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By Kaitlan Collins and Paula Reid, CNN Washington (CNN) — Timothy Parlatore, an attorney for Donald Trump who played a key role in the Mar-a-Lago documents investigation and once testified before the grand jury, is leaving the former president’s legal team, two sources familiar with the exit tell CNN. Parlatore’s departure became official Tuesday, though

By Tierney Sneed, CNN New Orleans (CNN) — A federal appeals court tore apart the Biden administration’s arguments for why the federal government’s regulatory approval of an abortion pill should be left in place – signaling the three-judge panel appointed by Republican presidents will side with a lower court decision to block access to the

By Kevin Liptak, CNN Hiroshima, Japan (CNN) — President Joe Biden once hoped his trip to Asia this week would strengthen American alliances, counter China’s influence and prove to Americans he’s got the stamina for another term in office. But the trip he planned didn’t materialize. The standoff over raising the US debt ceiling, which

By Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — A Republican-led investigation into the origins of Covid-19 has unearthed additional, though circumstantial, evidence supporting the theory that the virus likely escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China, but it did not find any “smoking gun” evidence to prove the theory, according to a new report released on Wednesday.

By Eric Bradner, Gregory Krieg and Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — Republicans have their candidate in Kentucky, Democrats have their majority in Pennsylvania and the 2024 GOP presidential primary has another clash between former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in the books. Voters threw DeSantis a pair of brushbacks on Tuesday, most

By Shania Shelton, CNN (CNN) — Former journalist Donna Deegan will become the first female mayor of Jacksonville, Florida, CNN projects, as Democrats win the office in the state’s most populous city for only the second time in 30 years. Deegan is projected to defeat Republican former state Rep. Daniel Davis in Tuesday’s runoff election

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — The Department of Homeland Security has directed its agencies to review and assess who has access to classified information, according to an internal memo obtained by CNN – a move that comes on the heels of a leak of highly classified Pentagon documents discovered earlier this year. The memo

By Lauren Fox, CNN (CNN) — A number of lawmakers are now reassessing their district security protocols and brainstorming ways to keep their staff – especially in district offices – safer after the events that unfolded Monday in Rep. Gerry Connolly’s office. Connolly, a Virginia Democrat, said on Monday that two staffers were injured by

By Maegan Vazquez and Allie Malloy, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden is canceling his upcoming visits to Papua New Guinea and Australia due to the ongoing debt ceiling negotiations in Washington, the White House confirmed Tuesday. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement Biden spoke to Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The US State Department on Tuesday strongly condemned the “reported arrest” of a Russian former employee of the US Mission in Russia. The charges against Robert Shonov – “confidential cooperation” with a foreign government, according to Russian state media outlet TASS – “are wholly without merit,” State Department spokesperson

By Donald Judd (CNN) — President Joe Biden has officially vetoed a resolution that would halt a Commerce Department rule temporarily suspending tariffs on solar panels imported from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam – writing that passage “of this resolution bets against American innovation.” The resolution narrowly cleared the Senate earlier this month, with nine

By Alayna Treene and Sara Murray, CNN (CNN) — An IRS whistleblower who claims to have information about alleged mishandling and political interference in the ongoing criminal probe into Hunter Biden has been removed from the investigation into the president’s son, attorneys for the whistleblower have told key congressional lawmakers. Attorneys for the whistleblower sent

By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron will win his party’s nomination for governor in Tuesday’s primary, CNN projects, setting up a highly anticipated clash this fall with Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear. Cameron, who was endorsed by Donald Trump, will defeat former diplomat Kelly Craft in a race that was seen

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — Republican voters in Pennsylvania made a candidate supported by the GOP establishment their nominee for an open state Supreme Court seat, rejecting another Republican contender more closely aligned with former President Donald Trump’s wing of the party. CNN projected the victory of Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas Judge

By Maegan Vazquez and Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — Congressional leaders from both parties emerged from their meeting with President Joe Biden at the White House on Tuesday unable to convey how they’re on a clear path to raise the nation’s borrowing limit and avoid a historic default. And in a sign that Biden will

