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By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN A 41-year-old woman was arrested over the weekend for allegedly throwing a drink at Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz at a wine festival. The woman, Selena Chambers, has been charged with one count of misdemeanor battery and one felony count of battery on an elected official. Chambers has been released on

By Kristin Wilson, Nicky Robertson and Lauren Koenig, CNN Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer did not address the absence of California Sen. Dianne Feinstein during his weekly press conference on Tuesday, but typed up notes show the Democratic leader had prepared an answer should a question about Feinstein come up. “I spoke with Sen. Feinstein

By Kara Scannell, CNN A New York judge will hear arguments Thursday over a proposed protective order in Donald Trump’s criminal case that would limit the former president’s ability to publicize information about the investigation. The Manhattan district attorney’s office is seeking to restrain Trump’s access to the evidence it turns over to his attorneys,

By Celina Tebor and Shawna Mizelle, CNN New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Tuesday signed two bills into law aimed at increasing access to medication abortion and over-the-counter contraceptives for New Yorkers. The bills, which passed the New York state legislature earlier this year, “will make the difference between an unwanted pregnancy and a future

By Tierney Sneed, CNN Some Republican lawmakers said Tuesday that they want to see more transparency around the Supreme Court, though they railed against the Democratic push for Congress to impose a code of conduct on the justices who exempt themselves from many of the ethics rules that lower courts follow. The debate — coming

By Donald Judd, CNN The Muslim mayor who was turned away from an Eid reception at the White House on Monday said he believes it was due to racial profiling. When asked by CNN whether racial profiling was a factor, Mohamed Khairullah, the mayor from Prospect Park, New Jersey, said “there’s no doubt in my

By Fredreka Schouten and Shania Shelton, CNN Republican-controlled legislatures around the country have moved to erect new barriers to voting for high school and college students in what state lawmakers describe as an effort to clamp down on potential voter fraud. Critics call it a blatant attempt to suppress the youth vote as young people

By Jamie Gangel, Elizabeth Stuart and Tierney Sneed, CNN In a carefully worded, but blunt statement, conservative former federal judge J. Michael Luttig sent a warning shot to the Supreme Court, calling on the Court to enact a code of conduct that would “subject itself to the highest professional and ethical standards that would render

By Jeremy Diamond, CNN When the slim House Republican majority came into power this year, White House officials said they saw opportunities to work with Biden district Republicans — GOP lawmakers whose districts President Joe Biden carried in 2020. But nearly four months into the new Congress — and with the debt ceiling showdown now

By Melanie Zanona, CNN House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has accepted an invitation to meet with President Joe Biden on May 9 about the debt ceiling, according to a source familiar, setting the stage for a high-stakes moment in the debt ceiling standoff. Biden invited all four Congressional leaders to the meeting. Biden’s calls came after

By Jack Forrest and Joe Sutton, CNN Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a bill into law Monday banning gender-affirming care for minors with the possibility of a felony charge for health care professionals who provide it. Senate Bill 613 bars health care professionals from providing gender-affirming care to those under the age of 18 in

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN The US Marshals Service is still recovering from a February ransomware attack on a computer system holding sensitive law enforcement data and will soon bring a new version of the system online with better security, an agency spokesperson told CNN on Monday. “Most critical tools” related to the affected computer network

By Kit Maher, CNN Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday signed three “anti-crime” bills into law, one of which would make child rapists eligible for the death penalty with the minimum sentence of life in prison without parole. “We think that in the worst of the worst cases, the only appropriate punishment is the ultimate

By Tami Luhby, CNN The US could default on its obligations as soon as June 1 if Congress doesn’t address the debt limit before then, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Monday. “After reviewing recent federal tax receipts, our best estimate is that we will be unable to continue to satisfy all of the government’s obligations

By Paul P. Murphy and Alex Marquardt, CNN A large blimp developed by the Chinese military has been spotted for the first time at a remote base in the desert of northwestern China, exclusive new satellite imagery obtained by CNN shows. Aerospace experts say the images, taken three months before a Chinese spy balloon was

By Kara Scannell and Lauren del Valle, CNN A federal judge overseeing a civil battery and defamation trial involving Donald Trump has denied the former president’s motion for a mistrial. The ruling came before E. Jean Carroll, the columnist who sued Trump, again took the stand for cross-examination in a session that included questions about

By Marshall Cohen President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden is expected to appear in court Monday morning in northeast Arkansas for a hearing related to a years-old paternity dispute. What began in 2019 as a basic paternity case has transformed into a proxy battle over Hunter Biden’s overseas business deals, his laptop and other financial

By Sam Fossum, Kathleen Magramo and Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden welcomed President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. of the Philippines to the White House on Monday as part of continued efforts to strengthen security and economic relations in the region amid concerns over an increasingly assertive China. Sitting in the Oval Office at the start

By Kit Maher, CNN Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina on Sunday teased a “major announcement” on May 22, signaling he will formally enter the 2024 GOP presidential primary after launching an exploratory committee earlier this month. “Please tell your friends. Be in attendance,” Scott said at an event in Charleston, South Carolina. “We’re

By Eric Bradner, Steve Contorno and Kate Sullivan, CNN From statehouses to the presidential campaign trail, Republicans are escalating their political attacks on transgender people — a reflection of what they see as a cultural fight their base is eager to wage. Despite a poorer-than-expected showing in last fall’s midterm elections when various GOP candidates

By Katie Lobosco, CNN Some student loan servicers have recently cut back on customer service hours, adding to the fear that borrowers won’t have sufficient support when transitioning back into repayment after a more than three-year pandemic pause. There was already concern over whether the critical return to repayment set for later this year would

