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By Mary Kay Mallonee, CNN (CNN) — The FBI is searching for a member of the Proud Boys who was scheduled to be sentenced in federal court in Washington on Friday but is now missing, according to court records and the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia. Christopher Worrell, 52, was convicted in

By Tierney Sneed and Dianne Gallagher, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Friday narrowed a section of Georgia election law that banned the practice of handing out food and water to voters waiting in line to cast ballots, as well as halted enforcement of a requirement that voters put their birth dates on the

By Kaitlan Collins, CNN (CNN) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis sat down with Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp in Atlanta Friday morning, a source familiar with the meeting confirmed to CNN, meeting for about 30 minutes to discuss the state of the 2024 race and the upcoming Republican debate. Both attended a gathering of 2024 Republican

By Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — James Buckley, a former conservative US senator and a Reagan-appointed federal judge, has died, the Conservative Party of New York State confirmed to CNN on Friday. He was 100. Buckley drew national attention when he secured victory in New York in 1970 with the Conservative Party, becoming the state’s

By Sara Murray, Tierney Sneed and Ryan Young, CNN (CNN) — If former President Donald Trump were facing the booking process that newly charged criminal defendants in Fulton County typically experience, he might find himself lingering for hours at the Rice Street jail waiting for his fingerprints and mug shot to be taken. Even by

By Nikki Carvajal (CNN) — President Joe Biden on Friday said he had no comment and deferred to the Department of Justice when asked for his reaction to the special counsel appointment in the case of his son, Hunter Biden. “I have no comment on any investigation that’s going on,” the president said during a

By Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump is planning to skip the first Republican presidential debate on Wednesday and is instead expected to sit for an interview with former Fox News Host Tucker Carlson, multiple sources familiar with his plans tell CNN. Over the last 24 hours, Trump has increasingly been informing

By Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — A debate whisperer to collegiate champions and past presidential nominees is coaching Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Former Vice President Mike Pence is practicing with and without someone acting his onetime running mate. And South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott’s campaign manager wants him to “have fun” onstage. The GOP’s first

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — After a more than year-long investigation, federal officials have concluded that five Chinese solar panel companies have been skirting US tariff laws by routing their operations through four other Southeast Asian countries. The Commerce Department investigation, which began in March 2022, examined eight companies that manufacture solar panels and

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice Washington (CNN) — The Justice Department is seeking three-decade prison sentences for the leaders of the Proud Boys convicted of seditious conspiracy for plotting and leading the crowd at the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot, positioning the men as failed, thuggish political revolutionaries. In a new court

By Katie Bo Lillis and Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine has ramped up missile strikes on Russian-occupied Crimea in recent weeks in an effort to disrupt Russian logistics and resupply efforts as fighting rages in southern Ukraine – but it’s a strategy that some US officials in Washington are viewing with skepticism. For some

By Andrew Kaczynski, Em Steck and Yahya Abou-Ghazala, CNN (CNN) — When conspiracy theorist Alex Jones marched his way to the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, riling up his legion of supporters, an unassuming middle-aged man in a red “Trump 2020” hat conspicuously tagged along. Videos and photographs reviewed by CNN show the man

By Ella Nilsen and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s disaster fund is already running out of money in a year that’s setting records for billion-dollar weather disasters – all before the peak of Atlantic hurricane season has even arrived. The relief fund is expected to be depleted by the middle

By Nikki Carvajal, CNN (CNN) — On a fall day in September, two men sat watching movies about cowboys and the Old West at a rustic retreat in Maryland. It could have been a relaxing way to spend a weekend – except the men were President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, and

CNN By Kylie Atwood and Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — The Camp David invitation President Joe Biden extended to his Japanese and South Korean counterparts this week – the first summit held at the legendary presidential retreat since 2015 – was a significant show of camaraderie for two increasingly essential US allies. Undergirding the talks

By Kylie Atwood and Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — The Camp David invitation President Joe Biden extended to his Japanese and South Korean counterparts this week – the first summit held at the legendary presidential retreat since 2015 – was a significant show of camaraderie for two increasingly essential US allies. Undergirding the talks is

By Ryan Young and Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — The FBI is aware that some Fulton County officials have received threats of violence, the bureau’s Atlanta office said in a statement Thursday. The threats come days after a local grand jury voted to indict former President Donald Trump and others stemming from their efforts

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