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By Sara Murray, CNN (CNN) — Former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark – one of the 18 co-defendants indicted alongside Donald Trump in a sweeping racketeering case in Georgia – asked a judge Thursday to reject the Fulton County district attorney’s proposed March 2024 trial date, according to a new court filing. Clark’s attorney said

By Oren Liebermann and Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — The US has committed to approving the transfer of F-16 fighter jets for Ukraine as soon as training is complete, according to a US official. The plan is to make sure Ukraine has the fighter jet it has long sought the moment its pilots complete training

By Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — The apparent attempt by a super PAC supporting Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to float potential debate talking points to the Republican’s presidential campaign has stirred confusion and anger from fundraisers and donors, multiple sources told CNN. In a memo from the super PAC Never Back Down, first reported by

By Isabel Rosales and Jaide Timm-Garcia, CNN (CNN) — Erica Marsh quickly rose to fame earlier this year as a viral left-wing voice on social media. Her incendiary tweets, often ultra-liberal and hyper-political, drew millions of views and the ire of conservatives, who pointed to her outlandish comments comparing Republicans to pedophiles and conservative Supreme

By Devan Cole and Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump is asking the federal judge overseeing special counsel Jack Smith’s criminal election subversion case against him to set the trial for April 2026. In a filing Thursday evening, Trump urged US District Judge Tanya Chutkan in Washington, DC, to reject Smith’s proposal

By Kara Scannell and Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge in Delaware dismissed two tax misdemeanor charges against Hunter Biden that were filed as part of his now-defunct plea deal, paving the way for special counsel David Weiss to potentially bring more charges in another jurisdiction as part of his continuing probe. After

By Kate Sullivan and Kaitlan Collins, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump on Thursday reacted for the first time on camera to the Georgia indictment that accuses him of being the head of a “criminal enterprise” to overturn the 2020 election, dismissing the criminal charges as a “witch hunt” and a “horrible thing for

CNN By Elizabeth Stuart, Jeremy Herb and Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Fulton County’s sweeping indictment against former President Donald Trump and 18 additional co-defendants also includes details involving 30 “unindicted co-conspirators” – people who Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis alleges took part in the criminal conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election. Some of

By Elizabeth Stuart, Jeremy Herb and Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Fulton County’s sweeping indictment against former President Donald Trump and 18 additional co-defendants also includes details involving 30 “unindicted co-conspirators” – people who Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis alleges took part in the criminal conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election. Some of the

By Dianne Gallagher, CNN (CNN) — North Carolina’s Republican-controlled legislature passed a bill Wednesday that would make major changes to the state’s election laws, the latest in efforts by GOP-led jurisdictions across the country to rewrite election procedures and impose restrictions on voting practices. Senate Bill 747 would overhaul the existing election laws of the

By Kevin Liptak, Jeff Zeleny and Arlette Saenz, CNN Washington (CNN) — Long among the most sensitive subjects inside the West Wing, Hunter Biden’s legal saga now appears destined to play out amid his father’s bid for reelection, frustrating the president but so far causing little real concern among his advisers. The probe into Hunter

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration on Thursday imposed sanctions and visa restrictions on four Russian operatives involved in the 2020 poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny. Alexey Alexandrov, Konstantin Kudryavtsev, Ivan Osipov, and Vladimir Panyaev were sanctioned under the Global Magnitsky Act “for having acted as agents of or on

By Tierney Sneed (CNN) — US District Judge Aileen Cannon has canceled tentative plans to hold a hearing on August 25 on a protective order for classified evidence in the Mar-a-Lago documents case against former President Donald Trump. She said in an order Thursday that the proceeding will take place under seal at a different

By Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — The US military conducted an airstrike killing five al-Shabaab terrorists on Tuesday, US Africa Command said in a statement. The airstrike was carried out in support of Somali National Army forces “in a remote area near Cali Heele, approximately 244 kilometers North East of Mogadishu, Somalia.” The initial assessment

