National Politics

By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — A US warship shot down a drone that is believed to have originated from Yemen in the Red Sea on Wednesday, according to two US officials. The USS Thomas Hudner, an Arleigh Burke class guided missile destroyer, engaged a drone that originated from Yemen on Wednesday and was heading

By Clare Foran, Morgan Rimmer, Ted Barrett and Kristin Wilson, CNN The Senate on Wednesday passed a stopgap bill to keep the government open, averting a shutdown for now while setting up a contentious fight over funding in the new year. The bill was approved by the House on Tuesday and will now be sent

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden’s latest slate of judicial nominations includes a New York-based litigator who would be the first Muslim American to serve on any federal appeals court, the White House announced Wednesday. The nomination of Adeel Mangi to the US Third Circuit Court of Appeals underscores Biden’s stated goal

By Kara Scannell and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — Hunter Biden is asking a federal judge for permission to subpoena former President Donald Trump, former Attorney General Bill Barr and other Justice Department officials in his criminal gun case. “Mr. Biden seeks specific information from three former DOJ officials and the former President that goes

By Rosa Flores and Sara Weisfeldt, CNN (CNN) — Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is expected to sign a bill that would make it a new state crime for entering Texas illegally and gives local law enforcement the power to arrest and order migrants to leave the United States, an extraordinary step in the hard-fought

By Gregory Krieg, CNN (CNN) — New Jersey first lady Tammy Murphy announced Wednesday she was entering her state’s Democratic Senate primary, kicking off what could be a fierce intraparty contest against indicted incumbent Bob Menendez, who has yet to say whether he’s running for reelection, and progressive Rep. Andy Kim, with the potential for other

CNN, WSB By Jeff Zeleny, CNN Atlanta (CNN) — As Kerry Singleton looks ahead to the next presidential election, he’s thinking back to the excitement he felt when President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris visited the historic grounds of Clark Atlanta University and Morehouse College. “I remember the energy that was here on

By Jeff Zeleny, CNN Atlanta (CNN) — As Kerry Singleton looks ahead to the next presidential election, he’s thinking back to the excitement he felt when President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris visited the historic grounds of Clark Atlanta University and Morehouse College. “I remember the energy that was here on campus that

CNN, WSB By Mary Kay Mallonee and Jack Forrest, CNN (CNN) — Fulton County District Fani Willis on Tuesday said she expects a trial in the Georgia 2020 election subversion case against Donald Trump and his allies would be ongoing during the 2024 election and may not conclude until early 2025. “I believe in that

By Kevin Liptak and MJ Lee, CNN Woodside, California (CNN) — US President Joe Biden emerged Wednesday from four hours of talks with Chinese leader Xi Jinping confident the fraught US-China relationship was improving, touting agreements on curbing fentanyl production and restoring military communication while still acknowledging that deep strains remain. Biden said he and

By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday told campaign donors that his likely 2024 opponent Donald Trump was using language similar to the Nazis and would use his presidency for “revenge and retribution” if elected to another term. “There’s a lot of reasons to be against Donald Trump,” Biden told donors

By Aaron Pellish and Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley on Tuesday said she would push for social media users to identify by their legal names online, drawing pushback from her GOP rivals Ron DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswamy. “Every person on social media should be verified by their name. It’s a

By Mary Kay Mallonee and Jack Forrest, CNN (CNN) — Fulton County District Fani Willis on Tuesday said she expects a trial in the Georgia 2020 election subversion case against Donald Trump and his allies would be ongoing during the 2024 election and may not conclude until early 2025. “I believe in that case there

By Melanie Zanona, Annie Grayer and Manu Raju, CNN Speaker Mike Johnson’s decision to avoid a government shutdown by relying on Democratic votes will not cost him the gavel, despite it being the exact same strategy that got Kevin McCarthy the boot, according to interviews with over a dozen members from across the House Republican

By Morgan Rimmer and Jack Forrest, CNN (CNN) — House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday publicly endorsed Donald Trump for president, becoming the highest-ranking Republican so far to back the former president’s 2024 bid. “I’m all in for President Trump, I expect he’ll be our nominee, and he’s going to win it, and we have

CNN By MJ Lee and Kevin Liptak, CNN San Francisco (CNN) — US officials encountered a remarkable – even unprecedented – level of concern from their Beijing counterparts over how Chinese President Xi Jinping would be treated during his brief visit to the United States this week, people familiar with the matter said. Over months

By MJ Lee and Kevin Liptak, CNN San Francisco (CNN) — US officials encountered a remarkable – even unprecedented – level of concern from their Beijing counterparts over how Chinese President Xi Jinping would be treated during his brief visit to the United States this week, people familiar with the matter said. Over months of

By Jake Tapper and Katie Bo Lillis, CNN Washington (CNN) — A document recovered from a computer found inside a Hamas pickup truck outside Gaza, obtained by CNN from Israeli officials, shows a Hamas military commander requesting a scholarship for Hamas operatives to study engineering, physics and technology at universities in Iran. While it is widely

By Kevin Liptak, CNN San Francisco (CNN) — The White House said Tuesday that Hamas is storing weapons and operating a command node from the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza, revealing publicly what US intelligence has shown is underneath the medical facility. “Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad use some hospitals in the Gaza Strip, including

By Kara Scannell and Devan Cole, CNN New York (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump is abandoning his effort to move the so-called hush money trial from New York state court to federal court. In a brief filing submitted to a New York-based appeals court, Trump said he was no longer appealing a lower-court ruling