Politics

By Athena Jones, CNN Former Vice President Mike Pence said Wednesday he would give “due consideration” to any formal invitation to testify before the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, while hinting at potential executive privilege issues. Pence made the remarks during a Q&A after a speech here

By Oren Liebermann, CNN A US airstrike in Somalia over the weekend killed 13 members of the al-Shabaab terror group, US Africa Command said in a statement. The US carried out the strike on Sunday in support of the Somali military, which was under attack near Teedaan, Somalia. According to an initial assessment, no civilians

By Amanda Watts and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Florida state attorney Andrew Warren, who was suspended earlier this month by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for his position on abortion, is appealing his suspension by claiming the Republican governor abused his authority. “The Florida Constitution sets very limited parameters under which a governor can suspend an elected

By Eric Bradner and Jeff Zeleny, CNN Rep. Liz Cheney’s supporters say her reelection hopes were doomed on January 13, 2021, when a week after the insurrection at the Capitol, she and nine other House Republicans voted to impeach former President Donald Trump. Everything since that day — Cheney’s role on the House select committee

By Tierney Sneed, CNN Rudy Giuliani, who was told by Atlanta prosecutors that he is a target in their probe of former President Donald Trump’s 2020 election subversion schemes in Georgia, appeared behind closed doors for grand jury testimony in the investigation Wednesday. Giuliani declined to comment to CNN on his way into the Superior

By Rachel Janfaza, CNN The results of the Alaska special general election to fill the remainder of the late Rep. Don Young‘s term remain uncertain, as CNN projected none of the candidates on the ballot topped 50% on Tuesday — a necessary feat given the state’s new ranked choice voting rules. The special general election,

By Eric Bradner, CNN Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, who since the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the US Capitol has become the Republican Party’s most forceful critic of former President Donald Trump, was ousted from her House seat by Trump-backed Harriet Hageman, CNN projected Tuesday. In Alaska, voters cast ballots in another race the former

By Sara Murray and Paul LeBlanc, CNN Eleven of the “fake electors” who participated in a plan to subvert the Electoral College have asked a judge to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from her probe into the Republican effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. The group argued in a new

By Devan Cole, CNN A federal appeals court said Tuesday that the Americans with Disabilities Act covers individuals with “gender dysphoria,” handing a win to trans people in a case concerning a former inmate who alleged discrimination at a Virginia prison. In a majority opinion issued by a three-judge panel with the US Court of

By Gregory Krieg, CNN Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, the most ardent Republican critic of Donald Trump in Congress, vowed to carry on her fight against the former President and the election-denying movement he leads in a speech Tuesday night after conceding defeat in her primary. She’ll lose to Trump-backed attorney Harriet Hageman, CNN projects. “This