Politics

By Jeff Zeleny, Phil Mattingly, Kevin Liptak and Arlette Saenz, CNN Plans are in motion for President Joe Biden to formally announce his bid for a second term as soon as next week, with a campaign-style video set to be released to definitively answer the question of whether he will run again and igniting an

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter Marking a rare combination of resources, supporters of gun regulations and anti-domestic violence groups joined Thursday to urge the Supreme Court to reverse a federal appeals court opinion they say will make it easier for domestic abusers to obtain firearms. The groups say the high court needs

By Maegan Vazquez, CNN Julie Su, the Biden administration’s labor secretary nominee, appeared before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee on Thursday, where she attempted to make the case for her confirmation as she was grilled by Republicans over her record. The Democratic majority on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee,

By Steve Contorno and Fredreka Schouten, CNN For much of the past two years, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has shaped his political narrative with rapid-fire policy moves and a resounding reelection victory fueling his ascendency as a potential 2024 candidate and top primary rival to former President Donald Trump. But as he steps out onto

By Ariane de Vogue, Tierney Sneed and Joan Biskupic, CNN Two Democratic lawmakers want former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff to clarify certain aspects of the Supreme Court‘s investigation into last year’s the leak of the draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade. Chertoff was tapped by Chief Justice John Roberts to review a report compiled

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN Suspected North Korean hackers infiltrated a software firm that claims hundreds of thousands of customers around the world in a cyberattack that shows Pyongyang’s advanced hacking capabilities, private investigators said Thursday. The breach of the software firm 3CX, discovered last month, provided a potential foothold for the North Koreans into a

By Tami Luhby and Katie Lobosco, CNN House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has unveiled his plan to address the nation’s looming debt ceiling drama, offering to raise the borrowing cap by $1.5 trillion to prevent a default. But the proposal comes with a long list of demands from House Republicans that Senate Democrats and the White

By Lauren Fox and Tierney Sneed, CNN Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin asked Chief Justice John Roberts or “another Justice whom you designate” to appear before his committee next month for a hearing on Supreme Court ethics rules — a request that is purely voluntary, with Durbin indicating he does not intend to subpoena the

By Tierney Sneed The logjam stalling the Senate confirmation of President Joe Biden’s judicial appointees loosened somewhat Thursday when the Judiciary Committee approved seven nominees on a bipartisan basis, though Republicans still maintain the ability to block nominees they don’t support. The advancement of the nominees comes amid the ongoing absence of California Democratic Sen.

By Oren Liebermann, CNN The US transferred an alleged al-Qaeda associate from Guantanamo Bay to Algeria, the Defense Department announced Thursday, part of the Biden administration’s ongoing efforts to close the prison facility. Said bin Brahim bin Umran Bakush, a 72-year-old Algerian native who has been held in detention in Guantanamo Bay for 20 years,

By Sara Murray, CNN My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell has been ordered to shell out $5 million to an expert who debunked his data related to the 2020 election, according to a decision by the arbitration panel obtained by CNN. Lindell, a purveyor of election conspiracies, vowed to award the multimillion-dollar sum to any cyber

By Melanie Zanona, Annie Grayer, Haley Talbot and Kristin Wilson, CNN House Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green barred GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from speaking further in a hearing after she called Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas a “liar” — a stunning example of how Greene’s extreme rhetoric led even members of her

By Ted Barrett and Nicky Robertson, CNN The Senate on Wednesday rejected a GOP-led effort to overturn a recently adopted Veterans Affairs rule that allows the department to provide abortions if the health or life of the veteran is in danger, or when the pregnancy is a result of rape or incest. The resolution authored

By Phil Mattingly, CNN Chief White House correspondent White House officials have spent weeks engaged in skirmishes with House Republicans over the looming debt ceiling battle. Those skirmishes have now expanded into an all-out war. President Joe Biden’s economic speech in Maryland on Wednesday, which leveled a series of policy and political attacks at House

By Zachary Cohen and Katelyn Polantz, CNN Boris Epshteyn, an attorney and adviser to Donald Trump, is scheduled to be interviewed on Thursday by federal prosecutors working for special counsel Jack Smith, a source familiar with the matter told CNN. Epshteyn worked as a special assistant to then-President Trump at the White House, advised Trump

