National Politics

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — US climate envoy John Kerry plans to step down from his post by this spring, a source close to Kerry confirmed to CNN. Kerry is leaving the position after three years at the helm of US climate diplomacy under the Biden administration. The source close to Kerry said he

By Alison Main and Omar Jimenez, CNN Windham, New Hampshire (CNN) — Some New Hampshire voters have an unexpected decision to make with less than two weeks to go until the first-in-the-nation primary: who to cast their ballots for on January 23 now that former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has dropped out of the race.

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — As Iowa Republicans gather across the state Monday evening in the bitter cold to caucus for their preferred GOP candidate, much of the electricity for their lights and heat may be coming from a surprising source: thousands of wind turbines that dot the heartland landscape. Iowa is a deeply

By Andrew Millman, CNN (CNN) — Kentucky Rep. Hal Rogers, the dean of the House, “is in good condition” following a car accident in the Washington, DC, area Wednesday evening, according to a statement released Friday by Rogers’ office. The statement said the 86-year-old Kentucky Republican, one of the House’s longest-serving members, was “involved in a car accident

By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — The blizzard that hit Iowa on Friday left the 2024 Republican presidential field frozen heading into the final weekend before Monday night’s caucuses, with candidates paring back their schedules and campaigns grappling with questions about whether people will turn out amid record-low temperatures. Former President Donald Trump scrapped most

By Arit John, CNN Ames, Iowa (CNN) — Teresa Garman has attended decades worth of Iowa caucuses, but views Monday’s meeting as the most consequential. Despite forecasts predicting negative temperatures, the 86-year-old Ames resident said the cold wouldn’t deter her from showing up to back Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis – even if she doesn’t think he’ll beat former President

CNN By Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — The US carried out further strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen, according to a US official, a day after launching a coordinated multi-nation attack on nearly 30 Houthi locations. The additional strikes carried out Friday night were much smaller in scope and targeted a radar facility used by the

CNN By Nick Valencia, Jason Morris and Zachary Cohen, CNN Fulton County, GA (CNN) — When Nathan Wade was appointed lead prosecutor in the Georgia election interference case in 2021 to prosecute former President Donald Trump, some of his closest allies, lawyers in Cobb County where Wade practiced law, universally wondered, “Why him?” Fulton County

By Oren Liebermann, Haley Britzky, Natasha Bertrand, Katie Bo Lillis and Jim Sciutto, CNN (CNN) — Two US Navy sailors were reported missing while conducting operations Thursday off the coast of Somalia, according to US Central Command. Search and rescue operations are ongoing to locate the sailors, Central Command said in a Friday statement. The

By CNN Staff (CNN) — Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis will participate in a live CNN town hall in New Hampshire on Tuesday, the network announced Friday. DeSantis will take the stage at 9 p.m. ET at New England College in Henniker, New Hampshire. The Florida governor will field questions from CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, who will moderate,

By Marshall Cohen and Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — While criticizing President Joe Biden’s economic policies at two Iowa events this week, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis repeatedly dinged the federal government for “promoting transgenderism in Bangladesh,” arguing that it’s a waste of taxpayer dollars. “I think the president should get a line-item veto,” DeSantis said Tuesday night

By Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — The US carried out further strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen, according to a US official, a day after launching a coordinated multi-nation attack on nearly 30 Houthi locations. The additional strikes carried out Friday night were much smaller in scope and targeted a radar facility used by the Houthis,

By Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump’s campaign on Friday canceled three of the four in-person campaign events he was scheduled to hold just days before the Iowa caucuses because of extreme weather in the state, opting to hold tele-rallies instead. Trump canceled both rallies he was scheduled to hold on Saturday

By Nick Valencia, Jason Morris and Zachary Cohen, CNN Fulton County, GA (CNN) — When Nathan Wade was appointed lead prosecutor in the Georgia election interference case in 2021 to prosecute former President Donald Trump, some of his closest allies, lawyers in Cobb County where Wade practiced law, universally wondered, “Why him?” Fulton County District

By Jake Tapper, CNN (CNN) — US Navy officer Lt. Ridge Alkonis, who was jailed in Japan for negligent driving that resulted in the death of two people and was recently transferred to the United States has been paroled and released from US prison, his family told CNN. The US Parole Commission ordered Alkonis’ parole and immediate

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide whether city laws that punish individuals to curb the growth of homeless encampments violate the Constitution’s limits on cruel and unusual punishment. The justices took up an appeal from Grants Pass, Oregon, of a federal court ruling preventing the city from

By Michael Williams, MJ Lee, Brenda Goodman and Kevin Liptak, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden on Friday said Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had a lapse in judgement by not notifying him of his hospitalization, but White House officials made a point in emphasizing Austin remains heavily involved in military decision making. Touring an

By Kevin Liptak, CNN Allentown, Pennsylvania (CNN) — President Joe Biden said Friday he’s delivered a message to Iran with Thursday’s airstrikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen, which he now is calling a terrorist group despite his administration’s 2021 decision to revoke that label. “I’ve already delivered the message to Iran,” Biden said when asked

By Paula Reid and Annie Grayer, CNN Hunter Biden attorney Abbe Lowell sent a letter House Republicans on Friday arguing that subpoenas they sent the president’s son in November are legally invalid, because they were issued before the full House authorized an impeachment inquiry on December 13, 2023. The letter cites a Trump-era Office of Legal Counsel opinion that subpoenas

CNN By Rob Kuznia, Scott Bronstein and Donie O’Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — When Bob Bartelsmeyer accepted the job as the elections director of a sprawling rural county in Arizona last spring, it seemed like the perfect move. It was a step up professionally in a place where the Trumpian values of the community matched his