Politics

By Curt Devine, Kyung Lah and Allison Gordon, CNN (CNN) — When a man called to confess he had shot his wife, was armed with an AR-15 and planned to kill himself, police in Jefferson City, Missouri raced to the scene. Heavily armed officers ordered the homeowner to walk outside with his hands up. From the doorway,

By Clare Foran, Brian Fung and Haley Talbot, CNN The House voted with bipartisan, overwhelming fashion on Wednesday to pass a bill that could lead to a nationwide ban against TikTok, a major challenge to one of the world’s most popular social media apps. The bill would prohibit TikTok from US app stores unless the social media

By Kristen Holmes, Daniel Strauss and Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The Republican National Committee, now under the control of former President Donald Trump and his campaign, is bringing on a slate of new lawyers both internally and externally who will focus intensely on election fraud, an issue Trump has remained fixated on. The lawyers “will

CNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — A highly anticipated NASA mission slated for October will aim to send a spacecraft to Jupiter’s moon Europa, an ocean world considered to be one of the best places to search for life beyond Earth. The spacecraft will carry names, poetry and messages symbolizing our humanity to potential

By Aaron Pellish and Eva McKend, CNN (CNN) — Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will announce his running mate on March 26 in Oakland, California, his campaign announced Wednesday. “This event will be a pivotal moment in our country’s history! You will not want to miss it,” the campaign said. In an interview

CNN By Aaron Pellish and Eva McKend, CNN (CNN) — Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will announce his running mate on March 26 in Oakland, California, his campaign announced Wednesday. “This event will be a pivotal moment in our country’s history! You will not want to miss it,” the campaign said. In an

By Lauren del Valle, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump’s defense team says it will emphasize his past lawyers’ involvement in payments at the center of an alleged hush money scheme when his New York criminal case related to the matter goes to trial later this month. The former president’s legal team filed a notice with

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — A bipartisan panel of judges in North Carolina has ruled that the Republican-controlled state legislature improperly tried to seize control of state and local election boards from Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper – a consequential decision in a state that could emerge as a key battleground in November’s presidential election.

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — US intelligence officials “cannot rule out” the possibility that the Chinese government will use TikTok to influence the 2024 US elections, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines told lawmakers on Tuesday. Haines’ comment, in response to a question from a lawmaker during a House Intelligence Committee hearing, comes after US

By Gregory Krieg, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump has clinched the Republican nomination for president, CNN projects, setting up a rematch with Joe Biden, the incumbent president who secured the Democratic nomination earlier Tuesday night. Biden and Trump will win their parties’ presidential primaries in Georgia, Mississippi and Washington, while Trump will also win the

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — Two Supreme Court justices on Tuesday urged Americans to turn down the temperature of civic discourse – even as the high court is working through some of the most charged political cases to land on its docket in years. “Why should any of us want to obliterate the opposition

By Nick Valencia and Jason Morris, CNN (CNN) — The presiding judge in former President Donald Trump’s Georgia election subversion case says he is on track to order this week on whether to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. In an interview last week on WSB Radio in Atlanta to discuss the challenger he will

CNN By Clare Foran, CNN Republican Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado, a hardline conservative who has clashed with his own party at times, announced on Tuesday that he will leave Congress at the end of next week. Buck criticized dysfunction on Capitol Hill in discussing his decision to leave, telling CNN’s Dana Bash, “It is

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — The policy-making body of the federal judiciary is clamping down on the system that conservatives have successfully used in recent years to hamstring President Joe Biden’s agenda and other federal policies, including those concerning reproductive rights. The new policy seeks to curb “judge-shopping,” the strategy where litigants strategically file lawsuits in courthouses where the

CNN Opinion by Gary Ross (CNN) — Over the past year, we’ve seen an alarming wave of current or former senior government officials who reportedly failed to properly safeguard classified information. This includes classified documents recovered from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in August 2022 and additional classified material discovered and surrendered from the homes of President

