Politics

By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump continues to make false and misleading claims about crime in Atlanta. Trump has posted the inaccurate statements on his social media platform while attacking Fani Willis, the Fulton County district attorney who is prosecuting him over his efforts to overturn his defeat in Georgia in

By Dianne Gallagher, CNN (CNN) — North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper on Thursday vetoed an election overhaul bill passed by the Republican-controlled legislature last week. The Democratic governor called the legislation dangerous. “Right now, legislative Republicans in North Carolina are pushing an all-out assault on the right to vote, using the advice of Trump’s hand-picked

By Oren Liebermann, Jim Sciutto, Katie Bo Lillis and Alex Marquardt, CNN (CNN) — The US believes Wagner founder Yevgeny Prigozhin was “likely” killed in a plane crash outside Moscow on Wednesday, Pentagon spokesman Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder said Thursday. “I’m not going to go into the specifics of how we gather information other than

By Oren Liebermann and Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — The US has announced that it will start training Ukrainian pilots to fly F-16 jets in October. “Following English language training for pilots in September, F-16 flying training is expected to begin in October at Morris Air National Guard Base in Tucson, Arizona, facilitated by the

By Jack Forrest, CNN (CNN) — Sally Yates, a former acting attorney general early in Donald Trump’s administration, said voters “have a right” to hear the special counsel’s evidence against the former president before they head to the ballot box in 2024. “The people of this country have a right to hear that evidence and

CNN By Eric Bradner, Daniel Strauss, Arit John and Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — With Donald Trump skipping the first 2024 Republican presidential primary debate, eight of his primary rivals – most of them men wearing ties similar to the bright red one regularly worn by the former president – brawled for second-place status Wednesday

By Raenu Charles, CNN (CNN) — The State Department approved an estimated $500 million sale of infrared search and track systems for F-16 fighter jets, as well as other related equipment, to Taiwan on Wednesday. The proposed sale of the infrared equipment will help Taiwan “defend its airspace, provide regional security, and increase interoperability with

By Kristen Holmes and Sara Murray, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump has replaced his top Georgia lawyer ahead of his surrender Thursday evening, sources tell CNN. In replacing Drew Findling with Steven Sadow, an Atlanta-based attorney whose website profile describes him as a “special counsel for white collar and high-profile defense,” Trump is

By Annie Grayer and Melanie Zanona, CNN (CNN) — The Republican-led House Judiciary Committee has opened a congressional investigation into Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, a development that was first reported by CNN and comes the same day Trump is slated to surrender at the county jail after being charged for participating in schemes

By Jeremy Herb, Devan Cole and Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump surrendered Thursday at the Fulton County jail on more than a dozen charges stemming from his efforts to reverse Georgia’s 2020 election results, the fourth time this year the former president has faced criminal charges. Trump spent a little more than 20

CNN By Eric Bradner, Daniel Strauss, Arit John and Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — With Donald Trump skipping the first 2024 Republican presidential primary debate, eight of his primary rivals – most of them men wearing ties similar to the bright red one regularly worn by the former president – brawled for second-place status Wednesday

CNN By Eric Bradner, Daniel Strauss, Arit John and Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — With Donald Trump skipping the first 2024 Republican presidential primary debate, eight of his primary rivals – most of them men wearing ties similar to the bright red one regularly worn by the former president – brawled for second-place status Wednesday

CNN By Aaron Pellish, CNN Urbandale, Iowa (CNN) — At the conclusion of Vivek Ramaswamy’s second campaign stop here on Saturday – his sixth event out of eight over two days in Iowa – his staff rushed him towards their campaign bus. The businessman-turned-politician was late for a flight across the state to his next

CNN By Eric Bradner, Daniel Strauss, Arit John and Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — With Donald Trump skipping the first 2024 Republican presidential primary debate, eight of his primary rivals – most of them men wearing ties similar to the bright red one regularly worn by the former president – brawled for second-place status Wednesday

CNN By Eric Bradner, Daniel Strauss, Arit John and Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — With Donald Trump skipping the first 2024 Republican presidential primary debate, eight of his primary rivals – most of them men wearing ties similar to the bright red one regularly worn by the former president – brawled for second-place status Wednesday

By Eric Bradner, Daniel Strauss, Arit John and Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — With Donald Trump skipping the first 2024 Republican presidential primary debate, eight of his primary rivals – most of them men wearing ties similar to the bright red one regularly worn by the former president – brawled for second-place status Wednesday night.

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Harrison Floyd, one of President Donald Trump’s 18 co-defendants in the Georgia 2020 election subversion case, was charged in May for assaulting an FBI agent who came to serve him a subpoena to testify before a federal grand jury in Washington, DC. Floyd threatened two FBI agents who served

By CNN staff (CNN) — Republican presidential candidates delivered a smattering of false and misleading claims at the first debate of the 2024 election – though none of the eight candidates on stage in Milwaukee delivered anything close to the bombardment of false statements that typically characterized the debate performances of former President Donald Trump,