By Devan Cole, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Supreme Court has increasingly used emergency orders to shape the law in cases concerning a variety of hot-button issues, a move that has quietly given the court more power over the years, CNN Supreme Court analyst Steve Vladeck says in a new book released Tuesday on the

By Gregory Krieg, CNN (CNN) — The biggest city in the battleground state of Pennsylvania is poised to effectively choose its next leader on Tuesday, as Philadelphia Democrats vote for the nominee to be the city’s 100th mayor – and a key figure in President Joe Biden’s reelection bid next year. The long and historically

By Evan Perez, CNN Justice Correspondent Special counsel John Durham’s report released Monday details his investigation of a purported effort by Hillary Clinton‘s 2016 campaign to tie Donald Trump to Russia but which Durham concludes “did not, all things considered, amount to a provable criminal offense.” Durham reveals in a footnote that he interviewed the

By Kate Sullivan and Fredreka Schouten, CNN Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley‘s financial disclosure report shows the former US ambassador to the United Nations was paid between $100,001 and $1 million each for 12 speaking engagements in 2022 and 2023. The payments were made for speeches Haley delivered in Singapore, Canada and Australia, as well

By Zachary Cohen, CNN Special counsel John Durham released his final report on Monday in which he casts doubt about the FBI’s decision to launch a full investigation into connections between Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia during the 2016 election. The 300-plus page report sharply criticizes the FBI and Justice Department throughout but does not

By Alex Marquardt, CNN The Central Intelligence Agency has launched a new effort to capitalize on what US intelligence officials believe is an “unprecedented” opportunity to convince Russians disaffected by the war in Ukraine and life in Russia to share their secrets, posting a slickly produced, cinematic recruitment video online on Monday. The push includes

By Jason Morris and Sara Murray, CNN Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is asking a Georgia court to dismiss Donald Trump‘s request to toss the final report and evidence from a special grand jury that spent months investigating efforts by the former president and his allies attempting to overturn the 2020 election. The district

By Manu Raju, Annie Grayer, Kristin Wilson and Melanie Hicken, CNN Virginia Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly said two staffers were injured Monday by a man wielding a bat who came into his district office in Fairfax. Connolly told CNN that the assailant who entered his office and attacked two of his aides did so with

By Joan Biskupic, CNN Senior Supreme Court Analyst Supreme Court justices are entering the peak season for back-channeling. This is when individual justices intensify their private huddling to try to resolve seemingly intractable differences and when a personal plea — out of sight of the others — might persuade someone to abandon a concurring opinion

By Aaron Pellish and Jack Forrest, CNN Former Energy Secretary Rick Perry on Sunday teased a possible 2024 presidential run while declining to support Donald Trump‘s campaign, becoming the latest onetime Trump appointee to distance himself from the former president’s third White House bid. Perry, who unsuccessfully sought the 2012 and 2016 GOP presidential nominations,

By Alayna Treene, CNN House Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul announced Sunday that he had formally requested a series of transcribed interviews from current and former State Department officials as part of his panel’s investigation into the Biden administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. The Republican-led committee’s requests for on-the-record interviews are its first in the probe

By Betsy Klein and Alayna Treene, CNN President Joe Biden is expected to meet Tuesday with congressional leaders on the debt ceiling limit following “productive” staff-level negotiations over the weekend, two sources familiar with the talks told CNN on Sunday, as the US barrels toward a deadline that could come as soon as June 1.

By Gregory Krieg, CNN Helen Gym does not want the story of her campaign for mayor of Philadelphia to be told as a referendum on the state of the national progressive movement. But for many allies and supporters, in the city and across the country, that view has become increasingly welcome. Gym’s dynamism, decadeslong history

By Haley Britzky, CNN In a small conference room just off a runway at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia, some of the US Air Force’s most elite F-16 pilots were gathered. They spoke casually to one another, snacking on granola bars and fruit; water bottles and paper littered the table beneath laptops and tablets.

