Politics

By Ella Nilsen, CNN A few weeks after allowing the controversial Willow oil drilling project in Alaska to go forward, the Biden administration is auctioning off more than 73 million acres of waters in the Gulf of Mexico to offshore oil and gas drilling. It could be the first Gulf of Mexico lease sale under

By Steve Contorno, CNN As Fox News faces legal peril over its coverage of Donald Trump‘s 2020 election lies, one of its most featured Republicans, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, is trying to gut the free speech protections that may ultimately save the network from financial ruin. DeSantis and his GOP allies in the state legislature

By Donald Judd and Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden addressed the second Summit for Democracy on Wednesday from the White House, building on what he billed as his administration’s “enduring commitment to boost democracy globally,” where he sought to assure participants that democratic institutions work. This year’s multi-day summit is being co-hosted by Biden,

By Eric Bradner, CNN As Nashville police left a news conference Monday, Ashbey Beasley unexpectedly moved in front of the still-live microphones and television cameras. Beasley then told her story: She and her son survived the Fourth of July parade mass shooting in her hometown of Highland Park, Illinois, last year, in which a gunman

By Jasmine Wright, CNN Vice President Kamala Harris emerged from the female slave dungeon at Cape Coast Castle visibly shaken. Inside the famous slave trading outpost’s dungeon, Harris set a bouquet of flowers down and placed her hand on the centuries-old wall, connecting herself physically to the sorrow of the Africans it once imprisoned. It

By Steve Contorno, CNN Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will deliver an address next month in Jerusalem, a trip that is certain to inject the likely Republican presidential contender into Israel’s national tumult and its increasingly fraught relationship with the United States. The Jerusalem Post and the Museum of Tolerance announced Tuesday that DeSantis would serve

By Jeremy Herb and Lauren del Valle, CNN More than a week ago, former President Donald Trump predicted — incorrectly — that he would be arrested in a New York criminal case. His statement led to a flurry of speculation on the state of the Manhattan grand jury investigating Trump’s alleged role in a scheme

By Katelyn Polantz, Paula Reid, Zachary Cohen, Devan Cole and Tierney Sneed, CNN A federal judge has decided that former Vice President Mike Pence must testify to a grand jury about conversations he had with Donald Trump leading up to January 6, 2021, according to multiple sources familiar with a recent federal court ruling. But

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN The United States announced it supports the creation of a special tribunal to prosecute the crime of aggression — a significant development in the push to hold top Kremlin officials accountable for the war in Ukraine. “At this critical moment in history, I am pleased to announce that the United States

By Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, CNN President Joe Biden and the White House have attacked Republicans in recent months for positions the president himself once held on Social Security and entitlement programs including sunset bills and raising the retirement age, a CNN KFile review of Biden’s record shows. In his State of the Union