Politics

By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — As the US Army moves to a new way to measure soldiers’ body fat, officials acknowledged Wednesday that some soldiers who had previously passed under the old regulations may now fail under the new. The Army is changing its tape test – a method to measure soldiers’ body fat

By Sydney Kashiwagi, CNN Washington (CNN) — A growing number of states are considering or have passed measures this legislative term to ban “foreign adversaries” and foreign entities – specifically China – from buying farmland. Proponents of the laws, mostly Republicans but some Democrats as well, have frequently cited concerns about food security and the

By Sam Fossum and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden will highlight climate commitments made by his administration and announce new federal funding for climate resilience projects as part of a three-day trip to the Bay Area in Northern California that begins Monday, according to a White House official. Biden’s trip builds on

By Shawna Mizelle, CNN Washington (CNN) — Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said Sunday that California Gov. Gavin Newsom should “absolutely” appoint Rep. Barbara Lee to the Senate should Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s seat become vacant before the end of her term. “I absolutely think he should appoint Barbara Lee. But we will see,” Bass told

By Jasmine Wright and Aileen Graef, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump’s onetime Defense secretary said Sunday that the former president should not be trusted with the nation’s secrets again should the allegations made in his federal indictment over his handling of classified documents prove true. “Based on his actions – again, if proven true –

By Andrew Millman and Shawna Mizelle, CNN Washington (CNN) — Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie said Sunday it was a “useless idea” to force 2024 GOP contenders to sign a pledge to back the party’s ultimate nominee in order to participate in primary debates. “It’s only in the era of Donald Trump that you need

By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden kicked off his reelection campaign Saturday at a union rally in his frequent haunt of Pennsylvania, the state that remains an intersection of his personal and political identities that he hopes can propel him to a second term. The first official rally of his final political

By Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley said Saturday that while it was difficult having her husband deploy to Africa with the South Carolina Army National Guard, the assignment represents a “moment of pride” for the state and the country. The official deployment ceremony for the brigade that includes Michael Haley

By Devan Cole, CNN Washington (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump was arrested and arraigned on federal charges this week in a never-before-seen moment in American political and legal history that captured the attention of a nation that has for years been captivated by his norm-busting episodes. The former president’s booking at a federal courthouse

By Haley Talbot and Clare Foran, CNN (CNN) — A staffer for Rep. Brad Finstad was attacked at gunpoint after Wednesday’s congressional baseball game, the congressman said in a statement Friday. The staffer is expected to “make a full recovery and the extent of his physical injuries was minor,” according to Finstad. “Following Wednesday’s Congressional

By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden intends to appoint Dr. Mandy Cohen to lead the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the White House confirmed exclusively to CNN, succeeding Dr. Rochelle Walensky in the critical public health role as the agency grapples with challenges in the aftermath of the pandemic. “Dr.

By CNN staff (CNN) — The Justice Department issued a blistering report Friday of the city of Minneapolis and the city’s police department, detailing racial discrimination, excessive and unlawful use of force, First Amendment violations and a lack of accountability for officers. The report finds “systemic problems” at the city’s police department led to George

By Priscilla Alvarez, Sam Fossum and Donald Judd, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden on Friday marked one year since the passage of the first major gun safety legislation in a generation during a summit in Connecticut, as gun violence reaches record levels in the United States and additional congressional action remains stalled. In remarks

By Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — Nusrat Choudhury was confirmed Thursday as a federal judge by the US Senate, making history as the first Muslim woman and the first Bangladeshi American to join the federal judicial bench. The vote in the Democrat-led Senate narrowly passed along party lines. President Joe Biden nominated the civil rights

By Evan Perez and Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Top Justice Department officials on Friday are expected to announce the findings of a two-year long investigation of the policing practices of the Minneapolis Police Department in the wake of the murder of George Floyd, people briefed on the matter said. The pattern or practice review

By Kaanita Iyer and Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill Wednesday that bans diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) offices at public colleges and universities across the state, his spokesperson confirmed to CNN. The state legislature passed the bill last month largely along party lines with supporters arguing that

