans to endorse South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott’s bid for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, according to two sources familiar with the plans. Scott, who has already filed his candidacy with the Federal Election

By Shawna Mizelle, CNN (CNN) — Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana said Sunday he doesn’t think Donald Trump would be able to win a general election, pointing to the GOP’s disappointing performance in last year’s midterm elections when several candidates endorsed by the former president went down to defeat. “The president’s kind of high-profile

By Kevin Liptak, Betsy Klein, Sam Fossum, Arlette Saenz, Kristin Wilson and Phil Mattingly, CNN Hiroshima, Japan (CNN) — Staff-level discussions over the debt ceiling and budget between the White House and congressional Republicans will resume Sunday evening after President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy spoke by phone in the afternoon, according to

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — Ron DeSantis is going to run for president talking about his record in Florida. Joe Biden is too. Biden advisers believe they can hold up what the GOP governor calls his “Florida blueprint” as a warning to the country about what would happen if DeSantis or any other Republican

By Kevin Liptak, CNN Hiroshima, Japan (CNN) — Group of Seven talks culminated Sunday with a series of dramatic, in-person appeals from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as he pressed leaders gathered in Japan to remain united against Russian aggression. Zelensky’s decision to travel halfway across the world to deliver his entreaties to the world’s major

By Kaanita Iyer, CNN Washington (CNN) — Former Donald Trump attorney Timothy Parlatore, who departed the former president’s legal team earlier this week, said Saturday he left because of infighting among the group. “It had nothing to do with the case itself or the client,” Parlatore told CNN’s Paula Reid on “Newsroom.” “The real reason

By Jake Tapper, Jasmine Wright and Shawna Mizelle, CNN (CNN) — Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser, said Sunday that the White House is working “extremely hard” on the case of a US Navy officer jailed in Japan but declined to say whether President Joe Biden had brought it up during his trip to the

By Gregory Krieg and Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — North Carolina Republicans jumped out on a limb this week when they passed a controversial new abortion ban. Democrats are now rushing to saw it off. The state GOP legislative supermajority’s decision to override Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of the measure sharpened the stakes for

By Gregory Wallace, CNN (CNN) — While President Joe Biden’s administration publicly hammered airlines for flight delays and cancellations last summer, behind the scenes Federal Aviation Administration officials were well aware that their own agency also bore responsibility for disrupting thousands of flights, according to previously unreported internal FAA records The FAA’s problem, according to

By Jack Forrest (CNN) — A Nebraska bill combining a ban on most abortions after 12 weeks and restrictions on gender-affirming care for transgender Nebraskans under 19 is poised to become law after the state’s unicameral legislature voted for its passage Friday. Nebraska’s LB 574, also known as the “Let Them Grow Act” was first

By Kevin Liptak, Betsy Klein and Simone McCarthy, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky joined leaders of major democracies on Saturday at a summit in Japan dominated by a push to present a unified front against both Russia and China. The Group of Seven (G7) talks in Hiroshima are seeking common ground on a

By Melanie Zanona, Haley Talbot, Jessica Dean and Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — A meeting between top debt ceiling negotiators from the White House and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s office ended Friday night, with neither side able to say when they’d again meet in-person. Sources at the White House and on Capitol Hill said there

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — Two employees of the US Mission in Nigeria have been found “alive and safe” days after an attack on a US convoy left seven others dead. The US Mission in Nigeria said Friday that those two employees were “under the protection of Nigerian authorities in Anambra,” and that their

By Sara Murray, CNN Washington (CNN) — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who has been investigating efforts by Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia, announced remote workdays for her staff in August and asked judges to refrain from in-person hearings for parts of that month, according to a

Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — The US military is investigating a strike in Syria earlier this month that “may have resulted” in a civilian being killed, according to a statement from US Central Command. The strike, carried out on May 3 in northwest Syria, targeted a senior al-Qaeda leader, Central Command said in a tweet

By Haley Britzky, Sean Lyngaas, Zachary Cohen and Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — Newly released memos revealing that Air Force leadership repeatedly warned Airman 1st Class Jack Teixeira about inappropriately accessing classified intelligence have left former and current defense personnel baffled at how he retained his security clearance and was able to continue sharing classified

By Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — A monthslong investigation into a series of Navy suicides last year found the service failed to provide a basic quality of life for sailors, housing them in unacceptable living conditions and failing to provide adequate mental health resources. The investigation concluded that the issues were compounded on the USS

By Kevin Liptak, Betsy Klein, Phil Mattingly and Jennifer Hansler, CNN Hiroshima, Japan (CNN) — US President Joe Biden and fellow world leaders unveiled tough new sanctions on Russia as they prepared to hear in-person later this weekend from Volodymyr Zelensky, who officials said was planning a dramatic trip to Japan as he continues to

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter (CNN) — The Supreme Court announced Thursday that it would formally remove a case concerning the controversial Trump-era immigration policy known as Title 42 from its calendar, likely because the Covid-19 public health emergency that serves as the legal underpinning of the program has expired. In a