By Alayna Treene, CNN Washington (CNN) — Negotiations between Donald Trump’s lawyers and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ office over the details of his surrender are expected to continue into next week, a source with knowledge of the talks tells CNN. This means the former president’s surrender is expected next week – not Thursday

By Donie O’Sullivan, Marshall Cohen and Nick Valencia, CNN (CNN) — Names, photographs, social media profiles and even the home addresses purportedly belonging to members of the Fulton County grand jury that this week voted to indict former President Donald Trump and 18 co-defendants are circulating on social media – with experts saying that some

By Natasha Bertrand and Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration is searching for ways to keep US forces and assets in Niger to continue anti-terror operations, even as it becomes increasingly unlikely that the military junta that overthrew the country’s government last month will cede power back to the democratically elected president. The

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — Just hours after former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows was dealt state charges accusing him, along with 18 other defendants including Donald Trump, of taking part in a broad criminal conspiracy to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results, he mounted an effort to move his case to federal

By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — A conservative retired federal judge on Wednesday condemned former President Donald Trump’s criticisms of judges hearing criminal cases brought against him, calling the recent attacks “unprecedented” and “inexcusable.” “The former president’s comments and attacks on the federal judiciary and on the specific individual judges who will preside over

CNN By Kaitlan Collins and Paula Reid, CNN (CNN) — With his attorney in tow, Rudy Giuliani traveled to Mar-a-Lago in recent months on a mission to make a personal and desperate appeal to former President Donald Trump to pay his legal bills. By going in person, a source familiar with the matter told CNN,

By Kaitlan Collins and Paula Reid, CNN (CNN) — With his attorney in tow, Rudy Giuliani traveled to Mar-a-Lago in recent months on a mission to make a personal and desperate appeal to former President Donald Trump to pay his legal bills. By going in person, a source familiar with the matter told CNN, Giuliani

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice (CNN) — Prosecutors from the special counsel’s office have raised ethical questions about the attorney representing one of Donald Trump’s co-defendants in the Mar-a-Lago documents criminal case, marking the second time they’ve raised potential issues about lawyers representing multiple people who’ve worked for the former president. The

By Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — The current thinking among Donald Trump’s campaign advisers and those close to the former president is that he is not planning on participating in next week’s Republican presidential primary debate, three sources familiar with his plans tell CNN, and has been proposing counterprogramming to the event. The sources say

By Kaanita Iyer and Ethan Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The issue of recreational marijuana legalization will be on Ohio’s general election ballot in November after the initiative gathered enough signatures, the Ohio secretary of state’s office announced Wednesday. With the ballot measure, Ohio joins several states that have taken on the issue in recent years.

By Dianne Gallagher, CNN (CNN) — The North Carolina legislature’s Republican supermajority voted to override vetoes from the state’s Democratic governor on a slew of bills Wednesday evening, including a trio of measures that target transgender youth. The House’s and Senate’s override votes, which passed largely along party lines, mean bills that ban gender-affirming care

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden made three false claims about his own past in a Tuesday speech in Milwaukee. The speech was focused on the economy and the Inflation Reduction Act the president signed into law one year ago Wednesday, and his economic claims in the prepared address were almost

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — A Georgia indictment of former President Donald Trump for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election lists at least 27 lies Trump told about the election – and that’s counting conservatively. The new indictment, handed up Monday by a grand jury in Fulton County, Georgia, is the second

By Priscilla Alvarez and Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — The White House ordered federal agencies to shore up their cybersecurity after agencies have lagged in implementing a key executive order President Joe Biden issued in 2021, according to a memo first obtained by CNN. Multiple federal departments and agencies have, as of the end of

By Aaron Pellish, Eva McKend and Kim Berryman, CNN (CNN) — After two hours at the Iowa State Fair spent posing for photos, glad-handing attendees visiting the livestock barn and indulging in carnival games and the famous pork chop grill, Tim Scott was heading for the exits when he stopped to meet a group of

