Politics

By Elle Reeve and Samantha Guff, CNN West Palm Beach, Florida (CNN) — They wore Trump hats and Trump T-shirts and cheered wildly when former President Donald Trump took the stage to fireworks. But at the Turning Point Action conference in West Palm Beach, Florida, some of the conservative attendees said they had a little

By Marshall Cohen (CNN) — Newly released charging documents provide fresh insights into how the Michigan attorney general built a criminal case against the fake GOP electors who tried to subvert the Electoral College process after the 2020 election. The group of 16 Republicans were charged this week with state felonies for signing certificates falsely

By Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — Michael Cohen reached a settlement with the Trump Organization in a dispute over nearly $1 million in unpaid legal bills, averting a civil trial set for Monday. During a court hearing Friday, lawyers for Cohen and the Trump Organization announced they reached the settlement and said the terms were

By Gregory Krieg, Eva McKend and Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — Cornel West’s candidacy on the Green Party line confuses some of his longtime political allies and friends – while also alarming top Democrats and Black leaders as a potential ticking time bomb for President Joe Biden in next year’s election. The political philosopher and

By Priscilla Alvarez and Shimon Prokupecz, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department told Texas Thursday that it intends to file legal action against the placement of floating barriers in the Rio Grande as part of the state’s operation along the Texas-Mexico border, according to sources familiar and a letter obtained by CNN. The Justice Department

By Nikki Carvajal (CNN) — The Biden administration later this month will host the National Summit on Equal Opportunity in Higher Education as it tries to find ways to support colleges that want to promote diversity after a Supreme Court ruling gutted affirmative action. The summit is aimed at finding new ways to work diversity

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed at a congressional hearing Thursday that he has never urged the public to avoid vaccination – but he said less than two years ago that he had approached strangers in public places to tell them not to get their children

By Jeremy Diamond, CNN (CNN) — Microsoft, Google and other leading artificial intelligence companies committed Friday to put new AI systems through outside testing before they are publicly released and to clearly label AI-generated content, the White House announced. The pledges are part of a series of voluntary commitments agreed to by the White House

By Oren Liebermann and Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — The US is deploying thousands of Marines and additional forces to the Middle East following recent Iranian attempts to seize commercial shipping vessels, the Pentagon announced Thursday. This latest deployment comes after the Pentagon said earlier this week that it would be sending F-35 and F-16

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Extreme heat will generate about $1 billion in health care costs every summer as more people get rushed to the emergency room or admitted to the hospital to treat temperature-related conditions, a recent study found. Searing heat will be responsible for nearly 235,000 emergency room visits and more than

By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — The US Army Secretary emphasized Thursday that the service is “not going to lower our standards” despite ongoing challenges with recruiting. “I think we saw from some of the years in the early 2000s, we lowered some of our standards we gave … what we call moral waivers, we

By Morgan Rimmer, CNN (CNN) — The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 11-10 to advance legislation that would create a code of ethics for Supreme Court justices. The bill advanced on party lines, with 11 Democrats voting for the bill and 10 Republicans voting against. It is not expected to get the 60 votes required to

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — A dozen states have had to pause terminating certain residents from Medicaid and to restore coverage – at least temporarily – for tens of thousands of people, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. A Covid-19 pandemic-era ban on states ending residents’ Medicaid coverage expired on April

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — Biden administration officials have grown increasingly concerned over recent months about Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s measures along the Texas-Mexico border, which have disrupted US Border Patrol operations in the region and put migrants at risk. “It’s making our job harder,” one Homeland Security official told CNN. Border agents have

By Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. who has a long history of spreading vaccine misinformation claimed he has never been anti-vaccine, racist or antisemitic during a House hearing discussing censorship, despite a litany of conspiracies and discriminatory statements that he has promoted over the years. “I want to

By Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday evening stepped in front of a suburban South Carolina crowd eager to hear the Republican presidential candidate respond to a weekend of hand wringing over his early performance and headlines about staff cuts and financial troubles. “Are you ready to help me send

By Tierney Sneed and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump’s legal troubles deepened earlier this week when he was informed by special counsel Jack Smith that he’s the target of the criminal investigation into the aftermath of the 2020 election – the clearest sign yet that the former president could soon face more criminal

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Although the House’s latest defense bill has come under fire for its controversial social policy amendments, the crucial annual legislation also has a multitude of provisions to help service members and their families who are struggling financially. The proposed measures, which build on efforts contained in bipartisan National Defense

By Kevin Liptak and Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden’s Thursday trip to a Philadelphia shipyard came at the intersection of key planks of his reelection argument: union jobs, clean energy, and his economic policies – and all in battleground Pennsylvania, where he’s visited 27 times since taking office. Biden’s economic message is

By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN (CNN) — North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum said Wednesday that he’s reached the 40,000 unique donors threshold to qualify for the Republican presidential primary debate stage in August. The GOP governor, a wealthy former software executive who’s been self-funding his campaign, has been offering $20 gift cards to 50,000 donors to

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department is assessing the situation along the Texas-Mexico border following reports that Texas troopers were told to push back migrants into the Rio Grande and ordered not to give them water, calling those reports “troubling” in a statement to CNN. The Justice Department’s statement is the first

