Skip to Content

Politics

Biden calls for major Supreme Court reforms, including term limits, at Civil Rights Act event Monday

By Aileen Graef, Julia Benbrook, John Fritze and Arlette Saenz, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden called for major Supreme Court reforms Monday, a long-shot move that would make him the first sitting president in generations to back seismic changes to the way the nation’s highest court operates. “I have great respect for our institutions and

Continue Reading

Text messages from law enforcement show concerns were raised more than 90 minutes before Trump rally shooting

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Text messages between law enforcement before the assassination attempt against Donald Trump earlier this month suggest that some officers raised the shooter’s presence at the rally more than 90 minutes before he climbed onto a roof and fired eight rounds at the former president. In text messages obtained by

Continue Reading

Mark Meadows seeks Supreme Court intervention in bid for immunity from Georgia election subversion prosecution

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — Mark Meadows’ lawyers say they’ve asked the Supreme Court this weekend to take up his bid to move the Georgia election subversion prosecution against him to federal court, where the former White House chief of staff to ex-President Donald Trump would bring arguments that he is entitled to immunity

Continue Reading

Fact check: Trump revives false claim that he, not Minnesota’s governor, deployed the National Guard to Minneapolis in 2020

By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump has revived his four-year-old false claim about how he and Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz handled the civil unrest that followed the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer in 2020. Walz is among the Democrats whom sources say Vice President Kamala Harris is considering as a

Continue Reading

Trump, who once trashed bitcoin as ‘based on thin air,’ addresses crypto’s largest convention

By Steve Contorno and Aaron Pellish, CNN Nashville (CNN) — For a time, Donald Trump would have made for an unlikely headliner at a cryptocurrency confab. As president, Trump declared bitcoin “not money” and criticized it as “highly volatile and based on thin air.” He cautioned that crypto assets helped facilitate illegal underground markets. “We have

Continue Reading

Government to pay former FBI officials $2 million in settlements over release of anti-Trump texts

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — Ex-FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page reached settlements with the Justice Department that will see the government paying out a total of $2 million in their lawsuits over the department’s 2018 release of their text messages. Former agent Strzok will get $1.2 million and Page, who was an FBI lawyer, will get

Continue Reading

Exclusive: CNN survey finds 48 states say Harris can get on ballot instead of Biden, rejecting claim switch breaks state laws

By Daniel Dale, Casey Gannon and Paula Reid, CNN Washington (CNN) — The election authorities of at least 48 states, both Republicans and Democrats, say there are no obstacles that would prevent Vice President Kamala Harris from getting on election ballots if she becomes the official Democratic presidential nominee, as expected. The findings of a

Continue Reading

Kamala Harris praised ‘defund the police’ movement in June 2020 radio interview

By Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris voiced support for “defund the police” in a radio interview in June 2020 amidst nationwide protests for police reform, just months before denouncing the movement after she had joined the Biden presidential campaign. Harris said in the June radio interview the movement “rightly”

Continue Reading

How Doug Emhoff is amplifying his wife’s historic presidential bid

By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — Confronted with a barrage of negative social media posts from former President Donald Trump aimed at his wife, second gentleman Doug Emhoff eschewed machismo or defensiveness. “That’s all he got?” he said Tuesday of the attacks on Vice President Kamala Harris, the new and historic presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. His response in

Continue Reading

How Kamala Harris’ warp-speed campaign launch has changed the 2024 race

By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — The five days since Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign launched at warp speed have remade the 2024 race – and given Democrats new hope of preventing a second Donald Trump presidency. Bright green, pro-Harris memes have erupted across social media. Fundraising exploded, with Harris’ campaign saying she raised $126 million between

Continue Reading

Harris says she ‘will not be silent’ on Gaza suffering while telling Netanyahu to get ceasefire deal done

By Sam Fossum and Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris vowed to “not be silent” about suffering in Gaza amid the Israel-Hamas war, saying she expressed her “serious concern” to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Thursday while telling him it is time to lock down a ceasefire deal. “Israel has a right

Continue Reading

Kamala Harris Fast Facts

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of former US Vice President Kamala Harris. Personal Birth date: October 20, 1964 Birth place: Oakland, California Birth name: Kamala Devi Harris Father: Donald Harris, economics professor Mother: Shyamala Gopalan Harris, physician Marriage: Douglas Emhoff (2014-present) Education: Howard University, B.A. political science and

Continue Reading

Justice Elena Kagan says Supreme Court’s code of conduct needs an enforcement plan. Takeaways from her wide-ranging comments.

