Politics

By Melanie Zanona, Kristin Wilson, Lauren Fox, Manu Raju and Haley Talbot, CNN The House voted Wednesday to pass a bill raising the nation’s debt ceiling, after days of wrangling Republican lawmakers to unify behind the package, which would bolster House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s position at the negotiating table with the White House. The final

By Lauren del Valle, CNN E. Jean Carroll and two other women will testify in the battery and defamation trial against former President Donald Trump to show Trump’s pattern of alleged violent behavior, Carroll’s attorney told jurors during opening statements on Tuesday. “Three women, one clear pattern,” attorney Shawn Crowley said. “Start with a friendly

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter Chief Justice John Roberts has notified Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin that he won’t testify at an upcoming hearing on Supreme Court ethics, instead releasing a new statement signed by all nine justices that is meant to provide “clarity” to the public about the high court’s

By Natasha Bertrand, Oren Liebermann and Kylie Atwood, CNN The ISIS-K leader who planned the deadly 2021 suicide bombing at the Kabul international airport’s Abbey Gate was killed by the Taliban, according to the National Security Council. The administration didn’t name the ISIS-K leader, but John Kirby, the National Security Council’s coordinator for strategic communications,

By Ted Barrett and Jessica Dean, CNN Montana Sen. Steve Daines, who heads the Senate Republican campaign committee, said reaction has been “positive” to his unexpected endorsement Monday of Donald Trump to be president and he described the move as something that will help Republican candidates win in next year’s elections. “We are going to

By Marshall Cohen The judge overseeing an Arkansas paternity case involving Hunter Biden has ordered the president’s son to appear in court next Monday. Independence County Circuit Judge Holly Meyer ruled Monday that all parties involved in the case must appear for a contempt hearing next week in Batesville, Arkansas, according to court filings. An

By Shawna Mizelle, CNN Republican Gov. Doug Burgum of North Dakota signed a near-total abortion ban bill into law Monday. Senate Bill 2150, which passed in the state’s legislature last week, defines abortion as “the act of using, selling, or prescribing any instrument, medicine, drug, or any other substance, device, or means with the intent

By Jasmine Wright, CNN Vice President Kamala Harris will make the case for President Joe Biden’s reelection bid Tuesday at a political rally on reproductive freedom, a Harris adviser told CNN, saying that “finishing the job” for 2024 is about fighting to protect abortion access among other rights facing nationwide restrictions. Harris will “highlight the

By Manu Raju and Melanie Zanona, CNN House Republican leaders are still struggling to get to 218 votes on their package to raise the national debt limit — and are uncertain when they will be able to hold the vote, according to multiple GOP sources. While Republicans hadn’t yet scheduled the vote, they had made

By Betsy Klein, CNN Ties between the US and South Korea will be front and center in the décor and on the menu for Wednesday’s elaborate state dinner at the White House, which will be held under towering cherry blossom branches in the East Room following weeks of careful diplomatic preparations. “From my husband, I

By Ella Nilsen, CNN The Biden administration is rethinking how homes are heated and cooled in the US, eyeing a tried-and-true, but thus far underutilized, climate solution to reduce planet-warming pollution and save homeowners money on energy costs. To do it, the Department of Energy is tapping 11 communities around the US to spend the

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter A company related to Republican megadonor Harlan Crow, a longtime friend of Clarence Thomas who paid for lavish trips for the Supreme Court justice and his wife, had business before the Supreme Court in the mid-2000s, records show. Crow’s name does not appear in a caption of

By Kate Sullivan, Kylie Atwood and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley on Tuesday acknowledged the steep challenge Republicans face in trying to enact hardline national restrictions but said she believed the federal government should play a role in regulating the procedure and called for a “constructive conversation” on the polarizing issue. She

By Kristen Holmes, CNN Montana Sen. Steve Daines, the head of the Senate GOP’s campaign arm, endorsed former President Donald Trump Monday night. “The best four years I’ve had in the US Senate is when President Trump was serving in the Oval Office,” Daines told Donald Trump Jr. on Trump’s Rumble show, “Triggered.” “You talk

By Zachary Cohen, Annie Grayer, Alayna Treene and Sara Murray, CNN House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan has issued a subpoena to Jennifer Leigh Moore, executive assistant director of human resources at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, demanding she answer questions from the select subcommittee on the so-called weaponization of the federal government. Russell Dye, Jordan’s

By Jason Morris and Devan Cole, CNN Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis plans to announce this summer whether she’ll bring charges against former President Donald Trump or his allies for their attempts to overturn Georgia’s 2020 presidential election results, according to a letter obtained by CNN. Willis told local law enforcement officials in a

By Holmes Lybrand and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN After months of legal battles, infighting between defense lawyers and dozens of rejected mistrial motions, the federal criminal trial against five Proud Boys accused of plotting to attack the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, moved to its final stage Monday. One prosecutor and two defense attorneys gave