By Jennifer Hansler and Kylie Atwood, CNN The situation on the ground in Sudan on Wednesday remained too volatile to get diplomatic staff from the US Embassy in Khartoum out of the country, a top State Department official told congressional staffers. According to multiple staffers in the room, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice Donald Trump’s attorney on Wednesday said the former president “wishes” to appear at next week’s civil trial where a jury will hear columnist E. Jean Carroll’s assault and defamation claims against him — but his attendance should not be necessary because it would be a “burden” on

By Sara Murray and Evan Perez, CNN An IRS supervisory special agent who claims to have information about alleged mishandling and political interference in the ongoing criminal probe into Hunter Biden is seeking whistleblower protections to share the information with Congress, according to a letter obtained by CNN. “Despite serious risks of retaliation, my client

By Jeremy Diamond and Arlette Saenz, CNN Top Democratic donors and fundraisers have been invited to meet with President Joe Biden in Washington next week as he nears a likely 2024 reelection announcement, two people familiar with the matter told CNN. The huddle with top donors is the latest signal that Biden is ramping up

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Wednesday temporarily extended a hold on a lower court ruling that would have imposed restrictions on access to an abortion drug, a move meant to give the justices more time to consider the issue. In a similar order last week, Alito

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said Wednesday that the United States government has gained “vitally important” intelligence about the war in Ukraine from a surveillance law that allows the government to collect foreign communications without a warrant. The law, Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, enables the US government

By Steve Contorno, CNN Florida’s state education board voted Wednesday to ban teaching students about sexual orientation and gender identity through high school, expanding the scope of a contentious state law that last year thrust Gov. Ron DeSantis to the forefront of the cultural clash over classrooms. The law DeSantis signed last year prohibited the

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN Republican attorneys general in Arkansas, Iowa and Missouri this week asked a federal appeals court to overturn the Biden administration’s new cybersecurity regulations for water facilities, calling the requirements overly burdensome and a violation of state sovereignty. It’s one of the biggest legal challenges yet to the Biden administration’s embrace of

By Haley Britzky, Oren Liebermann and Jeremy Diamond, CNN The US government’s Afghanistan watchdog told lawmakers Wednesday that he cannot say with certainty that US aid to the country is “not currently funding the Taliban.” “While I agree, and we all agree Afghanistan faces a dire humanitarian and economic situation, it is critical that our

By Manu Raju and Tami Luhby, CNN Speaker Kevin McCarthy has settled on a plan to raise the national debt limit by $1.5 trillion in exchange for an array of cuts across domestic programs, setting off a furious effort to wrangle GOP votes and escalating a high-stakes standoff with the White House. After months of

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter The Supreme Court cleared the way on Wednesday for Texas death row inmate Rodney Reed to seek post-conviction DNA evidence to try to prove his innocence. Reed claims an all-White jury wrongly convicted him of killing of Stacey Stites, a 19-year-old White woman, in Texas in 1998.

By Shania Shelton Francisco “Franky” Carrillo, who spent two decades behind bars and was featured in the Netflix series “The Innocence Files,” is launching a campaign on Wednesday for California congressional seat targeted by Democrats trying to win back the US House. As a 16-year-old, Carrillo was arrested for a drive-by shooting after police mistakenly

By Haley Britzky, CNN The Air Force unit to which the Air Guardsman who is suspected of leaking classified documents online was assigned is “not currently performing its assigned intelligence mission,” the Air Force said Tuesday in a statement. The secretary of the Air Force has directed the Air Force Inspector General to investigate the

By Melanie Zanona, Alayna Treene and Kristen Holmes, CNN While Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis held a meet-and-greet on Capitol Hill Tuesday evening, former President Donald Trump and his team aimed to be one step ahead — planning a dinner at his Mar-a-Lago resort with members of the Florida congressional delegation just two days after the

By Sydney Kashiwagi, CNN Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra violated an ethics law that limits federal employees’ political activities when he stumped for Sen. Alex Padilla during the Congressional Hispanic Caucus’ annual awards gala last year, the Office of Special Counsel has found. During his speech, Becerra, in his official capacity as HHS

By Annie Grayer, CNN House Republicans are trying to restart momentum on a border security package that faced early opposition in the current Congress by beginning to move a slightly revamped package through the committee process on Wednesday, but early reactions indicate many of the same sticking points and hurdles remain. The conference, which has

By Clare Foran, CNN The House voted on Wednesday to pass a GOP-led resolution to block a DC policing bill aimed at accountability and reform. The vote took place not long after a similar measure sparked tensions and division among Democrats. In March, President Joe Biden said he would not veto a different resolution to