By Betsy Klein, Kaanita Iyer and Jasmine Wright, CNN President Joe Biden previewed his 2024 election pitch to young Black voters Saturday in commencement remarks at a Howard University graduation ceremony in Washington, DC, articulating his vision of a “future for all Americans,” Biden’s speech to graduates of the historically Black university had deep political

By Sydney Kashiwagi, CNN North Carolina Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed a controversial bill that would ban most abortions after 12 weeks, setting up a likely override effort from the state legislature, where Republicans have a supermajority. Cooper’s swift veto comes just over a week after the Republican-controlled state Senate advanced the bill to his

By Steve Contorno, Kristen Holmes, Kimberly Berryman and Kit Maher, CNN The expected convergence of former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on the Iowa campaign trail Saturday did not materialize as bad weather, including tornado warnings, forced Trump to cancel a planned rally in Des Moines. “Unfortunately, due to the Tornado Warnings

By Alta Spells and Kaanita Iyer, CNN A group of 25 Republican governors called on the Biden administration Friday to withdraw or delay recently proposed rule changes to Title IX that could prevent states from enforcing anti-transgender sports bans. As several bills that aim to ban transgender students from participating on sports teams consistent with

By Sydney Kashiwagi, CNN South Carolina’s Republican Gov. Henry McMaster has called the state legislature back for a special session Tuesday to continue to work on a bill that would ban most abortions as early as six weeks and other legislation. “I have called the General Assembly back for an extra legislative session to take

By Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden is coming under sustained pressure from both sides of the aisle over the administration’s handling of the expiration of Title 42, the controversial Trump-era pandemic public health restriction that became a key tool to turn back migrants at the US-Mexico border. Title 42 was a public health order

By Natasha Bertrand and Oren Liebermann, CNN Russia tried to destroy a US-made Patriot air defense system in Ukraine last week with a hypersonic missile, two US officials told CNN. The attack failed, and the Ukrainian military instead intercepted the missile using the Patriot system, the officials said, marking their first known successful Ukrainian use

By Sam Fossum, CNN The US will bolster its defensive posture with heightened patrols in the Persian Gulf after destabilizing actions by Iran this past month to interfere with and seize commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz and other strategic waterways, according to a US National Security Council spokesperson. “[The] United States will not

By Tami Luhby, CNN There is a “significant risk” that the federal government will no longer be able to pay all its obligations in the first two weeks of June if the debt limit remains unchanged, the Congressional Budget Office said Friday. The forecast reinforces both Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s estimate and the agency’s earlier

By Ella Nilsen, CNN As the US barrels into a high-stakes and consequential election cycle, US climate envoy and former Secretary of State John Kerry is confident of one thing: If a Republican is elected president, they won’t be able to reverse the Biden administration’s wins on climate change and clean energy. The economy has

By Eric Bradner, CNN Republicans in Kentucky will decide their nominee for governor on Tuesday in the party’s first major primary since last year’s midterm elections — and one with implications for the 2024 GOP presidential race and the battle for Senate control. The race will test former President Donald Trump‘s influence with GOP voters

By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is proposing raising the legal voting age to 25, his campaign announced Thursday. His proposal would allow 18-year-olds to vote if they met a “national service requirement” — if they’re an emergency responder or served at least six months in the military — or they pass

By Tierney Sneed, CNN A federal judge said Wednesday that federal prohibitions on licensed dealers selling handguns to 18- to 20-year-olds are unconstitutional, in what is the latest legal volley over age-based firearm regulations — a court fight that has escalated since the Supreme Court’s major Second Amendment ruling last year. US District Judge Robert

By Morgan Rimmer and Nicky Robertson, CNN A number of GOP senators pushed back on controversial claims made by Donald Trump at Wednesday night’s CNN town hall, telling CNN they disagreed with him on a range of issues in a sign of the divisions within the Republican party over the former president. John Cornyn, a

By Jeremy Diamond, Maegan Vazquez and Melanie Zanona, CNN President Joe Biden‘s anticipated meeting originally scheduled for Friday with congressional leaders aimed at discussing a deal to avert a default on the national debt has been postponed, a White House spokesperson said. Friday’s meeting would have been the second time in less than a week