By Lauren Fox and Haley Talbot, CNN House Republican Whip Tom Emmer sounded upbeat Monday as he vowed Republicans will have the votes to pass their debt ceiling bill later this week, making the case he’s made to members all weekend that a vote against the package would hand President Joe Biden and Democrats a

By Andrew Kaczynski and Olivia Alafriz, CNN President Joe Biden, who at 80 has had to confront questions about his age and mental acuity as he launches a reelection campaign for president, once ran a campaign that sharply attacked his opponent’s age. In 1972, Biden, then 29 years old and a local Delaware councilman, was

By Tierney Sneed A key Democratic senator is scrutinizing a Republican megadonor who financed luxury travel taken by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and a real estate transaction with his family, and examining whether the gifts and deal triggered obligations under US tax law. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden is asking the Texas billionaire

By Maegan Vazquez, Nikki Carvajal and Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden said Monday that he would let people know “real soon” about his reelection plans — stopping short of announcing another run during a White House ceremony honoring the 2023 Teacher of the Year recipients. Asked by reporters about his reelection plans, Biden responded:

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN Domestic violent extremists have in the last year increasingly shared tactics with each other on using guns to attack electric power stations in a move that likely escalates the threat to US critical infrastructure, according to a Department of Homeland Security bulletin obtained by CNN. Following multiple high-profile attacks on US

By Daniel Dale, CNN Former President Donald Trump keeps using wildly inaccurate figures to minimize the threat of climate change. Trump, now a presidential candidate, has argued in speeches and interviews that the risk of nuclear war is a much more important issue than climate change. He is entitled to his opinion. But he has

By Gregory Krieg and Eric Bradner, CNN The question put to South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, hours after he announced plans to run for the Republican presidential nomination, was a simple one: How do you plan to defeat Donald Trump? Scott spoke for nearly a minute, discussing his mother, his belief in the power of

By Donald Judd, CNN White House Domestic Policy Adviser Susan Rice will leave her administration post next month, an official tells CNN, marking one of the Biden administration’s highest-profile departures as the president’s domestic agenda stalls in a divided Congress. Rice’s final day will be May 26, the official said. NBC News first reported her

By Tierney Sneed The Supreme Court said Monday that it will consider whether the First Amendment protects social media users from being blocked from commenting on the personal pages that government officials use to communicate actions related to their duties. The justices said they were taking up two cases concerning the question: one lawsuit brought

By Jennifer Hansler and Donald Judd, CNN US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday announced that the warring factions in Sudan agreed to a a ceasefire, “starting at midnight on April 24, to last for 72 hours.” The agreement between the Sudanese Armed Forces, or SAF, and the Rapid Support Forces, or RSF, came

By Paula Reid and Annie Grayer, CNN Hunter Biden’s lawyer is asking for the Treasury Department’s inspector general and the Office of Congressional Ethics to launch inquiries as part of a broader aggressive strategy to strike back at detractors of President Joe Biden’s son. Abbe David Lowell, the lawyer for Hunter Biden, sent a letter

By Sam Fossum and Shawna Mizelle, CNN Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said Sunday that he will follow precedent for replacing Sen. Dianne Feinstein on the Judiciary Committee if she resigns, signaling a willingness to vote to replace the California Democrat if she left the chamber altogether. “If she does resign, I would be in the

By Steve Contorno, CNN After a trying week for his national political ambitions, Gov. Ron DeSantis is headed abroad this week for a series of visits to allied nations — an opportunity for the Florida Republican to step onto the international stage for the first time as a likely presidential contender. The official purpose behind

By Alayna Treene, CNN Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota said Sunday that she believes President Joe Biden should sit down with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and negotiate Republicans’ proposed spending cuts, but she insisted those talks should be in relation to the federal budget — not raising the debt limit. “Of course, President Biden

By Dana Bash, CNN Some 10,000 people from all over the world gathered last week in Poland for the annual March of the Living, a 2-mile walk from Auschwitz to Birkenau, where Nazis murdered over a million civilians — mostly Jews — during World War II. One of the most famous marchers was Meek Mill,

By Melanie Zanona, Annie Grayer and Lauren Fox, CNN House Republicans are abandoning a years-long push by their party to pass a federal abortion ban and are exploring other ways to advance their anti-abortion agenda — a remarkable shift that underscores how the GOP is wrestling with an issue that has become a political landmine

By Sydney Kashiwagi, CNN Democratic Rep. Dan Kildee of Michigan announced Saturday that he has been released from the hospital after undergoing surgery this week to remove a small cancerous tumor in his tonsil. “I am happy to be leaving the hospital after a successful surgery to remove a small cancerous tumor. I want to

