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By Tierney Sneed President Joe Biden’s White House has until mid-October to decide if he wants to assert executive privilege and hinder an effort to obtain testimony from former President Donald Trump about Trump’s pressure campaign to get a then-top FBI agent fired. US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson set the October 14 deadline at

By Steve Contorno, CNN When Gov. Ron DeSantis abruptly suspended Tampa’s elected prosecutor last week, it was not accomplished in a late-night sacking or buried in a 5 p.m. Friday press release. Rather, DeSantis summoned reporters and cameras for a midday media event, as he does several times a week, stood before officers in uniform

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN President Joe Biden on Wednesday declared that the US government knows “with certainty” that American journalist Austin Tice has been held by the Syrian government and called on Damascus to cooperate on efforts to release him after 10 years of captivity. “We know with certainty that he has been held by

By Hannah Rabinowitz, Marshall Cohen, Jennifer Hansler and Kylie Atwood, CNN The US Justice Department announced criminal charges Wednesday against a member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for allegedly trying to orchestrate the assassination of John Bolton, who served in senior national security positions during the Trump and Bush administrations. The alleged plot was

By Kate Sullivan, CNN President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed into law a bill expanding health care benefits to millions of veterans who were exposed to toxic burn pits during their military service. The bill is a major bipartisan victory for Congress and addresses an issue that is personal to the President. Biden has said

By Kara Scannell, CNN Former President Donald Trump invoked his Fifth Amendment rights and declined to answer questions from the New York attorney general at a scheduled deposition Wednesday. “Under the advice of my counsel and for all of the above reasons, I declined to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to

By Ethan Cohen and Gregory Krieg, CNN Republican Brad Finstad will win the special election in Minnesota’s 1st congressional district, holding the seat for the GOP, CNN projects. Voters in the current version of southern Minnesota’s 1st Congressional District were voting on a replacement to fill the seat of the late Rep. Jim Hagedorn, a

By Eric Bradner, CNN Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar survived a primary challenge Tuesday, CNN projected — but barely, and the narrow result could encourage critics of the progressive “squad” member to try again in two years. Omar, who is running for a third term in Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District, held off a primary challenge from

By Eric Bradner, Dan Merica and Gregory Krieg, CNN Donald Trump on Tuesday once again showcased his control over the GOP’s open primaries, as the former President’s chosen candidate won Wisconsin‘s Republican primary for governor over a rival backed by former Vice President Mike Pence and much of the party’s establishment in the battleground state.

By Gregory Krieg, CNN Becca Balint will win the Democratic primary for Vermont’s lone House seat, CNN projects, putting her on a path to become the first woman to represent the state in Congress. Vermont is the only state in the country that has never had a woman in its congressional delegation. Balint, a former

By Natasha Bertrand, CNN The US believes Russian officials have begun training on drones in Iran over the last several weeks, the latest sign that Russia intends to purchase the systems as the war in Ukraine continues. “During the last several weeks, Russian officials conducted training in Iran as part of the agreement for UAV

By Sara Murray, Zachary Cohen, Katelyn Polantz and Whitney Wild, CNN Republican Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania said Tuesday that the FBI had seized his cell phone. “This morning, while traveling with my family, 3 FBI agents visited me and seized my cell phone,” he said in part in a statement. The search is connected

By Gregory Krieg, CNN Donald Trump’s chosen candidate for governor in Wisconsin will win the GOP nomination, CNN projects, underscoring the former President’s clout among Republican primary voters in the latest contest in which he and former Vice President Mike Pence were on opposite sides — and the first since the FBI search of Trump’s

By Pamela Brown, Kaitlan Collins and Katelyn Polantz, CNN The search of Donald Trump‘s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida came after authorities believed that the former President or his team had not returned all the documents and other materials that were property of the government, according to a person familiar with the matter. Authorities believed the