Politics

By Kara Scannell, CNN A federal judge on Monday denied for a second time former President Donald Trump’s request to delay an assault and defamation trial set to begin next week in New York. Trump’s attorneys asked for the delay, saying a “cooling off” period is necessary to obtain a fair and impartial jury given

By Lauren Fox and Morgan Rimmer, CNN Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has returned to the Senate following a period of recovery in the wake of a fall. McConnell arrived on Capitol Hill Monday morning and did not answer questions from CNN about how he is feeling after spending the last several weeks recovering after

By Clare Foran, Ted Barrett, Lauren Fox and Haley Talbot, CNN Lawmakers face a lengthy to-do list as they return to the Capitol after a two-week recess to confront a series of critical issues ranging from a looming debt limit crisis to the fallout from a leak of highly classified Pentagon documents. There is still

By Manu Raju and Lauren Fox, CNN Senate Republicans are prepared to block Democratic efforts to replace Sen. Dianne Feinstein on the powerful Judiciary committee, ratcheting up pressure on the 89-year-old California Democrat to resign or return quickly to allow President Joe Biden’s judicial nominees to be confirmed. Democrats would need 60 votes to replace

By Fredreka Schouten and David Wright, CNN Former President Donald Trump‘s criminal indictment helped jolt his fundraising. GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley faces questions about her campaign math. Embattled New York Rep. George Santos refunded more contributions than he took in. And some — but not all — of the Democratic Party’s most vulnerable Senate

By Fredreka Schouten, David Wright and Kylie Atwood, CNN Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley‘s campaign publicized earlier this month what it boasted as a strong haul for her 2024 bid: The former South Carolina governor had raised “more than $11 million in just six weeks,” according to a campaign release. But official filings with the

By Shawna Mizelle, CNN Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York on Sunday defended Dianne Feinstein and her ability to serve in the Senate amid calls from some Democrats for the longest-serving female US senator in history to step down. Gillibrand, who serves with Feinstein on the Senate Intelligence Committee, told CNN’s Jake Tapper on

By Paul LeBlanc and Chris Boyette, CNN Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has a message for his fellow Republicans looking to win back the White House: “We cannot get distracted.” “We have to tell people, No. 1, what we’re for. No. 2, that we’re going to be focused on the future and what we’re going to

By Jennifer Agiesta, CNN Polling Director If you’ve filled out a survey at any point in the last 25 years, chances are you were asked two questions about your race and ethnicity: Whether you are of Hispanic or Latino descent, and then separately, if your race is White, Black, Asian, Pacific Islander, Native American or

By Alayna Treene, Kristen Holmes, Fredreka Schouten and David Wright, CNN Former President Donald Trump raised a combined $18.8 million in the first quarter of 2023 through his joint fundraising committee and his campaign — and saw a spike in donations after being indicted by a Manhattan grand jury on March 30 — according to

By Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden on Friday recounted his spontaneous meeting with the priest who delivered last rites to his son Beau during a visit to a holy shrine in Ireland. “It was incredible to see him. It seemed like a sign,” Biden said during remarks in Ballina, adding that the encounter had

By Gianluca Mezzofiore and Sean Lyngaas, CNN Images of the leaked classified documents were posted to at least two chatrooms on Discord, a social media platform popular with video gamers, according to a CNN review of Discord posts and interviews with its users. The leaks began months ago on the first chatroom, called Thug Shaker

By Kate Sullivan and Shania Shelton, CNN Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Friday he is not running for president in 2024. “This isn’t our moment,” Pompeo said on Fox News. Pompeo, who had been fueling speculation about a potential bid, said choosing not to run in 2024 was a “deeply personal decision” for

By CNN Former President Donald Trump’s personal financial disclosure report was made public Friday after he filed it with the Federal Election Commission. The report is likely to offer some new insights into his post-presidential finances. Read his financial disclosure report in parts one and two here. The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2023 Cable News Network, Inc.,

By Fredreka Schouten, Jeremy Herb, Maegan Vazquez, Melissa Holzberg DePalo and Kate Sullivan, CNN Former President Donald Trump on Friday filed his personal financial disclosure report with the Federal Election Commission — offering the public a first look at his post-presidential finances. The reports, however, provide an imprecise financial picture because candidates are only required

By Sydney Kashiwagi, CNN Michigan’s Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed a package of six expansive gun violence prevention bills into law Thursday that will create universal background checks for all firearms and mandate safe storage requirements around children. Michigan has felt the impact of deadly school shootings in recent years. In February, a gunman killed

By Kevin Liptak and Phil Mattingly, CNN Like so many Americans do each year, President Joe Biden returned to Ireland this week in search of his roots, seeking some connection and some answers in the land his people left so many years ago. He found it in pubs, priests and Parliament, which he said (in

By Ariane de Vogue, Tierney Sneed and Devan Cole, CNN Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Friday extended a hold on a lower court ruling that would have imposed restrictions on access to an abortion drug, a temporary move meant to give the justices more time to consider the issue. Alito said the order is

By Oren Liebermann, CNN The military identified 11 additional cases of traumatic brain injury following a series of rocket and drone attacks on US troops in Syria in late March, according to a spokesman for US Central Command. The new cases bring the number of US personnel wounded in the attacks to a total of

By Zachary Cohen, Sara Murray, Casey Gannon and Andrew Millman, CNN Former acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell testified Thursday before a grand jury investigating Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents. CNN identified Grenell as he was departing the courthouse in Washington, DC. Grenell was subpoenaed to testify in special counsel Jack Smith’s ongoing