By Simone Pathe, CNN Opportunity is ripe for Republicans to win back the Senate next year — if they can land the candidates to pull it off. The GOP needs a net gain of one or two seats to flip the chamber, depending on which party wins the White House in 2024, and it’s Democrats

By Kaanita Iyer, CNN President Joe Biden joked about a range of topics at the White House Correspondents’ dinner on Saturday but struck a serious tone as he called for the release of wrongfully detained Americans abroad. The annual dinner, hosted inside the Washington Hilton, drew thousands of guests in support of freedom of the

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN The first US-led effort to evacuate private American citizens from the conflict in Sudan was completed Saturday, with a convoy organized by the US government reaching Port Sudan after a long journey from Khartoum. “A U.S. government-organized convoy carrying U.S citizens, locally employed staff, and nationals from allied and partner countries

By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN It’s one of the most commonly asked poll questions: How do Americans feel about the state of the nation? And recently, the answer has usually been a negative one. But figuring out why people are unhappy is complicated. CNN’s latest polling asked Americans whether things in the country were going well

By Ella Nilsen, CNN West Virginia political observers were not surprised when Sen. Joe Manchin appeared on Fox News on Monday to make a stunning threat: He could be persuaded to vote to repeal his own bill, the Inflation Reduction Act, if the Biden administration pushed him far enough. The conservative Democratic senator reiterated this

By Maegan Vazquez and Kaanita Iyer, CNN President Joe Biden called for the release of detained journalists and citizens abroad at the White House Correspondents’ dinner on Saturday, before poking fun at everything from his age to Elon Musk. “Let me start on a serious note,” Biden said, “members of our administration are here to

By Daniel Dale, CNN On at least three occasions over the last two months, former President Donald Trump has claimed that the leaders of unnamed South American countries are deliberately emptying their “insane asylums” and “mental institutions” to send the patients to the United States as migrants. In each version of the dramatic story, Trump

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN The number of warrantless FBI searches of Americans’ electronic data under a controversial intelligence program that aims to identify foreign threats dropped sharply from millions of searches in 2021 to over 100,000 last year, US intelligence agencies said in a report Friday. It is welcome news for US intelligence and security

By Tierney Sneed, CNN Justice Samuel Alito said that he has a “pretty good idea” who was responsible for the unprecedented disclosure of a draft opinion of a Supreme Court ruling last year, suggesting it was someone who opposed reversing the Roe v. Wade precedent that protected abortion rights nationwide. In an interview published Friday

By Haley Britzky, CNN Dozens of Army pilots are sounding the alarm on what they say is “gross mismanagement” of their service contracts that could result in them being required to serve three years longer than they’d originally anticipated. A problem surrounding how service obligation contracts are enforced could result in hundreds of pilots having

By Annie Grayer, CNN The House Judiciary Committee has sent subpoenas to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and the Global Engagement Center for documents as it continues to investigate whether the federal government pressured social media companies to censor certain viewpoints. The subpoenas mark an escalation in

By Steve Contorno, CNN Florida lawmakers gave final passage Friday to a measure that clears a path for Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis to run for president without resigning from his current job. The provision, which was anticipated, would tweak a Florida law — known as “resign to run” — that currently requires candidates in the

By Arlette Saenz, Kevin Liptak and Fredreka Schouten, CNN President Joe Biden will convene more than 150 of his biggest donors at a lux Washington, DC, hotel over the next two days, a sign, even in the campaign’s earliest stages, of the importance he will place on raising a war chest to take on Republicans

By Steve Contorno, CNN Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his GOP allies have moved to shield the Republican leader from the state’s notoriously robust public records laws as he prepares to launch a campaign for the White House. One bill advancing through the Republican-controlled state legislature would conceal information about DeSantis’ travel and who he

By Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden‘s three-minute video announcing his reelection bid Tuesday was his official ask to voters for another four years in office. Yet the video made almost no mention, at least in the voiceover, of what he’s done in office so far. Yes, there were images of infrastructure projects funded by

By Tierney Sneed A law passed 150 years ago that banned the mailing of contraceptives, lewd materials and drugs that induce abortions could provide a pathway for effectively banning abortion nationwide — even in states where the procedure is legal. When the Supreme Court last summer reversed Roe v. Wade and eliminated constitutional protections that

By Natasha Bertrand, Sean Lyngaas, Zachary Cohen and Haley Britzky, CNN New details about the 21-year-old Air National Guardsman accused of leaking a trove of classified documents online reveal how multiple red flags went unheeded and weren’t enough to prevent the Pentagon from granting him a top-secret security clearance. Officials across the government are now

By Tierney Sneed, CNN A federal appeals court has upheld several provisions of a restrictive election law in Florida that was passed by the GOP-controlled legislature in 2021. A divided panel of the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals reversed most of a ruling by a trial judge last year that said the provisions in

By Zachary Cohen, CNN The Senate Intelligence Committee is calling on the CIA Inspector General to “initiate an immediate investigation” into the agency’s alleged mishandling of sexual assault and harassment cases, according to a new letter sent to the watchdog’s office. The letter from committee chairman Sen. Mark Warner, a Virginia Democrat, and vice chair

By Sydney Kashiwagi Minnesota’s Democratic Gov. Tim Walz signed legislation Thursday that further enshrines the right to abortion and gender-affirming care into law and another that bans so-called conversion therapy. The new legislation enhances existing state law that makes access to abortion and gender-affirming care legal and opposes conversion therapy. Walz previously signed an executive

By Ted Barrett, Nicky Robertson, Haley Talbot and Clare Foran, CNN The Senate on Thursday failed to advance a resolution to remove the deadline for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, a proposed amendment to the Constitution. The resolution failed 51-47. Although it had two Republican co-sponsors — Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan