National Politics

By Annie Grayer, CNN Washington (CNN) — GOP Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania said in a closed door briefing with lawmakers on Tuesday that the Ku Klux Klan is the “the military wing of the Democratic party” and that migrants coming to the US “have no interest in being Americans,” according to audio of Perry’s comments shared

CNN By Aaron Pellish, CNN (CNN) — Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday detailed the medical abnormality he experienced in 2010 that he said was caused by a worm that entered his brain and then died, marking his first public explanation of the incident. Kennedy said he recalls experiencing “brain fog” and

CNN By John King, CNN Ann Arbor, Michigan (CNN) — The nervous Democrat in Jade Gray will get to the worrying part soon enough. But graduating college surrounded by demonstrations and protest was a full circle moment worth cherishing. “It was in my application letter that this was a campus with a history of protests,

By John King, CNN Ann Arbor, Michigan (CNN) — The nervous Democrat in Jade Gray will get to the worrying part soon enough. But graduating college surrounded by demonstrations and protest was a full circle moment worth cherishing. “It was in my application letter that this was a campus with a history of protests, a

By John Fritze, Tierney Sneed and Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — Civil rights groups urged the US Supreme Court to step into Louisiana’s fraught and potentially far-reaching redistricting battle on Wednesday, asking the justices to rule against some White voters who claim the state legislature violated the Constitution when it drew a second majority-Black district

By Michelle Shen, CNN (CNN) — Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. experienced a series of health issues in recent years, including an abnormality that he said was caused by a worm that entered his brain and then died, The New York Times reported on Wednesday. In 2010, Kennedy, now 70, experienced severe memory

By Devan Cole and Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — The Georgia Court of Appeals will consider an effort by Donald Trump and his co-defendants to disqualify District Attorney Fani Willis from the 2020 election subversion case. In a brief order Wednesday, the court said it will hear the appeal from Trump and others challenging the

By Kayla Tausche, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday attempted to draw a direct line between his signature legislative achievements and shovels in the ground — and a direct contrast with Donald Trump — as he seeks to win over voters unhappy with the overall economy. Biden announced a $3.3 billion investment from Microsoft to

By Aaron Pellish and Eva McKend, CNN (CNN) — Before Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took the stage at a campaign rally in Des Moines, Iowa, last month, a team of his campaign staffers and volunteers organized hundreds of attendees through an assembly line of government forms, ID checks and color-coded wristbands. The bureaucratic workforce contrasted

By Gregory Wallace, CNN Washington (CNN) — Staring down an end-of-the-week deadline to pass major Federal Aviation Administration legislation, Congress is preparing to reopen contentious differences. At stake is whether Congress passes the hefty, over 1,000-page bill guiding aviation policy for the next five years. It includes a plan to fill a shortfall of 3,000

By Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — The United States paused a shipment of bombs to Israel amid concerns over their potential use in a Rafah incursion, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin confirmed on Wednesday. Austin said that the US is pausing the shipment of “high-payload munitions” due to Israel’s possible operations in Rafah without a plan for

By Kylie Atwood and Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration is rushing to finish a high-stakes report due to Congress this week on whether Israel has violated international humanitarian law during its war in Gaza — a determination that could lead to significant repercussions and further inflame divisions at home and abroad. The report has been the subject of

CNN By Laura Dolan and Jack Forrest, CNN (CNN) — The judge in Donald Trump’s hush money trial called the former president’s defense attorney to the bench and ordered him to speak to his client about his “contemptuous” behavior during adult film actress Stormy Daniels’ testimony Tuesday, according to the trial transcript. “I understand that your

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — An American woman repatriated to the United States from Syria is facing criminal charges for training with ISIS abroad, according to court documents unsealed Tuesday. Halima Salman, who is in her 20s, is accused of learning how to use an AK-47 assault rifle from the terrorist organization while living in Syria. Salman, according to

By Laura Dolan and Jack Forrest, CNN (CNN) — The judge in Donald Trump’s hush money trial called the former president’s defense attorney to the bench and ordered him to speak to his client about his “contemptuous” behavior during adult film actress Stormy Daniels’ testimony Tuesday, according to the trial transcript. “I understand that your client

By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Indiana Rep. Victoria Spartz will win her hard-fought Republican primary for her 5th District seat based in the northeastern Indianapolis suburbs Tuesday, CNN projects. Spartz, who in 2023 said she would not seek reelection, reversed her decision just before February’s filing deadline. She faced eight challengers, included state Rep. Chuck Goodrich, a

CNN By Katelyn Polantz, Hannah Rabinowitz, Holmes Lybrand and Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — Judge Aileen Cannon has indefinitely postponed former President Donald Trump’s classified documents trial in Florida, citing significant issues around classified evidence that would need to be worked out before the federal criminal case goes to a jury. In an order Tuesday,

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — Georgia’s Republican Gov. Brian Kemp on Tuesday signed into law new rules for challenging voters’ eligibility along with a measure that would make it easier for an independent candidate to qualify for the presidential ballot — provisions that could shape the outcome of fall elections in this key battleground

CNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — “The People Call Stormy Daniels.” It was the moment that Donald Trump’s hush money trial — bogged down in recent days in dreary testimony about accounting — roared back to life on Tuesday. A former president — who could find himself back behind the Oval Office desk

By Jeremy Herb, Lauren del Valle and Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — Adult film star Stormy Daniels dished out salacious details of her alleged sexual encounter with former President Donald Trump in 2006 from the witness stand on Tuesday, describing how they met at a celebrity golf tournament and what she says happened when she