Politics

By Donald Judd, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday fired back against claims from House Republicans that he was involved in business dealings with his son and brother, telling reporters at the White House the GOP claims are “a bunch of lies.” Asked by a reporter in the Roosevelt Room to respond

By Michael Williams and Betsy Klein, Priscilla Alvarez and Lauren Fox, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday urged Congress to resolve negotiations over the future of Ukraine funding, saying “petty partisan politics can’t get in the way” of aid for Kyiv. “History’s going to judge harshly those who turn their back on

By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — A US warship shot down an unmanned aerial vehicle from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen on Wednesday in the southern Red Sea, a US military official said. There was no damage to the USS Mason, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, or injuries to any personnel in the incident, the official said. The

By Clare Foran and Haley Talbot, CNN The House voted to advance a GOP-led resolution on Wednesday to censure Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman of New York for triggering a fire alarm in a House office building when there was not an emergency. A final vote on whether to pass the censure resolution is expected to

CNN By Melanie Zanona and Haley Talbot, CNN Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is resigning from Congress and will leave at the end of this year, he announced in a Wall Street Journal op-ed on Wednesday — a highly anticipated decision that comes two months after his unprecedented ouster from the speakership. McCarthy’s decision will

By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — Americans’ views of President Joe Biden’s job performance have ebbed since the start of the year, a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS finds. The public’s views of the national economy remain lackluster, with more than 4 in 10 saying they’re seriously concerned rising costs could push them out

By Betsy Klein, Donald Judd and Michael Williams, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced his support for a new team – and flag – competing in the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. Delivering remarks at the White House Tribal Nations Summit in Washington, Biden said his administration would back a request

By Melanie Zanona and Haley Talbot, CNN Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is resigning from Congress and will leave at the end of this year, he announced in a Wall Street Journal op-ed on Wednesday — a highly anticipated decision that comes two months after his unprecedented ouster from the speakership. McCarthy’s decision will narrow

CNN By Blake Ellis, Melanie Hicken, Audrey Ash, Pamela Brown and Curt Devine, CNN (CNN) — The US Coast Guard, rocked by allegations that its leaders for years concealed damning information about sexual assaults and other serious misconduct, released a highly critical report Wednesday acknowledging it had “failed to keep our people safe,” while vowing

By Blake Ellis, Melanie Hicken, Audrey Ash, Pamela Brown and Curt Devine, CNN (CNN) — The US Coast Guard, rocked by allegations that its leaders for years concealed damning information about sexual assaults and other serious misconduct, released a highly critical report Wednesday acknowledging it had “failed to keep our people safe,” while vowing to

By Kate Sullivan and Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — A former Trump administration official who remains close to the former president warned on Tuesday that a second Trump administration would target journalists and attempt to “prosecute them for crimes” should Trump win the 2024 election. Kash Patel, a former adviser on Donald Trump’s National Security

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — Reid Hoffman, the co-founder of LinkedIn and a prominent Democrat donor, says he has donated to a super PAC supporting Republican presidential contender Nikki Haley because the ongoing GOP primary fight represents the first of just two opportunities to stop Donald Trump from winning the White House again. In

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — After a spate of cyberattacks that diverted ambulances from US hospitals, the Department of Health and Human Services has unveiled plans to ramp up federal funding for ill-protected rural hospitals and impose stricter fines for lax security at health care providers. The new HHS plan, shared exclusively with CNN on Wednesday, is a recognition

By Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The Colorado Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments Wednesday afternoon in a closely watched case about whether the US Constitution’s ban on insurrectionists from holding office applies to former President Donald Trump. This is one of several 14th Amendment challenges against Trump’s candidacy, which so far have failed to remove

CNN By Jeff Zeleny, CNN Cedar Rapids, Iowa (CNN) — Sally Hofmann has been thinking and praying about the Republican presidential race. “I pray for the candidates,” said Hofmann, a conservative Christian who for months has been watching the GOP contenders with an open mind. “I think it’s just so important who gets in office

By Eric Bradner and Jeff Zeleny, CNN (CNN) — The stage is shrinking just weeks ahead of the first contests of 2024, as four of the Republican Party’s contenders gather in Alabama for their fourth presidential primary debate. The candidates set to take the stage Wednesday night are Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former South Carolina

By Clare Foran, Lauren Fox, Ted Barrett, Kristin Wilson and Morgan Rimmer, CNN A partisan clash between Senate Republicans and Democrats over border policy continues to threaten the effort to send badly needed foreign aid to key US allies as time and money are running out for Ukraine. Senate negotiators are vowing to continue to

By Zachary Cohen, Nick Valencia and Jason Morris, CNN (CNN) — Prosecutors in the Georgia election subversion case against former President Donald Trump have officially listed former Vice President Mike Pence as one of the witnesses who could be called to testify at trial, according to multiple sources familiar with court documents that remain under seal. Pence, who has appeared