Politics

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — The North Carolina man who live-streamed threats in 2021 to detonate alleged explosives in his truck parked on a sidewalk blocks from the US Capitol was sentenced to five years probation Friday after a judge found the man had been suffering from a significant psychiatric episode at the time.

By Katelyn Polantz and Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Justice Department prosecutors want US District Judge Tanya Chutkan to reel in Donald Trump’s public statements in the federal 2020 election interference case against him, asking her to place a court order limiting what he can say, according to a newly released filing. The request for

By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — The senior US general for the Middle East has ordered additional interviews be conducted regarding the 2021 Abbey Gate bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan, which killed 13 US service members during the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, the US military announced Friday. The additional interviews are the result of an internal

CNN By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden remains focused on his work after a week that saw the launch of an impeachment inquiry and the indictment of his son, according to aides, even as the developments pose new challenges heading into next year’s campaign. Hunter Biden was indicted Thursday by special counsel

By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden remains focused on his work after a week that saw the launch of an impeachment inquiry and the indictment of his son, according to aides, even as the developments pose new challenges heading into next year’s campaign. Hunter Biden was indicted Thursday by special counsel David

By Donald Judd (CNN) — President Joe Biden next week will hold his first face-to-face meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu since the Israeli leader came back into office. Biden will meet Netanyahu on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, before hosting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Washington later in the week.

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump made false claims about a variety of people and subjects, notably including Florida governor and Republican presidential primary rival Ron DeSantis, in an interview this week with conservative host Megyn Kelly. Trump claimed that Florida under DeSantis “sort of had a mandate” on Covid-19

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on Friday implored Americans to “own even the darkest parts of our past” in a speech commemorating 60 years since the deadly 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. “History is also our best teacher. Yes, our past is filled with too much violence, too

By Lauren Fox, Morgan Rimmer and Haley Talbot, CNN (CNN) — A chaotic week on Capitol Hill yielded no serious progress as Congress stares down a spending deadline at the end of the month with lawmakers acknowledging a government shutdown is not only possible at this point, but may soon be inevitable. That’s particularly true

By Tierney Sneed, Hannah Rabinowitz and Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — Twitter turned over at least 32 direct messages from former President Donald Trump’s account – @realDonaldTrump – to special counsel Jack Smith earlier this year as part of the federal election subversion investigation, according to newly unsealed court filings. In seeking the messages, prosecutors

By Gregory Krieg, Daniel Strauss and Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — Republican Dave McCormick, a former hedge fund executive and Gulf War veteran, is expected to launch a second bid for US Senate in Pennsylvania, according to two sources familiar with his plans, seeking to challenge three-term Democratic Sen. Bob Casey more than a year

By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s political fate is in the hands of the state Senate, which will continue private deliberations in the Republican’s impeachment trial Saturday after ending Friday without taking a public vote on 16 articles of impeachment. The state Senate began deliberating just before noon Central time

By Lauren del Valle, CNN (CNN) — Three men were acquitted Friday on all charges against them in connection to allegations that they were involved in a 2020 plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Eric Molitor, William Null and Michael Null were each acquitted on one count of providing material support for a terrorist

By Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — The presidential campaigns of former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will clash out in the open and behind closed doors on Friday as their fight for the future of the GOP intensifies. The two leading presidential candidates are expected in Washington, D.C., for a pair of

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration on Friday imposed sanctions on more than two dozen Iranian individuals and entities tied to the violent suppression of protests following the death of Mahsa Amini one year ago. The new sanctions are the latest tranche in response to Tehran’s brutal crackdown on the protestors who

By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden on Friday called on major American automakers to improve their offer to workers as a strike of the United Auto Workers poses a political and economic test for the White House. Speaking as walkouts began at three plants in the Midwest, Biden said he “respected” workers’

By Katie Bo Lillis and Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — China appears to have suspended its surveillance balloon program following a major diplomatic incident earlier this year, when one of the country’s high-altitude spy balloons transited the United States, multiple sources familiar with US intelligence assessments told CNN. US officials believe that Chinese leaders have

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — Special counsel Jack Smith argued against Donald Trump’s request that US District Judge Tanya Chutkan recuse herself from the federal election subversion case against the former president, saying in a new filing that Trump had taken the judge’s comments in Capitol rioter cases “out of context in order to

CNN By Kit Maher and Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis criticized Donald Trump for claiming he doesn’t know who gave Dr. Anthony Fauci a presidential commendation that the former president awarded him. “It literally says President Trump awards commendation. Is this the immaculate commendation or something like that? Did this just

By Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — A New York state appellate court judge has put the civil fraud trial involving the New York attorney general’s office and former President Donald Trump on temporary hold, raising questions about whether the trial will begin next month as planned, according to three people familiar with the court ruling.