Politics

By Melanie Zanona and Gabby Orr, CNN Donald Trump hasn’t said if he will run for president again, but that doesn’t seem to be stopping him from privately musing about his potential running mate if he does. The latest person to catch his eye: Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York, the moderate-turned-MAGA star who has

By Tierney Sneed, CNN A federal judge Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit from gun industry groups challenging a New York law that permits civil lawsuits against companies for conduct found to have endangered public safety. US District Judge Mae D’Agostino — a Barack Obama appointee for the Northern District of New York — rejected the arguments

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter While the Supreme Court has been working behind closed doors on its first major Second Amendment opinion in more than a decade, three mass shootings have broken the country, including Tuesday’s massacre of 19 schoolchildren in Texas. Closed off from public view, the justices are penning opinions

By Ella Nilsen, CNN Officials from the Interior Department and the White House announced Wednesday they will spend $33 million to clean up 277 idle oil and gas wells on federal lands in nine states. Wednesday’s funding allocation will go to clean up so-called orphaned wells in national forests and national parks in California, Kentucky,

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN The US Special Envoy for Iran said Wednesday that the prospects of a return to the Iran nuclear deal are “tenuous at best,” but said the Biden administration still believes it is in the national security interest of the United States to try to salvage the 2015 agreement. Rob Malley’s assessment

By Annie Grayer, CNN House Sergeant at Arms William J. Walker, one of the top security officials on Capitol Hill, revealed that he does not believe lawmakers should be allowed to carry firearms in the US Capitol Complex, in a new letter provided exclusively to CNN. “It is my view that the Capitol Complex should

By Eric Bradner and Melissa Holzberg DePalo, CNN Pennsylvania’s Republican Senate primary is headed for a recount after celebrity heart surgeon Mehmet Oz and former hedge fund director Dave McCormick finished in a near tie in the May 17 contest. Acting Pennsylvania secretary of State Leigh Chapman made the announcement Wednesday, noting that the margin

By Devan Cole, CNN The National Rifle Association is set to hold its 2022 annual meeting in Houston on Friday, bringing together its top brass and several notable conservatives, including former President Donald Trump, for the first time in three years. The NRA’s annual meeting was canceled in 2020 and 2021 due to the coronavirus

By Katie Lobosco, CNN The US budget deficit could shrink to $1 trillion this year from $2.8 trillion last year as federal spending on Covid-19 aid slows and the economy rebounds, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday. Despite the reduction, the federal deficit remains “large by historical standards” and is expected to increase over

By Marshall Cohen Prosecutors working for special counsel John Durham rested their case Wednesday against Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann after seven days of testimony that relitigated some of the most controversial moments of the 2016 presidential race. Sussmann has pleaded not guilty to one count of lying to the FBI during a September

By Clare Foran and Lauren Fox, CNN President Joe Biden’s nominee to run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives vowed he would not be influenced by political considerations if he secures the job at a Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday with the nation’s attention focused on gun violence after a horrific shooting at

By Daniel Dale and Andrew Kaczynski, CNN Herschel Walker, the former football star who is now the Republican nominee for a US Senate seat in Georgia, is piling dishonesty upon dishonesty on the subject of his college education. In December, Walker’s campaign website falsely claimed that he had graduated from the University of Georgia, the

By Devan Cole, CNN A majority of Americans — 54% — now say they disapprove of the job the Supreme Court is doing following the leak of the draft opinion showing the justices are poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, according to a new poll released Wednesday The Marquette Law School poll findings represent a

By Eric Bradner, Dan Merica and Gregory Krieg, CNN Republican voters in Georgia on Tuesday showed there are limits to how seriously the party will entertain former President Donald Trump’s grievances. Election deniers endorsed by Trump were trounced in a series of primaries against Republican officials who had rejected the former President lies about the

By Eric Bradner, CNN Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger will overcome a Republican primary challenge from US Rep. Jody Hice, a Donald Trump ally whose campaign was centered on false claims about the 2020 election, CNN projects. Raffensperger’s victory caps a Georgia primary election in which Republican voters roundly rejected Trump’s attempts at retribution