Politics

By Brian Rokus and Kaanita Iyer, CNN Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman has been discharged from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center where he was being treated for depression, his office announced Friday. He will return to the Senate when it returns from recess on April 17, his office said in a news release, confirming CNN’s

By Steve Contorno, CNN The Florida House voted Friday to extend a prohibition on teaching about sexual orientation and gender identity to eighth grade, reviving a debate from last year that sparked widespread condemnation from Democrats and copycat legislation in Republican statehouses around the country. The bill, which passed 77-35 in the Republican-controlled House, would

By Oren Liebermann, CNN The US has bolstered its military forces in the Middle East following a series of attacks on US troops in Syria attributed to Iranian-affiliated militias, the Pentagon said Friday. A squadron of A-10 attack aircraft are deploying to the region ahead of a scheduled deployment. The deployment of the attack aircraft

By Clare Foran, CNN Democratic Rep. Dan Kildee of Michigan announced in a statement on Friday that he has been “diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma, a serious but curable form of cancer.” The congressman said a “very small tumor” was found in one of his tonsils and he will undergo surgery “to remove the cancer”

By Sam Fossum, CNN President Joe Biden reaffirmed the federal government’s commitment to the people of Mississippi as he visited the state on Friday, formally announcing that the administration will cover the full cost of the state’s emergency response to the deadly tornado-spawning storms that hit the southeast US last week. The announcement, which case

By Annie Grayer and Sara Murray, CNN The Manhattan district attorney’s office is again slamming House Republicans for their efforts to intervene in its investigation into former President Donald Trump, accusing them of collaborating with Trump to “vilify and denigrate the integrity of elected state prosecutors and trial judges.” The DA’s general counsel Leslie B.

By Tierney Sneed, Holmes Lybrand and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN A Manhattan grand jury’s indictment of former President Donald Trump will set in motion a criminal process that will in some ways work like that of any other defendant, and in other ways, look very different. When someone is indicted, the charges are sometimes kept under

By Gregory Krieg, CNN The potential 2024 Republican primary field quickly coalesced on Thursday around a strategy for responding to former President Donald Trump’s indictment: Attack Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, the prosecutor, but stop short of praising Trump. If the news of the former president facing more than 30 counts related to business fraud

By Lauren Fox, Melanie Zanona and Manu Raju, CNN Key House Republican leaders lined up to defend former President Donald Trump on Thursday following the news that Trump has been indicted by a Manhattan grand jury — a sign of the powerful grasp Trump still has on his party on Capitol Hill. House Speaker Kevin

By Steve Contorno and Kit Maher, CNN Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday teased future, unspecified action against Disney after the entertainment giant appeared to thwart his attempts at a takeover of its special governing powers. “There’s a lot of little back-and-forths going on now with the state taking control, but rest assured, you know,

By Kara Scannell, CNN The Manhattan district attorney’s office has been asking questions during grand jury proceedings about a hush money scheme known as a “catch and kill” deal aimed at covering up an alleged affair between former President Donald Trump and a former playboy model before the 2016 presidential election, two people familiar with

By Ella Nilsen, CNN A bipartisan delegation of Western senators and federal officials will tour key points along the Colorado River next week to see the nation’s depleted reservoirs and the basin’s vast water infrastructure. The trip, which is being organized by Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet, a Democrat, comes amid tense state negotiations and looming

By Maegan Vazquez, CNN The Biden White House is calling on federal banking regulators to institute a number of changes intended to provide more oversight on large regional banks and reduce the risk of a future banking crisis. The administration announced its regulatory push on Thursday in response to the recent collapse of two large

By Manu Raju, Chief Congressional Correspondent Speaker Kevin McCarthy and his top lieutenants say they are actively preparing to move a party-line bill to raise the national debt limit if President Joe Biden continues to draw a firm line against talks with House Republicans to avoid the nation’s first-ever default. The move would be a

By Daniel Dale, CNN President Joe Biden claimed Tuesday that Americans aren’t allowed to own a machine gun or a flamethrower. But that’s not true in most of the country. Biden made the claim while delivering a plea for a renewed ban on semi-automatic “assault weapons” in the wake of a massacre on Monday at

