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By Lauren del Valle, Kara Scannell, Sabrina Souza, Nicki Brown and Gregory Krieg, CNN (CNN) — A jury on Tuesday found Sen. Bob Menendez guilty on all counts in his federal corruption trial, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer swiftly called on his Democratic colleague to resign. Menendez, of New Jersey, was convicted of 16

By Jeff Zeleny, MJ Lee, Manu Raju, Annie Grayer and Kayla Tausche, CNN Washington (CNN) — A growing faction of House Democrats, convinced that President Joe Biden is too politically damaged to defeat Donald Trump in November, is calling on the Democratic National Committee to ditch plans to virtually nominate Biden in the coming weeks

By Aaron Pellish, CNN (CNN) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s son, Bobby Kennedy III, posted a video of a phone call between Kennedy and former President Donald Trump in which the former president appeared to endorse false theories about the safety of vaccines. Kennedy III posted a brief video on social media Tuesday morning filming

CNN By CNN Staff (CNN) — The Republican National Convention kicked off Monday night in Milwaukee. Here are some of the most noteworthy falsehoods from night one of the RNC. Trump makes false claims about election fraud in RNC video The Republican National Convention played a video in which former President Donald Trump urged Republicans

By Kayla Tausche, CNN Las Vegas (CNN) — Returning to the campaign trail for the first time after an assassination attempt on his predecessor, President Joe Biden is expected to point to policies – not personality – to make the case against former President Donald Trump. In advance of public events in Nevada on Tuesday,

By Whitney Wild, Danny Freeman, Holmes Lybrand, Mark Morales, Pamela Brown and Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — The attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump – the worst security failure by the US Secret Service in four decades – has pitted the agency against local law enforcement as both say the other was responsible for

By David Wright, Matt Holt, Fredreka Schouten and Alex Leeds Matthews, CNN (CNN) — Democrats outraised Republicans in competitive congressional races during the second quarter of the year, new fundraising reports show, putting down-ballot candidates on solid financial ground as Democratic concerns grow over President Joe Biden’s candidacy. But several vulnerable Senate Democrats also burned

By Alex Marquardt, CNN (CNN) — The CIA has assessed that the leader of Hamas in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, is coming under increased pressure from his own military commanders to accept a ceasefire deal and end the war with Israel, CIA Director Bill Burns told a closed-door conference on Saturday, according to a source who attended. Sinwar, the key

By Alayna Treene, Steve Contorno and Kaitlan Collins, CNN (CNN) — A day before Donald Trump’s deadline to pick a running mate, after months of private conversations with every corner of his orbit, the former president took a call from a new voice. That person, Tesla billionaire Elon Musk, was one of several people urging

CNN Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — It was a remarkable moment Monday night at the Republican National Convention, surely creating some amount of confusion among longtime Republicans, when Sean O’Brien, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, delivered a stemwinder of a speech in prime time. He called former President Donald Trump

CNN By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — With a white bandage over the ear clipped just two days earlier by an attempted assassin’s bullet, Donald Trump stole the show when he made his first public appearance since the shooting on the opening night of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. Trump joined the man he’d

CNN By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — With a white bandage over the ear clipped just two days earlier by an attempted assassin’s bullet, Donald Trump stole the show when he made his first public appearance since the shooting on the opening night of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. Trump joined the man he’d

CNN By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — With a white bandage over the ear clipped just two days earlier by an attempted assassin’s bullet, Donald Trump stole the show when he made his first public appearance since the shooting on the opening night of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. Trump joined the man he’d

CNN By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — With a white bandage over the ear clipped just two days earlier by an attempted assassin’s bullet, Donald Trump stole the show when he made his first public appearance since the shooting on the opening night of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. Trump joined the man he’d

By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — With a white bandage over the ear clipped just two days earlier by an attempted assassin’s bullet, Donald Trump stole the show when he made his first public appearance since the shooting on the opening night of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. Trump joined the man he’d chosen

CNN By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — With a white bandage over the ear clipped just two days earlier by an attempted assassin’s bullet, Donald Trump stole the show when he made his first public appearance since the shooting on the opening night of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. Trump joined the man he’d

By Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The fallout continues from Judge Aileen Cannon’s shock ruling that special counsel Jack Smith was unlawfully appointed, invalidating his classified documents case against former President Donald Trump. The indicted ex-FBI informant Alexander Smirnov — who was charged by special counsel David Weiss with lying to the FBI about supposed Biden family corruption in Ukraine — is now using Cannon’s ruling to try

By Arit John and Shania Shelton, CNN (CNN) — JD Vance has had several introductions to the American people: as the author of a memoir on what ails the White working class, a newly elected Republican senator in his home state of Ohio, a controversial running mate pick and the next vice president of the

By CNN Staff (CNN) — CNN’s team is fact-checking the first night of the Republican National Convention. We will continue to update this list throughout the night. Trump makes false claims about election fraud in RNC video The Republican National Convention played a video in which former President Donald Trump urged Republicans to use “every

By John King, CNN Milwaukee (CNN) — The public calls from Democrats asking President Joe Biden to bow out of the presidential race have quieted in recent days, but private efforts to nudge the president and his top aides continue, several Democratic sources told CNN. Among the efforts, these sources say, are repeated memos from