By Donald Judd (CNN) — President Joe Biden celebrated the first anniversary of his administration’s signature climate and health care law on Wednesday – and knocked Republicans for opposing the measure during a lively event in the White House’s East Room. “The idea that not one single Republican voted for it, you know, I and

By Lauren del Valle, CNN (CNN) — A campaign fundraiser for indicted US Rep. George Santos has been charged for allegedly impersonating a high-ranking congressional aide to solicit contributions for the New York Republican’s campaign in 2021, according to court documents. A federal grand jury in Brooklyn indicted Samuel Miele, who worked for the Santos

By Jennifer Hansler, Kylie Atwood and Kayla Tausche, CNN (CNN) — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke by phone on Wednesday with American Paul Whelan, who is being held in a remote prison camp in Russia, a source familiar told CNN. The top US diplomat told Whelan to “keep the faith and we’re doing

By Zachary Cohen and Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has asked a judge to set a trial date of March 4, 2024, for former President Donald Trump and his 18 co-defendants – a proposal that would put the Republican presidential candidate on trial a day before he competes in

By Tierney Sneed (CNN) — A federal appeals court on Wednesday wiped away a lower court’s ruling that would’ve taken the medication abortion drug mifepristone off the market, but upheld aspects of the ruling that could cut back access to the pills. The ruling from a conservative three-judge panel of the 5th US Circuit Court

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The family members of two Americans who were released into house arrest in Iran last week as part of a deal aimed at bringing them back home to the United States hit back at criticisms about the prospective agreement. “First and foremost, we need to bring Americans home and

By Alayna Treene, CNN Washington (CNN) — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump are in “ongoing negotiations” with the Fulton County District attorney’s office regarding details of his surrender, two sources familiar with the talks tell CNN. As of now, they have not yet landed on a date for when Trump will surrender, the sources

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — If there’s one thing that can be said about the sprawling, 41-count grand jury indictment that has been returned against former President Donald Trump and 18 of his supporters, it’s that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis – the Atlanta-based prosecutor who assembled the case – is swinging for

CNN By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — If there’s one thing that can be said about the sprawling, 41-count grand jury indictment that has been returned against former President Donald Trump and 18 of his supporters, it’s that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis – the Atlanta-based prosecutor who assembled the case – is swinging

CNN By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — If there’s one thing that can be said about the sprawling, 41-count grand jury indictment that has been returned against former President Donald Trump and 18 of his supporters, it’s that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis – the Atlanta-based prosecutor who assembled the case – is swinging

By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden and first lady Dr. Jill Biden will travel to Hawaii on Monday, the White House announced, as search, rescue and recovery efforts continue following the devastating wildfires there. “The President and First Lady will travel to Maui on Monday, August 21 to meet with first responders,

By Jasmine Wright and Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris had some words of advice for Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan last year after Congress passed the Biden administration’s sweeping health care, tax, and climate law. “It is disadvantaged and low-income communities that are on the front lines of climate impacts,”

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — Darian Dalili has not seen his father since 2016, when Shahab traveled to Iran for a family funeral and was detained. The Dalili family had been hopeful that their seven year nightmare could be coming to an end amid reports that a fourth unnamed American might be included in

By Jason Morris, Marshall Cohen and Jack Forrest, CNN Atlanta (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump is expected to surrender at the Fulton County jail, the local sheriff said Tuesday in a statement, along with the other 18 co-defendants charged on Monday in the Georgia 2020 election subversion case. Trump, who was charged with 13

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice (CNN) — The special counsel’s investigation into Donald Trump and the aftermath of the 2020 election sought the former president’s Twitter direct messages, of which there were many, federal prosecutors and lawyers for Twitter revealed in newly unsealed transcripts from February court hearings about the search warrant.

By Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — Florida taxpayers paid $8.8 million to protect Gov. Ron DeSantis and his family over the past year as he laid the groundwork for and then launched a presidential campaign, according to a new state report. The report, released by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, covers July 1, 2022,

By Katelyn Polantz, Tierney Sneed and Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — Rudy Giuliani is staring down hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal bills and sanctions amid numerous lawsuits in addition to the new criminal charges – related to his work for Donald Trump after the 2020 election. In court on Monday, the former New

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — Former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows is seeking to move the Fulton County, Georgia, prosecution against him to federal court so that he can try to get the case dismissed under federal law. Meadows argued in a new court filing submitted in the US District Court

By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump’s biggest detractors in the 2024 Republican presidential race offered mixed reactions Tuesday to the former president’s indictment by a Georgia grand jury. Trump has remained defiant in the face of the new charges against him and 18 others stemming from their efforts to overturn his 2020 electoral

By Lauren Fox and Morgan Rimmer, CNN (CNN) — A handful of conservatives in the House are already raising concerns about the length of a short-term budget fix after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Monday night in a conference-wide call that Republicans would need to pass a measure extending current spending levels in order to

By Devan Cole, CNN Washington (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump and his 18 co-defendants have been accused of breaking a variety of criminal laws in the Georgia 2020 election subversion case, but one crime ties all their alleged misconduct together: the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. The state law – which is commonly

By Lauren del Valle, CNN (CNN) — The former head of counterintelligence for the FBI’s New York field office pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of conspiracy in connection to a scheme working for a sanctioned Russian oligarch in 2021. Charles McGonigal, a 22-year veteran of the FBI who retired in 2018, pleaded guilty in

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN Washington (CNN) — Suspected Chinese hackers breached the personal and campaign email accounts of a Republican congressman who has been critical of the Chinese government, the lawmaker said in a social media post on Monday. Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska is the first known lawmaker to have their email account hacked

By Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — Special counsel David Weiss said the deal his team previously reached with Hunter Biden to resolve a felony gun possession charge was never approved by a probation officer and is not binding. The Justice Department prosecutors said in a court filing on Tuesday that for the “diversion agreement” to

By Shawn Nottingham, CNN (CNN) — Carlos de Oliveira, the Mar-a-Lago property manager, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to multiple obstruction-related offenses tied to former President Donald Trump’s alleged unlawful retention of documents after leaving office, including classified material at Trump’s Florida resort. De Oliveira, 56, was accompanied by his attorney at the arraignment, which lasted

By Betsy Klein and Kevin Liptak, CNN Milwaukee, Wisconsin (CNN) — President Joe Biden hasn’t let his predecessor’s previous three indictments stop him from traveling the country and trying to break through with a pitch on “Bidenomics.” On Tuesday, he tried again in Wisconsin, hoping his argument about more jobs and manufacturing can lend at

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump has launched a barrage of attacks, many of them dishonest, against the Georgia district attorney who is prosecuting him over his attempts to overturn his 2020 election defeat in the state. Both before and after he was indicted Monday in Fulton County, Trump targeted

By Kara Scannell, CNN Washington (CNN) — Hunter Biden’s lead criminal defense attorney asked a federal judge on Tuesday for permission to withdraw from the case because he could now be called as a witness in future proceedings. Christopher Clark, Biden’s longtime defense lawyer, filed a motion with the Delaware judge who has overseen the

By Betsy Klein and Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday said he will travel to Maui soon to visit the devastation left behind by wildfires that ravaged the Hawaiian island last week, leaving scores dead and untold damage. In his first comments on the disaster since late last week, Biden said

By Jeremy Herb and Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump on Monday was criminally charged for the fourth time this year in a sweeping Georgia indictment accusing him of being the head of a “criminal enterprise” to overturn the 2020 election. The indictment from Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis included 18

By Jack Forrest, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump for the second time this month has been indicted on charges related to 2020 election subversion, this time in the state of Georgia – a stunning fourth time this year that the former president has faced criminal charges. But could the former president, who remains the front-runner

By Marshall Cohen and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — An Atlanta-based grand jury on Monday indicted former President Donald Trump and 18 co-defendants on state charges stemming from their efforts to overturn the former president’s 2020 electoral defeat in the Peach State. Here are the 19 people charged in the Georgia case, according to the