By Sydney Kashiwagi and Camila Bernal, CNN Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz is expected to sign a series of bills that would further enshrine the right to abortion and gender-affirming care into state law while banning so-called conversion therapy. The Democratic-led state Senate passed three bills Friday after their Democratic colleagues in the House advanced

By Tierney Sneed The abortion rights community and its allies in the Biden administration secured a striking victory from the conservative Supreme Court with an order Friday night that stopped restrictions on medication abortion drugs from taking effect. The Supreme Court’s brief, unsigned order came in an emergency dispute over lower court rulings that would

By Ariane de Vogue and Tierney Sneed, CNN The Supreme Court on Friday protected access to a widely used abortion drug by freezing lower-court rulings that placed restrictions on its usage as appeals play out. As a result, the US Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the drug mifepristone and subsequent actions that made it

By Zachary Cohen, CNN The House Intelligence Committee is investigating the CIA’s handling of sexual assault and harassment cases, CNN has confirmed. The bipartisan probe comes as multiple female CIA employees have approached the committee since the beginning of this year and told lawmakers the agency is discouraging women from filing sexual misconduct complaints, according

By CNN The Supreme Court on Friday protected access to a widely used abortion drug by freezing lower-court rulings that placed restrictions on medication abortion. Read the order here. The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2023 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.

By Wolf Blitzer and Dana Bash, CNN This week, we traveled to Poland to help commemorate the 80th anniversary of the start of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, when Jews revolted against their Nazi oppressors, who had forced them to live behind barbed wire walls in horrific conditions. We also participated in the March of the

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN The United States government has not yet made a decision about whether to evacuate US diplomatic personnel from Sudan, but preparations are continuing for a potential evacuation, multiple US officials said Friday. Officials from the White House, State Department, and Defense Department stressed that they are closely monitoring the volatile situation

By Paula Reid, Kara Scannell, Alayna Treene and Sara Murray, CNN Lawyers for Hunter Biden are scheduled to meet next week with US attorney David Weiss and at least one senior career official from Justice Department headquarters to discuss the long-running investigation into the president’s son, multiple sources familiar with the matter told CNN. The

By Kylie Atwood, Annie Grayer and Clare Foran, CNN The Republican chairs of the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday asking for information related to the crafting of a public letter signed weeks before the 2020 presidential election by dozens of former intelligence officials, who

By Casey Tolan and Isabelle Chapman, CNN The federal judge who issued a nationwide ruling blocking the approval of a common abortion medication redacted key information on his legally mandated financial disclosures, in what legal experts described as an unusual move that conceals the bulk of his personal fortune. In his 2020 and 2021 annual

By Ella Nilsen, CNN The Biden administration is planning to roll out aggressive new rules to regulate planet-warming pollution from natural gas power plants, three sources familiar with the plan and who have been briefed on the rules told CNN, in a move that could face fierce legal challenges. President Joe Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency

By Nicky Robertson and Ted Barrett, CNN In a rare moment of bipartisanship warmth Thursday, the top Democrat and Republican in the Senate halted floor action for a few minutes to praise Sen. Patty Murray, a Democrat from Washington, after she cast her 10,000 vote, becoming the first woman in US history to vote in

By Chandelis Duster, CNN The death penalty was abolished in Washington state Thursday after Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee signed a bill into law eliminating the state-sanctioned punishment. Besides the death penalty, Senate Bill 5087 also eliminated other laws, including a measure that allowed sterilization as criminal punishment. The Democratic-controlled legislature passed the bill earlier this

By Arlette Saenz, CNN The White House is bringing in a celebrity chef and a trio of Broadway stars for its glitzy state dinner for the South Korean president next week, a White House official said. First lady Jill Biden asked chef Edward Lee, a Korean-American James Beard Award winner with restaurants in Washington, DC,

By Rebekah Riess and Joe Sutton, CNN A number of Republican lawmakers from the Montana Freedom Caucus are demanding Democratic state Rep. Zooey Zephyr be censured by the state House for “using inappropriate and uncalled-for language” during a floor debate over amendments concerning a bill that bans medical care for transgender minors. “If you are

By Mary Kay Mallonee and Jack Forrest, CNN A Texas man facing charges in connection to the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the US Capitol opened fire on law enforcement officers last week when they arrived at his house in the Dallas area for a welfare check, according to an affidavit. Nathan Donald Pelham, who

By Shania Shelton Conservative talk radio host Larry Elder announced Thursday that he’s launching a 2024 presidential campaign, joining a growing list of Republicans vying for the GOP nomination. “I am announcing I am running for the presidency of the United States,” Elder told Tucker Carlson on Fox News. Asked for his key reasons for

By Holmes Lybrand The case against former Fugees rapper Pras Michel, accused of playing a central role in a geopolitical conspiracy spanning two US presidencies, will be in the hands of the jury Monday morning. In prosecutors’ closing arguments, which concluded late Thursday afternoon, they laid out their case of how Michel allegedly took more