Politics

By Kara Scannell, CNN Lawyers for former President Donald Trump asked a judge to delay the start of a sexual assault and defamation trial for one month to allow a “cooling off” period following the historic indictment charging Trump with falsifying business records. Joe Tacopina, an attorney for Trump, asked the judge overseeing the battery

By Joan Biskupic, CNN Senior Supreme Court Analyst The recent revelations of lavish gifts and travel that a Republican megadonor showered on Justice Clarence Thomas reflect a larger Supreme Court culture of nondisclosure, little explanation, and no comment. The justices have provided less and less information regarding travel and gifts on their annual financial disclosure

By Kevin Liptak, CNN When President Joe Biden spoke here Wednesday to mark a quarter-century of the Good Friday Agreement, it wasn’t from the seat of the Northern Ireland Assembly — currently suspended over a Brexit trade dispute — but from a new university campus downtown. The choice of venue for Biden’s sole public event

By Ella Nilsen, CNN The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday proposed ambitious new car pollution rules that could require electric vehicles to account for up to two-thirds of new cars sold in the US by 2032, in what would be one of the Biden administration’s most aggressive climate-change policies yet. The tailpipe standards would also

By CNN Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg filed a lawsuit Tuesday against House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan to prevent GOP interference in former President Donald Trump’s case. Read the lawsuit here. The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2023 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.

By Shawna Mizelle, CNN Tennessee Republican Gov. Bill Lee on Tuesday urged the state’s legislature to pass additional gun control measures, an especially charged subject in a state that recently suffered a school shooting and the acrimonious expulsion of two Black Democratic lawmakers who called for greater firearm restrictions. “I’m asking the General Assembly to

By Devan Cole and Kara Scannell, CNN Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is suing House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, over what the lawsuit filed Tuesday describes as a “transparent campaign to intimidate and attack” his office’s case against former President Donald Trump. The suit injects more legal drama into Bragg’s investigation of Trump, which has

By Jim Sciutto, Chief National Security Correspondent One day after China simulated “joint precision strikes” on Taiwan during military exercises around the island, Taiwan’s Foreign Minister Joseph Wu condemned Beijing’s actions in an exclusive interview with CNN and warned that “they seem to be trying to get ready to launch a war against Taiwan.” “Look

By Natasha Bertrand, Zachary Cohen, Kylie Atwood, Alex Marquardt and Haley Britzky, CNN The US government investigations into a leak of highly classified Pentagon documents are starting to take shape, with the Pentagon examining how the leak impacts US national security and the Justice Department launching a criminal investigation into who may have been behind

By David Wright, CNN Mark Lamb, the sheriff of Pinal County, has filed paperwork to run for Senate in Arizona, entering the unpredictable three-way race for the seat currently held by independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema. Lamb is the first prominent Republican to formally join the primary, which could escalate further with the entry of Kari

By Annie Grayer and Clare Foran, CNN Democratic Rep. Jennifer Wexton of Virginia announced on Tuesday that she has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. The congresswoman, 54, said in a video released by her office that she is “doing well” and “feeling good and staying strong.” “I’ve got a positive attitude and I’ve got the

By Fredreka Schouten and Marshall Cohen, CNN First, the Shasta County Board of Supervisors in rural northern California voted to cancel its contract with Dominion Voting Systems, citing public distrust of the company’s machines. Then, the supervisors agreed to shift to hand-counting ballots in future elections after receiving written assurance from one of the most

By Joan Biskupic, CNN Senior Supreme Court Analyst The Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade last June was decades in the making, culminating in a dramatic evisceration of women’s constitutional privacy rights and ability to obtain an abortion. The new controversy over medication abortion, which has burst relatively suddenly on the legal scene, has

By Kevin Liptak, CNN When President Joe Biden was isolating with Covid in the White House last summer, atop the stack of books on his desk was a 320-page paperback: “JFK in Ireland.” The last Irish Catholic president visited his ancestral homeland in 1963, five months before his assassination. He told his aides afterwards it

