Politics

By Josh Campbell and Shania Shelton, CNN (CNN) — Portland’s progressive district attorney, Mike Schmidt, has been defeated in his bid for reelection by one of his deputies, who styled himself as being tougher on crime, CNN projects. It’s the third time in as many years that a major West Coast city has ousted its

By Donald Judd, CNN Washington (CNN) — The White House announced Friday that President Joe Biden will welcome the Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs to the White House on May 31 – but it seems unlikely that football’s most famous fan will be in attendance. It’ll be the second visit in as many years

By Em Steck, CNN (CNN) — Democrats were roundly united against former President Donald Trump’s immigration policies. But as the situation at the border has worsened under President Joe Biden, many Democrats have come to embrace some of the very policies they once opposed. That was on display Thursday in the Senate, when a number

By Sara Murray and Kim Berryman, CNN Reno, Nevada (CNN) — In the Washoe County elections office, everyone is new to the job. Cari-Ann Burgess – the top elections official in the county – is the third registrar of voters there in just four years. She’s been leading the office for less than six months.

KRNV-DT, KTVN, WCCO, WECT, WGCL, WSB, CNN By Sara Murray and Kim Berryman, CNN Reno, Nevada (CNN) — In the Washoe County elections office, everyone is new to the job. Cari-Ann Burgess – the top elections official in the county – is the third registrar of voters there in just four years. She’s been leading

By Edward-Isaac Dovere and Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — Two presidents have never debated before. And neither of these two presidents has debated anyone in almost four years — not since the last time they faced each other. Both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are confident they can take the other down in

By Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump said Thursday he believes Nikki Haley will be “on our team in some form,” weighing in for the first time on the former South Carolina governor’s announcement a day earlier that she’d be voting for him. Asked by a News 12 reporter at his Bronx

By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn and Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The US State Department is implementing a new visa restriction policy in response to a repressive law and crackdowns on protests in Georgia, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced Thursday. Blinken, who noted that he hopes the country’s leaders will reconsider the so-called “foreign agents”

By Holmes Lybrand and Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Attorneys for Hunter Biden in a filing Thursday evening outlined some of the arguments they may bring in the upcoming gun trial in Delaware, including his state of mind when he purchased a firearm in 2018. Prosecutors have said they will present evidence – including text

By Samantha Waldenberg, CNN (CNN) — The invitation list for Thursday’s White House state dinner included celebrities, politicians, and allies of the president, as President Joe Biden and first lady Dr. Jill Biden roll out the red carpet for Kenyan President William Ruto and first lady Rachel Ruto. Former President Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, actor LeVar Burton, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell,

By Sara Murray, CNN (CNN) — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is appealing a judge’s decision to dismiss several counts in the Georgia election interference indictment against former President Donald Trump and several codefendants. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee, who is presiding over the sprawling racketeering case, ruled in March that six

By Ethan Cohen and Arit John, CNN (CNN) — Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said Thursday he was calling the state’s Republican-controlled legislature into special session next week to fix a timing issue that could keep President Joe Biden from appearing on the state’s general election ballot. Election officials in Ohio have flagged that this summer’s

By Alex Marquardt, CNN (CNN) — CIA Director Bill Burns is traveling back to Europe to try to get the talks on a ceasefire and hostage deal between Israel and Hamas that would halt the war in Gaza back on track, a US official told CNN. “The Director is traveling to Europe in the coming

By Jennifer Hansler, Natasha Bertrand, Haley Britzky and Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — Aid groups have begun distributing the humanitarian assistance offloaded at the US pier in Gaza to Palestinians, after encountering significant obstacles on distribution routes including Hamas drones and looting that delayed the deliveries. More than 500 metric tons of food and other

By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — The families of four US Marines killed in a 2022 crash of an Osprey aircraft are suing Boeing, Bell Textron Inc. and Rolls Royce, alleging that the companies failed to address known issues with the aircraft that resulted in the crash. The lawsuit, filed on Thursday, focuses on a

By Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — A Biden campaign official met Wednesday night with Nikki Haley supporters from across several states in a pre-scheduled Zoom call hours after the former Republican presidential candidate said she would be voting for Donald Trump, two sources familiar with the call told CNN. The meeting was part of an ongoing effort by the

By Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — Senate Democrats have launched an inquiry into recent reports that Donald Trump offered oil executives the reversal of some of President Joe Biden’s climate policies upon the former president’s reelection in exchange for campaign contributions. The chairs of the Senate Finance and Budget committees announced in a joint statement

By Steve Contorno and Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — A dispute over security at the Republican Party’s upcoming Milwaukee convention continued to escalate on Thursday, with the GOP accusing the US Secret Service of ignoring its concerns and the agency claiming the party was undermining efforts to keep the July event safe. The Republican National

By Lauren del Valle, CNN (CNN) — A panel of New York State appellate judges denied Donald Trump’s appeal to move his criminal trial — which has been going on for six weeks — out of Manhattan to another county. The panel denied the appeal with no further explanation in a short ruling Thursday as summations

By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn and Dianne Gallagher, CNN (CNN) — Louisiana lawmakers on Thursday gave final approval to a bill that would classify the abortion-inducing drugs misoprostol and mifepristone as Schedule IV controlled dangerous substances in the state, placing them in the same category as highly regulated drugs such as narcotics and depressants. The state Senate voted 29-7