Politics

By Lauren del Valle and Kara Scannell, CNN New York (CNN) — Donald Trump Jr. will be the first defense witness to be called Monday, attorneys for the Trump family confirmed. The lawyers representing former President Donald Trump, his adult sons, and their company will begin their defense on Monday. The New York attorney general’s office rested its case

CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the life of John Boehner, former speaker of the US House of Representatives. Personal Birth date: November 17, 1949 Birth place: Cincinnati, Ohio Birth name: John Andrew Boehner Father: Earl Henry Boehner, bar owner Mother: Mary Ann (Hall) Boehner Marriage: Debbie (Gunlack) Boehner (1973-present) Children: Lindsay and

By Aaron Pellish and Gregory Krieg, CNN (CNN) — Two-time Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein announced Thursday she plans to seek the party’s nomination for the White House in 2024. “The political system is broken. The two Wall Street parties are bought and paid for,” Stein said in a video posted on social media announcing her

By Fredreka Schouten, Nick Valencia, Kevin Conlon and Joe Sutton, CNN (CNN) — Federal law enforcement officials are investigating reports of suspicious letters sent to public officials, a Justice Department spokesperson said Thursday. “We are aware of the reports and the FBI and U.S. Postal Inspection Service are investigating this matter,” the department spokesperson said

By John King, CNN (CNN) — Iowa businessman Chris Mudd scored the latest Republican debate as a win for Ron DeSantis, highlighting the Florida governor’s pledge to order troops to the border and to shoot “stone cold dead” anyone trying to smuggle fentanyl into the United States if he’s elected president. But Mudd’s debate scorecard came with a caveat. “We’re picking the runner up,” he said in a text

By Manu Raju, Morgan Rimmer and Lauren Fox, CNN Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia will not run for reelection in 2024, the moderate Democrat announced on social media Thursday, a blow for his party’s chances to hold control of the Senate in next year’s election. “After months of deliberation and long conversation with my

By Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — An illegal voting scheme in Bridgeport, Connecticut, has become a rallying cry for former President Donald Trump and his supporters who are still pushing false claims about 2020 election security and trying to sow doubts ahead of the 2024 presidential contest. While election experts say this fearmongering about fraud in US elections is overblown, they say the

CNN By Manu Raju, Shania Shelton and Sam Fossum, CNN Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who was ousted in unprecedented fashion more than a month ago, railed on the Republicans who voted for his removal — and bluntly predicted that one of his detractors would lose reelection next year. In an exclusive interview with CNN in his new

By Denise Royal and Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — Two Florida chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine remain active, despite Gov. Ron DeSantis asserting during Wednesday night’s GOP presidential primary debate that he had deactivated them. According to State University of Florida Chancellor Ray Rodrigues, both SJP chapters said they are not chartered by

By Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers pushed back in court Thursday against efforts to remove him from Michigan’s 2024 ballot based on the 14th Amendment’s insurrectionist ban, the third state to grapple with the matter this month. The hearing unfolded in Grand Rapids one day after the Minnesota Supreme Court

By Melanie Zanona, Lauren Fox, Manu Raju, Annie Grayer and Haley Talbot, CNN Newly minted Speaker Mike Johnson is running smack dab into the same spending problems that plagued his predecessor, raising the prospects of a government shutdown if Congress doesn’t act between now and next Friday and further exposing divisions within the conference. House

By Manu Raju, Shania Shelton and Sam Fossum, CNN Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who was ousted in unprecedented fashion more than a month ago, railed on the Republicans who voted for his removal — and bluntly predicted that one of his detractors would lose reelection next year. In an exclusive interview with CNN in his new office

By Ariane de Vogue, Morgan Rimmer, Devan Cole and Ted Barrett, CNN (CNN) — The Democratic-led Senate Judiciary Committee backed down on a planned vote Thursday to subpoena two major conservative players close to Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito in their probe into ongoing ethics controversies at the Supreme Court. The subpoenas would target Leonard

By Arit John, CNN (CNN) — Abortion rights advocates have now racked up seven consecutive wins since the fall of Roe v. Wade when voters have weighed in directly on reproductive rights. Next year, they’re hoping to build on that momentum. The approval of Ohio’s Issue 1, the latest measure to enshrine abortion rights in

By Kevin Liptak, Alex Marquardt and Jennifer Hansler, CNN Washington (CNN) — The White House said Thursday that Israel had agreed to move forward with daily four-hour pauses of military operations in areas of Northern Gaza. The move appeared to formalize a pattern of halting the violence to allow humanitarian aid to flow into the

By Paula Reid and Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — Hunter Biden, the president’s son, has filed a defamation lawsuit against Overstock’s former CEO Patrick Byrne, accusing him of publishing false statements claiming Biden sought a bribe from Iran. Byrne, according to the lawsuit, published false statements in June claiming Biden was “reaching out to the Iranian

By Jack Forrest and Jeffrey Kopp, CNN (CNN) — A defense attorney for David DePape admitted that her client attacked the husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, but argued during the first day of the federal trial against him that his motivation for the assault did not match the charges against him. Jodi Linker,

CNN By Gregory Krieg, Arit John, Steve Contorno, Daniel Strauss, Kit Maher and Aaron Pellish, CNN (CNN) — Less than a day after voters in multiple states rebuked GOP leaders who would restrict abortion rights, five Republicans running for president ignored the issue for the first 99 minutes of their third primary debate. Unlike their

By Priscilla Alvarez and Donald Judd, CNN Belvidere, Illinois (CNN) — President Joe Biden took on his predecessor – and likely future election opponent – during a visit to Illinois Thursday as he aims to gin up momentum for his reelection effort. In remarks to a crowd of United Auto Workers members, Biden touted his