By Oren Liebermann, Haley Britzky and Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration announced another package of military aid to Ukraine worth up to $300 million on Tuesday after months of warning there was no money left, with officials saying the new funding became available as a results of savings made in weapons contracts. National security adviser Jake

By Clare Foran, CNN Republican Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado, a hardline conservative who has clashed with his own party at times, announced on Tuesday that he will leave Congress at the end of next week. Buck criticized dysfunction on Capitol Hill in discussing his decision to leave, telling CNN’s Dana Bash, “It is the

By Melanie Zanona and Haley Talbot, CNN Many Republicans plan to skip the House GOP retreat as they grumble about both the location and the idea of spending time with one another, with tensions still running high inside the party in the wake of their unprecedented speakership drama. Fewer than 100 Republicans have RSVP’d to

By Michael Williams and Donald Judd, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden met on Tuesday with leaders from the International Brotherhood of Teamsters as he tries to court the crucial union vote ahead of November. Biden is competing with former President Donald Trump for a Teamsters endorsement. With more than 1 million members, the

By Jeremy Herb and Marshall Cohen, CNN Former special counsel Robert Hur appeared before Congress on Tuesday to explain his investigation into President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents – which led to no charges against the president but plenty of consternation among Democrats when Hur described Biden as a “well-meaning, elderly man with a

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Dozens of states are rolling out new climate plans to tackle planet-warming pollution in preparation to compete for billions of dollars of funding in President Joe Biden’s signature climate bill. Forty-seven states and territories, including deeply red states like Alaska, Missouri, Montana, Utah and Alabama, are planning to install

By John Fritze and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday extended a temporary freeze on the enforcement of Texas’ controversial immigration law that allows state law enforcement to arrest and detain people they suspect of entering the country illegally. Without action from the high court, the Texas law would have gone

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris acknowledged the heightened emotions surrounding the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, saying in an interview with Snapchat that she understands the frustration as the campaign tries to quell voter concerns. Harris has forcefully spoken about the situation unfolding in Gaza, most recently in remarks in Selma,

CNN By Marshall Cohen, Annie Grayer and Clare Foran, CNN (CNN) — All eyes on Tuesday will be on special counsel Robert Hur, who investigated President Joe Biden’s mishandling of classified documents and delivered a political bombshell with his conclusions about Biden’s memory. The special counsel is set to testify at the GOP-run House Judiciary Committee,

By CNN staff (CNN) — Special counsel Robert Hur, who investigated President Joe Biden’s mishandling of classified documents, is set to testify Tuesday at the GOP-run House Judiciary Committee, where he’ll be peppered with questions about his 388-page report released last month. Read a draft of his opening statement obtained by CNN, below. The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2024

By Evan Perez and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN President Joe Biden told jokes and unfurled lengthy detailed stories from his decadeslong political career as he parried questions from special counsel Robert Hur and his investigators over two days last October, a transcript of the interview reviewed by CNN shows. The Justice Department has sent the transcript to Congress, which had

By Marshall Cohen, Annie Grayer and Clare Foran, CNN (CNN) — All eyes on Tuesday will be on special counsel Robert Hur, who investigated President Joe Biden’s mishandling of classified documents and delivered a political bombshell with his conclusions about Biden’s memory. The special counsel is set to testify at the GOP-run House Judiciary Committee, where

CNN Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump’s politics are mostly focused on himself, as opposed to an ideology, but two notable evolutions this week – on Social Security and TikTok – spotlight something new. Both Trump and President Joe Biden will look to sell their policy positions now that

By Hannah Rabinowitz, Holmes Lybrand and Paula Reid, CNN Robert Hur, at the start of his special counsel probe into Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents, was lauded as an experienced and fair federal prosecutor who was well-versed in handling high-profile and complex investigations. Then, after a year of near-total public silence, he released a damning

By Jack Forrest, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump endorsed former Rep. Mike Rogers’ bid for Senate in Michigan on Monday, backing national Republicans’ pick to try to flip the open seat in the fall. “Mike has served his Country during a career loaded up with accolades and wins, from the Army to Congress,

By Melanie Zanona and Haley Talbot, CNN (CNN) — House Republicans are pressing ahead with a Wednesday floor vote on legislation that would ban TikTok in the United States unless it part ways with its Chinese parent company, even as former President Donald Trump has signaled some uneasiness over the legislation. House Energy and Commerce

By Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — Brian Butler, a former Mar-a-Lago worker referenced as “Trump Employee Number 5” in the classified documents indictment of Donald Trump, spoke exclusively with CNN on Monday about what he saw at the former president’s private club and the subsequent fallout after a search there by federal investigators. Butler’s interview with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins provides new details

By Daniel Strauss, CNN (CNN) — The Republican National Committee began laying off dozens of staffers on Monday, days after Donald Trump’s handpicked team took the reins of the organization, according to two Republican operatives with knowledge of the dismissals. The layoffs affect staffers across multiple departments, the sources said. The cuts also go beyond senior

By Steve Contorno and Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — Shortly after Donald Trump called into CNBC Monday morning, a host on the financial network’s flagship show posed a straightforward question: How did the former president’s vision for the country compare to the one President Joe Biden laid out in last week’s State of the Union

By Marshall Cohen, Melanie Zanona and Holmes Lybrand, CNN The January 6 committee withheld witness transcripts from the public that undercut some of their most explosive claims about the insurrection, House Republicans alleged in a report released Monday. Some of the withheld transcripts include testimony from the driver of Trump’s SUV on January 6 and Trump

By Katie Bo Lillis and Michael Conte, CNN (CNN) — The US intelligence community assesses Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “viability as a leader” to be “in jeopardy,” according to its annual report on the national security threats facing the United States that was presented to Congress on Monday. “Distrust of Netanyahu’s ability to rule

CNN By Katelyn Polantz, Kaitlan Collins and Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — A longtime Mar-a-Lago employee who is a central witness in the investigation into former President Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents is now speaking publicly because he believes that voters should hear the truth about his former boss and the case before the

By Lauren del Valle and Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — Attorneys for E. Jean Carroll are not ruling out another defamation lawsuit against Donald Trump, who’s continued his attacks on the writer after two federal juries have ordered multimillion-dollar verdicts against him for defaming her. Trump claimed Carroll’s accusations against him were false in an

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The United States wants to reopen an embassy in Libya – a decade after suspending operations there – as Russia maintains an influential foothold in the country. In the State Department’s fiscal year 2025 request, the agency asks for $12.7 million “to enable a potential resumption of embassy operations

Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — Special counsel Robert Hur, who spent a year investigating the discovery of classified material at President Joe Biden’s former office and Delaware home, is back in the news. The White House, citing executive privilege, has refused to hand over to House Republicans recordings of Biden talking with

By Devan Cole, CNN Washington (CNN) — A longtime Mar-a-Lago employee who is a central witness in the investigation into former President Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents, aka – “Trump Employee 5” – spoke publicly for the first time in an exclusive interview with CNN. The classified documents case is one of four criminal

By Katelyn Polantz, Kaitlan Collins and Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — A longtime Mar-a-Lago employee who is a central witness in the investigation into former President Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents is now speaking publicly because he believes that voters should hear the truth about his former boss and the case before the November

CNN By Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — Brian Butler, a former Mar-a-Lago worker referenced as “Trump Employee Number 5” in the classified documents indictment of Donald Trump, spoke exclusively with CNN on Monday about what he saw at the former president’s private club and the subsequent fallout after a search there by federal investigators. Butler’s interview with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins provides new

By Tami Luhby and Katie Lobosco, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden released his annual budget Monday, laying out policy proposals that he will campaign on as he seeks reelection in November. Many of the initiatives are longstanding priorities of Biden and congressional Democrats, including raising taxes on big corporations and the wealthy, lowering expenses

By Kate Sullivan and Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump on Monday suggested he was open to making cuts to Social Security and Medicare after opposing touching the entitlement programs and attacking his GOP presidential primary rivals over the issue. Trump was asked in an interview with CNBC whether he had changed

