National Politics

By Melanie Zanona and Haley Talbot, CNN (CNN) — House Speaker Mike Johnson vowed on Sunday to move forward with a $14.5 billion aid package for Israel when the House returns later this week, according to sources on his first GOP conference call since ascending to the top job. Johnson’s decision to move a standalone

By Kevin Liptak, CNN Wilmington, Delaware (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris said in an interview that the US has “absolutely no intention” of sending American combat troops into Israel or Gaza amid fears over a wider regional conflict. “We have absolutely no intention, nor do we have any plans, to send combat troops into

By Devan Cole and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s federal election subversion criminal case has reinstated the gag order she issued on the former president earlier this month. US District Judge Tanya Chutkan also denied Trump’s request to issue a long-term stay of the order – which bars the former president from

By Sam Fossum and Manu Raju, CNN (CNN) — Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville, who has held up military promotions for nine months, slammed a proposal being floated to change the chamber’s rules to allow a vote on many of the nominations en masse and attacked the White House and Senate Democrats for not negotiating with him. “It’s

By Sam Fossum and Manu Raju, CNN (CNN) — The debate over Israel’s conduct in its war against Hamas is exposing deep tensions in the House Democratic Caucus as Rep. Andre Carson called fellow Democrat Josh Gottheimer a “punk” and a “coward,” saying the two “could get into something else” after they disagreed over a

By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — The United States is communicating to the Israeli government “at the highest levels” the importance of protecting civilian lives in Gaza, US national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Sunday, even as he repeatedly declined to say whether Israel was going about its war the right way. “They’re the ones

By Manu Raju, Sam Fossum and Melanie Zanona, CNN (CNN) — Rep. Mike Lawler called the GOP ouster of Kevin McCarthy “one of the stupidest moves in politics,” attacked Rep. Matt Gaetz as a “charlatan” who should be expelled from their conference for leading the charge, and was one of the Republicans who blocked Jim

By Marshall Cohen, CNN A trial to determine whether the 14th Amendment’s “insurrectionist ban” applies to former President Donald Trump is set to begin Monday in Denver, a historic but likely long-shot case that could block him from Colorado’s presidential ballot in 2024. Six Republican and unaffiliated Colorado voters filed the lawsuit in early September with the backing

By Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis recently recounted blow by blow at an Iowa sports bar his takeover of a tiny liberal arts school, describing how he turned Sarasota’s New College from a “Marxist commune” with gender studies courses into a conservative vision for higher education. “So I appointed seven conservatives

By Kate Sullivan and Kristen Holmes, CNN Las Vegas (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump said Saturday that Mike Pence should endorse his bid for the White House after his former vice president dropped out of the race for the Republican nomination earlier in the day. “Because I had a great successful presidency, and he

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden is just as low in the White House’s internal polls as in any of the public ones. Whenever aides stress over the numbers in their weekly political meetings, Mike Donilon — for decades, Biden’s top political adviser — is the consistent voice of the president’s innermost circle,

CNN By Veronica Stracqualursi, Kristen Holmes, Kaitlan Collins, Jeff Zeleny and Kyung Lah, CNN (CNN) — Former Vice President Mike Pence has suspended his campaign for president amid lagging poll numbers and financial challenges, vowing to help elect “principled Republican leaders” moving forward. “After much prayer and deliberation, I have decided to suspend my campaign

By Veronica Stracqualursi, Kristen Holmes, Kaitlan Collins, Jeff Zeleny and Kyung Lah, CNN (CNN) — Former Vice President Mike Pence has suspended his campaign for president amid lagging poll numbers and financial challenges, vowing to help elect “principled Republican leaders” moving forward. “After much prayer and deliberation, I have decided to suspend my campaign for

Analysis by Harry Enten, CNN (CNN) — Republicans’ long public nightmare came to an end this past week when Louisiana’s Mike Johnson became the 56th speaker of the House. If you’re like most people who claim to be smart about politics, you immediately pretended to know who he was and then went to Google him.

By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN (CNN) — Asa Hutchinson’s presidential campaign manager is leaving the campaign next week due to differences over direction and whether the former Arkansas governor still has a path to the 2024 Republican nomination, according to two sources. Campaign manager Rob Burgess’ last day with the campaign will be October 31, according to one of

By Marshall Cohen and Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — The US attorney who in 2020 vetted unverified claims from an FBI informant about alleged Ukrainian bribes paid to the Bidens recently testified to House lawmakers that he found some of the material credible enough to pass the tip along to the prosecutor leading the Hunter

By Alex Marquardt, Jennifer Hansler and Yahya Abou-Ghazala, CNN Washington (CNN) — More than two weeks of intense negotiations to evacuate foreign nationals out of Gaza have yielded few signs of progress, leaving hundreds of desperate civilians stranded inside the war-torn strip of land as Israeli ground operations expanded amid a barrage of airstrikes on Friday. Multiple sources involved

By Daniel Strauss, Fredreka Schouten, Steve Contorno, Alayna Treene and Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — GOP 2024 presidential candidates traveling to the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual conference are facing a unique challenge this year: how to distinguish themselves from former President Donald Trump on their support and approach to defending Israel as the country’s war

By Alayna Treene, Marshall Cohen, Katelyn Polantz and Kristen Holmes, CNN Washington (CNN) — Donald Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows has been walking a tightrope, trying to strike a careful balance of complying with federal investigators who are using his testimony to prosecute Trump, while not crossing any red lines that would jeopardize his influential

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN Washington (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff met on Friday morning with family members of Americans who remain unaccounted for in Israel, some of whom are believed to be held hostage by Hamas. The roughly hour-and-a-half meeting was held at the US State Department and led