Politics

By Oren Liebermann, Haley Britzky, Natasha Bertrand, Katie Bo Lillis and Jim Sciutto, CNN (CNN) — Two US Navy sailors were reported missing while conducting operations Thursday off the coast of Somalia, according to US Central Command. Search and rescue operations are ongoing to locate the sailors, Central Command said in a Friday statement. The

By CNN Staff (CNN) — Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis will participate in a live CNN town hall in New Hampshire on Tuesday, the network announced Friday. DeSantis will take the stage at 9 p.m. ET at New England College in Henniker, New Hampshire. The Florida governor will field questions from CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, who will moderate,

By Marshall Cohen and Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — While criticizing President Joe Biden’s economic policies at two Iowa events this week, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis repeatedly dinged the federal government for “promoting transgenderism in Bangladesh,” arguing that it’s a waste of taxpayer dollars. “I think the president should get a line-item veto,” DeSantis said Tuesday night

By Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — The US carried out further strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen, according to a US official, a day after launching a coordinated multi-nation attack on nearly 30 Houthi locations. The additional strikes carried out Friday night were much smaller in scope and targeted a radar facility used by the Houthis,

By Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump’s campaign on Friday canceled three of the four in-person campaign events he was scheduled to hold just days before the Iowa caucuses because of extreme weather in the state, opting to hold tele-rallies instead. Trump canceled both rallies he was scheduled to hold on Saturday

By Nick Valencia, Jason Morris and Zachary Cohen, CNN Fulton County, GA (CNN) — When Nathan Wade was appointed lead prosecutor in the Georgia election interference case in 2021 to prosecute former President Donald Trump, some of his closest allies, lawyers in Cobb County where Wade practiced law, universally wondered, “Why him?” Fulton County District

By Jake Tapper, CNN (CNN) — US Navy officer Lt. Ridge Alkonis, who was jailed in Japan for negligent driving that resulted in the death of two people and was recently transferred to the United States has been paroled and released from US prison, his family told CNN. The US Parole Commission ordered Alkonis’ parole and immediate

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide whether city laws that punish individuals to curb the growth of homeless encampments violate the Constitution’s limits on cruel and unusual punishment. The justices took up an appeal from Grants Pass, Oregon, of a federal court ruling preventing the city from

By Michael Williams, MJ Lee, Brenda Goodman and Kevin Liptak, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden on Friday said Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had a lapse in judgement by not notifying him of his hospitalization, but White House officials made a point in emphasizing Austin remains heavily involved in military decision making. Touring an

By Kevin Liptak, CNN Allentown, Pennsylvania (CNN) — President Joe Biden said Friday he’s delivered a message to Iran with Thursday’s airstrikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen, which he now is calling a terrorist group despite his administration’s 2021 decision to revoke that label. “I’ve already delivered the message to Iran,” Biden said when asked

By Paula Reid and Annie Grayer, CNN Hunter Biden attorney Abbe Lowell sent a letter House Republicans on Friday arguing that subpoenas they sent the president’s son in November are legally invalid, because they were issued before the full House authorized an impeachment inquiry on December 13, 2023. The letter cites a Trump-era Office of Legal Counsel opinion that subpoenas

CNN By Rob Kuznia, Scott Bronstein and Donie O’Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — When Bob Bartelsmeyer accepted the job as the elections director of a sprawling rural county in Arizona last spring, it seemed like the perfect move. It was a step up professionally in a place where the Trumpian values of the community matched his

By Rob Kuznia, Scott Bronstein and Donie O’Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — When Bob Bartelsmeyer accepted the job as the elections director of a sprawling rural county in Arizona last spring, it seemed like the perfect move. It was a step up professionally in a place where the Trumpian values of the community matched his own.

By Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit alleging Donald Trump was involved with a fraudulent marketing company several weeks before it was set to go to trial. The lawsuit, which was filed in 2018, alleges that in exchange for “secret” payments totaling millions of dollars, Trump used his reality

By MJ Lee and Arlette Saenz, CNN Washington (CNN) — Voting in the Republican primary can’t start soon enough in the minds of President Joe Biden’s campaign advisers. Even as the Biden reelection campaign forges ahead with preparations for another potential general election match-up between Biden and his predecessor, it is grappling with a stubborn reality: The majority

By Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — Top Biden administration officials have spent the last year quietly trying to figure out how to divert billions of dollars in frozen Russian money to cash-starved Ukraine. The proposal the US has hit on, described in detail here for the first time, is based on a novel legal theory

By Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The Oregon Supreme Court on Friday declined to hear a bid to remove former President Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot based on the 14th Amendment’s “insurrectionist ban,” saying it’s waiting for the US Supreme Court to rule on the issue. The ruling comes after Colorado and Maine kicked

By Clare Foran, Melanie Zanona, Manu Raju and Haley Talbot, CNN House Speaker Mike Johnson said Friday that he remains committed to the topline spending deal he struck with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a blow to hardline conservatives who have been pushing him to walk away from the agreement and yet another example of

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — Texas officials told the Supreme Court early Saturday that the state is “working promptly” to ensure US Border Patrol agents have access to a boat ramp used to launch patrol boats into the Rio Grande, a day after the Biden administration complained to the court that the state had effectively

By Steve Contorno and Daniel Strauss, CNN (CNN) — As former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley earns praise from some corners of the GOP for her willingness to tackle the financial health of Social Security, former President Donald Trump is trying to punish her for it. It’s the latest example of how the GOP’s seesawing