National Politics

By Lauren del Valle, Kara Scannell and Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — The third week of the Donald Trump criminal hush money business fraud trial will resume Tuesday with the Manhattan district attorney’s office continuing to be secretive about it its plan of attack. Prosecutors are expected to pick up questioning of Michael Cohen’s former

By Jack Forrest, CNN (CNN) — Kansas’ state House on Monday failed to override Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto of a ban on gender-affirming care for minors, a result celebrated by transgender rights advocates. Kelly, who vetoed SB 233 earlier this month, applauded the state House’s vote to sustain her veto. “I am glad that bipartisan members of the

CNN By Haley Talbot, CNN House Democratic leadership announced Tuesday that Democrats would kill an effort to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson from his position, amid threats from Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and other hardliners. “At this moment, upon completion of our national security work, the time has come to turn the page on

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — A former National Security Agency employee was sentenced Monday to nearly 22 years in prison for attempting to sell classified information to Russia. Jareh Sebastian Dalke, a 32-year-old Army veteran from Colorado, had briefly worked at the NSA, prosecutors said, and was reapplying to the agency when he tried to sell

By Gregory Wallace and Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Lawmakers have unveiled a bipartisan Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization deal, which aims to address the nation’s shortage of air traffic controllers and implement technology to reduce the risk of runway collisions but would not institute a controversial increase in the pilot retirement age. The draft legislation

By Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Google and X, formerly Twitter, recently provided hundreds of files to Michigan prosecutors for their 2020 election subversion probe, complying with search warrants that investigators obtained after CNN revealed secret social media accounts belonging to pro-Trump lawyer Kenneth Chesebro, who played a major role in the fake electors plot. The previously unreported

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The US State Department has determined that five Israeli security units committed gross violations of human rights prior to the outbreak of the war with Hamas in Gaza, but is still deciding whether to restrict military assistance to one of the units under US law. The other four “have

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The state of Texas is suing the Biden administration over recently announced federal protections for LGBTQ+ students, arguing the Department of Education overstepped its authority by expanding the scope of a landmark anti-sex discrimination law. The lawsuit brought Monday by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was filed at a

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear the case of a former commercial truck driver who was fired after a failed drug test he said was caused by a CBD elixir advertised to contain no THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana. For 14 years, Douglas Horn worked as

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Monday for a second time shot down a request from former Trump adviser Peter Navarro to avoid further prison time over his contempt of Congress conviction. In an emergency request last month, Navarro asked the Supreme Court to let him remain free while he challenged his conviction

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Monday turned away Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s request to back out of a settlement agreement he struck with the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2018 over a series of tweets about the car maker that regulators alleged were fraudulent. Musk’s now-infamous 2018 tweet claimed he had

By Clare Foran and Haley Talbot, CNN (CNN) — House Speaker Mike Johnson pushed to pass a major foreign aid package over the objections of hardline conservatives. Now, the Louisiana Republican will have to face the fallout. The House returned to session Monday evening following a weeklong recess after the chamber’s consequential move to pass

By Veronica Stracqualursi and Rashard Rose, CNN (CNN) — A state senator who was charged in Arizona’s 2020 election subversion case and a former state representative who was expelled from office have been elected as Republican National committee members for the Grand Canyon State. State Sen. Jake Hoffman and former state Rep. Liz Harris were

By Jennifer Hansler and Jack Forrest, CNN (CNN) — The State Department is divided over whether Israel is using American-provided weapons in accordance with international law ahead of a fast-approaching deadline next week for Secretary of State Antony Blinken to make a determination to Congress. There is not unanimity about whether to accept Israel’s assurances about

By Kristen Holmes and Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump on Monday said he and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis had a “great meeting” in Florida on Sunday. The meeting — their first conversation since DeSantis dropped out of the GOP primary in January — was arranged through Steve Witkoff, Trump’s longtime friend

CNN By Michelle Shen and Jalen Beckford, CNN (CNN) — Sen. Bernie Sanders said on Sunday that he supports protests against Israel’s war in Gaza while stressing the need to “condemn, in every form, antisemitism, Islamophobia and other forms of bigotry.” “What Netanyahu’s right-wing, extremist and racist government is doing is unprecedented in the modern

By Michelle Shen and Jalen Beckford, CNN (CNN) — Sen. Bernie Sanders said on Sunday that he supports protests against Israel’s war in Gaza while stressing the need to “condemn, in every form, antisemitism, Islamophobia and other forms of bigotry.” “What Netanyahu’s right-wing, extremist and racist government is doing is unprecedented in the modern history