Politics

By Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The fallout continues from Judge Aileen Cannon’s shock ruling that special counsel Jack Smith was unlawfully appointed, invalidating his classified documents case against former President Donald Trump. The indicted ex-FBI informant Alexander Smirnov — who was charged by special counsel David Weiss with lying to the FBI about supposed Biden family corruption in Ukraine — is now using Cannon’s ruling to try

By Arit John and Shania Shelton, CNN (CNN) — JD Vance has had several introductions to the American people: as the author of a memoir on what ails the White working class, a newly elected Republican senator in his home state of Ohio, a controversial running mate pick and the next vice president of the

By CNN Staff (CNN) — CNN’s team is fact-checking the first night of the Republican National Convention. We will continue to update this list throughout the night. Trump makes false claims about election fraud in RNC video The Republican National Convention played a video in which former President Donald Trump urged Republicans to use “every

By John King, CNN Milwaukee (CNN) — The public calls from Democrats asking President Joe Biden to bow out of the presidential race have quieted in recent days, but private efforts to nudge the president and his top aides continue, several Democratic sources told CNN. Among the efforts, these sources say, are repeated memos from

By Michael Williams and Sam Fossum, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden told an interviewer he considers himself a Zionist who has also done “more for the Palestinian community than anybody” while calling for more aid to reach the Gaza Strip. In a taped interview with Complex Networks’ Speedy Morman on “360 with Speedy,”

By Jack Forrest, CNN (CNN) — With Donald Trump’s choice to make JD Vance his running mate, he adds to the ticket an author and senator once known as a “Trump whisperer” for his understanding of the former president’s voter base. The onetime “Never Trump” Republican, Vance, 39, shot to fame over his 2016 memoir,

By Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump’s vice presidential pick Ohio Sen. JD Vance was once a fervent critic of the former president. In private messages, he wondered ahead of Trump’s election whether he was “America’s Hitler” and in 2017 said the then-president was a “moral disaster.” In public, he agreed Trump was

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — US Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle said Monday “the buck stops with me” as questions have swirled about the agency’s security preparations following the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump Saturday. Cheatle told ABC News on Monday that “the Secret Service is responsible for the protection of the former

By Evan Perez and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — Nearly 48 hours after the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, investigators are struck by the lack of leads they’re finding about Thomas Matthew Crooks’ mindset and possible motives for his attack. Even after successfully breaking into Crooks’ phone and searching his computer, scouring his search

CNN By Michael Williams and Betsy Klein, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden sat for an interview with NBC on Monday, his first interview since the attempted assassination of his political rival former President Donald Trump. Speaking with Lester Holt, Biden reiterated that he was grateful Trump survived the shooting, but also pointed toward

By Michael Williams and Betsy Klein, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden sat for an interview with NBC on Monday, his first interview since the attempted assassination of his political rival former President Donald Trump. Speaking with Lester Holt, Biden reiterated that he was grateful Trump survived the shooting, but also pointed toward his

By Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — The Senate is narrowly divided and Democrats hold a slim majority. But there’s no need for Ohio Sen. JD Vance, whom former President Donald Trump selected as his running mate Monday, to leave the chamber during the campaign. It makes sense to look to a senator as vice

CNN By Jack Forrest, CNN (CNN) — With Donald Trump’s choice to make JD Vance his running mate, he adds to the ticket an author and senator once known as a “Trump whisperer” for his understanding of the former president’s voter base. The onetime “Never Trump” Republican, Vance, 39, shot to fame over his 2016

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — After a year of court hearings examining far-fetched theories about presidential classification power, flimsy accusations of prosecutorial misconduct and heated debates about redacting court filings, Judge Aileen Cannon ended Jack Smith’s classified documents prosecution of former President Donald Trump on Monday for a more foundational – but nonetheless astonishing – reason. She

CNN By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — After a year of court hearings examining far-fetched theories about presidential classification power, flimsy accusations of prosecutorial misconduct and heated debates about redacting court filings, Judge Aileen Cannon ended Jack Smith’s classified documents prosecution of former President Donald Trump on Monday for a more foundational – but nonetheless astonishing – reason.

By Kristen Holmes, Alayna Treene and Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump has responded to the assassination attempt against him in a manner unfamiliar to some of those around him: with a calm and seemingly methodic resolve. Since being pulled off a Butler, Pennsylvania, stage bloodied and defiant by Secret Service agents,