By Devan Cole, CNN Sacramento, California (CNN) — Justice Elena Kagan on Thursday defended the code of conduct the Supreme Court created last year, but conceded there needs to be a way to enforce the rules for it to be more effective. “I think that the rules that we put out are good ones,” Kagan said at a judicial

Continue Reading

Exclusive: Haley offers no apologies for what she said about Trump during primary and defends choice to back him over Harris

CNN By Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley offered no apologies Thursday for the “tough things” she said about Donald Trump during their bruising Republican primary fight, but she told CNN’s Jake Tapper she does not doubt her choice to support the former president over presumptive Democratic nominee Kamala Harris

Continue Reading

Exclusive: Haley offers no apologies for what she said about Trump during primary and defends choice to back him over Harris

By Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley offered no apologies Thursday for the “tough things” she said about Donald Trump during their bruising Republican primary fight, but she told CNN’s Jake Tapper she does not doubt her choice to support the former president over presumptive Democratic nominee Kamala Harris in

Continue Reading

Exclusive: Haley offers no apologies for what she said about Trump during primary and defends choice to back him over Harris

CNN By Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley offered no apologies Thursday for the “tough things” she said about Donald Trump during their bruising Republican primary fight, but she told CNN’s Jake Tapper she does not doubt her choice to support the former president over presumptive Democratic nominee Kamala Harris

Continue Reading

Exclusive: Haley offers no apologies for what she said about Trump during primary and defends choice to back him over Harris

CNN By Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley offered no apologies Thursday for the “tough things” she said about Donald Trump during their bruising Republican primary fight, but she told CNN’s Jake Tapper she does not doubt her choice to support the former president over presumptive Democratic nominee Kamala Harris

Continue Reading

New York prosecutors say evidence in Trump trial was ‘overwhelming’ and conviction should stand

By Kara Scannell and Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — Manhattan prosecutors said there is no basis to overturn Donald Trump’s conviction in the hush money case after the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity. Any error, they argued in a filing Thursday, is “harmless” when viewed against “overwhelming evidence” of the former president’s guilt. Trump’s

Continue Reading

Former AG Bill Barr personally involved in decision to publicize details of 2020 mail-in ballot probe, DOJ watchdog finds

By Hannah Rabinowitz and Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — A Justice Department watchdog has found that former Attorney General Bill Barr was personally involved in the decision to publicize an incident from the 2020 election – nine mail-in ballots for Donald Trump being discarded in a dumpster in Pennsylvania – that flamed the false narrative

Continue Reading

Fact check: Trump made at least 10 false claims about Kamala Harris in a single rally speech

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump made at least 10 false claims about Vice President Kamala Harris in his first campaign rally since she became the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. Trump, speaking in North Carolina, attacked Harris at length with a flurry of assertions about her personal and political past,

Continue Reading

Doug Emhoff’s ex-wife defends Harris against sexist criticisms of her as childless

CNN By Sunlen Serfaty and Michael Williams, CNN Washington (CNN) — The ex-wife of second gentleman Doug Emhoff on Wednesday defended Vice President Kamala Harris against sexist criticisms about her lack of biological children, calling them “baseless” and expressing her gratitude for the presumptive Democratic nominee. “These are baseless attacks. For over 10 years, since

Continue Reading

Judge rebukes Hunter Biden’s lawyers for ‘false statements’ in their bid to toss tax indictment

By Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — A judge on Wednesday chided Hunter Biden’s lawyers and threatened to sanction them for “making false statements” in their recent motion to throw out his federal tax indictment. District Judge Mark Scarsi issued the warning in a 3-page order where he called out Hunter Biden’s lawyers for “misrepresenting the

Continue Reading

NORAD intercepts Russian and Chinese bombers operating together near Alaska in first such flight

By Oren Liebermann and Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — The North American Aerospace Defense Command intercepted two Russian and two Chinese bombers flying near Alaska Wednesday in what a US defense official said was the first time the two countries have been intercepted while operating together. The bombers remained in international airspace in Alaska’s Air

Continue Reading

Doug Emhoff’s ex-wife defends Harris against sexist criticisms of her as childless

By Sunlen Serfaty and Michael Williams, CNN Washington (CNN) — The ex-wife of second gentleman Doug Emhoff on Wednesday defended Vice President Kamala Harris against sexist criticisms about her lack of biological children, calling them “baseless” and expressing her gratitude for the presumptive Democratic nominee. “These are baseless attacks. For over 10 years, since Cole

Continue Reading

Doug Emhoff’s ex-wife defends Harris against sexist criticisms of her as childless

CNN By Sunlen Serfaty and Michael Williams, CNN Washington (CNN) — The ex-wife of second gentleman Doug Emhoff on Wednesday defended Vice President Kamala Harris against sexist criticisms about her lack of biological children, calling them “baseless” and expressing her gratitude for the presumptive Democratic nominee. “These are baseless attacks. For over 10 years, since

Continue Reading

Fact check: Harris falsely claims Project 2025 blueprint calls for cutting Social Security

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — In the first rally of her presidential campaign on Tuesday, presumptive Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris wrongly described parts of the conservative Project 2025 blueprint for a potential second Donald Trump presidency. The 920-page Project 2025 blueprint was organized by The Heritage Foundation think tank and developed in significant part by

