Politics

By Haley Britzky and Sam Fossum, CNN A US military operation killed a senior ISIS leader and 10 members of the terror group in northern Somalia on Wednesday, two senior Biden administration officials said on Thursday. “From a mountainous cave complex in northern Somalia, Bilal al-Sudani is assessed to have supported ISIS’ expansion and activities

By Donald Judd, CNN President Joe Biden called 26-year-old Brandon Tsay to thank the California man for disarming the Monterey Park shooting suspect over the weekend. Tsay can be seen in surveillance video wresting a firearm from the shooting suspect Huu Can Tran at a dance studio in Alhambra. Authorities say Tran had just opened

By Sydney Kashiwagi, CNN San Francisco is in the process of allowing local non-profits to open so-called supervised injection sites in the city, a step that local Democratic leaders say would limit overdoses among drug users but a program that has been met with opposition by the state’s leadership. The areas, also known as overdose

By Maegan Vazquez, Kevin Liptak and Betsy Klein, CNN President Joe Biden spoke at a union hall in northern Virginia Thursday afternoon, attempting to cast himself as a defender of the middle class by leaning into his economic accomplishments and contrasting them with the Republican proposals he says would be catastrophic for Americans’ pocketbooks. “We’re

By Jamie Gangel, Jeremy Herb and Elizabeth Stuart, CNN The National Archives is formally asking former presidents and vice presidents to re-check their personal records for any classified documents or other presidential records in the wake of classified documents discovered in the homes of former President Donald Trump, former Vice President Mike Pence and President

By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN Fewer than one-third of Americans believe that House GOP leaders are prioritizing the country’s most important issues, according to a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS. Neither party’s congressional leadership earns majority approval, and Republicans are particularly likely to express discontent with their own party leadership. Just 27% of US adults

By Betsy Klein, CNN Second gentleman Douglas Emhoff is traveling this week to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, visiting key sites in Poland and Germany to honor those lost in the Holocaust and renew a pledge to “Never Forget.” As the first Jewish spouse of a president or vice president, Emhoff has made countering the

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN The US Treasury Department on Thursday designated the Wagner Group, a Russian private mercenary organization heavily involved in the war in Ukraine, as a significant transnational criminal organization, and imposed a slew of sanctions on a transnational network that supports it. The US Department of State concurrently announced a number of

By Clare Foran and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff announced a 2024 Senate bid on Thursday, launching a campaign for Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s seat in what is shaping up to be a competitive Democratic primary. “I look forward to campaigning hard in this race, meeting Californians where they are, and listening to what

By Katelyn Polantz, Kaitlan Collins and Casey Gannon, CNN Former Trump-era Department of Homeland Security official Ken Cuccinelli is testifying before a federal grand jury in Washington, DC, on Thursday. Cuccinelli headed into the grand jury area just before 10 a.m. ET at the federal courthouse, where prosecutors looking at efforts to undermine the 2020

By Natasha Bertrand and Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden is considering making a trip to Europe around the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine next month, two senior administration officials tell CNN. A trip is not yet confirmed, and details have yet to be finalized. But one of the officials said that one

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN The FBI has seized the computer infrastructure used by a notorious ransomware gang which has extorted more than $100 million from hospitals, schools and other victims around the world, US officials announced Thursday. FBI officials since July have had extraordinary access to the so-called Hive ransomware group’s computer networks, FBI Director

By Kevin Flower and Jack Forrest, CNN Video and audio recorded last year during the attack on Paul Pelosi in the San Francisco home he shares with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will be released on Friday, according to the San Francisco Superior Court. The released material will include 911 audio calls, police body camera

By Sugam Pokharel, CNN The United States has announced visa restrictions on individuals believed to be “undermining the democratic process” in a recent election in Nigeria. “These individuals will be found ineligible for visas to the United States under a policy to restrict visas of those believed to be responsible for, or complicit in, undermining

By Jeff Zeleny and Gabby Orr, CNN A fresh family feud is boiling inside the Republican Party. As the GOP begins looking ahead to the 2024 presidential campaign — and following a disappointing midterm election and a disorderly race to elect House Speaker Kevin McCarthy — members of the Republican National Committee are set to

By Nectar Gan, CNN A former graduate student in Chicago was sentenced to eight years in prison Wednesday for spying for the Chinese government by gathering information on engineers and scientists in the United States. Ji Chaoqun, a Chinese national who came to the US to study electrical engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology