Politics

By Paul P. Murphy and Alex Marquardt, CNN A large blimp developed by the Chinese military has been spotted for the first time at a remote base in the desert of northwestern China, exclusive new satellite imagery obtained by CNN shows. Aerospace experts say the images, taken three months before a Chinese spy balloon was

By Kara Scannell and Lauren del Valle, CNN A federal judge overseeing a civil battery and defamation trial involving Donald Trump has denied the former president’s motion for a mistrial. The ruling came before E. Jean Carroll, the columnist who sued Trump, again took the stand for cross-examination in a session that included questions about

By Marshall Cohen President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden is expected to appear in court Monday morning in northeast Arkansas for a hearing related to a years-old paternity dispute. What began in 2019 as a basic paternity case has transformed into a proxy battle over Hunter Biden’s overseas business deals, his laptop and other financial

By Sam Fossum, Kathleen Magramo and Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden welcomed President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. of the Philippines to the White House on Monday as part of continued efforts to strengthen security and economic relations in the region amid concerns over an increasingly assertive China. Sitting in the Oval Office at the start

By Kit Maher, CNN Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina on Sunday teased a “major announcement” on May 22, signaling he will formally enter the 2024 GOP presidential primary after launching an exploratory committee earlier this month. “Please tell your friends. Be in attendance,” Scott said at an event in Charleston, South Carolina. “We’re

By Eric Bradner, Steve Contorno and Kate Sullivan, CNN From statehouses to the presidential campaign trail, Republicans are escalating their political attacks on transgender people — a reflection of what they see as a cultural fight their base is eager to wage. Despite a poorer-than-expected showing in last fall’s midterm elections when various GOP candidates

By Katie Lobosco, CNN Some student loan servicers have recently cut back on customer service hours, adding to the fear that borrowers won’t have sufficient support when transitioning back into repayment after a more than three-year pandemic pause. There was already concern over whether the critical return to repayment set for later this year would

By Simone Pathe, CNN Opportunity is ripe for Republicans to win back the Senate next year — if they can land the candidates to pull it off. The GOP needs a net gain of one or two seats to flip the chamber, depending on which party wins the White House in 2024, and it’s Democrats

By Kaanita Iyer, CNN President Joe Biden joked about a range of topics at the White House Correspondents’ dinner on Saturday but struck a serious tone as he called for the release of wrongfully detained Americans abroad. The annual dinner, hosted inside the Washington Hilton, drew thousands of guests in support of freedom of the

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN The first US-led effort to evacuate private American citizens from the conflict in Sudan was completed Saturday, with a convoy organized by the US government reaching Port Sudan after a long journey from Khartoum. “A U.S. government-organized convoy carrying U.S citizens, locally employed staff, and nationals from allied and partner countries

By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN It’s one of the most commonly asked poll questions: How do Americans feel about the state of the nation? And recently, the answer has usually been a negative one. But figuring out why people are unhappy is complicated. CNN’s latest polling asked Americans whether things in the country were going well

By Ella Nilsen, CNN West Virginia political observers were not surprised when Sen. Joe Manchin appeared on Fox News on Monday to make a stunning threat: He could be persuaded to vote to repeal his own bill, the Inflation Reduction Act, if the Biden administration pushed him far enough. The conservative Democratic senator reiterated this

By Maegan Vazquez and Kaanita Iyer, CNN President Joe Biden called for the release of detained journalists and citizens abroad at the White House Correspondents’ dinner on Saturday, before poking fun at everything from his age to Elon Musk. “Let me start on a serious note,” Biden said, “members of our administration are here to

By Daniel Dale, CNN On at least three occasions over the last two months, former President Donald Trump has claimed that the leaders of unnamed South American countries are deliberately emptying their “insane asylums” and “mental institutions” to send the patients to the United States as migrants. In each version of the dramatic story, Trump

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN The number of warrantless FBI searches of Americans’ electronic data under a controversial intelligence program that aims to identify foreign threats dropped sharply from millions of searches in 2021 to over 100,000 last year, US intelligence agencies said in a report Friday. It is welcome news for US intelligence and security

By Tierney Sneed, CNN Justice Samuel Alito said that he has a “pretty good idea” who was responsible for the unprecedented disclosure of a draft opinion of a Supreme Court ruling last year, suggesting it was someone who opposed reversing the Roe v. Wade precedent that protected abortion rights nationwide. In an interview published Friday

By Haley Britzky, CNN Dozens of Army pilots are sounding the alarm on what they say is “gross mismanagement” of their service contracts that could result in them being required to serve three years longer than they’d originally anticipated. A problem surrounding how service obligation contracts are enforced could result in hundreds of pilots having

By Annie Grayer, CNN The House Judiciary Committee has sent subpoenas to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and the Global Engagement Center for documents as it continues to investigate whether the federal government pressured social media companies to censor certain viewpoints. The subpoenas mark an escalation in

By Steve Contorno, CNN Florida lawmakers gave final passage Friday to a measure that clears a path for Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis to run for president without resigning from his current job. The provision, which was anticipated, would tweak a Florida law — known as “resign to run” — that currently requires candidates in the

By Arlette Saenz, Kevin Liptak and Fredreka Schouten, CNN President Joe Biden will convene more than 150 of his biggest donors at a lux Washington, DC, hotel over the next two days, a sign, even in the campaign’s earliest stages, of the importance he will place on raising a war chest to take on Republicans

