Politics

By Alex Rogers, Ted Barrett and Ali Zaslav, CNN Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell won a secret-ballot leadership election after days of finger-pointing over the Republican midterm losses, putting him on pace to become the longest-serving Senate party leader in US history. McConnell defeated Florida Sen. Rick Scott, his first challenger in his 15 years

By MJ Lee, Betsy Klein, Allie Malloy, Kevin Liptak and Phil Mattingly, CNN President Joe Biden capped off a consequential week of meetings with his foreign counterparts abroad — in which discussions centered on Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine, climate change’s existential threat to the Earth and a pandemic that has unleashed food, energy and

By Katie Bo Lillis, CNN CIA Director Bill Burns traveled to Kyiv to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his intelligence counterparts on Tuesday, according to a US official. Burns, the official said, was safely in the US Embassy during Russian missile strikes across the country, including blasts that rocked the nation’s capital. The

By Daniel Dale and Paul LeBlanc, CNN Former President Donald Trump began his 2024 presidential campaign just as he ended his presidency in 2021: with a whole lot of inaccuracy. Like many of Trump’s speeches as president, his announcement speech at his Mar-a-Lago resort on Tuesday was filled with false claims about a variety of

By Kevin Liptak and Maegan Vazquez, CNN US President Joe Biden emerged from an emergency meeting with top allies during his final day at the G20 in Indonesia promising to “figure out exactly what happened” after a Russian-made missile fell inside the borders of a NATO ally. “We agreed to support Poland’s investigations into the

By Nick Valencia and Devon M. Sayers, CNN A Georgia Superior Court judge has overturned the state’s law banning abortions as early as six weeks of pregnancy, ruling it unconstitutional and saying it cannot be enforced. The decision from Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney makes the procedure legal in the state again until

By Lauren del Valle and Kara Scannell, CNN Former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg testified Tuesday that he knew he should have paid taxes on hundreds of thousands of dollars in benefits he received annually, including a company-paid Manhattan apartment that he said former President Donald Trump suggested he move into. Weisselberg testified for about

By Hannah Rabinowitz and Holmes Lybrand, CNN One of the five people on trial for seditious conspiracy related to the January 6, 2021, attack testified in his own defense on Tuesday, claiming he was joking when he discussed storming the US Capitol. Thomas Caldwell, a 68-year-old Navy veteran, is the second defendant to testify in

By Priscilla Alvarez and Tierney Sneed, CNN A federal judge on Wednesday put on hold for five weeks his ruling striking down the controversial Title 42 immigration policy, a Trump-era rule that’s allowed US authorities to expel more than 1 million migrants who crossed the US-Mexico border. US District Judge Emmet Sullivan said in the

By Jasmine Wright Vice President Kamala Harris departs for Thailand and the Philippines on Wednesday to cast the US as the Indo-Pacific’s “better partner” for economic stability amid China’s push to expand its own influence in the region. The vice president’s visit comes on the heels of President Joe Biden’s weeklong trip in the same

By Steve Contorno and Kristen Holmes, CNN Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis responded to former President Donald Trump’s recent criticism for the first time Tuesday, dismissing the attacks that he’s faced more broadly as “noise,” before adding that he would “just tell people to check out the scoreboard last Tuesday night.” “One of the things that

By Jason Morris and Tierney Sneed, CNN Former national security adviser Michael Flynn must testify before an Atlanta-area special grand jury investigating efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia, a Florida judge ordered Tuesday. “I am going to make a finding that the witness is indeed