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By Arit John and Dianne Gallagher, CNN Charlotte, North Carolina (CNN) — Larissa Miller spent the early years of her life steeped in evangelical communities. She attended an evangelical high school and college and spent more than 16 years working for the association tied to one of the best-known evangelists of the last century, Billy

CNN By Veronica Stracqualursi and Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Friday that he will vote for Democrat Kamala Harris over fellow Republican Donald Trump in the November election, warning that the former president “can never be trusted with power again.” “In our nation’s 248-year history, there has never

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department has charged a Pakistani national with allegedly plotting to attack Jews in New York on the anniversary of the October 7 terror attacks in Israel. Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, 20, was going to carry out the attack in support of ISIS, prosecutors allege, and told an undercover

By MJ Lee, Alex Marquardt and Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration has hit major roadblocks in the Gaza ceasefire negotiations after months of feverish work, raising doubts within the White House about whether the Israel-Hamas war can come to an end before the end of Joe Biden’s one-term presidency, officials told CNN. While Biden and his top aides have persistently expressed hope that

By Michael Williams, Nicky Robertson and Omar Jimenez, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden choked up and had to take a moment to gather his thoughts while remembering his late son, Beau Biden, on Friday in Michigan – telling a crowd that he misses his child while harkening back to comments former President Donald Trump

CNN By Veronica Stracqualursi and Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — Former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney said Friday that her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, is voting for Democrat Kamala Harris over GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump in November. “Dick Cheney will be voting for Kamala Harris,” the former Wyoming congresswoman said at the

By Veronica Stracqualursi and Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Friday that he will vote for Democrat Kamala Harris over fellow Republican Donald Trump in the November election, warning that the former president “can never be trusted with power again.” “In our nation’s 248-year history, there has never been

By CNN Staff (CNN) — Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s annual financial report was made public Friday, months after other justices posted their own disclosures. The justice reported receiving concert tickets from a member of Germany’s nobility, as well as securing a small loan — valued at less than $15,000 — but did not include

By Natasha Bertrand and Kylie Atwood, CNN (CNN) — Iran recently transferred short-range ballistic missiles to Russia to use in the war against Ukraine, according to two sources familiar with the intelligence, completing a delivery that US and Western officials had warned was in the works for almost a year. It is not clear when

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito reported receiving concert tickets from a member of Germany’s nobility in an annual financial report made public Friday but reported no travel reimbursements, which have been controversial for some of his colleagues on the bench. Alito reported receiving concert tickets valued at $900 from

By Kara Scannell, Lauren del Valle and Jeremy Herb, CNN New York (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump will not be sentenced in his New York criminal case until after the 2024 election, Judge Juan Merchan announced Friday, explaining that his decision to delay the sentencing is in part to avoid any appearance of affecting the

By Fredreka Schouten and Sara Murray, CNN (CNN) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp does not have an obligation to investigate members of the State Election Board who have come under fire for enacting last-minute changes to election procedures in this battleground state, according to an opinion issued Friday by the state’s attorney general, Chris Carr.

By Ethan Cohen, Dianne Gallagher, Aaron Cooper and Aaron Pellish, CNN (CNN) — The start of voting in North Carolina, which was scheduled to begin Friday with the mailing of absentee ballots, will be further delayed to let legal proceedings play out after an appeals court ordered the state to remove former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s name from

CNN By Kara Scannell, Lauren del Valle, Jeremy Herb and Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump lashed out at E. Jean Carroll and several other women who have accused him of sexual assault following a hearing in New York where the former president’s attorneys tried to convince a federal appeals court that he should

By Jim Sciutto, CNN (CNN) — The US has detected increased Russian military activity around key undersea cables, and believes Russia may now be more likely to carry out potential sabotage operations aimed at disabling a critical piece of the world’s communications infrastructure, two US officials told CNN. Russia has put increasing emphasis on building

By Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance on Thursday lamented that school shootings in the US have become “a fact of life” and called for greater security at schools in the wake of the shooting in Winder, Georgia, that left four people dead earlier this week. “I don’t like this.

By Kara Scannell, Lauren del Valle, Jeremy Herb and Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump lashed out at E. Jean Carroll and several other women who have accused him of sexual assault following a hearing in New York where the former president’s attorneys tried to convince a federal appeals court that he should get

By Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — A spokesman for the Manhattan US Attorney’s office apologized following the release of a secretly recorded video that captured him slamming Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s hush money case against Donald Trump as “nonsense” and a “perversion of justice.” Nicholas Biase, chief public information officer for the US Attorney’s Office for

By Katie Lobosco, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Internal Revenue Service said Friday that it has collected nearly $1.3 billion in overdue taxes from wealthy households since last fall, thanks to a ramp-up of enforcement efforts funded by the Democrat-backed Inflation Reduction Act that passed Congress two years ago. The Trump campaign has claimed the federal investment

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign increased its already blistering fundraising pace last month, bringing in $361 million in August – easily swamping the $130 million raised by her Republican rival last month and giving the Democrat a whopping $404 million in cash reserves for the final, two-month sprint