Politics

By Eric Bradner, CNN Chicago mayoral candidates sparred over public safety in a televised debate Thursday night ahead of the April 4 runoff, which has become the latest big-city mayoral race to test voters’ views on crime and policing. Paul Vallas accused progressive rival Brandon Johnson of backing the “defund the police” movement, while Johnson

By Oren Liebermann, CNN The US has seen a “significant spike” in aggressive Russian military flights in Syria this month, the commander of US Central Command said Thursday, two days after Russian jets harassed and collided with a US drone over the Black Sea. Gen. Erik Kurilla told a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing that

By Annie Grayer, CNN House Oversight Republicans said in a new memo issued Thursday that members of President Joe Biden’s family received just over $1 million indirectly from a Chinese company — the committee’s latest disclosure in its investigation into the Biden family’s business dealings. The memo, which representatives for the White House and Hunter

By Katelyn Polantz, Paula Reid, Kristen Holmes and Casey Gannon, CNN At least two dozen people — from Mar-a-Lago resort staff to members of Donald Trump‘s inner circle at the Florida estate — have been subpoenaed to testify to a federal grand jury that’s investigating the former president’s handling of classified documents, multiple sources familiar

By Maegan Vazquez, CNN Chasten Buttigieg, the husband of Pete Buttigieg, criticized former Vice President Mike Pence’s recent remark that the transportation secretary had gone on “maternity leave,” telling ABC’s “The View” that the dig “flies in the face” of Pence’s family values. Over the weekend, Pence delivered the line at the annual Gridiron Club

By Kevin Liptak and Jeremy Herb, CNN The Senate voted Thursday to advance a bill repealing two Iraq war power acts as lawmakers work to reassert their authority in military intervention abroad. A final vote on the bill is expected early next week. The 68-27 vote Thursday was largely bipartisan, and the bill has 12

By Oren Liebermann, Natasha Bertrand and Jim Sciutto, CNN US European Command released footage of the Tuesday encounter between a US surveillance drone and the Russian fighter jets as it played out over the Black Sea. The newly declassified video depicts critical moments in the mid-air encounter, which the Pentagon said lasted between 30 and

By Katelyn Polantz and Tierney Sneed, CNN A new chief judge in the federal courthouse in Washington, DC, is poised to take over as that position has become one of the most influential in the nation’s capital, playing a key role in deciding issues that could factor into whether former President Donald Trump is indicted.

By Lauren Fox, CNN In the spring of 2019, Democratic Sen. Tina Smith of Minnesota was busy putting the finishing touches on a bill that sought to expand mental health care access for kids in schools. But she couldn’t shake the feeling she was being less than honest about just how personal the issue of

By Joan Biskupic, CNN Senior Supreme Court Analyst When the Supreme Court reversed federal abortion rights last June, Justice Samuel Alito’s majority opinion stressed that “It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.” Justice Brett Kavanaugh went further, separately emphasizing that the controversy would now