Politics

By Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — A monthslong investigation into a series of Navy suicides last year found the service failed to provide a basic quality of life for sailors, housing them in unacceptable living conditions and failing to provide adequate mental health resources. The investigation concluded that the issues were compounded on the USS

By Kevin Liptak, Betsy Klein, Phil Mattingly and Jennifer Hansler, CNN Hiroshima, Japan (CNN) — US President Joe Biden and fellow world leaders unveiled tough new sanctions on Russia as they prepared to hear in-person later this weekend from Volodymyr Zelensky, who officials said was planning a dramatic trip to Japan as he continues to

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter (CNN) — The Supreme Court announced Thursday that it would formally remove a case concerning the controversial Trump-era immigration policy known as Title 42 from its calendar, likely because the Covid-19 public health emergency that serves as the legal underpinning of the program has expired. In a

By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine has “successfully” used the Storm Shadow missiles provided by the United Kingdom, British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace told CNN on Thursday. “All I can confirm is it has been used successfully, that is the information I received from the Ukrainians, and I’m pleased it is helping them to

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords who was seriously wounded in a mass shooting in 2011. Personal Birth date: June 8, 1970 Birth place: Tucson, Arizona Birth name: Gabrielle Dee Giffords Father: Spencer Giffords, El Campo Tire executive and a district school board member

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Republican Senator Marco Rubio of Florida. Personal Birth date: May 28, 1971 Birth place: Miami, Florida Birth name: Marco Antonio Rubio Father: Mario Rubio, a bartender Mother: Oriales García Rubio Marriage: Jeanette (Dousdebes) Rubio (1998-present) Children: Amanda Loren, Daniella, Anthony and Dominick

By Donald Judd, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration announced new steps Thursday to assist the nations unsheltered population, launching a new initiative accelerating local efforts in six of the nation’s most populous cities as part of a larger goal to reduce the country’s homelessness by 25% by 2025. The initiative – called “ALL INside”

By Lauren Fox and Jeremy Diamond, CNN (CNN) — For the first time in months, President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy appear to be on the same page: The country cannot default on its debt and a compromise has to be reached to avert that outcome. “We are going to come together because

By Steve Contorno and Jeff Zeleny, CNN (CNN) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is expected to enter the 2024 GOP presidential race next week, two Republicans familiar with the matter told CNN, initiating his much-anticipated bid to wrestle the future of the party from former President Donald Trump. DeSantis will file paperwork declaring his candidacy

By Annie Grayer, Alayna Treene and Sara Murray, CNN (CNN) — Three self-described FBI whistleblowers, who are key to the Republican narrative that the FBI is weaponized against conservatives, testified at a House hearing Thursday, the latest escalation of Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan’s investigation into allegations of discrimination and bias within the FBI. The hearing

By Steve Contorno and Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has said little publicly about the six-week abortion ban he signed this year or about former President Donald Trump. On Tuesday, he broke his silence on both. Responding to Trump’s recent criticism that Florida’s new abortion restrictions were “too harsh,” DeSantis shot

By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — The biggest governor’s race of 2023 began to take shape this week, as Kentucky’s attorney general and now Republican gubernatorial nominee Daniel Cameron and his allies began previewing their lines of attack on Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear. The race between Beshear and Cameron, much like Virginia’s state legislative races

By Joan Biskupic, CNN Senior Supreme Court Analyst (CNN) — As he began writing an angry dissent in a gay rights case 23 years ago, Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens was comparing the majority’s decision against a gay man to Nazi persecution. “What is this but a constitutionally prescribed pink triangle?” Stevens wrote in

By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden arrived in Japan on Thursday for a truncated Asia visit meant to bolster allies amid China’s growing military and economic ambitions. The trip, once planned for eight days, has been shortened by half; two of Biden’s three stops were scrapped so he could return to Washington

By Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — House Republicans are taking up a series of pro-law enforcement bills this week, as the party grapples with cutting funding to federal law enforcement agencies. On Wednesday, the House passed a pair of bills – one would make assaulting a law enforcement officer a deportable offense for migrants and

By Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — Every administration since President Ronald Reagan has mishandled classified materials, including commingling classified and unclassified documents, National Archives officials told the House Intelligence Committee during a closed-door interview in March. The latest revelations come after the committee voted to release on Wednesday an unclassified transcript of testimony from William

By Alayna Treene and Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — Two Republican committee chairs are demanding the Central Intelligence Agency turn over a series of documents from an investigation related to the president’s son Hunter Biden. In a letter sent to CIA Director William Burns Tuesday, Reps. Jim Jordan and Mike Turner, the chairmen of the

By Katie Lobosco, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration proposed a new rule Wednesday meant to prevent students from taking on an unaffordable amount of student loan debt to attend for-profit colleges and certificate programs at nonprofit colleges. An earlier version of the rule, known as “gainful employment,” was proposed under the Obama administration and

By Tierney Sneed, CNN New Orleans (CNN) — The roughly two hours of oral arguments that an extremely conservative appeals court heard Wednesday in a blockbuster abortion pill case suggested that the judges were not buying the Biden administration’s arguments for why courts should not second guess how the government has regulated a medication abortion

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — The Air National Guardsman who is accused of posting a trove of classified documents to social media was repeatedly warned by his superiors in the Air Force over his mishandling of classified documents, prosecutors say. In court documents arguing for Jack Teixeira’s continued detention, prosecutors said that the 21-year-old’s

By Nicky Robertson and Ted Barrett, CNN (CNN) — The Senate passed a resolution Wednesday to stop a Biden administration immigration rule that eliminates potential hurdles for immigrants using some public benefits and trying to obtain legal status, known as “public charge.” It passed 50-47, with two Democratic senators crossing party lines – Joe Manchin

By Lauren Fox, CNN (CNN) — Senate Finance Chairman Ron Wyden is pushing back on assertions from GOP megadonor Harlan Crow that the panel lacks authority to request personal tax information and travel records from him as part of a probe into whether hospitality he provided to Justice Clarence Thomas could have triggered violations of

By Kaitlan Collins and Paula Reid, CNN Washington (CNN) — Timothy Parlatore, an attorney for Donald Trump who played a key role in the Mar-a-Lago documents investigation and once testified before the grand jury, is leaving the former president’s legal team, two sources familiar with the exit tell CNN. Parlatore’s departure became official Tuesday, though

By Tierney Sneed, CNN New Orleans (CNN) — A federal appeals court tore apart the Biden administration’s arguments for why the federal government’s regulatory approval of an abortion pill should be left in place – signaling the three-judge panel appointed by Republican presidents will side with a lower court decision to block access to the

By Kevin Liptak, CNN Hiroshima, Japan (CNN) — President Joe Biden once hoped his trip to Asia this week would strengthen American alliances, counter China’s influence and prove to Americans he’s got the stamina for another term in office. But the trip he planned didn’t materialize. The standoff over raising the US debt ceiling, which

By Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — A Republican-led investigation into the origins of Covid-19 has unearthed additional, though circumstantial, evidence supporting the theory that the virus likely escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China, but it did not find any “smoking gun” evidence to prove the theory, according to a new report released on Wednesday.

By Eric Bradner, Gregory Krieg and Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — Republicans have their candidate in Kentucky, Democrats have their majority in Pennsylvania and the 2024 GOP presidential primary has another clash between former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in the books. Voters threw DeSantis a pair of brushbacks on Tuesday, most

By Shania Shelton, CNN (CNN) — Former journalist Donna Deegan will become the first female mayor of Jacksonville, Florida, CNN projects, as Democrats win the office in the state’s most populous city for only the second time in 30 years. Deegan is projected to defeat Republican former state Rep. Daniel Davis in Tuesday’s runoff election

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — The Department of Homeland Security has directed its agencies to review and assess who has access to classified information, according to an internal memo obtained by CNN – a move that comes on the heels of a leak of highly classified Pentagon documents discovered earlier this year. The memo