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — The Air National Guardsman accused of posting a trove of classified documents to social media has been formally indicted on six counts of willful retention and transmission of classified information related to national defense, the Justice Department announced on Thursday. Jack Teixeira, a junior enlisted airman who worked within

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump argued in a Tuesday speech that it is “outrageous” for him to be charged under the Espionage Act for having classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago club and residence. “The Espionage Act has been used to go after traitors and spies. It has nothing to

By Annie Grayer and Sara Murray, CNN (CNN) — Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa claimed on the Senate floor earlier this week that the foreign national who allegedly bribed then-Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter has 17 audio recordings of their conversations but questioned whether those tapes even existed in an interview with

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The US State Department identified a “rapidly growing and troubling trend” of “forced labor as a result of cyber scam operations,” as it launched its annual human trafficking report, US Ambassador at Large to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons Cindy Dyer said Thursday. “Traffickers have leveraged pandemic-related economic

By Jeremy Diamond, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden’s campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez is standing by the campaign’s decision not to fundraise off of former President Donald Trump’s indictment and arrest. In her first public comments on the matter, Chavez Rodriguez told CNN in an exclusive interview that the campaign’s decision not to fundraise

By Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday signed his state’s budget, a $117 billion spending plan filled with priorities that have already become fodder for the Republican’s 2024 presidential campaign. There’s $12 million in there to continue the flights carrying migrants from border states to blue jurisdictions for a second

By Jeremy Diamond, CNN (CNN) — Top Biden campaign officials are popping the hood on President Joe Biden’s emerging reelection machine and giving top supporters a peek inside as their first quarterly fundraising deadline rapidly approaches. Biden campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez, her deputy Quentin Fulks and Democratic National Committee executive director Sam Cornale are

By Chandelis Duster, CNN (CNN) — The Republican Party should acknowledge issues of racial inequality in the US instead of continuing rhetoric that opportunities in the country are equal and fair, former President Barack Obama said in a newly released interview on “The Axe Files.” Asked by David Axelrod about comments from 2024 Republican presidential

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Most Americans have run into trouble using their health insurance in the past year, but the majority still like their coverage, a new report has found. Some 58% of insured adults have had at least one problem in the past year, according to a survey from KFF, formerly the

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Four major environmental groups endorsed President Joe Biden’s 2024 reelection for president on Wednesday night, ahead of his speech at a League of Conservation Voters dinner in the nation’s capital. LCV Action Fund, NextGen PAC, the Sierra Club, and the NRDC Action Fund endorsed Biden together at the dinner,

By Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — The US military is set to launch a formal investigation into a drone strike in Syria in early May, six weeks after the operation and following reports it killed a civilian rather than a senior al-Qaeda leader as first claimed, three defense officials familiar with the matter told CNN.

By Kevin Liptak and Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden and his team are in the midst of a high-stakes conversation with fellow NATO members on how and when Ukraine may join – a debate that could expose strains in the alliance ahead of a key summit. The matter of Ukrainian membership in

By Kaanita Iyer and David Wright, CNN (CNN) — Miami GOP Mayor Francis Suarez officially launched his 2024 presidential campaign on Thursday, marking the long-shot candidate’s formal entry to the race. “My dad taught me that you get to choose your battles, and I am choosing the biggest one of my life. I’m going to

By Annie Grayer, Melanie Zanona and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — House Republicans took their most concrete and public step this week toward pursuing the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. But behind the scenes, supporters of the effort are still working to convince key holdouts to get on board with the potentially divisive

By Zachary Cohen and Sean Lyngaas, CNN Washington (CNN) — Georgia election officials have been aware of existing vulnerabilities in the state’s voting software for more than two years but continue to insist the system is safe and won’t be updated until after 2024, according to a report that was unsealed this week as part

By Lauren Fox, CNN (CNN) — The House and Senate are careening toward a major spending standoff that could consume Congress this fall, raise the threat of a government shutdown and once again test House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s ability to keep his narrow Republican majority behind him. It’s a showdown that was likely always going

By Holmes Lybrand and Jack Forrest, CNN (CNN) — An active-duty Marine and another individual have been charged with using a Molotov cocktail to firebomb a Planned Parenthood clinic in Costa Mesa, California, in March 2022, the Justice Department announced Wednesday. According to the DOJ, the two men from California – Chance Brannon, a corporal

By Haley Britzky and Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — The US military deployed F-22 fighter jets to the Middle East this week due to concerns about ‘unsafe and unprofessional behavior,’ by Russian aircraft, the US military announced on Wednesday. “Russian Forces’ unsafe and unprofessional behavior is not what we expect from a professional air force.

