National Politics

By Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden called efforts to restrict transgender rights in Florida “close to sinful” in an interview released Monday, suggesting federal laws should be passed to protect those rights in all states. “What’s going on in Florida is, as my mother would say, close to sinful. It’s just terrible what they’re

By Ella Nilsen, CNN The Biden administration has approved the massive Willow oil drilling project in Alaska, angering climate advocates and setting the stage for a court challenge. The Willow Project is a decadeslong oil drilling venture in the National Petroleum Reserve, which is owned by the federal government. The area where the project is

By MJ Lee, Phil Mattingly, Maegan Vazquez and Allie Malloy, CNN President Joe Biden on Monday underscored that the American banking system remains safe, laying out how his administration is taking action to contain Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse. “Americans can rest assured that our banking system is safe. Your deposits are safe,” Biden said from

By Jasmine Wright, CNN Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to Africa later this month, her office announced Monday, becoming the most senior Biden administration official to visit the continent. Her trip comes as the administration seeks to bolster its relationships with African countries, as competitors like Russia and China have made inroads in the

By Zachary Cohen, Alayna Treene, Sara Murray and Annie Grayer, CNN House Oversight Chairman James Comer has quietly subpoenaed Bank of America asking for records relating to three of Hunter Biden’s business associates, the committee’s ranking Democrat, Rep. Jamie Raskin, disclosed in a letter sent to Comer on Sunday. The subpoena was broad and called

By Kate Sullivan and Kristen Holmes, CNN Former President Donald Trump will travel to Iowa on Monday for the first time since announcing his third White House bid as Manhattan prosecutors near a decision on whether to charge him over his alleged role in a hush money scheme and cover-up. His visit to the crucial

By Ella Nilsen and Arlette Saenz, CNN President Joe Biden on Monday is expected to announce sweeping new protections for federal lands and waters in Alaska, according to an administration official, as the administration is poised to soon approve a major oil drilling project in the state. Biden will declare the entire US Arctic Ocean

By Samantha Beech, CNN New York City prosecutors probing former President Donald Trump’s alleged role in a hush money scheme and cover-up are focused “on the evidence and the law,” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said this weekend. Speaking on MSNBC’s “PoliticsNation,” Bragg did not go into detail about what he called the “active investigation”

By Paul LeBlanc and Tami Luhby, CNN Republican Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina said Sunday that raising the retirement age for future Social Security beneficiaries should be “on the table” as long as it doesn’t affect “anybody that’s heading into retirement right now.” “I think that’s something that has to be on the table,

By Andrew Millman, CNN Republican presidential candidate and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy said Sunday he is “running distinctively on my vision for this country” and not his biography or business credentials when asked why he believes he can win the party’s nomination as a political outsider and relatively unknown figure to most Americans. “We’re in the

By Tierney Sneed, CNN A federal judge has set a hearing for next week in a blockbuster medication abortion case in Texas but took a series of highly unusual steps to delay making the public aware that such a hearing was being scheduled, The Washington Post reported. US District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, who is hearing

By Jennifer Hansler, Adam Pourahmadi and Allegra Goodwin, CNN Biden administration officials on Sunday sharply denied Iranian claims that a prisoner swap deal had been reached. “Statements from Iranian officials that a deal regarding the exchange of prisoners has been reached are another especially cruel lie that only adds to the suffering of their families,”