Politics

By Kevin Liptak and Jasmine Wright, CNN President Joe Biden’s pick to lead the Federal Aviation Administration is withdrawing his name from nomination due to “an onslaught of unfounded Republican attacks” on the nominee’s service and experience, a White House official told CNN. Phillip Washington’s nomination was first announced by the White House last year,

By Tara Subramaniam and Daniel Dale, CNN Former President and current presidential candidate Donald Trump returned to the campaign trail Saturday with a rally speech in Waco, Texas, that was littered with false claims — many of which he has made before. Trump also delivered unsubstantiated attacks on the integrity of the criminal investigations into

By Alayna Treene, CNN The chairmen of three House committees sent a letter Saturday to the Manhattan district attorney leading the probe into Donald Trump, doubling down on their efforts to intervene in the hush money investigation ahead of possible criminal charges against the former president. The letter from the chairmen of the House Judiciary,

By Nikki Carvajal, Priscilla Alvarez and Alayna Treene, CNN President Joe Biden on Saturday notified Congress of his decision to authorize an airstrike in Syria this week against what the US said were Iranian-affiliated facilities. The US airstrike came after a suspected Iranian drone struck a facility housing US personnel in the country, killing an

By Alayna Treene and Morgan Rimmer, CNN Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Saturday that he has been released from an inpatient physical therapy facility after he fell earlier this month and was treated for a concussion and rib fracture. “I want to sincerely thank everyone for all the kind wishes. I’m happy to say

By Sydney Kashiwagi, CNN Idaho Republican Gov. Brad Little signed a bill this week that prohibits transgender students in the state from using public school bathrooms that do not align with their gender assigned at birth. Senate Bill 1100, which takes effect July 1, requires public schools to provide separate male and female bathrooms, locker

By Eric Bradner and Kate Sullivan, CNN Former President Donald Trump baselessly railed against what he called “prosecutorial misconduct” at a campaign rally Saturday night in Texas, denying any wrongdoing amid investigations in New York, Georgia and Washington. Without evidence, Trump repeatedly described the probes as politically motivated efforts to hamper his 2024 presidential bid

By Gregory Krieg, CNN As former President Donald Trump heads to Texas on Saturday for his first major campaign rally, the handbrake remains on for most of his potential 2024 rivals. Trump will appear in Waco just a week after he predicted his own arrest in connection with a hush money case from 2016. In

By Jasmine Wright, CNN When Kamala Harris steps off Air Force Two in Ghana on Sunday, she’ll become the first Black woman US vice president to visit Africa, marking another chapter in her barrier-breaking role. As the vice president sets out on her first trip to the continent since her childhood, the weight of this

By Tierney Sneed, CNN The Justice Department said Friday that neither it nor the Biden White House would assert certain privileges in depositions of former President Donald Trump and FBI Director Christopher Wray that have been ordered in a lawsuit brought by an ex-FBI official whose termination Trump pushed for when he was president. The

By Kaanita Iyer and Paradise Afshar, CNN Kentucky Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear on Friday vetoed a Republican-led bill that would prohibit transgender minors from receiving gender-affirming care, such as surgical procedures or the use of certain hormones, bucking a growing trend of states restricting access to the treatments. Republican state lawmakers passed the bill last

By Holmes Lybrand and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN Over the past year, Texas woman Jen Loh has been in touch with several Proud Boys now on trial for seditious conspiracy, talking with the members of the far-right group and their defense counsel about the case and suggesting possible witnesses and attorneys who could help. All the

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN The FBI has arrested the alleged founder of a popular cybercriminal forum that touted data stolen in a hack affecting members of Congress and thousands of other people and taken the website down, the Justice Department said Friday. The website — known as BreachForums — trafficked in the stolen data of

By Jasmine Wright, CNN Stephanie Young, a veteran Democratic aide, has been tapped to be Vice President Kamala Harris’ new senior adviser to focus on messaging and outreach. Young’s role is a new position for the vice president’s office, meant to take a birds-eye approach to manage Harris’ overall communications platform and political engagement but