National Politics

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas did not attend oral arguments Monday and provided no explanation for his absence. Chief Justice John Roberts announced that Thomas would not take part shortly after the court sat for arguments in a public corruption case Monday morning. In the past, the court has

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from Black Lives Matters organizer DeRay Mckesson, letting stand a lower court’s decision that some critics fear could wind up limiting the First Amendment rights of Americans to organize protests against the government and police. The upshot is that Mckesson’s case

By Kara Scannell, Jeremy Herb, Lauren del Valle, Julian Cummings and Laura Dolan, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump’s New York criminal hush money trial, set to begin Monday, brings with it a long list of charges, witnesses, potential penalties, appeals and attorneys. Here’s everything you need to know. Case overview The charges stem from reimbursements made

CNN By Lauren del Valle, CNN (CNN) — Jury selection is set to begin Monday to impanel a group of 12 New Yorkers who will ultimately decide whether to convict former President Donald Trump in his first criminal trial. As in any state criminal court case in the county, the pool will be limited to

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The New York judge overseeing Donald Trump’s hush money trial will take center stage in the case Monday with jury selection kicking off in the historic criminal prosecution of the former president. New York Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan is a seasoned jurist who is no stranger to Trump’s

By Gregory Krieg and Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — A few weeks after being elected Manhattan’s top prosecutor, Alvin Bragg sat in a Harlem café bullishly explaining how he planned to balance his reformist priorities for the borough with the infamously knotty task of confronting former President Donald Trump in court. “I’ve done a lot of cases that

By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — An additional review by the US military into the deadly Abbey Gate bombing during the Afghanistan withdrawal in 2021, which aimed to clear up outstanding questions about the attack, has concluded that service members had not previously seen the suspected bomber ahead of the attack, but believed they had because of conflated intelligence reporting. “Over

By Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — Opening statements in Donald Trump’s criminal New York hush money trial are set to begin Monday, more than a year after the former president was indicted in the case. The trial, which made its way swiftly through jury selection last week, is expected to feature several high-profile witnesses, including those who were

By Lauren del Valle, Jhasua Razo and Gillian Roberts, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump on May 30 was found guilty on all 34 felony counts in his first criminal trial. Trump was found guilty of falsifying business records related to a hush money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels in 2016. His

By Lauren del Valle, CNN (CNN) — Jury selection is set to begin Monday to impanel a group of 12 New Yorkers who will ultimately decide whether to convict former President Donald Trump in his first criminal trial. Court officials expect about 500 new jurors to appear each day beginning April 15 to be available

By Michelle Shen and Melanie Zanona, CNN (CNN) — Congressional leaders from both parties were quick to condemn Iran’s retaliatory strikes on Israel this Saturday but still remain at odds on how to pass additional Israel funding in wake of the attacks. House Speaker Mike Johnson said Sunday he will move forward with a vote on additional Israel

By Lauren del Valle, Kara Scannell, Annette Choi and Gillian Roberts, CNN (CNN) — Jurors found former President Donald Trump guilty on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in his New York hush money trial, the first criminal trial of a US ex-president. Judge Juan Merchan set a sentencing hearing for July 11. This is the

By Hannah Rabinowitz, Katelyn Polantz and Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — Special counsel Jack Smith told the federal judge overseeing Donald Trump’s classified documents case she should reject the former president’s attempt to use his first criminal trial, set to begin Monday in New York, to try to delay facing a jury over the more serious federal

CNN By MJ Lee, Kevin Liptak and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden and senior members of his national security team, seeking to contain the risk of a wider regional war following a barrage of Iranian missiles and drones directed toward Israel, have told their counterparts the US will not participate in any

By Kara Scannell and Lauren del Valle, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump will make history when he arrives in lower Manhattan Monday morning as the first former president to go on trial for criminal charges. Despite a blitz of last-minute attempts to derail the trial, jury selection is expected to get underway and will continue until a panel

By MJ Lee, Kevin Liptak and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden and senior members of his national security team, seeking to contain the risk of a wider regional war following a barrage of Iranian missiles and drones directed toward Israel, have told their counterparts the US will not participate in any offensive

By Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — Retiring Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and former Sen. Rob Portman, an Ohio Republican, are holding off on throwing support behind their parties’ presidential nominees, while taking aim at members on both sides of the aisle for stalled legislation in Congress. When asked by CNN’s Manu Raju if

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump has repeatedly made false and unsubstantiated claims while denouncing the Manhattan criminal case against him over his alleged falsification of business records related to a hush money scheme executed during the 2016 presidential election. With Trump’s trial scheduled to start Monday, here is a fact

By Kate Sullivan and Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump on Saturday endorsed the Senate campaign of Republican Dave McCormick in Pennsylvania after initially being reluctant to endorse the former hedge fund executive who is challenging Democrat Bob Casey in a critical Senate battleground. “I am officially giving my endorsement to David