National Politics

By Steve Contorno, Alayna Treene, Fredreka Schouten and Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — Twelve hours after Donald Trump predicted his near sweep of Super Tuesday states would lead to unity “very quickly” in the Republican Party, the former president delivered a parting shot to his last remaining rival for the GOP nomination. On his social

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN Washington (CNN) — A handful of Democratic governors made their way through a gaggle of their colleagues last month to tell President Joe Biden directly what they’ve been stressing behind the scenes: He needs to be fighting harder. The Democrats told Biden that he needed to show more of the fire

By Carlos Suarez, CNN (CNN) — The former chair of the Florida Republican Party will not be charged with video voyeurism, according to the state attorney’s office in Sarasota County, Florida. Christian Ziegler was ousted from his role atop the state party earlier this year amid an investigation into a woman’s rape allegations against him.

By Kylie Atwood, Arit John and Jeff Zeleny, CNN (CNN) — Since the night of the New Hampshire primary, Nikki Haley has faced one constant question: when would she drop out? It came from GOP party leaders, who called on her to suspend her campaign as former President Donald Trump racked up more wins, and

CNN Opinion by Jocelyn Viterna (CNN) — Editor’s Note: Jocelyn Viterna is professor of sociology and chair of studies of women, gender and sexuality at Harvard University. The views expressed here are the author’s own. View more opinion articles on CNN. After the Texas Supreme court turned down 31-year-old Kate Cox’s appeal, she was essentially left with

By Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — Kate Cox, the Texas woman who had to leave her state to seek an abortion, hadn’t paid much attention to politics before she had to end a life-threatening pregnancy. Now, after a legal battle that garnered national attention, she’s outspoken about the toll that politicizing such health decisions takes

By Kit Maher, Alison Main and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN (CNN) — As Nikki Haley suspended her campaign Wednesday morning, a major question remained: Who will her voters, who span the political spectrum, throw their support behind in the general election? “I, at this point, can’t answer that question,” Carole Colburn of Arlington, Virginia, told CNN.

By Oren Liebermann, Hannah Rabinowitz, Katie Bo Lillis and Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — The Defense Department is analyzing a balloon discovered by fishermen off the coast of Alaska last week to determine whether it was a spy balloon, a spokesperson told CNN. The balloon is currently at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska, said department

By Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Prosecutors in Arizona have issued several grand jury subpoenas in recent weeks to people connected to efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 election in that state, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. The subpoenas suggest the state-level probe is accelerating

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — A record $12.5 billion in losses from online scams were reported to the FBI in 2023, fueled by a surge in cryptocurrency investment fraud, the bureau said in a report released Wednesday. It’s a more than $2 billion increase in total losses from scams reported in 2022 and by

CNN By Melanie Zanona, Kristin Wilson and Jeremy Herb, CNN Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake says she will court voters who backed GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley – and those who would have voted for independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema – even as she criticized Haley’s campaign as a “vanity project” in an interview with CNN Wednesday.

By Jeremy Herb and Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump’s attorneys accused Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg of a pursuing a “fantasy” case against the former president by tying hush-money payments made to his former attorney Michael Cohen with the 2016 election. “The People must attempt to try the case they charged, not the

By Hannah Rabinowitz and Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — A Texas man who allegedly told George Santos that he could get evidence against the former congressman “disappeared” for nearly $1 million was arrested on Wednesday and charged with fraud. Federal prosecutors accuse Hector Medina of telling the former congressman that they could strike a “deal”

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court will hear arguments on April 25 in the blockbuster case over whether former President Donald Trump may claim immunity from prosecution in the federal election subversion case. The court previously said it would hear arguments in the case during the week of April 22. On Wednesday,

By Devan Cole, CNN Washington (CNN) — A federal judge in Texas said Tuesday that a US Commerce Department agency intended to help minority-owned businesses must offer assistance to all individuals, regardless of race, agreeing with White business owners who claimed that its policies were unconstitutional. The ruling from US District Judge Mark Pittman, an appointee

By Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — The US government is spending nearly $1 million a month to maintain a luxury superyacht seized from a sanctioned Russian oligarch as part of the Justice Department’s effort to put pressure on the Kremlin. The 348-foot Amadea was one of the first trophies prosecutors claimed as part of a

By Alison Main and Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — Minnesota Rep. Dean Phillips announced Wednesday that he was dropping out of the 2024 Democratic presidential primary, ending a long-shot challenge to President Joe Biden. Phillips’ announcement comes as Biden has dominated the contests on the Democratic primary calendar this year, from the South Carolina primary on February 3 through Super Tuesday, as he marches toward the

By Melanie Zanona, Kristin Wilson and Jeremy Herb, CNN Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake says she will court voters who backed GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley – and those who would have voted for independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema – even as she criticized Haley’s campaign as a “vanity project” in an interview with CNN Wednesday. Lake,

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — A student group seeking to host a drag show at a Texas university asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to overrule a decision by the school’s president to prohibit the performance, which he described as “derisive, divisive and demoralizing.” Spectrum WT and two student leaders of the LGBTQ group

By Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — Two Filipino seafarers are among the dead after a Houthi ballistic missile struck a commercial ship in the Gulf of Aden, marking the first fatal attack by the Iran-backed militant group in its ongoing assaults in the Red Sea. At least three crew members were killed and four others injured in the attack