By Steve Contorno, CNN Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his GOP allies have moved to shield the Republican leader from the state’s notoriously robust public records laws as he prepares to launch a campaign for the White House. One bill advancing through the Republican-controlled state legislature would conceal information about DeSantis’ travel and who he

By Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden‘s three-minute video announcing his reelection bid Tuesday was his official ask to voters for another four years in office. Yet the video made almost no mention, at least in the voiceover, of what he’s done in office so far. Yes, there were images of infrastructure projects funded by

By Tierney Sneed A law passed 150 years ago that banned the mailing of contraceptives, lewd materials and drugs that induce abortions could provide a pathway for effectively banning abortion nationwide — even in states where the procedure is legal. When the Supreme Court last summer reversed Roe v. Wade and eliminated constitutional protections that

By Natasha Bertrand, Sean Lyngaas, Zachary Cohen and Haley Britzky, CNN New details about the 21-year-old Air National Guardsman accused of leaking a trove of classified documents online reveal how multiple red flags went unheeded and weren’t enough to prevent the Pentagon from granting him a top-secret security clearance. Officials across the government are now

By Tierney Sneed, CNN A federal appeals court has upheld several provisions of a restrictive election law in Florida that was passed by the GOP-controlled legislature in 2021. A divided panel of the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals reversed most of a ruling by a trial judge last year that said the provisions in

By Zachary Cohen, CNN The Senate Intelligence Committee is calling on the CIA Inspector General to “initiate an immediate investigation” into the agency’s alleged mishandling of sexual assault and harassment cases, according to a new letter sent to the watchdog’s office. The letter from committee chairman Sen. Mark Warner, a Virginia Democrat, and vice chair

By Sydney Kashiwagi Minnesota’s Democratic Gov. Tim Walz signed legislation Thursday that further enshrines the right to abortion and gender-affirming care into law and another that bans so-called conversion therapy. The new legislation enhances existing state law that makes access to abortion and gender-affirming care legal and opposes conversion therapy. Walz previously signed an executive

By Ted Barrett, Nicky Robertson, Haley Talbot and Clare Foran, CNN The Senate on Thursday failed to advance a resolution to remove the deadline for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, a proposed amendment to the Constitution. The resolution failed 51-47. Although it had two Republican co-sponsors — Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN The Biden administration is bracing for a surge of migrants at the US-Mexico border when a Covid-era border restriction lifts next month, putting an issue that’s been a political vulnerability for President Joe Biden at the forefront just weeks off his 2024 campaign announcement. On May 11, when the coronavirus public

By Andrew Kaczynski, CNN Former President Donald Trump once backed raising the retirement age to 70 and called for privatizing Social Security which he called a “Ponzi scheme” — two positions he has hammered Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for supporting as a former member of Congress and congressional candidate. Trump made the comments in 2000

By Zachary Cohen and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN Prosecutors are arguing that the Air National Guardsman accused of posting a trove of classified documents to social media should remain in jail during the course of his legal case, in part, because he has a history of violent threats and possessed an “arsenal of weapons.” In comments

By Steve Contorno and Richard Allen Greene, CNN Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ war with Disney overshadowed his foreign visit to Jerusalem on Thursday, as he responded to questions about the entertainment giant’s lawsuit against him by saying it lacks “merit.” “I don’t think the suit has merit. I think it’s political,” DeSantis, a Republican, said

By Hannah Rabinowitz and Evan Perez, CNN Federal prosecutors asked a judge Wednesday to continue the detention of the Air National Guardsman accused of posting a trove of classified documents to social media, saying that he posed a flight risk and that the government was still grappling with the amount of stolen classified information. In

By Betsy Klein and Sam Fossum, CNN President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden capped South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s official state visit with a glamorous state dinner at the White House Wednesday night to celebrate the two nations’ 70-year alliance. “This visit is about reaffirming all that unites our two nations. It’s

By Chandelis Duster, CNN Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday spoke out against antisemitism and hate, pointing to his family history in the hope it would stand as an example for others. “My father was, and so many other millions of men were, sucked into a hate system through lies and deceit. And so,

By Haley Britzky, CNN While Russia has suffered thousands of losses in its war against Ukraine, a senior US military commander in Europe told lawmakers Wednesday that they have plenty more firepower left in their arsenal. “[T]he Russian ground force has been degenerated somewhat by this conflict, although it is bigger today than it was

By Paula Reid, Evan Perez, Aileen Graef and Steven Williams, CNN Lawyers for Hunter Biden met with Justice Department officials on Wednesday to discuss the long-running criminal investigation into the president’s son. Hunter Biden’s longtime attorney Chris Clark, along with several other attorneys, were spotted by CNN heading into Justice Department headquarters early Wednesday. When

By Paula Reid, Jeremy Herb, Katelyn Polantz and Zachary Cohen, CNN Two of Donald Trump‘s defense lawyers now believe that classified briefings of phone calls with foreign leaders were among “all manner of documents” in 15 boxes that Trump returned to the National Archives a year after he left the presidency, according to a new

By CNN Walt Disney Parks and Resorts on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the board that oversees the company’s special tax district. Read the lawsuit here. The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2023 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.

By Lauren del Valle, CNN The judge overseeing a civil battery and defamation trial for columnist E. Jean Carroll against Donald Trump warned the former president’s counsel on Wednesday about comments their client made on social media about the case. Carroll’s attorney, Roberta Kaplan, outside the presence of the jury, flagged to federal District Judge