Politics

By Maegan Vazquez, CNN Chasten Buttigieg, the husband of Pete Buttigieg, criticized former Vice President Mike Pence’s recent remark that the transportation secretary had gone on “maternity leave,” telling ABC’s “The View” that the dig “flies in the face” of Pence’s family values. Over the weekend, Pence delivered the line at the annual Gridiron Club

By Kevin Liptak and Jeremy Herb, CNN The Senate voted Thursday to advance a bill repealing two Iraq war power acts as lawmakers work to reassert their authority in military intervention abroad. A final vote on the bill is expected early next week. The 68-27 vote Thursday was largely bipartisan, and the bill has 12

By Oren Liebermann, Natasha Bertrand and Jim Sciutto, CNN US European Command released footage of the Tuesday encounter between a US surveillance drone and the Russian fighter jets as it played out over the Black Sea. The newly declassified video depicts critical moments in the mid-air encounter, which the Pentagon said lasted between 30 and

By Katelyn Polantz and Tierney Sneed, CNN A new chief judge in the federal courthouse in Washington, DC, is poised to take over as that position has become one of the most influential in the nation’s capital, playing a key role in deciding issues that could factor into whether former President Donald Trump is indicted.

By Lauren Fox, CNN In the spring of 2019, Democratic Sen. Tina Smith of Minnesota was busy putting the finishing touches on a bill that sought to expand mental health care access for kids in schools. But she couldn’t shake the feeling she was being less than honest about just how personal the issue of

By Joan Biskupic, CNN Senior Supreme Court Analyst When the Supreme Court reversed federal abortion rights last June, Justice Samuel Alito’s majority opinion stressed that “It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.” Justice Brett Kavanaugh went further, separately emphasizing that the controversy would now

By Lauren del Valle, CNN A Michigan man who allegedly threatened on social media to kill state Attorney General Dana Nessel and other Jewish members of Michigan’s government pleaded not guilty to making threatening interstate communications during his arraignment Wednesday. Jack Eugene Carpenter III was indicted last week by a federal grand jury, which also

By Kristen Holmes and Jason Morris, CNN Fulton County investigators have an audio recording of a phone call that former President Donald Trump made to the Georgia House speaker to push for a special session to overturn Democrat Joe Biden’s 2020 victory in the state, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The Fulton County special grand

By Tierney Sneed Over the course of about four hours of arguments, a federal judge in Texas asked questions that suggested he is seriously considering undoing the US Food and Drug Administration’s approval of a medication abortion drug and the agency’s moves to relax the rules around its use. But the judge, US District Judge

By Steve Contorno and Andrew Kaczynski, CNN In the wake of Silicon Valley Bank’s demise, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis pointed fingers at several culprits, including the company’s diversity initiatives and federal regulators who he said “always seem to whiff” at preventing a financial crisis. But left out of DeSantis’ comments was his own record on

By Kyung Lah and Jack Hannah, CNN Matt McCaw cringes if you say the word “secessionist” around him. A native of eastern Oregon, McCaw is a mild-mannered, former high school math teacher who fosters children to help his community. “We don’t think of ourselves as a secessionist movement. We see ourselves as a self-determination movement,”

By Steve Contorno, CNN A super PAC closely aligned with former President Donald Trump is demanding Florida ethics investigators probe whether Gov. Ron DeSantis‘ recent political activity is violating state law. In a 15-page letter to the Florida Commission on Ethics, Make America Great Again Inc. accuses DeSantis of operating a “shadow presidential campaign” and