By Andi Babineau and Jeremy Harlan, CNN Tina Peters — the former clerk of Mesa County, Colorado, and the state’s most prominent 2020 election denier — was sentenced by a judge Monday to home detention and community service after she was found guilty last month of obstructing a government operation. Peters was sentenced to four

By Kara Scannell and Kristen Holmes, CNN Former President Donald Trump is expected to be back in New York City to face another legal battle Thursday — this time in a civil lawsuit filed by New York Attorney General Letitia James, multiple sources told CNN. Trump is scheduled to sit for another deposition for the

By Tierney Sneed and Ariane de Vogue, CNN The Justice Department and a manufacturer of medication abortion drugs asked a federal appeals court on Monday to put on hold a judge’s ruling that could make the drug unavailable nationwide after Friday. The requests, filed on Monday before the US 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, are

The Justice Department is seeking clarification from a federal judge in Washington state about how the Food and Drug Administration should comply with his order ensuring the availability of abortion pills in some parts of the country if a separate judge’s order halting the FDA’s approval of the drug goes into effect on Friday. The

By Manu Raju and Alayna Treene, CNN Kari Lake — the unapologetic supporter of former President Donald Trump and vanquished candidate for Arizona governor — privately made a trip to National Republican Senatorial Committee headquarters in February where she discussed the prospects of shaking up the map and running for Senate. But Lake, who has

By Tierney Sneed and Lauren Fox, CNN The remarkable pace with which President Joe Biden has sought to remake the federal bench has been put into jeopardy by dual threats: Democratic Senate absences and a Senate rule that gives Republicans the ability to veto district court nominees for courts in their home states. It’s a

By David Wright, CNN Sen. Bob Casey will run for reelection in 2024, the Pennsylvania Democrat announced Monday morning, providing good news for Democrats in a pivotal swing state. “Folks, I’m running for reelection,” Casey, 62, said in an announcement posted on Twitter. “There’s still more work to do to cut through the gridlock, stand

By Ella Nilsen and Sam Fossum, CNN The US Environmental Protection Agency is preparing to release strict new proposed federal emissions standards for light-duty vehicles that, if implemented, would move the US car market decisively toward electric vehicles over the next decade. The EPA is considering emissions standards that could make up to two-thirds of

By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN Three years after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, Americans’ views of the disease’s impact have stagnated into a complex set of mixed feelings, recent polling suggests, with few believing that the pandemic has ended but most also saying that their lives had returned mostly — if not entirely — to

By Andrew Millman, CNN Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York reiterated on Sunday her call for the impeachment of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas following revelations that he didn’t disclose several luxury trips subsidized by a Republican megadonor. In an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union,” Ocasio-Cortez called for an

By Morgan Rimmer, CNN Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal said Sunday evening that surgery to repair a fracture in his femur was “completely successful” and that he’s planning to return to the Senate for votes “next week.” The Connecticut Democrat fractured his femur at a University of Connecticut men’s basketball victory parade held in honor of

By Katie Lobosco, CNN During World War II, the federal government spent more than $1 billion in today’s dollars to help provide affordable child care for mothers who entered the workforce in droves to support the war effort. Child care centers in more than 635 communities across the country received funds. Many stayed open late

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN A team of South Korean spies and American private investigators quietly gathered at the South Korean intelligence service in January, just days after North Korea fired three ballistic missiles into the sea. For months, they’d been tracking $100 million stolen from a California cryptocurrency firm named Harmony, waiting for North Korean

By Sydney Kashiwagi, CNN What initially looked like an outright victory for anti-abortion activists Friday evening soon became more complicated. US District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk of Texas, an appointee of former President Donald Trump, first ruled Friday that the Food and Drug Administration’s 2000 approval of mifepristone — one of the drugs used to terminate

By Tami Luhby, CNN There’s a reason why politicians have long shied away from addressing Social Security’s massive financial problems. The commonly proposed solutions involve cutting benefits or raising taxes, which would spark an outcry from a range of powerful constituents, including senior citizens and the business community. The situation, however, is only growing more

By Steve Contorno, CNN In his yearlong battle with Disney, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has repeatedly leaned on the element of surprise in his attempts to outmaneuver the entertainment giant and its army of executives, high-priced lawyers and politically connected lobbyists. “Nobody can see this coming,” DeSantis told a top Republican legislative leader as they

