Politics

By Manu Raju, Zachary Cohen, Annie Grayer and Melanie Zanona, CNN (CNN) — Speaker Kevin McCarthy has been insistent: House Republicans are still gathering evidence and have yet to decide whether to open up a formal impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden. “I didn’t say I was doing an impeachment inquiry,” McCarthy recently insisted to

By Jim Sciutto, Chief National Security Correspondent (CNN) — Weeks into Ukraine’s highly anticipated counteroffensive, Western officials describe increasingly “sobering” assessments about Ukrainian forces’ ability to retake significant territory, four senior US and western officials briefed on the latest intelligence told CNN. “They’re still going to see, for the next couple of weeks, if there

By Betsy Klein, Arlette Saenz and Ella Nilsen, CNN The Grand Canyon, Arizona (CNN) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday designated the fifth national monument of his presidency and unveiled new climate resilience funding for national parks during a visit to lands surrounding one of the seven natural wonders of the world, the Grand Canyon.

By Jeff Zeleny and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN (CNN) — Former Vice President Mike Pence has reached the donor threshold to qualify for the first GOP presidential debate later this month in Milwaukee, an aide told CNN on Monday. The Republican National Committee set a requirement of 40,000 unique donors minimum to qualify for the first

By Jason Morris, Sara Murray and Jack Forrest, CNN (CNN) — Former Georgia Republican Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan received subpoenas to testify before a Fulton County grand jury this month, a source with direct knowledge of the 2020 election interference investigation in the state told CNN. Duncan has been a sharp critic of Donald Trump’s

By Jennifer Hansler and Kylie Atwood, CNN (CNN) — Acting Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland met with some of the members of the military junta in Niger Monday – a significant diplomatic push to restore democratic rule in what has been a key US partner nation. Nuland met with Gen. Moussa Salaou Barmou, the

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Security for the federal judge assigned to oversee the criminal case against former President Donald Trump over his attempts to overturn the 2020 election has been increased in the federal courthouse in Washington, DC. CNN has observed more security detailed to Judge Tanya Chutkan, and deputy US Marshals discussed

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump’s legal team has proposed narrower rules than those sought by prosecutors over what he can do with evidence he is provided in the criminal election interference case. In a new court filing on Monday, Trump’s lawyers leaned heavily into claims that special counsel prosecutors are

By Katie Lobosco, CNN (CNN) — Legal challenges are continuing to target some of President Joe Biden’s student loan policies. While the president’s major student loan forgiveness program was blocked by the Supreme Court in late June, the Biden administration is also facing lawsuits over some of its other policy changes aimed at making it

By Abby Baggini, Paula Reid and Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump ally Bernie Kerik met Monday with special counsel Jack Smith’s investigators who are handling the probe related to the 2020 election aftermath and the January 6, 2021, insurrection. The interview largely focused on what Trump’s former attorney Rudy Giuliani did to prove

By Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge has dismissed Donald Trump’s counter defamation lawsuit against E. Jean Carroll, dealing another legal blow to the former president. In an order Monday, Judge Lewis Kaplan said that Trump had not proven that Carroll’s statements on CNN the day after the jury awarded her $5 million

CNN By Kit Maher, Steve Contorno and Shawna Mizelle, CNN (CNN) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said “of course” Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, his the most direct comments on the matter in the nearly three years since the former president’s defeat. “Of course he lost,” DeSantis told NBC News in an interview that

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice (CNN) — Judge Aileen Cannon is asking the Justice Department and Donald Trump co-defendant Walt Nauta to weigh in on the legality of special counsel Jack Smith’s ongoing grand jury activity in Washington, DC, which relates to the obstruction portion of the Mar-a-Lago documents case before her

By Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — The former head of counterintelligence at the FBI’s New York office is in talks to plead guilty to charges relating to work he allegedly did for a sanctioned Russian oligarch after leaving the government, according to a court order. Charles McGonigal was indicated earlier this year on charges, including

By Kit Maher, Steve Contorno and Shawna Mizelle, CNN (CNN) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said “of course” Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, his the most direct comments on the matter in the nearly three years since the former president’s defeat. “Of course he lost,” DeSantis told NBC News in an interview that aired

By Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — A Russian and Chinese naval patrol consisting of several vessels operated off the coast of Alaska last week, defense officials and lawmakers said over the weekend – a show of force that prompted a US military response but did not pose a threat to the US or Canada, a

By Steve Contorno and Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — Bernie Hayes has spent most Mondays since the overturning of Roe v. Wade meeting with friends outside of an Iowa Planned Parenthood trying to stop abortions one at a time. He huddles monthly with other like-minded activists plotting more wholesale paths to halting the procedure. Lately,

CNN By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN (CNN) — Former Vice President Mike Pence said he would comply with the law if he were compelled to testify in former President Donald Trump’s trial in the 2020 election case. “I have no plans to testify, but, look, we’ll always comply with the law. But … I don’t know