Politics

By Jeff Zeleny, CNN Atlanta (CNN) — As Kerry Singleton looks ahead to the next presidential election, he’s thinking back to the excitement he felt when President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris visited the historic grounds of Clark Atlanta University and Morehouse College. “I remember the energy that was here on campus that

CNN, WSB By Mary Kay Mallonee and Jack Forrest, CNN (CNN) — Fulton County District Fani Willis on Tuesday said she expects a trial in the Georgia 2020 election subversion case against Donald Trump and his allies would be ongoing during the 2024 election and may not conclude until early 2025. “I believe in that

By Kevin Liptak and MJ Lee, CNN Woodside, California (CNN) — US President Joe Biden emerged Wednesday from four hours of talks with Chinese leader Xi Jinping confident the fraught US-China relationship was improving, touting agreements on curbing fentanyl production and restoring military communication while still acknowledging that deep strains remain. Biden said he and

By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday told campaign donors that his likely 2024 opponent Donald Trump was using language similar to the Nazis and would use his presidency for “revenge and retribution” if elected to another term. “There’s a lot of reasons to be against Donald Trump,” Biden told donors

By Aaron Pellish and Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley on Tuesday said she would push for social media users to identify by their legal names online, drawing pushback from her GOP rivals Ron DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswamy. “Every person on social media should be verified by their name. It’s a

By Mary Kay Mallonee and Jack Forrest, CNN (CNN) — Fulton County District Fani Willis on Tuesday said she expects a trial in the Georgia 2020 election subversion case against Donald Trump and his allies would be ongoing during the 2024 election and may not conclude until early 2025. “I believe in that case there

By Melanie Zanona, Annie Grayer and Manu Raju, CNN Speaker Mike Johnson’s decision to avoid a government shutdown by relying on Democratic votes will not cost him the gavel, despite it being the exact same strategy that got Kevin McCarthy the boot, according to interviews with over a dozen members from across the House Republican

By Morgan Rimmer and Jack Forrest, CNN (CNN) — House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday publicly endorsed Donald Trump for president, becoming the highest-ranking Republican so far to back the former president’s 2024 bid. “I’m all in for President Trump, I expect he’ll be our nominee, and he’s going to win it, and we have

By MJ Lee and Kevin Liptak, CNN San Francisco (CNN) — US officials encountered a remarkable – even unprecedented – level of concern from their Beijing counterparts over how Chinese President Xi Jinping would be treated during his brief visit to the United States this week, people familiar with the matter said. Over months of

CNN By MJ Lee and Kevin Liptak, CNN San Francisco (CNN) — US officials encountered a remarkable – even unprecedented – level of concern from their Beijing counterparts over how Chinese President Xi Jinping would be treated during his brief visit to the United States this week, people familiar with the matter said. Over months

By Jake Tapper and Katie Bo Lillis, CNN Washington (CNN) — A document recovered from a computer found inside a Hamas pickup truck outside Gaza, obtained by CNN from Israeli officials, shows a Hamas military commander requesting a scholarship for Hamas operatives to study engineering, physics and technology at universities in Iran. While it is widely

By Kevin Liptak, CNN San Francisco (CNN) — The White House said Tuesday that Hamas is storing weapons and operating a command node from the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza, revealing publicly what US intelligence has shown is underneath the medical facility. “Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad use some hospitals in the Gaza Strip, including

By Kara Scannell and Devan Cole, CNN New York (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump is abandoning his effort to move the so-called hush money trial from New York state court to federal court. In a brief filing submitted to a New York-based appeals court, Trump said he was no longer appealing a lower-court ruling

By Jeffrey Kopp and Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — The man accused of attacking Paul Pelosi told a California jury on Tuesday that his political beliefs ultimately inspired him to seek out the San Francisco home of then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi last year, and that he only hit her husband with a hammer because

CNN By Nick Valencia and Jason Morris, CNN Atlanta (CNN) — A leak of discovery materials in the Georgia election subversion case against former President Donald Trump and his co-defendants prompted the Fulton County district attorney’s office Tuesday to file an emergency motion for a protective order in an attempt to prevent other material from becoming public. Portions of proffer videos

By Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — A Michigan judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit that tried to use the 14th Amendment’s “insurrectionist ban” to remove Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 ballot. The judge separately ruled that Michigan’s secretary of state doesn’t have the power under state law to determine the former president’s eligibility for

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department on Tuesday urged a Washington, DC, appeals court to uphold the gag order against Donald Trump in his federal election subversion criminal case, saying the former president’s recent attacks on special counsel Jack Smith’s family underscore why restrictions on Trump’s speech are necessary. “There has never

By Kristen Holmes, Annie Grayer and Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — Two top House Republicans asked the Justice Department to investigate Michael Cohen over whether he committed perjury to Congress, citing his testimony in the New York civil fraud trial of Donald Trump and his business, according to a copy of the letter shared with

CNN By Kristen Holmes, Annie Grayer and Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — Two top House Republicans asked the Justice Department to investigate Michael Cohen over whether he committed perjury to Congress, citing his testimony in the New York civil fraud trial of Donald Trump and his business, according to a copy of the letter shared