By Lauren Fox, CNN (CNN) — A number of lawmakers are now reassessing their district security protocols and brainstorming ways to keep their staff – especially in district offices – safer after the events that unfolded Monday in Rep. Gerry Connolly’s office. Connolly, a Virginia Democrat, said on Monday that two staffers were injured by

By Maegan Vazquez and Allie Malloy, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden is canceling his upcoming visits to Papua New Guinea and Australia due to the ongoing debt ceiling negotiations in Washington, the White House confirmed Tuesday. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement Biden spoke to Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The US State Department on Tuesday strongly condemned the “reported arrest” of a Russian former employee of the US Mission in Russia. The charges against Robert Shonov – “confidential cooperation” with a foreign government, according to Russian state media outlet TASS – “are wholly without merit,” State Department spokesperson

By Donald Judd (CNN) — President Joe Biden has officially vetoed a resolution that would halt a Commerce Department rule temporarily suspending tariffs on solar panels imported from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam – writing that passage “of this resolution bets against American innovation.” The resolution narrowly cleared the Senate earlier this month, with nine

By Alayna Treene and Sara Murray, CNN (CNN) — An IRS whistleblower who claims to have information about alleged mishandling and political interference in the ongoing criminal probe into Hunter Biden has been removed from the investigation into the president’s son, attorneys for the whistleblower have told key congressional lawmakers. Attorneys for the whistleblower sent

By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron will win his party’s nomination for governor in Tuesday’s primary, CNN projects, setting up a highly anticipated clash this fall with Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear. Cameron, who was endorsed by Donald Trump, will defeat former diplomat Kelly Craft in a race that was seen

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — Republican voters in Pennsylvania made a candidate supported by the GOP establishment their nominee for an open state Supreme Court seat, rejecting another Republican contender more closely aligned with former President Donald Trump’s wing of the party. CNN projected the victory of Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas Judge

By Maegan Vazquez and Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — Congressional leaders from both parties emerged from their meeting with President Joe Biden at the White House on Tuesday unable to convey how they’re on a clear path to raise the nation’s borrowing limit and avoid a historic default. And in a sign that Biden will

By Devan Cole, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Supreme Court has increasingly used emergency orders to shape the law in cases concerning a variety of hot-button issues, a move that has quietly given the court more power over the years, CNN Supreme Court analyst Steve Vladeck says in a new book released Tuesday on the

By Gregory Krieg, CNN (CNN) — The biggest city in the battleground state of Pennsylvania is poised to effectively choose its next leader on Tuesday, as Philadelphia Democrats vote for the nominee to be the city’s 100th mayor – and a key figure in President Joe Biden’s reelection bid next year. The long and historically

By Evan Perez, CNN Justice Correspondent Special counsel John Durham’s report released Monday details his investigation of a purported effort by Hillary Clinton‘s 2016 campaign to tie Donald Trump to Russia but which Durham concludes “did not, all things considered, amount to a provable criminal offense.” Durham reveals in a footnote that he interviewed the

By Kate Sullivan and Fredreka Schouten, CNN Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley‘s financial disclosure report shows the former US ambassador to the United Nations was paid between $100,001 and $1 million each for 12 speaking engagements in 2022 and 2023. The payments were made for speeches Haley delivered in Singapore, Canada and Australia, as well

By Zachary Cohen, CNN Special counsel John Durham released his final report on Monday in which he casts doubt about the FBI’s decision to launch a full investigation into connections between Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia during the 2016 election. The 300-plus page report sharply criticizes the FBI and Justice Department throughout but does not

By Alex Marquardt, CNN The Central Intelligence Agency has launched a new effort to capitalize on what US intelligence officials believe is an “unprecedented” opportunity to convince Russians disaffected by the war in Ukraine and life in Russia to share their secrets, posting a slickly produced, cinematic recruitment video online on Monday. The push includes