National Politics

CNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Ex-President Donald Trump is one of America’s most frivolous litigants, whose suits over business disputes and false claims of voter fraud often failed the laugh test. But the twin appeals Trump has now filed after being thrown off the ballot in Colorado and Maine do not fit

By CNN staff (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump formally asked the US Supreme Court to reverse a Colorado state Supreme Court ruling disqualifying him from the state’s 2024 ballot under the Constitution’s “insurrectionist ban.” The high court is facing growing pressure to settle the question of whether the Republican front-runner can be disqualified from

By Joan Biskupic, Kaitlan Collins, Devan Cole, Marshall Cohen, Hannah Rabinowitz and Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump has formally asked the US Supreme Court to overturn the Colorado state Supreme Court ruling that removed him from the state’s 2024 ballot under the 14th Amendment’s “insurrectionist clause.” “In our system of ‘government of the people, by

By Manu Raju, Melanie Zanona and Lauren Fox, CNN A trio of senators have spent weeks laboring to cut a complex immigration deal with the Biden administration – all in an effort to curtail the surge of migrants at the southern border while easing passage for aid to Ukraine and Israel. But a growing number

By Aaron Pellish, CNN (CNN) — Independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will appear on the presidential ballot in Utah after formally filing with the state’s elections office on Wednesday, his campaign’s first step in an uphill battle to appear on the ballot in every state as part of his longshot White House bid. Utah

By Jeremy Herb, CNN House Speaker Mike Johnson criticized President Joe Biden on Wednesday for the “mayhem” he witnessed at the US-Mexico border, saying in an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper that the Biden administration isn’t doing its job. “This catastrophe can come to an end if the Biden administration will do its job, and they

By Alex Marquardt and Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — The US doubled down on its assessment that Hamas and other Gaza militants used the enclave’s largest hospital complex as a command hub as well as to hold hostages and store weapons, with a senior intelligence official pointing to newly declassified intelligence that reinforces the conclusion of Israeli and US intelligence. “The US Intelligence Community is

By Ebony Davis, CNN (CNN) — Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s presidential campaign said Wednesday that it raised $24 million in the fourth quarter of 2023 across her political operation, hauling in more than double than any other previous quarter last year. That’s up from around $11 million in the third quarter and $7.3 million in

CNN By Lauren Fox, Priscilla Alvarez and Michael Williams, CNN (CNN) — House Republicans will forge ahead with steps to impeach Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas over his handling of the border crisis, a GOP source tells CNN. In a statement provided to CNN, a committee spokesperson said “the House Committee on Homeland Security

By Annette Choi, CNN (CNN) — At least 510 anti-LGBTQ bills were introduced in state legislatures across the United States last year — a new record, according to American Civil Liberties Union data. That’s nearly three-times the number of such bills introduced in 2022. Education and health care-related bills, in particular, flooded in at unprecedented

By Lauren Fox, Priscilla Alvarez and Michael Williams, CNN (CNN) — House Republicans will forge ahead with steps to impeach Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas over his handling of the border crisis, a GOP source tells CNN. In a statement provided to CNN, a committee spokesperson said “the House Committee on Homeland Security has

By Arlette Saenz and Sam Fossum, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden will use the backdrop of two historic sites in Pennsylvania and South Carolina in the coming week to lay out some of the central arguments of his 2024 reelection bid, including protecting democracy and personal freedoms, as he prepares for a possible rematch

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — Former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows has asked a federal appeals court to reconsider its decision rejecting his bid to move his Georgia election interference criminal case to federal court. A three-judge panel of the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously ruled last month that Meadows could

By Alison Main, CNN (CNN) — Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie on Tuesday pushed back on New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu’s recent suggestion that his campaign has no path forward. “Since Chris started to work for Nikki Haley and become an employee of Nikki Haley, it’s not the same Chris Sununu anymore,” Christie, who has

CNN By Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — Much of Donald Trump’s legal strategy in his federal 2020 election interference case has, so far, centered around trying to delay the start of his March trial until after the November presidential election. But in recent court filings, and according to sources familiar with the Trump team’s approach,

CNN By Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — Federal prosecutors allege Sen. Bob Menendez accepted race car tickets and other gifts from Qatar as part of a yearslong corruption scheme, with the Gulf nation joining Egypt as another foreign country the New Jersey Democrat is accused of helping while in office. Prosecutors allege in the superseding

By Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — China’s unsafe interceptions of US military aircraft have dropped off amid signs relations with Beijing are improving, two US defense officials told CNN. There had been a spike in what the US deemed dangerous incidents in October and the Pentagon publicly condemned China’s behavior. But in a sign military tensions could be

By Holmes Lybrand and Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge has dismissed part of a lawsuit brought against former President Donald Trump and two January 6, 2021, rioters by the partner of US Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who suffered two strokes and died one day after responding to the Capitol attack. Amit

CNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — A storm headed for the Northeast and mid-Atlantic this weekend has the potential to offer the region its first decent snow in nearly two years. Before then, the storm will traverse through the South in the next few days, dumping largely beneficial rain after a summer of extreme