By Lauren del Valle, CNN (CNN) — Attorneys for Donald Trump want to delay the start of his upcoming New York criminal trial until the US Supreme Court weighs in on presidential immunity, according to a new motion – a ruling that may not come until late June. The criminal trial related to hush money

By Nikki Carvajal and Michael Williams, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden announced Monday that Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge will leave the administration. Fudge said in a statement she had “worked tirelessly to ensure that America lives up to its promise of liberty and justice for all” and announced that with

CNN By Sabrina Souza and Jeff Winter, CNN (CNN) — New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez pleaded not guilty on Monday to 12 new felony charges alleging he tried to obstruct a federal investigation into bribery allegations. Menendez was indicted last week on new charges including bribery and extortion. Prosecutors alleged that he led his

By Sabrina Souza and Jeff Winter, CNN (CNN) — New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez pleaded not guilty on Monday to 12 new felony charges alleging he tried to obstruct a federal investigation into bribery allegations. Menendez was indicted last week on new charges including bribery and extortion. Prosecutors alleged that he led his lawyers

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — Ex-Trump adviser Peter Navarro must report to a federal prison in Miami by March 19 to begin serving a four-month sentence for his contempt of Congress conviction, his attorneys said on Sunday. “Dr. Navarro has now been ordered to report to the custody of the Bureau of Prisons, FCI Miami, on

CNN By Katie Bo Lillis, Natasha Bertrand, Oren Liebermann and Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — Russia appears on track to produce nearly three times more artillery munitions than the US and Europe, a key advantage ahead of what is expected to be another Russian offensive in Ukraine later this year. Russia is producing about 250,000

CNN By Katie Bo Lillis, Natasha Bertrand, Oren Liebermann and Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — Russia appears on track to produce nearly three times more artillery munitions than the US and Europe, a key advantage ahead of what is expected to be another Russian offensive in Ukraine later this year. Russia is producing about 250,000

By Sam Fossum, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden released his annual budget on Monday, laying out his aspirational funding priorities in what serves as an important messaging event as he works to convince voters who are sour on the economy to give him a second term. The $7.266 trillion budget outlined by the White

By Kevin Liptak, Betsy Klein and Tami Luhby, CNN Goffstown, New Hampshire (CNN) — President Joe Biden highlighted and hit back against comments from former President Donald Trump Monday suggesting openness to entitlement reform, vowing to a largely retirement age crowd in New Hampshire that he would block any efforts to cut Medicare or Social

By Jim Sciutto, CNN (CNN) — To Donald Trump, Hungarian strongman Viktor Orbán is “fantastic,” Chinese leader Xi Jinping is “brilliant,” North Korea’s Kim Jong Un is “an OK guy,” and, most alarmingly, he allegedly said Adolf Hitler “did some good things,” a worldview that would reverse decades-old US foreign policy in a second term

By Katie Bo Lillis, Natasha Bertrand, Oren Liebermann and Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — Russia appears on track to produce nearly three times more artillery munitions than the US and Europe, a key advantage ahead of what is expected to be another Russian offensive in Ukraine later this year. Russia is producing about 250,000 artillery

CNN, POOL, MSNBC, NBC’S “MEET THE PRESS,” ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES, BILD, POLITICO, WHITE HOUSE, @ISRAELIPM, BILD/Politico By MJ Lee and Alex Marquardt, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration is not anticipating that Israeli forces will imminently expand their military operations into Rafah, two US officials told CNN, with the holy month of Ramadan set to begin Monday

CNN By Rafael Romo and Melissa Alonso, CNN (CNN) — The woman whose story Alabama Sen. Katie Britt appeared to have shared in the Republican response to the State of the Union as an example of President Joe Biden’s failed immigration policies told CNN she was trafficked before Biden’s presidency and said legislators lack empathy

By Rafael Romo and Melissa Alonso, CNN (CNN) — The woman whose story Alabama Sen. Katie Britt appeared to have shared in the Republican response to the State of the Union as an example of President Joe Biden’s failed immigration policies told CNN she was trafficked before Biden’s presidency and said legislators lack empathy when

