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CNN By Jeremy Herb, Lauren del Valle and Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump was sentenced without penalty in the New York hush money case…

CNN By Jeremy Herb, Lauren del Valle and Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump was sentenced without penalty in the New York hush money case…

By Jeremy Herb, Lauren del Valle and Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump was sentenced without penalty in the New York hush money case…

By Jennifer Hansler and Matt Egan, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration on Friday targeted Russia’s energy sector, including its oil…

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — Chinese hackers breached the US government office that reviews foreign investments for national security risks,…

CNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — Several iconic and beloved landmarks in Los Angeles have fallen victim to wildfires this week. Luckily,…

By Tierney Sneed and Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — Special counsel Jack Smith’s report on his election subversion and January 6, 2021,…

By CNN staff (CNN) — The US Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that President-elect Donald Trump can be sentenced Friday in his New York hush…

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump can be sentenced Friday in his New York hush money case, the Supreme Court said in a…

By Oren Liebermann and Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — NATO has taken over air defenses in Poland from the US just days before the inauguration…

By Kit Maher, Steve Contorno and Aaron Pellish, CNN (CNN) — JD Vance will resign his Senate seat effective Thursday at midnight, a Vance…

By Clare Foran, Lauren Fox and Ted Barrett, CNN Washington (CNN) — A significant number of Senate Democrats voted with Republicans on Thursday…

By John Fritze and Devan Cole, CNN Washington (CNN) — The only branch of the federal government without a social media presence will weigh the…

By Clare Foran and Haley Talbot, CNN (CNN) — The House passed a bill on Thursday to sanction International Criminal Court officials – in…

By Associated Press (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump has raised more than $170 million for his upcoming inauguration, a record amount as…

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — Another natural disaster, another series of false claims from President-elect Donald Trump. For years,…

By Nicki Brown, Jeremy Herb, Kara Scannell, Lauren del Valle and John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — New York’s highest court on Thursday rejected…

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Elon Musk has walked back his previous claim that he could cut at least $2 trillion from the federal budget, saying…

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — Attorney General Merrick Garland told Congress he plans to make special counsel Jack Smith’s report on the…

By Alex Marquardt, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration has announced the final tranche of military aid it will send to Ukraine, amounting to…

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — Not a lot of men get to see what their own funerals are going to look like. Even fewer get to speak at…

By Donald Judd and MJ Lee, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden will no longer travel to Italy this week as scheduled, the White House announced…

By Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The disgraced former FBI informant who falsely accused President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden of taking a…

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said he spoke with President-elect Donald Trump by phone this week in support of…

By Marshall Cohen and Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden recently made several false and inaccurate claims to defend his…

By Natasha Bertrand and Katie Bo Lillis, CNN (CNN) — When President-elect Donald Trump mused about buying Greenland from Denmark during his…

By Sarah Ferris, Eric Bradner and Annie Grayer, CNN Washington (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump stressed in a meeting with the Senate GOP…

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — Multiple senior officials in the Justice Department under the first Trump administration improperly leaked…

By Fredreka Schouten and Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — In the two months since the election, President-elect Donald Trump has urged his nearly…

By Betsy Klein and Donald Judd, CNN (CNN) — Wildfires in California have broken out and escalated significantly since President Joe Biden…

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department told a federal appeals court on Wednesday that Attorney General Merrick Garland intends…

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday urged the US Supreme Court to pause his sentencing in the hush money…

By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden said he had not made a decision about issuing preemptive pardons before leaving office, leaving…

By Priscilla Alvarez and Evan Perez, CNN Washington (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump’s team is discussing plans to designate Mexican…

By Betsy Klein and Jeff Zeleny, CNN Washington (CNN) — It’s the world’s most exclusive fraternity and, on Thursday, all five members of the…

By Arit John, CNN (CNN) — Virginia Democrats will hold on to their narrow majorities in the state Legislature after winning special elections…

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The US offered to trade a Guantanamo Bay prisoner in exchange for the release of three Americans held in…

By Zachary Cohen, Katie Bo Lillis, Clare Foran and Ted Barrett, CNN Washington (CNN) — Senate Republicans are pushing to hold a confirmation…

By Annie Grayer, CNN Washington (CNN) — GOP Rep. Barry Loudermilk of Georgia posed with House Speaker Mike Johnson for a photograph to mark the…

By Matt Stiles, CNN (CNN) — The House on Tuesday approved a GOP-led bill to require detention of undocumented migrants charged with certain crimes.…

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump made numerous false claims during a wide-ranging Tuesday news conference in…

By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday intensified his push for American expansionism, refusing to rule out using…

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, former mayor of South Bend, Indiana,…

By Clare Foran and Haley Talbot, CNN Washington (CNN) — The House voted on Tuesday to pass a GOP-led bill to require detention of undocumented…

By MJ Lee and Elise Hammond, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump warned that if the hostages whom Hamas is still holding in Gaza are not…

By Kara Scannell, Jeremy Herb, Lauren del Valle and Paula Reid, CNN (CNN) — A New York appeals court judge has rejected Donald Trump’s…

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have committed genocide over the course of the more than year-long civil…

By Tierney Sneed and Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — District Judge Aileen Cannon on Tuesday blocked the public release of special counsel Jack…

By Sam Fossum and Jack Forrest, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden said that New Orleans “defines strength and resilience” as he mourned the…

By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — Eleven Yemeni detainees at Guantanamo Bay have been transferred to Oman, marking yet another detainee transfer…

By Manu Raju and Sarah Ferris, CNN Washington (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump wants to put his entire agenda into a single, massive bill…

