Politics

By Kara Scannell, CNN Allen Weisselberg, the former chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, pleaded guilty Thursday to his role in a 15-year-long tax fraud scheme, and as part of the deal he has agreed to testify against former President Donald Trump’s real estate company at trial. In court Thursday, Weisselberg said, “Yes, your

By Tierney Sneed, CNN Former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro asked a federal judge to dismiss the criminal contempt of Congress case that was brought against him after he did not comply with a House January 6 Committee subpoena. In the motion filed late Wednesday evening, Navarro argued that the Justice Department’s move to

By Betsy Klein and Jacqueline Howard, CNN Top Biden administration officials announced new steps Thursday to accelerate the US response to the spread of monkeypox amid high demand for vaccines and treatments. That includes boosting supply with an additional 1.8 million doses of the Jynneos monkeypox vaccine, accelerating the US Department of Health and Human

By Chandelis Duster, CNN Two provisions that have been quietly tucked into the newly signed Inflation Reduction Act aim to provide financial relief to farmers of color who say they have been discriminated against over the years. The law gives the US Department of Agriculture another opportunity to remedy racial disparities within the agency in

By Tierney Sneed, CNN An extraordinary dispute will play out in a federal courthouse in South Florida on Thursday afternoon over what transparency the American public is owed into the Justice Department investigation of the handling of classified documents from former President Donald Trump’s White House. US Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart is holding a hearing

By Veronica Stracqualursi and Tierney Sneed, CNN A US district court judge in North Carolina on Wednesday allowed a North Carolina law that bans abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy to be reinstated, lifting an injunction he had placed on the state law prior to the US Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade. In

By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN A pregnant 16-year-old in Florida was denied a waiver to get an abortion in the state without legal guardian notification and consent, after a court deemed she did not prove that she is mature enough to make the decision. Florida, which currently bans most abortions at 15 weeks, requires physicians to

By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN The South Carolina Supreme Court on Wednesday temporarily blocked the state’s six-week abortion ban from being enforced, granting a request from state abortion providers for a temporary injunction while their challenge to the law continues. South Carolina’s law, ​S.1, ​had been in effect since June 27, ​when a judge lifted a

By Gabby Orr, Sara Murray, Kaitlan Collins and Katelyn Polantz, CNN Some allies of former President Donald Trump are urging him to publicly release surveillance footage of FBI agents executing a search warrant on his Mar-a-Lago residence, a proposal that has drawn mixed reaction inside his orbit, CNN has learned. The CCTV footage has been

By Justin Gamble, CNN One of the largest majority Black cities in America is likely not to be represented by a Black lawmaker in Congress for the first time in almost 70 years — and residents and community activists worry their economic and racial justice concerns will go unaddressed. Three weeks after Indian American Shri

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp asked a judge on Wednesday to throw out a subpoena from the Fulton County district attorney requiring the Republican governor to appear before the grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election results in the state. Kemp had been scheduled for a

By Geneva Sands, CNN The US Secret Service, on the evening of January 6, 2021, notified the US Capitol Police that it had discovered an online threat — made days earlier — directed toward House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, according to an email notification obtained by the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington

By Annie Grayer, CNN GOP Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming lost her primary election Tuesday, but her work with the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack is far from over. At a private event with staff the night before the election, Cheney specifically thanked people on her team for all they’ve done

By Eric Bradner and Jeff Zeleny, CNN The day after losing the Republican primary for Wyoming’s House seat, Rep. Liz Cheney is positioning herself for a longer-term fight with former President Donald Trump. The question Cheney must confront is whether there is an appetite within the Republican Party for a candidate singularly focused on serving

By Betsy Klein, CNN The White House is strongly condemning calls from some members of the Republican Party, including some elected lawmakers, to “defund the FBI” in the wake of last week’s search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. The pushback marks the White House’s most aggressive response to the FBI’s search to date

By Steve Contorno, CNN As soon as next week, Florida pension fund managers could be barred from considering the social impact of their financial decisions as Gov. Ron DeSantis opens a new front in his anti-“woke” crusade, this time focused on Wall Street and corporate CEOs. In new draft rules posted Monday on the website