By MJ Lee and Alex Marquardt, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration is not anticipating that Israeli forces will imminently expand their military operations into Rafah, two US officials told CNN, with the holy month of Ramadan set to begin Monday for most Muslims. Israeli war cabinet member Benny Gantz, who visited Washington last week, has warned in recent

CNN By Samantha Waldenberg, Sam Fossum and Michelle Shen, CNN (CNN) — Alabama Sen. Katie Britt on Sunday acknowledged that the graphic anecdote she employed to criticize President Joe Biden’s border policies didn’t occur during his presidency. During the Republican response to the State of the Union address on Thursday, Britt described a woman’s story of being “sex trafficked

By Samantha Waldenberg, Sam Fossum and Michelle Shen, CNN (CNN) — Alabama Sen. Katie Britt on Sunday acknowledged that the graphic anecdote she employed to criticize President Joe Biden’s border policies didn’t occur during his presidency. During the Republican response to the State of the Union address on Thursday, Britt described a woman’s story of being “sex trafficked by

By Manu Raju, CNN (CNN) — House Republican leaders are now bullishly predicting they will grow their majority in the 2024 elections, contending former President Donald Trump will be an asset in swing suburban districts that voted for President Joe Biden four years ago. For much of the past year, GOP prospects of keeping the House

By Melanie Zanona, CNN GOP leaders have counseled Arizona Senate candidate Kari Lake to avoid airing grievances about past elections and instead center her campaign on a more forward-looking message. She hasn’t exactly taken the advice. While Lake did say she is more concerned about her upcoming battle against Democratic candidate Rep. Ruben Gallego, the

By Casey Tolan, CNN (CNN) — A husband-and-wife duo whose fortune has ties to AI investments and cryptocurrency trading are quietly emerging as some of the largest backers of the main dark-money group boosting President Joe Biden. The second-largest donation in 2022 to the non-profit arm of Future Forward, the primary Super PAC supporting Biden,

CNN By Samantha Waldenberg, Sam Fossum and Michelle Shen, CNN (CNN) — Alabama Sen. Katie Britt on Sunday acknowledged that the graphic anecdote she employed to criticize President Joe Biden’s border policies didn’t occur during his presidency. During the Republican response to the State of the Union address on Thursday, Britt described a woman’s story of being “sex trafficked

By Samantha Waldenberg, CNN (CNN) — Alabama Sen. Katie Britt graphically described a woman’s story of being “sex trafficked by the cartels starting at age 12,” during the Republican response to the State of the Union address on Thursday, using the story as an anecdote of, what she called, President Joe Biden’s failed immigration policies.

By Clare Foran, Ted Barrett, Morgan Rimmer and Kristin Wilson, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden signed a package of six government funding bills into law Saturday, a day after lawmakers raced to fund critical government departments and agencies through the remainder of the fiscal year. The spending bills – backed by the top Democrats and

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — Senior US officials, Americans who had returned from detention abroad and loved ones of those who have yet to come home gathered in front of the US State Department as a new flag was raised ahead of the nation’s first-ever Hostage and Wrongful Detainee Day. “This is

By Steve Contorno, Priscilla Alvarez, Kristen Holmes and Gregory Krieg, CNN Rome, Georgia (CNN) — Sixty miles of Georgia highway and a political universe apart, Joe Biden and Donald Trump kicked off the sequel to their 2020 contest in earnest Saturday with competing rallies in what could be a decisive state this November. Biden and

By Jim Sciutto, CNN (CNN) — In late 2022, the US began “preparing rigorously” for Russia potentially striking Ukraine with a nuclear weapon, in what would have been the first nuclear attack in war since the US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki nearly eighty years before, two senior administration officials told CNN. The Biden administration was specifically concerned