Continue Reading

Roger Stone sentencing proposal change was ‘highly unusual’ but politics didn’t play an improper role, DOJ watchdog says

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department’s decision to water down the sentence proposal for Roger Stone, a Donald Trump ally convicted of lying to Congress, was “highly unusual,” the department’s internal watchdog said Wednesday, but that it did not find evidence that politics played an improper role. The investigation was launched after

Continue Reading

What is DEI? Republicans are using the term to attack Kamala Harris, but experts say it’s widely misunderstood

By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN (CNN) — The ongoing controversy surrounding diversity, equity and inclusion has spilled over into the 2024 presidential race with Vice President Kamala Harris on the path to becoming the Democratic nominee. Earlier this week, Tennessee Republican Rep. Tim Burchett suggested in an interview with CNN’s Manu Raju that President Joe

Continue Reading

Carol Moseley Braun Fast Facts

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of former US Senator Carol Moseley Braun. Personal Birth date: August 16, 1947 Birth place: Chicago, Illinois Birth name: Carol Elizabeth Moseley Father: Joseph Moseley, policeman Mother: Edna (Davie) Moseley, medical assistant Marriage: Michael Braun (1973-1986, divorced) Children: Matthew Education: University of Illinois,

Continue Reading

CNN Poll: Harris improves on Biden’s performance against Trump in early look at new matchup

By Ariel Edwards-Levy and Jennifer Agiesta, CNN (CNN) — The likely 2024 presidential election campaign between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump begins with no clear leader, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS after President Joe Biden ended his bid for reelection. Trump holds 49% support among registered voters

Continue Reading

Netanyahu labels critics of war in Gaza ‘Iran’s useful idiots’ in speech to Congress

CNN By Clare Foran, Michael Williams and Jennifer Hansler, CNN Washington (CNN) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lashed out against protests of Israel’s ongoing war against Hamas in Gaza, broadly disparaging anti-Israel protesters as “Iran’s useful idiots” in an address to Congress on Wednesday. Netanyahu’s address to Congress comes at a crucial crossroads for the war. US officials have voiced optimism about

Continue Reading

Netanyahu labels critics of war in Gaza ‘Iran’s useful idiots’ in speech to Congress

By Clare Foran, Michael Williams and Jennifer Hansler, CNN Washington (CNN) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lashed out against protests of Israel’s ongoing war against Hamas in Gaza, broadly disparaging anti-Israel protesters as “Iran’s useful idiots” in an address to Congress on Wednesday. Netanyahu’s address to Congress comes at a crucial crossroads for the war. US officials have voiced optimism about the

Continue Reading

Trump slams Harris as an ‘ultra-liberal’ as he returns to the campaign trail under a reshaped political landscape

By Steve Contorno, Kristen Holmes and Kit Maher, CNN Charlotte, North Carolina (CNN) — Donald Trump stepped onto the campaign trail Wednesday to an entirely new race and a political landscape once again irrevocably altered by an unprecedented election year. The former president’s rally here was his first since President Joe Biden abruptly ended his

Continue Reading

Trump campaign files FEC complaint trying to block Biden funds transferring to Harris

CNN By Kristen Holmes, Kate Sullivan and Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — The Trump campaign on Tuesday filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission arguing money raised for President Joe Biden’s reelection bid cannot be transferred to Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign. The complaint was filed by the Trump campaign’s general counsel David

Continue Reading

Trump said he’d consider Jamie Dimon for Treasury secretary but now says he doesn’t know who said that

By Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump said in a recent interview he would consider nominating JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon as Treasury Secretary, but on Tuesday said he doesn’t know who said that or where that came from. In an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek published earlier this month, Trump said, “I

Continue Reading

Trump campaign files FEC complaint trying to block Biden funds transferring to Harris

By Kristen Holmes, Kate Sullivan and Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — The Trump campaign on Tuesday filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission arguing money raised for President Joe Biden’s reelection bid cannot be transferred to Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign. The complaint was filed by the Trump campaign’s general counsel David Warrington

Continue Reading

Pennsylvania state police commissioner reveals stunning details about Trump shooting

CNN By Holmes Lybrand and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — A local law enforcement commissioner revealed during a House Homeland Security hearing on Tuesday stunning new details about the security failures that led to the near assassination of Donald Trump, raising more questions for the embattled US Secret Service. Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner Christopher Paris’

Continue Reading

Pennsylvania state police commissioner reveals stunning details about Trump shooting

By Holmes Lybrand and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — A local law enforcement commissioner revealed during a House Homeland Security hearing on Tuesday stunning new details about the security failures that led to the near assassination of Donald Trump, raising more questions for the embattled US Secret Service. Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner Christopher Paris’ striking

Continue Reading