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn his defeat in Georgia in the 2020 presidential election was built on lies. Beginning on Election Night in November 2020 and continuing into 2023, Trump has delivered a relentless barrage of false claims about what happened in Georgia. These claims ranged

By CNN (CNN) — An Atlanta-based grand jury on Monday indicted former President Donald Trump on state charges stemming from his efforts to overturn his 2020 electoral defeat in the Peach State. Read the indictment: The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2023 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — Special counsel Jack Smith’s office argued Monday that allowing Donald Trump to set up a secure room for discussing the classified evidence in the documents case at his Florida residence, as the former president has requested, would be giving him “special treatment” that no other defendant would receive. “Creating

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump is trying to put on hold one of the January 6-related lawsuits he faces because he is now facing criminal charges. The lawsuit accuses Trump of having responsibility for the death of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick and is at an

By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — Cecily Aguilar, the woman charged in connection with the 2020 killing of Army Spc. Vanessa Guillen, has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison. Aguilar pleaded guilty last year to one count of accessory after the fact, and three counts of making a false statement. Aguilar’s boyfriend at

By Alayna Treene and Katelyn Polantz, CNN Washington (CNN) — Donald Trump’s frustration over his ability to speak publicly about his federal election conspiracy case is fueling his plans to continue posting about it on social media, slamming the judge over the weekend after she warned him not to intimidate witnesses, obstruct justice or try

By Ethan Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The Nevada Republican Party will hold its 2024 presidential caucuses on February 8, the party announced Monday. That date will make Nevada the third Republican presidential nominating contest after the Iowa caucuses, which are scheduled for January 15, and the New Hampshire primary, which doesn’t yet have an official

By Jamie Gangel and Jack Forrest, CNN Washington (CNN) — Nearly a dozen Republican-appointed former judges and high-ranking federal senior legal officials on Monday endorsed the January 2, 2024, trial date proposed by special counsel Jack Smith in his 2020 election interference criminal case against Donald Trump. The amicus brief was submitted to the United

By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — Another US military service chief has relinquished command without a Senate-confirmed replacement in place, marking the first time in the Defense Department’s history that three services are operating without a confirmed senior military officer in place. Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday relinquished command on Monday. His nominated

By Shawna Mizelle, CNN Washington (CNN) — A Fulton County Superior Court judge who has presided over key parts of the Georgia probe against former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn 2020 election results in the Peach State has demonstrated a willingness to speak frankly to both sides of the contentious proceeding. It’s unclear whether

CNN By Shawna Mizelle, CNN Washington (CNN) — A Fulton County Superior Court judge who has presided over key parts of the Georgia probe against former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn 2020 election results in the Peach State has demonstrated a willingness to speak frankly to both sides of the contentious proceeding. It’s unclear

By Shawna Mizelle, CNN Washington (CNN) — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has reemerged in the spotlight after her office charged 19 co-defendants, including Donald Trump, regarding efforts by the former president and his allies to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. The indictments are a culmination of an investigation that has lasted more

By Aaron Pellish, CNN (CNN) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign on Sunday evening quickly tried to walk back comments the Democratic presidential candidate had made earlier in the day in support of a nationwide abortion restriction after the first three months of pregnancy. “Mr. Kennedy’s position on abortion is that it is always the

By Brianna Keilar and Margaret Given (CNN) — Last year, Eddie Peterson lost consciousness at his home in Memphis and stopped breathing. His wife, Lori, saved his life, performing CPR on him until paramedics arrived. Peterson has Parkinson’s. His 76-year-old body is failing him, and has been for decades, but his mind is almost as

By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump seized the spotlight at the Iowa State Fair this weekend, swooping overhead in his private plane just as his chief Republican rival, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, was flipping pork chops and greeting potential GOP caucus-goers. The 2024 Republican presidential race played out in close quarters