Politics

By Edward-Isaac Dovere and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — The relationship between President Joe Biden’s White House and Eric Adams began breaking down in private months earlier than previously known – and long before the New York mayor started publicly blasting the president over the migrant crisis in his city. “There’s no leadership here,” Adams

By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — The US Department of Defense has launched a website intended to be a “one-stop shop” for publicly available information on “unidentified anomalous phenomena” – UAPs, more commonly known as UFOs. The site will also serve as an information hub of resolved UAP cases, including photos and videos as soon

CNN By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — The US Department of Defense has launched a website intended to be a “one-stop shop” for publicly available information on “unidentified anomalous phenomena” – UAPs, more commonly known as UFOs. The site will also serve as an information hub of resolved UAP cases, including photos and videos as

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — Numerous challenges to the Afghan Special Immigrant Visa program remain two years after the chaotic and deadly US withdrawal from Afghanistan, the State Department’s watchdog agency said in a new report released Thursday. The Office of the Inspector General found that although the State Department made efforts to streamline

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — The election administrator’s office in Texas’ most populous county – Harris County, which is home to Houston – has been dismantled to comply with a new state law passed by Republican legislators that officially takes effect Friday. The law, known as SB 1750, shifts responsibility for elections and voter

CNN By Jason Morris (CNN) — The Fulton County, Georgia, judge overseeing the sprawling 2020 election interference racketeering case against former President Donald Trump and 18 co-defendants says that all proceedings in his courtroom related to the case will be livestreamed and allowed to be televised. The ruling, however, would be subject to change and

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Hurricane Idalia is over, but the rebuilding effort has just begun. Residents in Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas can access federal, state and local assistance, as well as aid from nonprofit and charitable groups, to help them contend with storm damage to their homes, vehicles and other property. However,

By Jeremy Herb, Kristen Holmes, Zachary Cohen and Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — Some of Donald Trump’s co-defendants in the sprawling election subversion case in Georgia are trying all sorts of ways to fund their mounting legal bills – yet the costs of the 2020 election fallout may quickly exceed their abilities to pay. At

By Donald Judd, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration is asking Congress for an additional $4 billion to replenish the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Disaster Relief Fund, pointing to what it says is a particularly brutal stretch of natural disasters across the nation. Friday’s request – which is in addition to one made last month

By Joan Biskupic, CNN Senior Supreme Court Analyst (CNN) — Soon after he became chief justice of the United States, John Roberts faced what he believed was a “crisis” involving the judiciary: Federal judges were underpaid. What Roberts did next to address the situation stands in stark contrast to the way he has tiptoed through

By Daniel Strauss, CNN (CNN) — Ever since last week’s Republican presidential primary debate, Vivek Ramaswamy has found himself with more money, more name recognition and dramatically negative focus from his rivals. The first-time candidate’s performance was a breakout moment for him. His very appearance on the debate stage was a coup for his campaign,

By Devan Cole, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Biden administration on Thursday proposed a rule intended to require people selling firearms at gun shows and on the internet to conduct background checks on potential buyers, in an effort to curb the so-called gun show loophole. The proposal comes a little more than a year after

By Alayna Treene and Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — In an urgent appeal to wealthy Republicans who had assembled in Milwaukee ahead of the first GOP presidential primary debate, top brass for the super PAC backing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis told donors they needed an injection of $50 million over the next four months, according

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — Over a span of four days, Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy made two different false claims about what he wrote in his own 2022 book. At the first Republican presidential debate last Wednesday, Ramaswamy claimed rival candidate Chris Christie was not telling the truth when Christie said Ramaswamy

By Pamela Brown, Curt Devine and Allison Gordon, CNN (CNN) — Republicans on the House Oversight Committee are demanding that the White House explain what motivated a recent push for federal employees to work more in-person. In a letter sent Thursday and obtained by CNN, Chairman James Comer, Rep. Pete Sessions, the chair of a

CNN 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

By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — US service members deployed on the Afghanistan withdrawal mission will receive the Presidential Unit Citation, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced Thursday, the two-year anniversary of the withdrawal. “In recognition of teams that operated and excelled under these difficult and dangerous conditions, I am proud to announce the approval of

By Chris Boyette and Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — The Texas Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed efforts to temporarily block the state’s near-total ban on gender-affirming care for minors, clearing the way for the measure to take effect Friday. The law, known as Senate Bill 14, prohibits most minors from receiving treatment common for gender

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — Russian military hackers have been targeting Ukrainian soldiers’ mobile devices in a bid to steal sensitive battlefield information that could aid the Kremlin’s war on Ukraine, the US and its allies warned Thursday. The new advisory from the US and its “Five Eyes” allies – Australia, Canada, New Zealand