By Steve Contorno, CNN Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a bill that would ban most abortions in the state after six weeks, according to a release from the governor’s office late Thursday night. The six-week ban would not go into effect until the state Supreme Court overturns its previous precedent on abortion. “We are

By Devan Cole, CNN Justice Clarence Thomas failed to disclose a 2014 real estate deal he made with a GOP megadonor, according to a ProPublica report published Thursday. The deal involved the sale of three properties in Savannah, Georgia, that were owned by Thomas and his relatives to the megadonor, Harlan Crow, according to ProPublica,

By Kara Scannell and Lauren del Valle, CNN Former President Donald Trump asked a judge to delay a columnist’s assault and defamation trial set to being later this month after learning that a billionaire who has donated to Democratic causes has paid for some of the accuser’s legal fees. The information recently came to light

By Evan Perez, Jeremy Herb, Natasha Bertrand, Zachary Cohen and Kevin Liptak, CNN A member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard was arrested by the FBI on Thursday in connection with the leaking of classified documents that have been posted online, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Thursday. The arrest of Jack Teixeira, 21, comes following

By Jeremy Diamond, CNN Hundreds of thousands of recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program will for the first time soon be eligible for affordable health care coverage after President Joe Biden announced a plan Thursday to expand access to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act insurance marketplace. “We need to give Dreamers

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN The federal judge overseeing the trial of five Proud Boys members who are accused of plotting to storm the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, denied a mistrial motion on Thursday after jurors reported being followed and confronted in public. In late March, several jurors reported two incidents in which they

By Tierney Sneed, CNN The federal appeals court ruling Wednesday night that is keeping medication abortion drugs available is likely to complicate abortion access across the country, even in places where the procedure is legal. Since the Supreme Court overturned of Roe v. Wade last year, abortion pills — and the US Food and Drug

By Sophie Tanno, CNN President Joe Biden made a gaffe during his visit to Ireland on Wednesday as he confused a rugby team with a controversial 1920s-era British police force. Biden was speaking at the Windsor Bar in Dundalk, Ireland, when he appeared to mistake New Zealand’s All Blacks rugby team with the Black and

By Ray Sanchez, CNN To those who knew former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan‘s one-time chief of staff, Roy McGrath was fastidious to a fault. He was task-oriented and straight-laced, a career public servant and political operator who was quirky and deeply concerned about his image. What McGrath did not seem to be, they said, was

By Natasha Bertrand, Zachary Cohen, Alex Marquardt and Evan Perez, CNN The Pentagon has begun to limit who across the government receives its highly classified daily intelligence briefs following a major leak of classified information discovered last week. Some US officials who used to receive the briefing materials daily have stopped receiving it in recent

By Kara Scannell and Devan Cole, CNN Donald Trump appeared for a deposition Thursday as part of a high-stakes civil case brought by New York state against the former president, some of his children and his sprawling business empire. The former president answered numerous questions in the deposition with the New York attorney general’s office,

By Niamh Kennedy and Lindsay Isaac, CNN Police have launched an investigation after a document outlining details of US President Joe Biden’s trip to Northern Ireland was found on the street by a member of the public on Wednesday. The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said they were “aware of a security breach,” following

By Eric Bradner, CNN Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said Wednesday he “can’t imagine” what the family of the man who killed five people, including a friend of the governor, in Louisville on Monday is feeling. Beshear’s comments, made during an emotional interview with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins which was his first since the mass shooting, came

By Kyung Lah and Anna-Maja Rappard, CNN State Rep. Liz Harris was expelled Wednesday from the Arizona House of Representatives for ethics violations resulting from inviting a conspiracy theorist to publicly testify before lawmakers earlier this year. The resolution to expel the first-term Republican, elected in November, stated that she had brought “disrepute and embarrassment

By Zachary Cohen and Jennifer Hansler, CNN A Russian paramilitary group fighting in Ukraine on behalf of Vladimir Putin attempted to buy weapons and equipment from an unlikely source: NATO member Turkey, according to a leaked US intelligence document that was obtained by CNN. The leaked document appears to show the lengths the Russian private

By Alayna Treene, Sara Murray, Zachary Cohen and Annie Grayer, CNN House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan on Wednesday subpoenaed Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan as part of his panel’s investigation into the agency’s probe of Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter. The House subcommittee investigating the so-called weaponization of the federal government has made Twitter

By Tierney Sneed, CNN The Justice Department and a manufacturer of abortion pills have submitted the final round of court briefs in the emergency dispute over whether an appeals court should freeze a judge’s ruling that would suspend the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of medication abortion drugs. Now that the filings have been submitted,

By Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, CNN For years, Democratic Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has told a similar story: he was off at college and shielded from controversies surrounding his uncle, Black studies professor Leonard Jeffries, who eventually lost his job over incendiary comments about Jewish people. Hakeem Jeffries has said he had only a

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice Nine national media organizations, including CNN, are suing for access to Capitol Hill surveillance tapes of January 6, 2021, that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has provided to Fox News but so far to no other press outlets. The lawsuit, filed in the federal court in DC against

By Jasmine Wright and Nikki Carvajal, CNN The US Department of Health and Human Services will propose a new rule on Wednesday, aimed at safeguarding privacy and prohibiting the prosecution of individuals who seek abortions. The new rule proposal comes as Vice President Kamala Harris is set to convene an interagency taskforce meeting on reproductive

By Mary Kay Mallonee, CNN Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said Tuesday he had a “very productive” meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, whom he previously criticized following the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. “I just had a very productive, candid meeting with the Saudi Crown Prince and his senior leadership team. The opportunity