National Politics

By Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — Justice was served this past week, a dozen years too late, when CJ Rice was legally exonerated by the Philadelphia district attorney’s office. The district attorney’s office dropped all charges against Rice for a 2011 shooting that sent him to prison for a crime he insists he did not — and was

By Manu Raju, CNN Sen. Lisa Murkowski, aghast at Donald Trump’s candidacy and the direction of her party, won’t rule out bolting from the GOP. The veteran Alaska Republican, one of seven Republicans who voted to convict Trump in his second impeachment trial amid the aftermath of January 6, 2021, is done with the former president and

By Mark Morales, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump’s legal team and the New York Attorney General’s office are working hard ahead of the former president’s Monday’s deadline to secure a bond for the multimillion-dollar civil fraud judgment against him. Trump personally owes over $454 million stemming from the ruling made by Judge Arthur Engoron back

By Abel Alvarado, Ami Kaufman, Mostafa Salem, Becky Anderson and Kareem Khadder, CNN (CNN) — Israel has agreed to a US proposal on a prisoner-hostage exchange that would release around 700 Palestinian prisoners, among them 100 serving life sentences for killing Israelis, in exchange for the release of 40 Israeli hostages held by Hamas in

CNN By Sara Murray, Zachary Cohen and Jason Morris, CNN (CNN) — Lawyers for several defendants in the Georgia criminal case against former President Donald Trump and others have been weighing whether to press for a gag order against Atlanta-area prosecutor Fani Willis, especially if efforts to disqualify her fail, sources familiar with the strategy

WCBS, WIVB, WPLG, WSVN, CNN By Mark Morales, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump’s legal team and the New York Attorney General’s office are working hard ahead of the former president’s Monday’s deadline to secure a bond for the multimillion-dollar civil fraud judgment against him. Trump personally owes over $454 million stemming from the ruling made

By Clare Foran, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden on Saturday signed into law the $1.2 trillion legislation that completes the funding of federal agencies through the fiscal year, which ends September 30. The House passed the package on Friday, and the Senate passed it early Saturday morning. The bill addresses a slate of critical government operations, including

By Steve Contorno, Kate Sullivan and Matt Egan, CNN (CNN) — When he’s not raising horses or working at a construction site, 28-year-old Nick Mirtschink says he spends “a lot” of time on Truth Social, the social media platform started by Donald Trump. So does Bree Duke, a retiree from northwest Georgia, who said she

By Phil Mattingly and Andrew Seger, CNN (CNN) — For days, Donald Trump’s fury over the requirement to secure hundreds of millions of dollars in bond money by Monday has been bubbling behind the scenes and through a steady stream of social media posts. Friday’s public barrage on his Truth Social platform, which included multiple

CNN By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — Former New York Rep. George Santos announced Friday that he was leaving the Republican Party and would continue his congressional comeback bid as an independent. Santos, who faces a slew of federal charges and was expelled from the House last year, attacked the GOP in a social media post

By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — Former New York Rep. George Santos announced Friday that he was leaving the Republican Party and would continue his congressional comeback bid as an independent. Santos, who faces a slew of federal charges and was expelled from the House last year, attacked the GOP in a social media post and

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Al Gore, 45th vice president of the United States and environmental activist. Personal Birth date: March 31, 1948 Birth place: Washington, DC Birth name: Albert Arnold Gore Jr. Father: Albert Gore Sr., former US senator from Tennessee Mother: Pauline (La Fon) Gore

By Nicquel Terry Ellis, Chandelis Duster and Eva McKend, CNN The US House Office of Diversity and Inclusion will be dissolved as part of the government spending bill that passed Friday, the office’s director said in a statement Friday. Sesha Joi Moon said in her statement to CNN that her department will be replaced by

By Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — A balloon recovered off the coast of Alaska had been in the ocean for “well over a year,” the Pentagon said Friday. The balloon was discovered floating in the ocean by commercial fisherman in late-February. The fishermen shared photos of the suspicious object with law enforcement, who were concerned

By Katie Lobosco, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Department of Education said Friday that it has identified a vendor’s calculation error impacting several hundred thousand financial aid forms. The mistake could further delay students’ aid awards and, as a result, their decisions on where to go to college next year, financial aid experts warn. The

By Melanie Zanona and Haley Talbot, CNN GOP Rep. Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin will resign from Congress early, handing another blow to Speaker Mike Johnson and his razor thin Republican majority. In a statement, Gallagher confirmed he will resign effective April 19. Gallagher did not include a reason for stepping down but said he came

By Matt Stiles, CNN (CNN) — The US House on Friday approved a $1.2 trillion government funding package that could help avert a government shutdown with a critical deadline looming. The House vote was bipartisan, with 286 members for it — 185 Democrats and 101 Republicans — and 134 against. Twelve members did not vote. The US

CNN By Melanie Zanona, Annie Grayer and Manu Raju, CNN Days after his speakership was put on notice by a far-right member, Mike Johnson strategized with a key – and perhaps surprising – source: firebrand GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, the architect of the last effort to remove a speaker. Gaetz, who is making

By Kristen Holmes and Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — At a fundraiser in New York, Donald Trump asked donors what they thought of Arizona Senate candidate Kari Lake as a running mate. In recent conversations, the former president has appeared fixated on Ohio Sen. JD Vance. And Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, New York Rep. Elise