By Kara Scannell, CNN Allen Weisselberg, the former chief financial officer of the Trump Organization currently incarcerated at Rikers Island, recently switched lawyers amid ongoing investigations into former President Donald Trump and his business. The reason for the switch is in dispute. Some people familiar with the relationship said the Trump Org. would no longer

By Jack Forrest, CNN The Kentucky legislature enacted new restrictions Wednesday on the rights of transgender youth, overriding the governor’s veto of a bill that places bans on gender-affirming care for minors, on discussions of sexual orientation or gender identity in school, and on transgender students using bathrooms that align with their gender identity. Democratic

By Evan Perez and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN Attorneys for Credit Suisse met with senior Justice Department officials Wednesday as turmoil in the banking industry throws new complications into efforts to resolve allegations that the bank continued to help wealthy clients evade taxes in violation of a years-old plea deal with the US, people briefed on

By Steve Contorno, CNN The battle between Disney and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis may not be over yet. The new board handpicked by the Republican governor to oversee Disney’s special taxing district said Wednesday it is considering legal action over a multi-decade agreement reached between the entertainment giant and the outgoing board in the days

By Ali Zaslav, Phil Mattingly and Manu Raju, CNN The Senate on Wednesday passed a bill that would end the national Covid-19 emergency declared by then-President Donald Trump on March 13, 2020. The final vote was overwhelmingly bipartisan, 68-23. The joint resolution, which cleared the House earlier this year, now heads to President Joe Biden’s

By Shania Shelton, CNN The Georgia state legislature on Wednesday passed an elections bill that would make it a felony for local election offices to accept private funds. Violations of SB 222, which is headed to Republican Gov. Brian Kemp to sign, would result in a felony punished by at least one year in prison

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN US citizens who are sponsoring family members to come to the United States are seeking to intervene in a case over a key immigration program that’s been challenged in court by several Republican-led states. At the center of the case is the so-called humanitarian parole program that provides a way for

By Sara Murray, Zachary Cohen and Tierney Sneed, CNN Former President Donald Trump is appealing a court ruling that would force several of his former aides, including Mark Meadows, to answer questions before a grand jury as part of the criminal investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election, two sources familiar with the matter

By Manu Raju, CNN Chief Congressional Correspondent Sen. John Fetterman, who checked himself into Walter Reed National Military Medical Center last month for treatment for clinical depression, will return to the Senate during the week of April 17, according to a person familiar with his plans. The Pennsylvania Democrat has made progress throughout his treatment,

By Haley Britzky, CNN Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley told lawmakers Wednesday that China, Russia, and Iran would be a problem for the US “for many years to come” as the three are working more closely together. Speaking before the House Armed Services Committee alongside Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Milley

By Ali Zaslav, Morgan Rimmer and Ted Barrett, CNN The Senate passed a bill Wednesday that would rescind a second Biden administration policy, this time challenging an EPA rule that Republicans argue places a burden on the agriculture community by being too restrictive in defining what is a navigable waterway. The final vote was 53-43.

By Daniel Dale, CNN Former president and current presidential candidate Donald Trump continues to inaccurately describe the Presidential Records Act. In a Fox interview that aired on Monday, Trump criticized the FBI for searching his Mar-a-Lago resort in August for presidential documents and argued he should have been allowed to engage in further discussions with

By Sydney Kashiwagi and Kristin Wilson, CNN House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Wednesday that lawmakers must see “all the facts” before any gun legislation can be put forward following the shooting in Nashville this week, the first public comments the California Republican has made to reporters since the incident. McCarthy’s remarks ultimately follow a similar

By Arlette Saenz, CNN First lady Dr. Jill Biden traveled to Nashville, Tennessee, Wednesday to attend a vigil honoring the lives lost in the mass shooting at The Covenant School. The first lady first made an unannounced stop to lay flowers at a memorial for the six victims near the Christian school. She slowly walked