By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine has “successfully” used the Storm Shadow missiles provided by the United Kingdom, British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace told CNN on Thursday. “All I can confirm is it has been used successfully, that is the information I received from the Ukrainians, and I’m pleased it is helping them to

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords who was seriously wounded in a mass shooting in 2011. Personal Birth date: June 8, 1970 Birth place: Tucson, Arizona Birth name: Gabrielle Dee Giffords Father: Spencer Giffords, El Campo Tire executive and a district school board member

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Republican Senator Marco Rubio of Florida. Personal Birth date: May 28, 1971 Birth place: Miami, Florida Birth name: Marco Antonio Rubio Father: Mario Rubio, a bartender Mother: Oriales García Rubio Marriage: Jeanette (Dousdebes) Rubio (1998-present) Children: Amanda Loren, Daniella, Anthony and Dominick

By Donald Judd, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration announced new steps Thursday to assist the nations unsheltered population, launching a new initiative accelerating local efforts in six of the nation’s most populous cities as part of a larger goal to reduce the country’s homelessness by 25% by 2025. The initiative – called “ALL INside”

By Lauren Fox and Jeremy Diamond, CNN (CNN) — For the first time in months, President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy appear to be on the same page: The country cannot default on its debt and a compromise has to be reached to avert that outcome. “We are going to come together because

By Steve Contorno and Jeff Zeleny, CNN (CNN) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is expected to enter the 2024 GOP presidential race next week, two Republicans familiar with the matter told CNN, initiating his much-anticipated bid to wrestle the future of the party from former President Donald Trump. DeSantis will file paperwork declaring his candidacy

By Annie Grayer, Alayna Treene and Sara Murray, CNN (CNN) — Three self-described FBI whistleblowers, who are key to the Republican narrative that the FBI is weaponized against conservatives, testified at a House hearing Thursday, the latest escalation of Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan’s investigation into allegations of discrimination and bias within the FBI. The hearing

By Steve Contorno and Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has said little publicly about the six-week abortion ban he signed this year or about former President Donald Trump. On Tuesday, he broke his silence on both. Responding to Trump’s recent criticism that Florida’s new abortion restrictions were “too harsh,” DeSantis shot

By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — The biggest governor’s race of 2023 began to take shape this week, as Kentucky’s attorney general and now Republican gubernatorial nominee Daniel Cameron and his allies began previewing their lines of attack on Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear. The race between Beshear and Cameron, much like Virginia’s state legislative races

By Joan Biskupic, CNN Senior Supreme Court Analyst (CNN) — As he began writing an angry dissent in a gay rights case 23 years ago, Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens was comparing the majority’s decision against a gay man to Nazi persecution. “What is this but a constitutionally prescribed pink triangle?” Stevens wrote in

By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden arrived in Japan on Thursday for a truncated Asia visit meant to bolster allies amid China’s growing military and economic ambitions. The trip, once planned for eight days, has been shortened by half; two of Biden’s three stops were scrapped so he could return to Washington

By Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — House Republicans are taking up a series of pro-law enforcement bills this week, as the party grapples with cutting funding to federal law enforcement agencies. On Wednesday, the House passed a pair of bills – one would make assaulting a law enforcement officer a deportable offense for migrants and

By Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — Every administration since President Ronald Reagan has mishandled classified materials, including commingling classified and unclassified documents, National Archives officials told the House Intelligence Committee during a closed-door interview in March. The latest revelations come after the committee voted to release on Wednesday an unclassified transcript of testimony from William

By Alayna Treene and Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — Two Republican committee chairs are demanding the Central Intelligence Agency turn over a series of documents from an investigation related to the president’s son Hunter Biden. In a letter sent to CIA Director William Burns Tuesday, Reps. Jim Jordan and Mike Turner, the chairmen of the

By Katie Lobosco, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration proposed a new rule Wednesday meant to prevent students from taking on an unaffordable amount of student loan debt to attend for-profit colleges and certificate programs at nonprofit colleges. An earlier version of the rule, known as “gainful employment,” was proposed under the Obama administration and

By Tierney Sneed, CNN New Orleans (CNN) — The roughly two hours of oral arguments that an extremely conservative appeals court heard Wednesday in a blockbuster abortion pill case suggested that the judges were not buying the Biden administration’s arguments for why courts should not second guess how the government has regulated a medication abortion

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — The Air National Guardsman who is accused of posting a trove of classified documents to social media was repeatedly warned by his superiors in the Air Force over his mishandling of classified documents, prosecutors say. In court documents arguing for Jack Teixeira’s continued detention, prosecutors said that the 21-year-old’s

By Nicky Robertson and Ted Barrett, CNN (CNN) — The Senate passed a resolution Wednesday to stop a Biden administration immigration rule that eliminates potential hurdles for immigrants using some public benefits and trying to obtain legal status, known as “public charge.” It passed 50-47, with two Democratic senators crossing party lines – Joe Manchin

By Lauren Fox, CNN (CNN) — Senate Finance Chairman Ron Wyden is pushing back on assertions from GOP megadonor Harlan Crow that the panel lacks authority to request personal tax information and travel records from him as part of a probe into whether hospitality he provided to Justice Clarence Thomas could have triggered violations of