By Kristen Holmes and Andrew Millman, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump heaped praise on Viktor Orbán while hosting the Hungarian prime minister at Mar-a-Lago on Friday night. “There’s nobody that’s better, smarter or a better leader than Viktor Orbán. He’s fantastic,” the former president told a crowd gathered for a concert at the Florida resort,

By Mary Kay Mallonee and Jennifer Henderson, CNN (CNN) — A US military helicopter crashed Friday afternoon near the southern border, killing two soldiers and a US Border Patrol agent, according to a statement from the military. Another soldier was injured in the incident. “We are heartbroken by the devastating loss of Border Patrol Agent

CNN By Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump has posted a $91.63 million bond as he appeals the judgment against him in the E. Jean Carroll defamation case. The notice of Trump’s bond and appeal was made with the federal court in New York on Friday. In January, a federal jury awarded

By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — An Ohio man was arrested on Friday afternoon while trying to enter the US Capitol with a hammer, US Capitol Police said in a news release. Christopher Snow, 33, of Canton, Ohio, “became combative” after a USCP officer spotted the hammer in his backpack as it went through

By Michael Williams, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden on Friday took his pitch for a second term to the crucial battleground state of Pennsylvania, contrasting himself with his predecessor in what was effectively his first rally of the 2024 general election campaign. Biden’s speech in the Philadelphia suburbs was essentially an abridged version

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — A federal agency in charge of cybersecurity discovered it was hacked last month and was forced to take two key computer systems offline, an agency spokesperson and US officials familiar with the incident told CNN. One of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s affected systems runs a program

By Priscilla Alvarez and Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge in a surprising ruling has dismissed a Texas lawsuit against a Biden administration policy that allows migrants of certain nationalities to fly to the United States if they have US sponsors. The lawsuit focused on a parole program that permits migrants from Cuba,

By John King, CNN (CNN) — Angela Lang needs to hear and see more but she called President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address a big help to her work: getting Black voters energized and to the polls. “It was a strong and firm speech,” said Lang, a community activist in Milwaukee. “Now, he needs to

By Gregory Krieg, Jason Morris, Nick Valencia and Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is already facing a charged legal battle to bar her from prosecuting the election subversion case she brought against former President Donald Trump and more than a dozen allies in Georgia. Now, she’s facing at least two new

By Natasha Bertrand, Jennifer Hansler and Alex Marquardt, CNN (CNN) — A floating pier and causeway that will be used to deliver critical humanitarian aid by sea to Gaza is expected to take at least one month or possibly as long as two for the US military to build and become fully operational, Pentagon press secretary Maj. Gen. Patrick Ryder

By Holmes Lybrand and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — Special counsel David Weiss ridiculed efforts by Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, to dismiss tax charges against him as legally baseless and steeped in a “conspiracy theory,” in court filings Friday. Hunter Biden’s attorneys have argued that the tax case against him should be dismissed

By Ali Main and Shania Shelton, CNN (CNN) — New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu said he would support former President Donald Trump’s presidential bid this week, falling in line behind the presumptive Republican nominee after former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who had earned his coveted endorsement ahead of his state’s primary, suspended her campaign

By Melanie Zanona and Haley Talbot, CNN Republican Rep. Matt Rosendale of Montana announced Friday he is not seeking reelection to his US House seat, citing “defamatory rumors.” Rosendale briefly ran for the Republican nomination for a US Senate seat in the state, but dropped out after one week when former President Donald Trump endorsed retired Navy SEAL Tim

By Josh Campbell, Shania Shelton and Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek will sign new legislation that makes possession of a small amount of drugs such as fentanyl and heroin a misdemeanor in the state, moving to recriminalize such substances roughly three years after the state became the first in the nation to

By Lauren Fox, CNN Not long before independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona publicly announced she would not run for reelection, she and Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut had a talk. For months, the two of them had worked tirelessly alongside Republican Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma to craft a bipartisan deal on immigration.

By Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — The US military is developing portable UFO detection kits to collect better data on reports of sightings as the Pentagon says there is no evidence of alien technology found in any government investigation. The new portable detection kits, consisting of an array of sensors that fit inside a protective case, are