Politics

By Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — The Fulton County special purpose grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss in Georgia recommended charges against 39 people, the unredacted grand jury report made public Friday shows. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who had the ultimate charging authority, indicted 19

By Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump inflated his net worth by as much as $3.6 billion in three separate years between 2011 and 2021, lawyers for the New York attorney general’s office alleged Friday, significantly more than previously purported. The new figure, detailed in a court filing, dwarfs investigators’ previous allegation that Trump

By Natasha Bertrand and Katie Bo Lillis, CNN (CNN) — New US intelligence assessments suggest that is “unlikely” al Qaeda will revive in Afghanistan and Pakistan and that counterterrorism operations by the Taliban in Afghanistan have degraded the Islamic State’s presence there, two senior US officials said on Friday. The assessments described by the officials

CNN By Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — The Fulton County special purpose grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss in Georgia recommended charges against 39 people, the unredacted grand jury report made public Friday shows. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who had the ultimate charging authority, indicted

By Haley Britzky and Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — The nominee to be the US military’s most senior general warned US airmen in a letter this week that the Chinese military wants “to exploit your knowledge and skill to fill gaps in their military capability.” Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown, who

By Hannah Rabinowitz and Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump asked a judge Friday to move a lawsuit that cites the 14th Amendment’s ban on insurrectionists holding public office in an attempt to block his name from the 2024 presidential ballot in Colorado from state to federal court. The underlying lawsuit, filed

By Haley Talbot, Kristin Wilson and Clare Foran, CNN (CNN) — Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, 83, will run for reelection in the US House next November, the California Democrat announced Friday. In a post on X, Pelosi said, “Now more than ever our City needs us to advance San Francisco values and further our

By CNN (CNN) — A Georgia state judge released the full final report Friday morning of the special grand jury that investigated Donald Trump and his allies’ attempts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia. Read the special grand jury report here. The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2023 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company.

By Sara Murray, Jason Morris, Jeremy Herb and Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The special grand jury in Fulton County investigating the 2020 presidential election in Georgia recommended charges against Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and former GOP Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler of Georgia, according to the special counsel grand jury

By Katie Lobosco, CNN Washington (CNN) — With less than a month before federal student loan payments restart after the years-long pandemic pause, many borrowers are having a hard time connecting with their loan servicer. Some are having to wait hours on hold to find out how much they owe, what day their first payment

By Tierney Sneed, CNN Washington (CNN) — Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito sharply rejected calls from Democratic senators that he not participate in an upcoming tax case where one of the lawyers involved also participated in recent Wall Street Journal interviews of the conservative jurist. Alito, in a court filing Friday, said the argument for

By Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign is making a new digital ad buy highlighting former President Donald Trump and other Republican presidential candidates’ hardline abortion stances, according to a Biden campaign aide, as the campaign looks to find its footing in the 2024 race. The latest push to spotlight Republican

By Kevin Liptak, CNN New Delhi (CNN) — President Joe Biden arrived in India on Friday for a two-day summit at a moment of division among the world’s leading economies, hoping to seize on an opening created by the absence of the Russian and Chinese leaders. Biden’s first order of business upon arriving was a

By Katie Bo Lillis, CNN Washington (CNN) — FBI Director Christopher Wray warned Thursday that the number of Russian spies operating inside the United States is “still way too big,” despite efforts to kick them out. “The Russian traditional counterintelligence threat continues to loom large,” Wray said during public remarks at the Spy Museum in

By Daniel Dale and Jennifer Agiesta, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump falsely claimed Wednesday that polls show his support among Black Americans has quadrupled or quintupled since his mug shot was released. The booking photo was taken on August 24, when Trump was arrested in Fulton County, Georgia, on charges connected to his

By Daniel Strauss and Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump received the endorsement of South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem Friday night, as he appeared for a campaign rally in the state. Noem told the crowd gathered in Rapid City that Trump has her “full and complete endorsement for president of the United

By Kayla Tausche, CNN (CNN) — The White House Situation Room, the high-security complex beneath the West Wing where presidents watch history unfold and receive top-secret intelligence, has undergone a much-needed makeover for the first time in 15 years. The yearlong gut renovation saw the ground dug out five feet to remove concrete and cables,

By Joan Biskupic, CNN Senior Supreme Court Analyst (CNN) — When the Supreme Court considered the challenge to an Alabama congressional map that shortchanged the state’s Black voters, liberal justices expected the conservative majority to side with Alabama – if not gut the 1965 Voting Rights Act altogether. Instead, the justices emerged from their first

By Donald Judd, CNN (CNN) — Reporters traveling with President Joe Biden to India for this week’s G20 summit won’t get the opportunity to lob questions to Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi when the two leaders meet in New Delhi, despite multiple requests from the administration for more press access, the White House

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter (CNN) — The 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals issued a temporary stay Thursday night allowing the state of Texas to keep floating barriers in the Rio Grande. A lower court judge had ordered Texas to take down the barriers by September 15 at its own expense.