National Politics

CNN By Veronica Stracqualursi, Kristen Holmes, Kaitlan Collins, Jeff Zeleny and Kyung Lah, CNN (CNN) — Former Vice President Mike Pence has suspended his campaign for president amid lagging poll numbers and financial challenges, vowing to help elect “principled Republican leaders” moving forward. “After much prayer and deliberation, I have decided to suspend my campaign

By Veronica Stracqualursi, Kristen Holmes, Kaitlan Collins, Jeff Zeleny and Kyung Lah, CNN (CNN) — Former Vice President Mike Pence has suspended his campaign for president amid lagging poll numbers and financial challenges, vowing to help elect “principled Republican leaders” moving forward. “After much prayer and deliberation, I have decided to suspend my campaign for

Analysis by Harry Enten, CNN (CNN) — Republicans’ long public nightmare came to an end this past week when Louisiana’s Mike Johnson became the 56th speaker of the House. If you’re like most people who claim to be smart about politics, you immediately pretended to know who he was and then went to Google him.

By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN (CNN) — Asa Hutchinson’s presidential campaign manager is leaving the campaign next week due to differences over direction and whether the former Arkansas governor still has a path to the 2024 Republican nomination, according to two sources. Campaign manager Rob Burgess’ last day with the campaign will be October 31, according to one of

By Marshall Cohen and Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — The US attorney who in 2020 vetted unverified claims from an FBI informant about alleged Ukrainian bribes paid to the Bidens recently testified to House lawmakers that he found some of the material credible enough to pass the tip along to the prosecutor leading the Hunter

By Alex Marquardt, Jennifer Hansler and Yahya Abou-Ghazala, CNN Washington (CNN) — More than two weeks of intense negotiations to evacuate foreign nationals out of Gaza have yielded few signs of progress, leaving hundreds of desperate civilians stranded inside the war-torn strip of land as Israeli ground operations expanded amid a barrage of airstrikes on Friday. Multiple sources involved

By Daniel Strauss, Fredreka Schouten, Steve Contorno, Alayna Treene and Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — GOP 2024 presidential candidates traveling to the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual conference are facing a unique challenge this year: how to distinguish themselves from former President Donald Trump on their support and approach to defending Israel as the country’s war

By Alayna Treene, Marshall Cohen, Katelyn Polantz and Kristen Holmes, CNN Washington (CNN) — Donald Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows has been walking a tightrope, trying to strike a careful balance of complying with federal investigators who are using his testimony to prosecute Trump, while not crossing any red lines that would jeopardize his influential

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN Washington (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff met on Friday morning with family members of Americans who remain unaccounted for in Israel, some of whom are believed to be held hostage by Hamas. The roughly hour-and-a-half meeting was held at the US State Department and led

By Kevin Liptak and Khalil Abdallah, CNN Washington (CNN) — Muslim-American leaders told President Joe Biden in a small private meeting Thursday he and his administration needed to show more empathy toward Palestinian lives and pushed back on his comment this week casting doubt on civilian death figures in Gaza provided by the health ministry

By Nicki Brown, CNN Washington (CNN) — Rep. George Santos pleaded not guilty in federal court Friday to 10 charges alleging he stole donors’ identities and ran up thousands of dollars in fraudulent charges on their credit cards, among other offenses. The New York Republican’s attorney Joseph Murray entered the not guilty plea on behalf of his client. US District Judge Joanna

By Lauren del Valle and Jeremy Herb, CNN New York (CNN) — Ivanka Trump must testify at her father’s New York civil fraud trial, the judge overseeing the case ruled on Friday. New York Judge Arthur Engoron denied a motion from Ivanka Trump’s attorneys to quash a subpoena for her testimony, though he said her testimony

CNN By Arit John, Eva McKend and Aaron Pellish, CNN (CNN) — Minnesota Rep. Dean Phillips formally launched his presidential campaign Friday and filed to run in New Hampshire’s Democratic primary, kicking off his long-shot challenge to President Joe Biden. Surrounded by a small crowd of supporters, staff and curious bystanders outside the New Hampshire

CNN, WGME, WFXT By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — Maine Rep. Jared Golden – one of the rare House Democrats to oppose many gun safety measures championed by his party – came out in support of an assault weapons ban on Thursday, the day after shootings in his hometown of Lewiston left at least

By Donald Judd, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Biden administration announced new steps Friday to ensure access to affordable housing, launching a slew of resources to convert high-vacancy commercial buildings to residential use. The effort is an attempt to address what the administration says is a dearth of much-needed, affordably priced, conveniently located and energy-efficient

By Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) – While the weekslong speaker fight consumed public attention, the House Republican-led committees leading the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden continued to work behind the scenes, holding a string of highly anticipated closed-door interviews and receiving more bank records from Hunter and James Biden. But now that Speaker Mike

By Steve Contorno and Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday evening that he is not sure if Florida’s red flag law is effective in removing guns from dangerous people and he wouldn’t sign one – or any gun safety measure – if elected president. Instead, in response to Wednesday’s mass shooting

CNN By Oren Liebermann, Haley Britzky and Natasha Bertrand, CNN Washington (CNN) — The US carried out airstrikes targeting two facilities linked to Iranian-backed militias in eastern Syria on Thursday, according to a statement from Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, following a series of drone and rocket attacks against US forces in the region. The statement said the facilities

By Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — Special counsel Jack Smith withdrew a subpoena seeking information from former President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign this week, a source familiar told CNN. This is the second withdrawn subpoena related to Smith’s investigation into fundraising practices following the 2020 election. Earlier this month, Smith withdrew a subpoena seeking records from

By Arit John, Eva McKend and Aaron Pellish, CNN (CNN) — Minnesota Rep. Dean Phillips formally launched his presidential campaign Friday and filed to run in New Hampshire’s Democratic primary, kicking off his long-shot challenge to President Joe Biden. Surrounded by a small crowd of supporters, staff and curious bystanders outside the New Hampshire State