Politics

By Joan Biskupic, CNN Senior Supreme Court Analyst Some Supreme Court justices thought Donald Trump was setting them up. Two days after the official swearing-in of Justice Brett Kavanaugh in October 2018, the president arranged a televised ceremony at the White House and invited all the justices. Justices had declined to attend similar White House

By Kristen Holmes Former President Donald Trump spent the weekend before his history-making arraignment playing golf, posting on social media, meeting with advisers, and calling and texting allies to tout the political positives of his recent indictment. He disclosed fundraising numbers and internal poll numbers in these conversations, and vowed to fight the charges, according

By Paul LeBlanc, CNN The Justice Department has obtained new evidence suggesting potential obstruction by former President Donald Trump in the agency’s probe of his handling of classified documents, The Washington Post reported Sunday. Investigators have information that indicates Trump personally reviewed some of the documents in his Mar-a-Lago home after receiving a subpoena from

By Shawna Mizelle, CNN Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman opened up about his struggle with depression during a candid interview with CBS News that was taped during his stay at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. “I had stopped leaving my bed. I had stopped eating. I was dropping weight. I had stopped engaging … most

By Shawna Mizelle and Aileen Graef, CNN Sen. Joe Manchin declined to say Sunday whether he would run on a centrist presidential ticket but the moderate West Virginia Democrat said Americans were sick of the political division in the country. “We cannot basically have a divided country, and we cannot withstand that,” he said on

By Tierney Sneed, CNN Several media outlets, including CNN, have asked a New York judge to unseal the grand jury indictment against former President Donald Trump. The news organizations are also asking for permission to broadcast Trump’s expected appearance in a Manhattan courtroom on Tuesday for his arraignment on the charges. In their letter Friday

By Shawna Mizelle and Andrew Millman, CNN Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw on Sunday lamented the “difficult” nature of predicting American school shootings given their often “random and unexpected” nature. “They’re very difficult to build a pattern behind. It’s not like criminal activity, which you can target and prevent through law enforcement. This is harder,” the

By Jennifer Hansler and Betsy Klein, CNN US Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke Sunday with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and called for the “immediate release” of detained Americans Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan, according to the US State Department. “Secretary Blinken conveyed the United States’ grave concern over Russia’s unacceptable detention of a

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice Donald Trump’s legal team will look to challenge “every potential issue” in his indictment once the charges are unsealed, an attorney for the former president said Sunday. “We’re not doing anything at the arraignment because that would be showmanship and nothing more because we haven’t even seen

By Veronica Stracqualursi, Gregory Krieg and Kaanita Iyer, CNN Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson has announced that he’s running for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, launching a challenge to former President Donald Trump, who remains the front-runner despite his looming criminal indictment. “I’m convinced that people want leaders that appeal to the best of America,

By Eric Bradner, CNN Brandon Johnson sought to echo Martin Luther King Jr. last week at the biggest rally of the Chicago mayor’s race so far, telling a crowd of thousands that the election was an opportunity to “take the progressive movement around the world.” Johnson, the progressive Cook County commissioner, faces moderate former Chicago

By Sydney Kashiwagi, CNN When Donald Trump enters a New York courtroom on Tuesday, he’ll face a seasoned judge who is no stranger to the former president’s orbit. Acting New York Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan has sentenced Trump’s close confident Allen Weisselberg to prison, presided over the Trump Organization tax fraud trial and overseen

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN After a string of recent ballot-box victories for abortion rights groups, opponents of the procedure are redoubling their efforts — including, in some places, pushing to make it harder to use citizen-approved ballot measures to guarantee abortion access. An anti-abortion coalition in Ohio, for instance, recently unleashed a $5 million ad

By Tami Luhby, CNN Millions of Americans are at risk of losing their Medicaid coverage in coming months, but residents in Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, New Hampshire and South Dakota will be the first to bear the brunt of the terminations. States have been barred by Congress from winnowing their Medicaid rolls since the Covid-19 pandemic