Politics

By Devan Cole, CNN Washington (CNN) — Ahmed Abu Khatallah, the Libyan militia leader convicted for his role in the deadly 2012 terrorist attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, was resentenced Thursday to 28 years in prison, despite federal prosecutors seeking at least 60 years to life. The new sentence comes more than two years after

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is disbarred in Washington, DC, the district’s highest local court said Thursday, a move stemming from the ethics proceedings Giuliani faced in New York because of his efforts to help former President Donald Trump try to overturn the 2020 election. Those New

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — US federal prosecutors have filed criminal charges against two Russian men accused of operating billion-dollar money-laundering services and seized websites associated with illicit crypto exchanges as part of a major US crackdown on Russian cybercrime. One of the men, Sergey Ivanov, has operated for nearly two decades as one

By Aaron Pellish, CNN (CNN) — Former first lady Melania Trump reflected on her experience of the two assassination attempts on her husband’s life, including the moments she learned of both incidents, while again raising questions about the details of the July shooting at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. In a wide-ranging interview with

By Holmes Lybrand, Annie Grayer and Zachary Cohen, CNN Washington (CNN) — The House task force charged with investigating the near assassination of Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, heard from local law enforcement and a medical examiner about what happened on July 13, when the former president was shot and one rallygoer was killed. During

CNN By Phil Mattingly, Andrew Seger and Jeremy Moorhead, CNN (CNN) — Driving through the streets of Saginaw, Michigan, with Hurley Coleman III, the raw tension between what was and what could be in his community runs deeper than what can be seen through the passenger windows. It’s a feeling that comes through in his

By Phil Mattingly, Andrew Seger and Jeremy Moorhead, CNN (CNN) — Driving through the streets of Saginaw, Michigan, with Hurley Coleman III, the raw tension between what was and what could be in his community runs deeper than what can be seen through the passenger windows. It’s a feeling that comes through in his every

By Simone Pathe, CNN (CNN) — The Senate Democratic campaign arm is making its first multimillion dollar TV investments in Texas and Florida – two GOP-held seats that represent the party’s best opportunities to mitigate any losses in red states and closely contested battlegrounds. The new spending from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, shared first with

By Edward Wu, CNN (CNN) — Kamala Harris leads Donald Trump by a wide margin among Black likely voters, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, but still falls short of Joe Biden’s winning 2020 margins with this group. Yet the poll suggests that Black likely voters currently supporting Trump or third-party candidates

By Kara Scannell and Jeremy Herb, CNN New York (CNN) — A New York appeals court grilled attorneys for both Donald Trump and the New York attorney general’s office Thursday over the $454 million civil fraud judgment against the former president, raising questions about the size of the penalty and the scope of the attorney

By Kevin Liptak and MJ Lee, CNN (CNN) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit to the White House on Thursday may have been his final chance to convince a receptive American president of his country’s war aims. And just weeks before a US presidential election that could have a profound impact on his country’s future, Vice President

By Hannah Rabinowitz and Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — A long-awaited watchdog report on the Justice Department’s handling of the January 6, 2021, US Capitol riot likely won’t be released until after the presidential election in November, the department’s inspector general said Wednesday. During testimony to the GOP-led House subcommittee on alleged “weaponization” of the federal government, Inspector General Michael Horowitz

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris made a false claim about the jobs record of her Republican opponent, former President Donald Trump, in an interview on MSNBC on Wednesday evening. Interviewer Stephanie Ruhle asked Harris what she thought about polls that show most likely voters still think Trump is the

CNN By Annie Grayer, Morgan Rimmer and Danya Gainor, CNN Washington (CNN) — House Democrats immediately tried to reprimand GOP Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana from the floor of the chamber on Wednesday over a since deleted social media post calling Haitian migrants “thugs” and “slapstick gangsters” who needed to get “their a** out of

By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — Two-thirds of registered voters say that the increasing number of people of different races, ethnic groups and nationalities in the United States serves to enrich the nation’s culture, the latest CNN poll conducted by SSRS finds. But a rising minority, centered largely within the Republican Party, say they see it as

By Annie Grayer, Morgan Rimmer and Danya Gainor, CNN Washington (CNN) — House Democrats immediately tried to reprimand GOP Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana from the floor of the chamber on Wednesday over a since deleted social media post calling Haitian migrants “thugs” and “slapstick gangsters” who needed to get “their a** out of our

By Holmes Lybrand, Tierney Sneed and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — Two people charged with conspiracy to damage energy facilities – a neo-Nazi leader and a woman with whom he had a personal relationship – allegedly planned to attack electrical substations encircling Baltimore and “completely destroy” the entire city, according to federal court documents. The

CNN By Clare Foran, Sarah Ferris, Lauren Fox and Haley Talbot, CNN Washington (CNN) — Congress set up a chaotic, high-stakes fight over spending at the end of the year, after both chambers voted on Wednesday to avert a government shutdown. The Senate approved the stopgap spending bill – which will fund the government until

CNN By Eric Bradner, Katie Lobosco and Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris said Wednesday that women don’t need Donald Trump to be their “protector,” but instead need the former president “to trust them” to make their own reproductive decisions. Harris’ comments, in an interview with MSNBC, came two days after Trump

By Eric Bradner, Katie Lobosco and Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris said Wednesday that women don’t need Donald Trump to be their “protector,” but instead need the former president “to trust them” to make their own reproductive decisions. Harris’ comments, in an interview with MSNBC, came two days after Trump said