Politics

By Daniel Dale, CNN Former president and current presidential candidate Donald Trump continues to inaccurately describe the Presidential Records Act. In a Fox interview that aired on Monday, Trump criticized the FBI for searching his Mar-a-Lago resort in August for presidential documents and argued he should have been allowed to engage in further discussions with

By Sydney Kashiwagi and Kristin Wilson, CNN House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Wednesday that lawmakers must see “all the facts” before any gun legislation can be put forward following the shooting in Nashville this week, the first public comments the California Republican has made to reporters since the incident. McCarthy’s remarks ultimately follow a similar

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter After pressure from members of Congress, the federal judiciary revised its financial disclosure rules to require that federal judges — including Supreme Court justices — to be more specific when disclosing non-business travel. Under the Ethics in Government Act, judges are required to report information related to

By Lauren del Valle, Jeremy Herb and Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN The Manhattan grand jury hearing the hush money case involving former President Donald Trump is currently scheduled to break after April 5 and restart later in the month, according to a source familiar with the matter. If the grand jury does not hear the case

By Rashard Rose, CNN Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky said a stabbing attack for one of his staffers over the weekend in Washington, DC “was life threatening, but he will recover.” The staffer told police that on March 25, just after 5 p.m. ET, he was attacked after he and his friend left a

By Daniel Dale, CNN Former president and current presidential candidate Donald Trump has gone on the attack against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a potential rival for the Republican nomination in 2024 — bashing the governor over everything from pandemic policy to Social Security. CNN looked into the accuracy of seven of the assertions Trump has

By Ella Nilsen, CNN A few weeks after allowing the controversial Willow oil drilling project in Alaska to go forward, the Biden administration is auctioning off more than 73 million acres of waters in the Gulf of Mexico to offshore oil and gas drilling. It could be the first Gulf of Mexico lease sale under

By Steve Contorno, CNN As Fox News faces legal peril over its coverage of Donald Trump‘s 2020 election lies, one of its most featured Republicans, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, is trying to gut the free speech protections that may ultimately save the network from financial ruin. DeSantis and his GOP allies in the state legislature

By Donald Judd and Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden addressed the second Summit for Democracy on Wednesday from the White House, building on what he billed as his administration’s “enduring commitment to boost democracy globally,” where he sought to assure participants that democratic institutions work. This year’s multi-day summit is being co-hosted by Biden,

By Eric Bradner, CNN As Nashville police left a news conference Monday, Ashbey Beasley unexpectedly moved in front of the still-live microphones and television cameras. Beasley then told her story: She and her son survived the Fourth of July parade mass shooting in her hometown of Highland Park, Illinois, last year, in which a gunman

By Jasmine Wright, CNN Vice President Kamala Harris emerged from the female slave dungeon at Cape Coast Castle visibly shaken. Inside the famous slave trading outpost’s dungeon, Harris set a bouquet of flowers down and placed her hand on the centuries-old wall, connecting herself physically to the sorrow of the Africans it once imprisoned. It

By Steve Contorno, CNN Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will deliver an address next month in Jerusalem, a trip that is certain to inject the likely Republican presidential contender into Israel’s national tumult and its increasingly fraught relationship with the United States. The Jerusalem Post and the Museum of Tolerance announced Tuesday that DeSantis would serve