By Tami Luhby, CNN The Biden administration unveiled Tuesday a $1.1 billion program aimed at providing Covid-19 vaccines and treatments to the uninsured at no cost after the federal supply is exhausted. The two-part initiative would utilize pharmacies, local health departments and federally supported health centers to provide Covid-19 care, according to a fact sheet

By CNN President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday released their 2022 tax returns. Read Biden’s and Harris’ tax returns here. The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2023 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN Former Fugees rapper Pras Michel testified in his own trial Tuesday, telling the jury that money he received from a Malaysian businessman to set up a picture with then-President Barack Obama was “free money.” The government has alleged that Michel unlawfully used funds over several years from Malaysian billionaire Jho Low

By Devan Cole, CNN A grand jury in Virginia has indicted three individuals for allegedly burning an object with the “intent to intimidate” on the night of a 2017 White nationalist demonstration at the University of Virginia, in which scores of people marched through the Charlottesville campus carrying flaming tiki torches and chanting White nationalist

By Clare Foran, Kristin Wilson and Haley Talbot, CNN The House of Representatives on Tuesday failed to override President Joe Biden’s veto of a resolution to overturn an Environmental Protection Agency water rule. Republicans have called the rule federal overreach and argue it places a burden on the agriculture community by being too restrictive in

By Hannah Rabinowitz, Holmes Lybrand and Donie O’Sullivan, CNN The Justice Department on Tuesday unveiled new charges against members of small separatist political groups accused of working with agents of the Russian government to influence a local Florida election with aspirations of extending those efforts to the 2020 presidential campaign. The indictment expands a criminal

By Oren Liebermann, CNN The top US Navy admiral ardently defended a non-binary sailor on Tuesday amid some criticism from Republican lawmakers, saying he is “particularly proud of this sailor.” The sailor, LTJG Audrey Knutson, had their story shared on the Navy’s Instagram page last week. In a short video, Knutson said they are proud

By Ali Zaslav, Nicky Robertson, Ted Barrett and Sydney Kashiwagi, CNN Republicans on Tuesday formally blocked a request from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to temporarily replace Sen. Dianne Feinstein on the Judiciary Committee, something Democrats hoped to do in order to advance stalled judicial nominations. Senate Democrats are seeking to temporarily replace Feinstein on

By Daniel Dale, CNN Former President Donald Trump has tried to mount an argument that he was a formidable deterrent to Russian President Vladimir Putin, the foreign leader Trump has for years been criticized for praising and defending. But Trump has been making a demonstrably false claim to support his case. On Friday, in a

By Arlette Saenz, CNN A tiny intruder infiltrated White House grounds Tuesday, prompting a swift response from the US Secret Service. Anthony Guglielmi, chief of communications for the Secret Service, said a toddler crawled through the fence on the north side of the White House, setting off security alerts. “The Secret Service Uniformed Division today

By Jake Tapper and Kit Maher, CNN Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is talking to potential donors, thought leaders, staffers, and others to discuss a possible campaign for president in 2024, sources close to Christie told CNN. Christie is in the process of making a decision and has indicated he will make one in

By Ariane de Vogue and Tierney Sneed, CNN A group of doctors opposed to abortion asked the Supreme Court Tuesday to restrict access to a key medication abortion drug while other legal challenges play out, as Wednesday night’s deadline for the court to act approaches. The filing means that after the Justice Department files a

By Natasha Bertrand and Tim Lister, CNN The US has sensitive nuclear technology at a nuclear power plant inside Ukraine and is warning Russia not to touch it, according to a letter the US Department of Energy sent to Russia’s state-owned nuclear energy firm Rosatom last month. In the letter, which was reviewed by CNN

By Alex Marquardt and Jim Sciutto, CNN The top British defense official has cast doubt on the veracity and impact of the recently leaked American intelligence documents, going further than US officials in questioning the contents of the hundreds of pages of classified intelligence. “I know for a fact, having read what I’ve seen in

By Hannah Rabinowitz, Evan Perez and Lauren del Valle, CNN The FBI has arrested two alleged Chinese agents and federal prosecutors have charged dozens of others with working to silence and harass dissidents within the United States — with some even operating an “undeclared police station” in New York City. Lu Jianwang and Chen Jinping

By Steve Contorno, CNN Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday threatened to build a prison or a competing theme park near the Magic Kingdom or raise taxes on Walt Disney World to retaliate against the company for resisting a state takeover of its special taxing district. Laying out his plan to exact retribution against the