By Ali Zaslav, Jeremy Herb and Nicky Robertson, CNN The Senate voted Wednesday to repeal authorizations for the use of military force against Iraq, a significant moment as lawmakers aim to reassert authority in military intervention abroad. The legislation now goes to the US House of Representatives for a vote. Speaker Kevin McCarthy has signaled

By Daniel Dale, CNN Former president and current presidential candidate Donald Trump has gone on the attack against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a potential rival for the Republican nomination in 2024 — bashing the governor over everything from pandemic policy to Social Security. CNN looked into the accuracy of seven of the assertions Trump has

By Eric Bradner, CNN As Nashville police left a news conference Monday, Ashbey Beasley unexpectedly moved in front of the still-live microphones and television cameras. Beasley then told her story: She and her son survived the Fourth of July parade mass shooting in her hometown of Highland Park, Illinois, last year, in which a gunman

By Haley Britzky, CNN Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin argued against criticisms from Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville on Tuesday and implored him to support the department’s officer nominations, which Tuberville has vowed to block until Austin reverses his stance on policies supporting service members seeking abortions. “Not approving the recommendation for promotions actually creates a ripple

By Shawna Mizelle, CNN A Kentucky law that aims to increase oversight in public schools by making it easier for parents to file complaints about — and, if desired, shield their children from — “harmful” materials has gone into effect after Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear declined to veto a Republican-pushed bill. Senate Bill 5 makes

By Jasmine Wright, CNN Vice President Kamala Harris emerged from the female slave dungeon at Cape Coast Castle visibly shaken. Inside the famous slave trading outpost’s dungeon, Harris set a bouquet of flowers down and placed her hand on the centuries-old wall, connecting herself physically to the sorrow of the Africans it once imprisoned. It

By Steve Contorno, CNN Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will deliver an address next month in Jerusalem, a trip that is certain to inject the likely Republican presidential contender into Israel’s national tumult and its increasingly fraught relationship with the United States. The Jerusalem Post and the Museum of Tolerance announced Tuesday that DeSantis would serve

By Jeremy Herb and Lauren del Valle, CNN More than a week ago, former President Donald Trump predicted — incorrectly — that he would be arrested in a New York criminal case. His statement led to a flurry of speculation on the state of the Manhattan grand jury investigating Trump’s alleged role in a scheme

By Maegan Vazquez, CNN Monday’s deadly school shooting in Nashville has sparked a familiar cycle of condolences and calls to action among lawmakers in Washington, but both sides of the aisle have been quick to concede that the recent violence is probably not enough to sway a divided Congress to move substantive gun control efforts

By Katelyn Polantz, Paula Reid, Zachary Cohen, Devan Cole and Tierney Sneed, CNN A federal judge has decided that former Vice President Mike Pence must testify to a grand jury about conversations he had with Donald Trump leading up to January 6, 2021, according to multiple sources familiar with a recent federal court ruling. But

By Kylie Atwood, CNN The Republican chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Michael McCaul, electronically transmitted a subpoena to the State Department on Tuesday morning for a dissent cable written by US diplomats serving in Afghanistan before the US withdrawal from the country, according to a committee aide. The subpoena will be physically

By Jim Sciutto, Chief National Security Correspondent The US decision to fly its surveillance drones further south over the Black Sea after a Russian jet collided with a US drone earlier this month “definitely limits our ability to gather intelligence” related to the Ukraine war, a senior US military official tells CNN. Flying drones at

By Alayna Treene, CNN House Speaker Kevin McCarthy urged the White House in a letter sent Tuesday to start more robust negotiations over raising the nation’s borrowing limit, the first major action in weeks on either side of the debt ceiling issue. McCarthy writes “with each passing day, I am incredibly concerned that you are

By Holmes Lybrand Proud Boys member Fernando Alonso, who was with members of the group in Washington, DC, on January 6, 2021, testified on Monday that text messages about “stacking bodies” on the White House lawn were akin to locker-room banter and that members of the group were simply “knuckleheads.” During his testimony in the