Politics

By Manu Raju and Lauren Fox, CNN House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer are moving closer to an agreement to set overall funding levels for the federal government, according to congressional sources. But that doesn’t mean a government shutdown will be averted later this month. Agreeing on an overall spending level

By Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — The Houthis launched an unmanned surface drone against commercial shipping lanes in the Red Sea early Thursday morning as the US Navy commander in the region said he sees no sign of the attacks abating. The attack with the unmanned surface vessel (USV) marks the first time the Houthis

By Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — Russia appears to be moving forward with plans to purchase ballistic missiles from Iran, a US official told CNN, as Moscow steps up its missile attacks on targets across Ukraine. Russian negotiations to acquire the close-range ballistic missiles from Iran “are actively advancing,” the official said, citing newly declassified

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump’s legal team told a federal judge on Thursday that special counsel Jack Smith and prosecutors in his office should be severely sanctioned and possibly held in contempt after they continued to submit filings in the case following a stay order from the judge. Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is

By Zachary Cohen and Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — The Chinese government and its state-controlled entities spent over $5.5 million at properties owned by Donald Trump while he was in office, the largest total of payments made by any single foreign country known to date, according to financial documents cited in a report from House Democrats released Thursday. Those

By Oren Liebermann, Natasha Bertrand and Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — The US targeted a member of an Iranian proxy group with “US blood on his hands” in a strike in Iraq, a US official told CNN. The target was a member of Harakat al-Nujaba, the official said, an Iranian proxy operating in Iraq and

By Jeff Zeleny, Veronica Stracqualursi, Arit John and Steve Contorno, CNN Waukee, Iowa (CNN) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his allies have hammered former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley on the campaign trail and the airwaves – and she has fired back – as the two seek to emerge as the strongest alternative to

By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — Speaking to a group of Democratic donors at a Washington hotel last month, President Joe Biden wanted to underscore just how much of his time lately has been spent confronting a chaotic world. Seventy-five percent of his job, Biden guessed, is consumed dealing with foreign leaders and traveling the world. Whether

By Gregory Krieg and Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — The two Republicans most likely to emerge as the party’s alternative to former President Donald Trump in 2024 will make their cases Wednesday night to voters in Iowa, with just a week and a half to go until Hawkeye Republicans head to their caucus sites for

By Jack Forrest, CNN (CNN) — A Department of Education political appointee resigned on Wednesday, citing in a letter the Biden administration’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. The resignation by Tariq Habash, policy adviser in the DOE’s Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development, comes as the conflict – which erupted with Hamas’

By Mary Kay Mallonee, CNN (CNN) — A Florida man, 72, was arrested Wednesday and charged with threatening to kill Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell and his children in several voicemail messages allegedly left at the lawmaker’s office in Washington, DC. Michael Shapiro called Swalwell’s office the evening of December 19 from his home in Greenacres,

CNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — NASA has grand visions for the year ahead, including a mission to send astronauts deeper into the solar system than anyone has ventured in more than 50 years. Here’s what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. 1. Border battle The

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against Texas over its controversial immigration law that gives local law enforcement in Texas the authority to arrest migrants, arguing the state “cannot run its own immigration system.” The move comes after the Justice Department threatened last week to sue Texas

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — With just over two weeks to go before the federal government partially shuts down if Congress doesn’t act, the House and Senate remain divided over how to fund federal agencies for the remainder of the fiscal year. House and Senate leaders are working to bridge the gap, but disagreements

CNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Ex-President Donald Trump is one of America’s most frivolous litigants, whose suits over business disputes and false claims of voter fraud often failed the laugh test. But the twin appeals Trump has now filed after being thrown off the ballot in Colorado and Maine do not fit