CNN By Lauren del Valle and Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Monday held Rudy Giuliani in contempt for failing to turn over…

By Lauren del Valle and Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Monday held Rudy Giuliani in contempt for failing to turn over…

By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — Thousands of LGBTQ+ US military veterans who were discharged under the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy due…

By Paula Reid, Jeremy Herb and Kara Scannell, CNN New York (CNN) — Judge Juan Merchan has denied Donald Trump’s request to postpone his…

By Evan Perez and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — Several months after the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, FBI investigators began…

By Gregory Krieg and Ethan Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Congressional Democrats on Monday are expected to offer President-elect Donald Trump the…

By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — Kamala Harris is set Monday to do what nearly every vice president before her has done — certify the incoming…

By Haley Talbot, Aileen Graef, Sarah Ferris, Morgan Rimmer and Lauren Fox, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump and his GOP allies in Congress have…

By Arit John, CNN (CNN) — Two months after Democrats were locked out of power at the federal level, a pair of special elections in a part of…

By Elizabeth Wagmeister and Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — Incoming first lady Melania Trump will be the subject of a new documentary coming to…

By Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump hasn’t been sworn in yet, but his looming return has already upended hundreds of…

CNN By Manu Raju, Lauren Fox and Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — House Speaker Mike Johnson informed Republicans at a closed-door meeting Saturday…

CNN By Michelle Shen and Nikki Carvajal, CNN (CNN) — The official state funeral in Washington, DC for former President Jimmy Carter will be…

CNN By Michelle Shen and Nikki Carvajal, CNN (CNN) — The official state funeral in Washington, DC for former President Jimmy Carter will be…

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — The stretch of time between Ruben Gallego showing colleagues on the House floor how to hold pens as weapons…

By Daniel Strauss, CNN (CNN) — Ohio Lt. Gov. Jon Husted is the leading candidate to replace Vice President-elect JD Vance in the US Senate,…

CNN By Donald Judd, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden awarded the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to 19…

By Manu Raju, Lauren Fox and Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — House Speaker Mike Johnson informed Republicans at a closed-door meeting Saturday that…

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump is preparing to dust off a series of centuries-old laws and legal theories to drive…

By Donald Judd, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden awarded the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to 19 people…

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The State Department has informally notified Congress that it intends to sell $8 billion in arms to Israel, a…

By Steve Contorno, Annie Grayer, Sarah Ferris, Manu Raju and Lauren Fox, CNN (CNN) — With two Republican lawmakers standing between Mike…

CNN By Steve Contorno, Annie Grayer, Sarah Ferris, Manu Raju and Lauren Fox, CNN (CNN) — With two Republican lawmakers standing between Mike…

By Oren Liebermann, Haley Britzky and Donald Judd, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden awarded the Medal of Honor – the nation’s highest…

CNN By Kara Scannell, Paula Reid and Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump will face no legal penalties for his conviction in…

CNN By Kara Scannell, Paula Reid and Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump will face no legal penalties for his conviction in…

By Kara Scannell, Paula Reid and Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump will face no legal penalties for his conviction in the…

By Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — With the start of the 119th Congress on Friday, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott has become the longest-serving Black US…

By Clare Foran, Ethan Cohen and Haley Talbot, CNN (CNN) — The 119th Congress will begin on Friday, ushering in a new era of Republican control…

By Evan Perez and Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — After four unsuccessful years trying to identify the person who placed two viable pipe bombs near…

CNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — House speaker elections on Friday are less about Mike Johnson and more about Donald Trump.…

By Clare Foran, Annette Choi and Ethan Cohen, CNN Washington (CNN) — House Speaker Mike Johnson has a bit more room in his narrow House…

By Sarah Ferris and Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — House Speaker Mike Johnson’s allies are leaning into a key argument in a bid to avoid a…

By Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — January 1 not only ushered in 2025 but a slew of new laws. In 2024, states tackled issues ranging from abortion…

By Simone Pathe, Renée Rigdon and Arit John, CNN (CNN) — The new year brings a mixed picture for women’s political representation – the…

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Prosecutors are fighting to keep a Virginia man behind bars after they say investigators found what could be the…

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts slammed what he described as “dangerous” talk by some officials about…

CNN By Lauren Fox, Clare Foran, Sarah Ferris and Haley Talbot, CNN Washington (CNN) — House Speaker Mike Johnson faces a tough fight to retain…

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Medicare beneficiaries who take a lot of pricey medications will get a big break in 2025. That’s when the $2,000…

CNN By Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — A federal appeals court upheld the jury’s verdict finding Donald Trump sexually abused writer E. Jean…

By Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — A federal appeals court upheld the jury’s verdict finding Donald Trump sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll…

By Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN (CNN) — Steps that Jimmy Carter took during his presidency are still shaping the United States, decades after he…

By Lauren Fox, Clare Foran, Sarah Ferris and Haley Talbot, CNN Washington (CNN) — House Speaker Mike Johnson faces a tough fight to retain the…

By Michelle Shen and Nikki Carvajal, CNN (CNN) — The official state funeral in Washington, DC for former President Jimmy Carter will be held on…

By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — Former President Jimmy Carter’s active post-presidency extended to relationships with his seven successors in the…

By Tierney Sneed, CNN Washington (CNN) — When the frequent court foes of Donald Trump’s first administration look back at the early days of…

By Aaron Pellish and Curt Devine, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday defended the visa program that allows highly skilled…

By Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Newly released pictures show then-Vice President Joe Biden meeting some of his son Hunter Biden’s Chinese…

By Tami Luhby, Annette Choi and Amy O’Kruk, CNN (CNN) — As the co-heads of the newly created Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE,…