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — A Senate panel on Wednesday zeroed in on a Democratic-led bill that would implement a range of ethics and transparency reforms at the Supreme Court, with a pair of experts urging passage of the legislation to address a “crisis” at the high court. “If the Supreme Court isn’t going

By Donald Judd, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday vetoed SJ Res. 11, a Republican-backed bill that would’ve rolled back a 2022 EPA rule that set stronger vehicle emissions standards to reduce air pollution set to take effect in model year 2027. “Earlier today, President Biden vetoed SJ Resolution 11, the most recent

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of John Edwards, former senator from North Carolina. Personal Birth date: June 10, 1953 Birth place: Seneca, South Carolina Birth name: Johnny Reid Edwards Father: Wallace Edwards, textile mill worker Mother: Catherine “Bobbie” (Wade) Edwards, postal worker Marriage: Elizabeth (Anania) Edwards (July 30,

By Shania Shelton, CNN (CNN) — At least 11 states have enacted 13 restrictive voting laws this year, according to a new analysis from the liberal-leaning Brennan Center for Justice at New York University’s law school. The Brennan Center said the 13 restrictive laws enacted so far this year is greater than the number of

By Kevin Liptak, Jeremy Diamond and Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — At the very moment former President Donald Trump was pulling into an underground garage at the federal courthouse in Miami, his successor was 40 minutes into a meeting about Ukraine’s nascent counteroffensive with NATO’s secretary general. Outside the Oval Office windows, the soundcheck for

By Daniel Dale and Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump made numerous false and misleading claims in a speech he delivered Tuesday night following his afternoon arraignment in Miami federal court to face charges of illegally retaining classified documents and obstructing the federal investigation into his conduct. Trump, who pleaded not guilty,

By Jeremy Herb, Tierney Sneed and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN Miami (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to 37 charges Tuesday in a brief but historic court appearance following his arrest and processing on federal charges. Trump is the first former president to face federal charges following last week’s indictment by special counsel

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — Senior Biden administration officials on Tuesday announced new disciplinary measures to prevent further FBI abuses under a controversial surveillance program that will expire at year’s end unless Congress renews it. A new “three strike” FBI policy will have analysts disciplined, or even fired, for three incidents in which they

By Tierney Sneed and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN Miami (CNN) — Most of Tuesday’s hearing, where former President Donald Trump made his first appearance in court facing 37 federal charges, followed an expected script, but the proceedings were dragged out by a disagreement over whether Trump should be restricted from talking to certain witnesses in the

By Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge will allow E. Jean Carroll to amend her original defamation lawsuit against former President Donald Trump to include comments he made at a CNN town hall. Carroll, a former magazine columnist, asked the judge for permission to amend the initial November 2019 lawsuit so she could

By Katie Lobosco, CNN Washington (CNN) — The fate of President Joe Biden’s federal student loan forgiveness program, which promises to deliver up to $20,000 of debt relief for millions of borrowers, lies with the Supreme Court. The justices heard arguments on February 28 in two cases concerning the forgiveness program, and a decision is

By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — The White House condemned attendees at Saturday’s Pride event on the South Lawn who engaged in what President Joe Biden’s press secretary described as “unacceptable” behavior. “The behavior was simply unacceptable. We’ve been very clear about that. It was unfair to the hundreds of attendees who were there to

By Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — The Florida political committee once controlled by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis transferred $82.5 million last month to a super PAC supporting his presidential campaign, according to information posted to the committee’s website. The shift of the funds has been anticipated ever since DeSantis entered the race with tens of

By Katie Lobosco and Devan Cole, CNN Washington (CNN) — A federal agency said Tuesday that White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre violated the Hatch Act when she used the term “mega MAGA” from the briefing podium. But Jean-Pierre is far from the first person in a high-profile role to violate the law, which limits