National Politics

By Betsy Klein and Jennifer Hansler, CNN President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris spoke by phone Wednesday with Cherelle Griner, the wife of WNBA star Brittney Griner, who is detained in a Russian prison, according to the White House. Biden has also written a letter in response to Brittney Griner’s handwritten letter, which

By Evan Perez, CNN Justice Correspondent Top US and British law enforcement officials met with private business and academic leaders Wednesday to call attention to what they said is the serious security and economic threat posed by China, which is seeking to steal their intellectual property and influence politics in western countries. FBI Director Christopher

By Jason Morris and Sara Murray, CNN Attorneys representing Republican South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham say that he intends to challenge the subpoena that he was issued by an Atlanta-area special grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia. “Senator Graham plans to go to court, challenge the

By Barbara Starr, CNN Pentagon Correspondent Military personnel will now be able to fully access the websites of abortion service providers from their government computers and email accounts after the Pentagon determined it should no longer include those sites as content it routinely blocks. “We determined that we should allow content categorized as abortion-related,” said

By Annie Grayer, Zachary Cohen, Kaitlan Collins and Pamela Brown, CNN Trump White House Counsel Pat Cipollone has reached a deal with the January 6 committee to participate in a transcribed interview behind closed doors on Friday, multiple sources told CNN. Cipollone will be appearing under subpoena. A source familiar with his thinking says Cipollone

By Kara Scannell, CNN A New York judge fined the Trump Organization’s former appraiser $10,000 a day after holding it in civil contempt for failing to comply with subpoenas from the New York attorney general’s office. Judge Arthur Engoron said the appraiser, Cushman & Wakefield, “has only itself to blame if it chose to treat

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN A federal appeals court in New Orleans heard arguments Wednesday on the legality of the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, setting up another high-stakes legal clash over immigration that could impact hundreds of thousands of people. DACA, created in 2012, was intended to provide temporary reprieve to undocumented immigrants

By Paul LeBlanc, CNN Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday said Americans need to understand that gun violence “can happen anywhere,” during a visit to the Illinois city where a gunman killed at least seven people in a mass shooting at a July Fourth parade. “There’s a lot of healing that’s going to have to

By Ella Nilsen, CNN A federal judge in California has overturned a 2019 Trump administration move to gut the landmark Endangered Species Act, vacating that administration’s changes and restoring protections for hundreds of species. The move is a win for environmental and conservation groups and climate advocates. The restoration of the protections could also be

By Sara Murray and Jason Morris, CNN An Atlanta-area special grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia has subpoenaed a handful of key Trump allies, including his former attorney Rudy Giuliani and South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, according to court filings. The subpoenas also cover a handful

By Devon M. Sayers and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Florida’s law banning abortions at 15 weeks will remain in effect after the state filed an appeal Tuesday that stayed a state judge’s order temporarily blocking the ban. In a verbal ruling last week, Second Judicial Circuit Court Judge John Cooper said that the Florida law was