Politics

By Tierney Sneed, Jason Morris and Nick Valencia, CNN (CNN) — The presiding judge in the Georgia criminal case against Donald Trump and his allies has thrown out some of the charges against the former president and several of his co-defendants. The partial dismissal by Georgia Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee leaves most of the sprawling racketeering indictment intact. McAfee

By Curt Devine, Kyung Lah and Allison Gordon, CNN (CNN) — When a man called to confess he had shot his wife, was armed with an AR-15 and planned to kill himself, police in Jefferson City, Missouri raced to the scene. Heavily armed officers ordered the homeowner to walk outside with his hands up. From the doorway,

By Kristen Holmes, Daniel Strauss and Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The Republican National Committee, now under the control of former President Donald Trump and his campaign, is bringing on a slate of new lawyers both internally and externally who will focus intensely on election fraud, an issue Trump has remained fixated on. The lawyers “will

CNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — A highly anticipated NASA mission slated for October will aim to send a spacecraft to Jupiter’s moon Europa, an ocean world considered to be one of the best places to search for life beyond Earth. The spacecraft will carry names, poetry and messages symbolizing our humanity to potential

By Aaron Pellish and Eva McKend, CNN (CNN) — Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will announce his running mate on March 26 in Oakland, California, his campaign announced Wednesday. “This event will be a pivotal moment in our country’s history! You will not want to miss it,” the campaign said. In an interview

CNN By Aaron Pellish and Eva McKend, CNN (CNN) — Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will announce his running mate on March 26 in Oakland, California, his campaign announced Wednesday. “This event will be a pivotal moment in our country’s history! You will not want to miss it,” the campaign said. In an

By Lauren del Valle, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump’s defense team says it will emphasize his past lawyers’ involvement in payments at the center of an alleged hush money scheme when his New York criminal case related to the matter goes to trial later this month. The former president’s legal team filed a notice with

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — A bipartisan panel of judges in North Carolina has ruled that the Republican-controlled state legislature improperly tried to seize control of state and local election boards from Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper – a consequential decision in a state that could emerge as a key battleground in November’s presidential election.

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — US intelligence officials “cannot rule out” the possibility that the Chinese government will use TikTok to influence the 2024 US elections, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines told lawmakers on Tuesday. Haines’ comment, in response to a question from a lawmaker during a House Intelligence Committee hearing, comes after US

By Gregory Krieg, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump has clinched the Republican nomination for president, CNN projects, setting up a rematch with Joe Biden, the incumbent president who secured the Democratic nomination earlier Tuesday night. Biden and Trump will win their parties’ presidential primaries in Georgia, Mississippi and Washington, while Trump will also win the

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — Two Supreme Court justices on Tuesday urged Americans to turn down the temperature of civic discourse – even as the high court is working through some of the most charged political cases to land on its docket in years. “Why should any of us want to obliterate the opposition

By Nick Valencia and Jason Morris, CNN (CNN) — The presiding judge in former President Donald Trump’s Georgia election subversion case says he is on track to order this week on whether to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. In an interview last week on WSB Radio in Atlanta to discuss the challenger he will

CNN By Clare Foran, CNN Republican Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado, a hardline conservative who has clashed with his own party at times, announced on Tuesday that he will leave Congress at the end of next week. Buck criticized dysfunction on Capitol Hill in discussing his decision to leave, telling CNN’s Dana Bash, “It is

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — The policy-making body of the federal judiciary is clamping down on the system that conservatives have successfully used in recent years to hamstring President Joe Biden’s agenda and other federal policies, including those concerning reproductive rights. The new policy seeks to curb “judge-shopping,” the strategy where litigants strategically file lawsuits in courthouses where the

CNN Opinion by Gary Ross (CNN) — Over the past year, we’ve seen an alarming wave of current or former senior government officials who reportedly failed to properly safeguard classified information. This includes classified documents recovered from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in August 2022 and additional classified material discovered and surrendered from the homes of President

By Clare Foran, CNN Republican Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado, a hardline conservative who has clashed with his own party at times, announced on Tuesday that he will leave Congress at the end of next week. Buck criticized dysfunction on Capitol Hill in discussing his decision to leave, telling CNN’s Dana Bash, “It is the

By Melanie Zanona and Haley Talbot, CNN Many Republicans plan to skip the House GOP retreat as they grumble about both the location and the idea of spending time with one another, with tensions still running high inside the party in the wake of their unprecedented speakership drama. Fewer than 100 Republicans have RSVP’d to