Politics

By Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Fox News on Tuesday removed a six-part Hunter Biden miniseries from its streaming platform, after his attorneys threatened to sue the right-wing network over the incendiary and at-times sexually explicit program about his legal troubles. The removal is a swift response from the conservative media juggernaut, whose spokespeople were defending the

CNN By Jeremy Herb, Kara Scannell and Lauren del Valle, CNN (CNN) — Judge Juan Merchan handed down his first punishment to Donald Trump for violating the judge’s gag order in the New York hush money trial Tuesday, fining Trump $9,000 for nine violations. The judge also warned the former president in his written order

CNN By Steve Contorno and Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump wouldn’t dismiss the potential for political violence from his supporters if he isn’t elected in November, suggesting it would depend on the outcome of the presidential race. “I don’t think we’re going to have that,” the presumptive GOP nominee told Time magazine.

By Steve Contorno and Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump wouldn’t dismiss the potential for political violence from his supporters if he isn’t elected in November, suggesting it would depend on the outcome of the presidential race. “I don’t think we’re going to have that,” the presumptive GOP nominee told Time magazine. “I

By Gregory Krieg, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden’s hopes of recreating the coalition that lifted him to office in 2020 are coming under threat as the protest movement against Israel’s war in Gaza spreads across college campuses. Pro-Israel Democrats are now pushing the president to respond more forcefully to antisemitic incidents at colleges and

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed Texas to enforce age-verification requirements for porn sites, rejecting a request from the adult entertainment industry to block the law on First Amendment grounds. Texas’ law requires any website that publishes a substantial amount of content that is “harmful to minors” to verify

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — People over the age of 60 in the US reportedly lost more than $3.4 billion in fraud schemes in 2023, a nearly 11% increase from the year before, according to a report from the FBI released Tuesday. The Elder Fraud Report details the type of schemes people over the

By Kate Sullivan and Michelle Shen, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump, in an interview published Tuesday, called for the first time for Russia to release Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who has been detained for more than a year. “The reporter should be released and he will be released,” Trump told Time magazine when asked

By Haley Talbot, CNN House Democratic leadership announced Tuesday that Democrats would kill an effort to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson from his position, amid threats from Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and other hardliners. “At this moment, upon completion of our national security work, the time has come to turn the page on this

By Katie Lobosco, CNN Washington (CNN) — Student loan forgiveness for public-sector workers such as teachers and nurses will be temporarily paused beginning May 1 as the Department of Education moves management of the program in-house. The transition is expected to last through July and will impact about 2 million borrowers enrolled in the Public Service

By Jeff Zeleny, CNN Wilmington, Delaware (CNN) — Inside President Joe Biden’s reelection headquarters here, a sign boasts of some of the campaign’s most significant metrics: Pennsylvania, 24; Michigan, 30; Wisconsin 44. These are not poll numbers, but rather the latest – and growing – tally of campaign offices already open in three battleground states.

By Lauren del Valle, Kara Scannell and Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — The third week of the Donald Trump criminal hush money business fraud trial will resume Tuesday with the Manhattan district attorney’s office continuing to be secretive about it its plan of attack. Prosecutors are expected to pick up questioning of Michael Cohen’s former

By Jack Forrest, CNN (CNN) — Kansas’ state House on Monday failed to override Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto of a ban on gender-affirming care for minors, a result celebrated by transgender rights advocates. Kelly, who vetoed SB 233 earlier this month, applauded the state House’s vote to sustain her veto. “I am glad that bipartisan members of the

CNN By Haley Talbot, CNN House Democratic leadership announced Tuesday that Democrats would kill an effort to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson from his position, amid threats from Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and other hardliners. “At this moment, upon completion of our national security work, the time has come to turn the page on

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — A former National Security Agency employee was sentenced Monday to nearly 22 years in prison for attempting to sell classified information to Russia. Jareh Sebastian Dalke, a 32-year-old Army veteran from Colorado, had briefly worked at the NSA, prosecutors said, and was reapplying to the agency when he tried to sell

By Gregory Wallace and Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Lawmakers have unveiled a bipartisan Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization deal, which aims to address the nation’s shortage of air traffic controllers and implement technology to reduce the risk of runway collisions but would not institute a controversial increase in the pilot retirement age. The draft legislation

By Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Google and X, formerly Twitter, recently provided hundreds of files to Michigan prosecutors for their 2020 election subversion probe, complying with search warrants that investigators obtained after CNN revealed secret social media accounts belonging to pro-Trump lawyer Kenneth Chesebro, who played a major role in the fake electors plot. The previously unreported