Politics

By Natasha Bertrand and Michael Williams, CNN Washington (CNN) — Attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea have escalated to a level not seen in decades, leaving the United States and its allies scrambling to protect shipping in a key corridor for the global economy. Houthi rebels have launched at least 100 attacks against 12 different

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — The legal team representing former President Donald Trump is taking issue with special counsel Jack Smith’s office providing him evidence for his federal criminal trial for election interference in the latest spat over a potential delay of the March 4 trial date. On Monday, prosecutors turned over an exhibit

By Donald Judd, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Biden administration proposed new steps Tuesday to conserve and restore the nation’s old-growth forests in a move it projects could combat greenhouse gas emissions and counter the effects of climate change. The proposal from the US Department of Agriculture would amend all 128 forest land management plans

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN Washington (CNN) — US and allied law enforcement agencies around the world have seized the main website that a prolific Russian-speaking cyber gang has used to pressure its victims to pay ransoms, according to a notice posted on the website on Tuesday. The FBI also developed a software key that allowed victims of

By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — Only one-third of registered voters approve of President Joe Biden’s handling of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a new poll from The New York Times and Siena College finds, with young voters especially likely to express dissatisfaction. The finding aligns with other recent polling this month that showed significant partisan and generational divides

By Kevin Liptak and Arlette Saenz, CNN Washington (CNN) — A UN Security Council vote on a resolution meant to spur more humanitarian aid into Gaza has been delayed again and is now expected Wednesday, according to two sources familiar with the matter. Intense negotiations were underway at the United Nations ahead of an expected vote Tuesday on

By Colin McCullough, CNN (CNN) — Women for America First, a group formed to support former President Donald Trump, lied on a permit for the protest held at the Ellipse near the White House on January 6, 2021, a report from the inspector general with the Interior Department found. According to the report, WFAF “intentionally

By Eric Bradner, Daniel Strauss, David Wright and Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — Time is running out for the Republican presidential contenders vying to supplant Donald Trump as the party’s 2024 standard-bearer. A new poll released Sunday showed Nikki Haley gaining serious ground on the former president in New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation-primary next month. But that night

CNN By Eric Bradner, Daniel Strauss, David Wright and Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump is returning to Iowa on Tuesday, jumping back into a state where the other leading Republican presidential contenders are already barnstorming less than four weeks from the January 15 caucuses. But with time running out on their

By Steve Contorno, Scott Glover, Randi Kaye and Nelli Black, CNN (CNN) — As Ron DeSantis seeks to cut into Donald Trump’s double-digit lead in the Republican presidential race, the Florida governor has criticized the former president for failing to deliver on one of his signature promises. “He didn’t clean up the swamp,” DeSantis said

CNN, KSNV, WKMG, WGN, KTUU By Steve Contorno, Scott Glover, Randi Kaye and Nelli Black, CNN (CNN) — As Ron DeSantis seeks to cut into Donald Trump’s double-digit lead in the Republican presidential race, the Florida governor has criticized the former president for failing to deliver on one of his signature promises. “He didn’t clean

By Joan Biskupic, CNN Senior Supreme Court Analyst (CNN) — The late Justice Sandra Day O’Connor will be eulogized Tuesday under the vaulted ceiling and vast stained-glass windows of the Washington National Cathedral by Chief Justice John Roberts and President Joe Biden – two men who first met O’Connor in 1981 when she was nominated to

By Sam Waldenberg and Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris is launching a “reproductive freedoms tour” across the country in battleground Wisconsin next month, kicking off the 2024 election year with a focus on abortion, an issue the Biden campaign believes will be critical to mobilizing voters in November. Harris’ tour will

By Mary Kay Mallonee, CNN (CNN) — A Florida man pleaded guilty last week to threatening to kill a Supreme Court justice. Neal Brij Sidhwaney, 43, of Fernandina Beach, Florida, called the Supreme Court on July 31 “and left an expletive-laden, threatening voicemail message” for a member of the high court, according to a Justice

By Cindy Von Quednow, CNN (CNN) — An Arizona man has been indicted on federal charges after allegedly making threats against FBI agents and employees, the Department of Justice said Monday. Michael Lee Tomasi, 37, of Rio Verde, Arizona, was indicted on three counts of threats against a federal official and three counts of making

CNN, TEXAS GOVERNOR’S OFFICE By Rosa Flores and Sara Weisfeldt, CNN (CNN) — Republican Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas signed into law Monday a bill that makes entering Texas illegally a state crime, an extraordinary step in the hard-fought legal battle between the state and the federal government over efforts to curtail illegal immigration. The

By Jack Forrest, CNN (CNN) — The wife of a US Navy officer recently transferred to US custody after being jailed in Japan called on President Joe Biden and the Department of Justice to support his release. Lt. Ridge Alkonis was booked into a federal prison in Lost Angeles last week after having served time

By Katie Bo Lillis, CNN (CNN) — Foreign government efforts to target the 2022 US midterm elections appeared to grow compared with the 2018 elections, according to a declassified intelligence assessment released Monday, with a “diverse and growing group of foreign actors” participating. There was no known order from any foreign leader to “undertake a

By Michael Callahan and Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on Monday announced a new US-led operation focusing on the “security challenges in the southern Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden” following recent attacks by Houthi forces on commercial marine traffic in the region. “I am announcing the establishment of Operation