National Politics

By Kayla Tausche, CNN Baltimore (CNN) — Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg had been preparing to rise early for a flight to out west, where he would conduct a weeklong swing with local officials and the highway administrator in Wyoming and Montana. But when the Dali container ship sailing through the Patapsco River made a “mayday”

By Kit Maher and Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — Former first lady Melania Trump is set to appear at a fundraiser for the Log Cabin Republicans, according to a source familiar with the event. The fundraiser for the conservative LGBTQ group will be held on April 20 at Mar-a-Lago. The former first lady has taken

By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — US and Chinese military representatives met in Hawaii this week to discuss the safety of forces in the Pacific, marking the first in-person meeting of its kind in years after cancellations by China. The Military Maritime Consultative Agreement Working Group meeting was held in Honolulu on Wednesday and Thursday

By Arlette Saenz and Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration is preparing new proposals aiming to reduce or cancel student loan debt for millions of borrowers, two sources familiar with the plans told CNN, another attempt to address a key issue facing voters before November’s election. The expected proposals come nearly 10 months

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Washington (CNN) — Former Trump attorney John Eastman is trying to get his law license back so that he can represent Reps. Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene in a political speech fight – and pay his own legal bills as he fights charges stemming from his efforts to overturn the

By Melanie Zanona, CNN (CNN) — Three months after Rep. Lauren Boebert apologized for disruptive conduct at a Denver theater, the Colorado Republican attended a glitzy Republican gala headlined by former President Donald Trump in Manhattan, where her behavior once again raised eyebrows. At the December soiree, which was the New York Young Republican Club’s annual gala,

By Simone Pathe, CNN (CNN) — Senate primaries are only just beginning, but the matchups in key races that will determine the balance of power in the chamber look relatively settled seven months before the November election. At the dawn of the second fundraising quarter, the general election is effectively here, and that’s bringing several

By Betsy Klein, MJ Lee and Arlette Saenz, CNN (CNN) — When President Joe Biden met with a group of Muslim community leaders this week, he recounted a recent conversation he had with first lady Jill Biden relating to the conflict in Gaza. One of the attendees told the president that the decision to participate

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — Migrant children held in open-air desert camps are in federal custody and required to be expeditiously processed and placed in “facilities that are safe and sanitary,” a federal judge in California said in a court order late Wednesday. Judge Dolly Gee wrote that US Customs and Border Protection does

By Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — The New York attorney general’s office is raising questions about the $175 million bond Donald Trump posted in the civil fraud case and has asked for more information to prove it’s financially sound. Trump filed the bond Monday night after gaining a reprieve from a New York appeals court that

By Aaron Pellish and Eva McKend, CNN (CNN) — The campaign of independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is walking back language used in campaign fundraising emails that referred to January 6 defendants as “activists” who have been “stripped of their constitutional liberties.” The fundraising appeals, sent to supporters on Wednesday and Thursday, sought

By Katelyn Polantz, Devan Cole and Tierney Sneed, CNN Washington (CNN) — An attorney discipline panel in Washington, DC, has made a preliminary decision that former Trump Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark could face sanctions including disbarment for trying to sow doubt in Donald Trump’s electoral loss in 2020. The finding follows a several-day trial and puts Clark on the path toward

By Betsy Klein and Tami Luhby, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Biden administration has finalized a new rule bolstering protections for career federal workers, marking a move to preemptively halt or significantly slow any efforts by former President Donald Trump, should he win in November, to reduce or alter the federal workforce. “Today, my administration

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump continues to make false claims about the New York civil fraud case he lost – including a wildly inaccurate declaration on Tuesday that an appeals court previously said that he had “won the case.” Trump has made similar claims for months. He delivered an

CNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden put his own and America’s credibility on the line in trying to change how Israel is fighting in Gaza. Now, he waits to see how far Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will yield to the most significant tonal and strategic shift by his administration since

By Hannah Rabinowitz, Tierney Sneed, Sara Murray, Jason Morris and Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump was dealt two major setbacks Thursday in his efforts to derail the criminal cases against him, with judges in the Georgia election interference case and in the federal classified documents case both rejecting bids by the

By Aaron Pellish, CNN (CNN) — The centrist group No Labels is abandoning plans to form a third-party presidential unity ticket for this year’s election. “Americans remain more open to an independent presidential run and hungrier for unifying national leadership than ever before,” No Labels spokesperson Maryanne Martini said in a statement Thursday. “But No

By Shania Shelton, CNN (CNN) — Following the upcoming presidential election, former President Bill Clinton will release a memoir about his life after serving two terms in office. The book, titled “Citizen: My Life After the White House,” is expected to be released on November 19, according to Reagan Arthur, Knopf executive vice president and publisher. “CITIZEN

By Sara Murray, Zachary Cohen and Jason Morris, CNN (CNN) — Lawyers for several defendants in the Georgia criminal case against former President Donald Trump and others have been weighing whether to press for a gag order against Atlanta-area prosecutor Fani Willis, especially if efforts to disqualify her fail, sources familiar with the strategy discussions

By Betsy Klein, Michael Williams and Kayla Tausche, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden will meet with some of the relatives of the six construction workers who died in the collapse of the Francis Scott Key bridge when the president visits Baltimore on Friday, the White House said. The White House previously announced Biden