Politics

By Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — The United States paused a shipment of bombs to Israel amid concerns over their potential use in a Rafah incursion, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin confirmed on Wednesday. Austin said that the US is pausing the shipment of “high-payload munitions” due to Israel’s possible operations in Rafah without a plan for

By Kylie Atwood and Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration is rushing to finish a high-stakes report due to Congress this week on whether Israel has violated international humanitarian law during its war in Gaza — a determination that could lead to significant repercussions and further inflame divisions at home and abroad. The report has been the subject of

CNN By Laura Dolan and Jack Forrest, CNN (CNN) — The judge in Donald Trump’s hush money trial called the former president’s defense attorney to the bench and ordered him to speak to his client about his “contemptuous” behavior during adult film actress Stormy Daniels’ testimony Tuesday, according to the trial transcript. “I understand that your

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — An American woman repatriated to the United States from Syria is facing criminal charges for training with ISIS abroad, according to court documents unsealed Tuesday. Halima Salman, who is in her 20s, is accused of learning how to use an AK-47 assault rifle from the terrorist organization while living in Syria. Salman, according to

By Laura Dolan and Jack Forrest, CNN (CNN) — The judge in Donald Trump’s hush money trial called the former president’s defense attorney to the bench and ordered him to speak to his client about his “contemptuous” behavior during adult film actress Stormy Daniels’ testimony Tuesday, according to the trial transcript. “I understand that your client

By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Indiana Rep. Victoria Spartz will win her hard-fought Republican primary for her 5th District seat based in the northeastern Indianapolis suburbs Tuesday, CNN projects. Spartz, who in 2023 said she would not seek reelection, reversed her decision just before February’s filing deadline. She faced eight challengers, included state Rep. Chuck Goodrich, a

CNN By Katelyn Polantz, Hannah Rabinowitz, Holmes Lybrand and Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — Judge Aileen Cannon has indefinitely postponed former President Donald Trump’s classified documents trial in Florida, citing significant issues around classified evidence that would need to be worked out before the federal criminal case goes to a jury. In an order Tuesday,

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — Georgia’s Republican Gov. Brian Kemp on Tuesday signed into law new rules for challenging voters’ eligibility along with a measure that would make it easier for an independent candidate to qualify for the presidential ballot — provisions that could shape the outcome of fall elections in this key battleground

CNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — “The People Call Stormy Daniels.” It was the moment that Donald Trump’s hush money trial — bogged down in recent days in dreary testimony about accounting — roared back to life on Tuesday. A former president — who could find himself back behind the Oval Office desk

By Jeremy Herb, Lauren del Valle and Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — Adult film star Stormy Daniels dished out salacious details of her alleged sexual encounter with former President Donald Trump in 2006 from the witness stand on Tuesday, describing how they met at a celebrity golf tournament and what she says happened when she

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — The federal court that struck down Louisiana’s congressional map as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander is giving state lawmakers until the beginning of June to redraw the map themselves. In the meantime, the court is setting up a schedule for proposals for a new congressional plan to be considered by

CNN By Betsy Klein, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday issued a call to fight a “ferocious surge” of antisemitism, saying such hate has no place in America as he connected the horrors of the Holocaust to Hamas’ attack on Israel. Biden’s speech was a somber – yet impassioned – moment of

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — US, UK and Australian authorities on Tuesday announced sanctions and criminal charges against a 31-year-old Russian man for being the alleged mastermind of a cybercriminal group that has extorted $500 million in ransom payments from thousands of victim organizations in the US and worldwide. Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev is accused

By Haley Talbot, Clare Foran, Morgan Rimmer and Lauren Fox, CNN Washington (CNN) — House Speaker Mike Johnson and GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene met again Tuesday as the Georgia congresswoman continues to dangle the threat of an ouster vote against the speaker – but it remains unclear if they will reach a resolution that

By Shania Shelton, CNN (CNN) — Adult film actress Stormy Daniels, who is testifying Tuesday in former President Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York, is a key figure in the controversy over a 2016 “hush money” payment allegedly made to Daniels on Trump’s behalf. Trump is facing 34 counts of falsifying business documents related to the repayment of his

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The United States has repatriated 11 US citizens, including five minors, as well as the sibling of one of those minors, from northeast Syria in what Secretary of State Antony Blinken called the “largest single repatriation” of Americans from that region. In a statement Tuesday, Blinken described it as

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge smacked down a series of threats by Alabama’s Republican attorney general to prosecute groups that help women obtain out-of-state abortions, wading into a debate over access to the procedure that has lingered since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade two years ago. The plaintiffs, including

By Natasha Bertrand and Caitlin Danaher, CNN (CNN) — An American soldier arrested in Russia on suspicion of theft will be detained for two months, a Russian district court said Tuesday. Staff Sgt. Gordon Black will be in detention until July 2, the Pervomaisky District Court of Vladivostok ruled. Black is accused of “committing secret theft of