By Aaron Pellish, CNN (CNN) — New Hampshire Republican Gov. Chris Sununu announced on Wednesday he will not run for reelection, leaving open a gubernatorial seat in a swing state heading into the 2024 election. Sununu, who was first elected to New Hampshire’s highest office in 2016 and is currently serving his fourth two-year term

By Kristin Wilson and Morgan Rimmer, CNN (CNN) — New York Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley are introducing bipartisan legislation that would prevent members of the executive and legislative branches — as well as their spouses and children — from trading individual company stocks. The legislation will also ban blind

By Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge has denied Donald Trump’s request for a new trial in the E. Jean Carroll case – finding the jury who found that the former president sexually abused and defamed Carroll did not reach a “seriously erroneous result.” “The jury in this case did not reach ‘a

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — Two Republican presidential candidates, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former President Donald Trump, are accusing each other of making false claims about Trump’s wall on the border with Mexico. Christie tweeted Saturday that, contrary to Trump’s signature campaign promise to get Mexico to pay for the

By Clare Foran, Haley Talbot, Morgan Rimmer and Lauren Fox, CNN (CNN) — Israeli President Isaac Herzog affirmed the US-Israel relationship in an address to a joint meeting of Congress on Wednesday, calling America “our greatest partner and friend,” while also acknowledging criticism from some House progressives. There is widespread support for Israel on both

By Annie Grayer, Marshall Cohen, Alayna Treene and Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The House Oversight Committee heard Wednesday from two IRS whistleblowers whose claims that the Justice Department politicized the Hunter Biden criminal probe have ignited a firestorm among Republicans. One of the two whistleblowers identified himself publicly for the first time at the

By Jeremy Diamond and Simone McCarthy, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration has suspended funding for the Wuhan Institute of Virology following a monthslong review that determined that the Chinese research institute “is not compliant with federal regulations and is not presently responsible,” according to a memo from the Department of Health and Human Services.

By Jack Forrest, CNN (CNN) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday defended his Pentagon plan in an exclusive interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, which would address recruiting woes by stripping the military of so-called “woke” policy. “You clearly have a problem with recruiting,” DeSantis told Tapper. “And at this level everybody has acknowledged these

By Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — Navy veteran Hung Cao, a Republican who lost a closer-than-expected race for a US House seat in Virginia last year, formally announced a challenge to Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine on Tuesday. “We are losing our country,” Cao said in an announcement video. “I still believe America can be the

By Clare Foran and Morgan Rimmer, CNN (CNN) — The Senate voted Tuesday evening to advance a critical national defense bill nearer to a final passage vote, moving one step closer to a showdown with the House over the must-pass legislation. The vote was 72 to 25 to begin the process of taking up the

By Melanie Zanona, Clare Foran and Haley Talbot, CNN (CNN) — The House on Tuesday passed a resolution affirming support for Israel – a direct response to Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal’s now walked-back comments about Israel being a “racist” state. The bipartisan vote was 412 to 9 with nine Democrats voting against it. The Democrats

By Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — State prosecutors in Michigan announced criminal charges Tuesday against the 16 Republicans who served as fake electors in 2020, a watershed moment in the still-ongoing federal and state investigations into the 2020 election aftermath. Some of the GOP electors in Michigan were local activists who were recruited to serve

By Melanie Zanona, Annie Grayer and Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump has reached out to his top allies on Capitol Hill to strategize how they can help defend him against potential criminal charges over his effort to overturn the 2020 election – the latest example of Republicans racing behind the scenes to use

By Jennifer Hansler and Kylie Atwood, CNN (CNN) — Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger met China’s top diplomat in Beijing on Wednesday following a meeting with the country’s US sanctioned defense minister the day before. The meetings with Wang Yi and Defense Minister Li Shangfu were announced by the Chinese government as the

By Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — A Russian fighter jet harassed a manned US reconnaissance aircraft over Syria on Sunday amid ongoing tensions between the two militaries. The incident is at least the fifth interaction between US and Russian military aircraft that the US deemed unsafe or unprofessional since the beginning of the month. On

By Lauren Fox and Haley Talbot, CNN Huntsville, Alabama (CNN) — Alabama Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s military holds are testing Republican support back home as the months-long standoff with the Biden administration over abortion drags on. “When you start politicizing how to promote, I think we’re stepping into the wrong territory,” said Greg Black, who

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden’s new asylum policy has contributed to migrants remaining in border facilities for more than 10 days and some for up to 30 days, multiple sources told CNN, as the administration toughens its posture on the US-Mexico border. It’s US government policy that migrants should not be

By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s visit to the White House on Tuesday was meant to demonstrate steadfast American commitment to Israel and its security 75 years after the country’s establishment. But the Oval Office talks also served to underscore the lingering tensions between President Joe Biden and the Israeli leader

By Natasha Bertrand, Oren Liebermann and Jennifer Hansler, CNN Washington (CNN) — The US and Europe are struggling to provide Ukraine with the large amount of ammunition it will need for a prolonged counteroffensive against Russia, and Western officials are racing to ramp up production to avoid shortages on the battlefield that could hinder Ukraine’s