By Tierney Sneed, CNN A pair of conflicting federal court rulings on Friday created arguably the most contentious and chaotic legal flashpoint over abortion access since the Supreme Court’s ruling last summer that overturned Roe v. Wade and ended the right to an abortion nationwide. Within less than an hour, two major rulings came down

By Maegan Vazquez and Nicole Grether, CNN Three artworks created by the president’s son, Hunter Biden, were put on display at a Manhattan art gallery on Thursday — priced at $85,000 each. The pieces were part of a group exhibition called “Bridging the Abstract,” a show at Georges Bergès Gallery in SoHo featuring major abstract

By CNN A federal judge in Texas issued a ruling Friday on medication abortion drug mifepristone, saying he will suspend the US Food and Drug Administration’s two-decade-old approval of it but paused his ruling for seven days so the federal government can appeal. But in a dramatic turn of events, a federal judge in Washington

By Tierney Sneed, CNN The Justice Department on Friday asked the Supreme Court to take up an appeals court ruling that struck down a Trump-era federal ban on so-called bump stocks. The request comes as the high court has repeatedly declined to disturb those rulings that favor the restriction on the device, including not considering

By Zachary Cohen, Sara Murray, Annie Grayer and Alayna Treene, CNN House Oversight Chairman James Comer has quietly issued several subpoenas for documents and bank records as part of the Republican-led investigation into the financial dealings of President Joe Biden’s family, according to an internal memo shared among Democrats on the panel. The memo, obtained

By Devan Cole, CNN Two days after being hit with a lawsuit over a legal opinion that said Idaho’s abortion ban prohibits medical providers from referring patients out-of-state for abortion services, the state’s attorney general said Friday that he is rescinding the analysis. Attorney General Raúl Labrador said a letter from his office had been

By Annie Grayer, Sara Murray, Zachary Cohen and Alayna Treene, CNN House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan is expanding his investigation into the Manhattan District Attorney’s office by seeking voluntary cooperation from the office’s senior counsel, Matthew Colangelo. The move is the latest sign of how Jordan continues to ramp up his investigation into the office,

By Kevin Liptak, MJ Lee and Jeff Zeleny, CNN President Joe Biden often envisions what he could accomplish with a second term, advisers and allies who speak with him say, but he has expressed no urgency to formally launch a campaign to win another four years in office. The president has not settled on a

By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN Americans’ views of the economy are the best they’ve been in more than a year, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS — but they’re still pretty bad, with 7 in 10 saying it’s in poor shape. Closer to home, 50% say their own financial situation is worse than

By Natasha Bertrand and Matthew Chance, CNN The Pentagon is investigating what appear to be screenshots of classified US and NATO military information about Ukraine circulating on social media, a Pentagon official told CNN. CNN has reviewed some of the images circulating on Twitter and Telegram but is unable to verify if they are authentic

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN Key Democrats hoping to keep abortion access a central part of the 2024 campaign are looking to the 2004 playbook of an old Republican nemesis: Karl Rove. Rove was the architect of ballot initiatives to ban gay marriage placed in swing states to boost turnout for George W. Bush. Now Democrats

By Haley Britzky, CNN The Defense Department is urgently working with lawmakers in hopes of resolving a hold on critical military nominations, including for some of the most senior ranking officers, as concerns inside the Pentagon grow about the potential impact on national security, defense officials told CNN. Alabama Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville has single-handedly

By Steve Contorno, CNN The 13-year-old son of Rebekah Jones, who claimed she was fired for refusing to manipulate state Covid-19 data while working in Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ state Health Department, was arrested Wednesday for allegedly threatening a shooting at a middle school. The boy, whom CNN is not naming because he is a

By Sydney Kashiwagi, CNN Indiana Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb signed a bill Wednesday to ban gender affirming care for minors in the state, following a growing trend of GOP-led states restricting transgender youth’s access to such treatments after Idaho enacted similar legislation earlier in the week. “Permanent gender-changing surgeries with lifelong impacts and medically prescribed