Politics

By Alex Marquardt, CNN (CNN) — The CIA has assessed that the leader of Hamas in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, is coming under increased pressure from his own military commanders to accept a ceasefire deal and end the war with Israel, CIA Director Bill Burns told a closed-door conference on Saturday, according to a source who attended. Sinwar, the key

By Alayna Treene, Steve Contorno and Kaitlan Collins, CNN (CNN) — A day before Donald Trump’s deadline to pick a running mate, after months of private conversations with every corner of his orbit, the former president took a call from a new voice. That person, Tesla billionaire Elon Musk, was one of several people urging

CNN Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — It was a remarkable moment Monday night at the Republican National Convention, surely creating some amount of confusion among longtime Republicans, when Sean O’Brien, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, delivered a stemwinder of a speech in prime time. He called former President Donald Trump

CNN By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — With a white bandage over the ear clipped just two days earlier by an attempted assassin’s bullet, Donald Trump stole the show when he made his first public appearance since the shooting on the opening night of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. Trump joined the man he’d

CNN By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — With a white bandage over the ear clipped just two days earlier by an attempted assassin’s bullet, Donald Trump stole the show when he made his first public appearance since the shooting on the opening night of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. Trump joined the man he’d

CNN By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — With a white bandage over the ear clipped just two days earlier by an attempted assassin’s bullet, Donald Trump stole the show when he made his first public appearance since the shooting on the opening night of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. Trump joined the man he’d

CNN By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — With a white bandage over the ear clipped just two days earlier by an attempted assassin’s bullet, Donald Trump stole the show when he made his first public appearance since the shooting on the opening night of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. Trump joined the man he’d

By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — With a white bandage over the ear clipped just two days earlier by an attempted assassin’s bullet, Donald Trump stole the show when he made his first public appearance since the shooting on the opening night of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. Trump joined the man he’d chosen

CNN By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — With a white bandage over the ear clipped just two days earlier by an attempted assassin’s bullet, Donald Trump stole the show when he made his first public appearance since the shooting on the opening night of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. Trump joined the man he’d

By Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The fallout continues from Judge Aileen Cannon’s shock ruling that special counsel Jack Smith was unlawfully appointed, invalidating his classified documents case against former President Donald Trump. The indicted ex-FBI informant Alexander Smirnov — who was charged by special counsel David Weiss with lying to the FBI about supposed Biden family corruption in Ukraine — is now using Cannon’s ruling to try

By Arit John and Shania Shelton, CNN (CNN) — JD Vance has had several introductions to the American people: as the author of a memoir on what ails the White working class, a newly elected Republican senator in his home state of Ohio, a controversial running mate pick and the next vice president of the

By CNN Staff (CNN) — CNN’s team is fact-checking the first night of the Republican National Convention. We will continue to update this list throughout the night. Trump makes false claims about election fraud in RNC video The Republican National Convention played a video in which former President Donald Trump urged Republicans to use “every

By John King, CNN Milwaukee (CNN) — The public calls from Democrats asking President Joe Biden to bow out of the presidential race have quieted in recent days, but private efforts to nudge the president and his top aides continue, several Democratic sources told CNN. Among the efforts, these sources say, are repeated memos from

By Michael Williams and Sam Fossum, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden told an interviewer he considers himself a Zionist who has also done “more for the Palestinian community than anybody” while calling for more aid to reach the Gaza Strip. In a taped interview with Complex Networks’ Speedy Morman on “360 with Speedy,”

By Jack Forrest, CNN (CNN) — With Donald Trump’s choice to make JD Vance his running mate, he adds to the ticket an author and senator once known as a “Trump whisperer” for his understanding of the former president’s voter base. The onetime “Never Trump” Republican, Vance, 39, shot to fame over his 2016 memoir,

By Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump’s vice presidential pick Ohio Sen. JD Vance was once a fervent critic of the former president. In private messages, he wondered ahead of Trump’s election whether he was “America’s Hitler” and in 2017 said the then-president was a “moral disaster.” In public, he agreed Trump was

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — US Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle said Monday “the buck stops with me” as questions have swirled about the agency’s security preparations following the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump Saturday. Cheatle told ABC News on Monday that “the Secret Service is responsible for the protection of the former