Politics

By Kevin Liptak, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Biden administration is seeking to strengthen protections for federal workers as a host of Republican candidates, including frontrunner Donald Trump, make reducing and altering the federal workforce a key component of their campaigns. In a new proposed rule, the administration seeks to clarify civil service protections for

By Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — Phil Jensen wore a bright red T-shirt with Donald Trump’s mug shot and “NEVER SURRENDER!” printed on it to the former president’s rally in Rapid City, South Dakota, last week. The longtime state legislator loved the shirt so much, he planned on giving half a dozen to his friends

By Simone Pathe, CNN Glen Allen, Virginia (CNN) — The new epicenter of America’s fight over abortion rights is Henrico County, Virginia, where candidates in bellwether state elections this fall are staking out positions that could test how both parties will try to appeal to moderate voters in 2024. “They don’t want abortion illegal,” GOP

By Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump on Friday said he would appoint a task force to review the cases of people he claimed had been unjustly prosecuted related to their political beliefs by the Biden administration, should he win a second term in 2024. “Tonight, I’m announcing that the moment I

By Steven Contorno and Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — The Republican Party of Florida on Friday night scrapped plans to require presidential candidates to sign a loyalty oath, siding with former President Donald Trump over Gov. Ron DeSantis in a proxy war that tested the strength of the two rivals’ support in their home state.

By Kayla Tausche, CNN (CNN) — Senior White House aides huddled multiple times this week to discuss policy options to keep a lid on gasoline prices, officials told CNN, as prices continued rising steadily in recent weeks amid strong economic demand, refinery issues, extreme weather, and geopolitical tensions. In the meetings – which included national

By Jessica Dean and Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — Nick Iarossi, a lobbyist and longtime supporter of Gov. Ron DeSantis, approached the Florida Republican in July with a frank suggestion: Talk more about yourself. More specifically, talk more about your military service. “I literally said, ‘Why haven’t you told anybody,’” Iarossi said. “He kind of

By Whitney Wild and Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — The Republican-controlled Wisconsin State Assembly has voted to change how the state’s legislative maps are drawn – a major shift in strategy as Republicans face the possibility that the new liberal majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court could throw out the current electoral maps, which give

CNN By Katelyn Polantz and Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Justice Department prosecutors want US District Judge Tanya Chutkan to reel in Donald Trump’s public statements in the federal 2020 election interference case against him, asking her to place a court order limiting what he can say, according to a newly released filing. The request

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — The North Carolina man who live-streamed threats in 2021 to detonate alleged explosives in his truck parked on a sidewalk blocks from the US Capitol was sentenced to five years probation Friday after a judge found the man had been suffering from a significant psychiatric episode at the time.

By Katelyn Polantz and Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Justice Department prosecutors want US District Judge Tanya Chutkan to reel in Donald Trump’s public statements in the federal 2020 election interference case against him, asking her to place a court order limiting what he can say, according to a newly released filing. The request for

By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — The senior US general for the Middle East has ordered additional interviews be conducted regarding the 2021 Abbey Gate bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan, which killed 13 US service members during the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, the US military announced Friday. The additional interviews are the result of an internal

CNN By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden remains focused on his work after a week that saw the launch of an impeachment inquiry and the indictment of his son, according to aides, even as the developments pose new challenges heading into next year’s campaign. Hunter Biden was indicted Thursday by special counsel

By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden remains focused on his work after a week that saw the launch of an impeachment inquiry and the indictment of his son, according to aides, even as the developments pose new challenges heading into next year’s campaign. Hunter Biden was indicted Thursday by special counsel David

By Donald Judd (CNN) — President Joe Biden next week will hold his first face-to-face meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu since the Israeli leader came back into office. Biden will meet Netanyahu on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, before hosting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Washington later in the week.

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump made false claims about a variety of people and subjects, notably including Florida governor and Republican presidential primary rival Ron DeSantis, in an interview this week with conservative host Megyn Kelly. Trump claimed that Florida under DeSantis “sort of had a mandate” on Covid-19

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on Friday implored Americans to “own even the darkest parts of our past” in a speech commemorating 60 years since the deadly 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. “History is also our best teacher. Yes, our past is filled with too much violence, too

By Lauren Fox, Morgan Rimmer and Haley Talbot, CNN (CNN) — A chaotic week on Capitol Hill yielded no serious progress as Congress stares down a spending deadline at the end of the month with lawmakers acknowledging a government shutdown is not only possible at this point, but may soon be inevitable. That’s particularly true

By Tierney Sneed, Hannah Rabinowitz and Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — Twitter turned over at least 32 direct messages from former President Donald Trump’s account – @realDonaldTrump – to special counsel Jack Smith earlier this year as part of the federal election subversion investigation, according to newly unsealed court filings. In seeking the messages, prosecutors

By Gregory Krieg, Daniel Strauss and Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — Republican Dave McCormick, a former hedge fund executive and Gulf War veteran, is expected to launch a second bid for US Senate in Pennsylvania, according to two sources familiar with his plans, seeking to challenge three-term Democratic Sen. Bob Casey more than a year