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By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump is making a concerted effort to win over Black voters – in part by making inaccurate claims. During a Saturday roundtable discussion at a predominately Black church in Detroit, Trump said President Joe Biden “has done nothing for you except talk,” adding: “We achieved the lowest African American

CNN By Arlette Saenz, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden delivered a series of stark warnings about what a second Donald Trump term could hold during a star-studded Los Angeles fundraiser Saturday evening, framing the 2024 presidential election as an inflection point in American history. “Institutions matter,” the president said. “What (Trump) did on January 6, and

By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — For the third consecutive presidential election, former President Donald Trump is lying that he was named “Man of the Year” in Michigan before he ran for president. Trump said it again on Saturday during a speech in Detroit: “You know, I got the ‘Man of the Year’ in Michigan. Years ago, long before politics,

By Avery Lotz, CNN (CNN) — Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy said Sunday the Supreme Court is “readying to fundamentally rewrite the Second Amendment” after striking down a federal ban on bump stocks. Recent gun-related rulings from the high court, Murphy told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union,” signal it is prepared to “take away

By Arlette Saenz, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden delivered a series of stark warnings about what a second Donald Trump term could hold during a star-studded Los Angeles fundraiser Saturday evening, framing the 2024 presidential election as an inflection point in American history. “Institutions matter,” the president said. “What (Trump) did on January 6, and now

By Daniel Strauss, CNN (CNN) — Republicans are openly floating that this will finally be the year that Virginia shifts from the Democratic column it’s been in for several presidential elections and back into the battleground category where Donald Trump could win. The prospect of turning the state red was the topic of discussion between

By Katie Lobosco, CNN Washington (CNN) — In 2018, then-President Donald Trump put new tariffs on a variety of Chinese-made goods, including baseball caps, luggage and shoes – and Americans have been paying the price ever since. For example, a suitcase that was $100 before Trump imposed the tariffs now goes for about $160, and a carry-on

By Eric Bradner, Ali Main and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump’s campaign on Saturday launched a coalition group targeting Black voters as the former president campaigned in Detroit in an effort to win over a segment of the electorate that has long overwhelmingly backed Democrats. Trump held a community roundtable at the predominantly

By Ali Main, Kim Berryman and Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of Donald Trump, vowed investigations and prosecutions of those who have probed the former president and his political allies, declaring at a conservative gathering Saturday that Inauguration Day in 2025 will be “accountability day.” Pointing to Trump’s recent conviction

By CNN Staff (CNN) — With less than two weeks until the first presidential debate of the 2024 election cycle, CNN has released additional details on the parameters agreed upon by the Trump and Biden campaigns. The debate, which will be hosted by CNN’s Jake Tapper and Dana Bash in Atlanta on June 27, will

By Arlette Saenz, CNN Los Angeles (CNN) — Joe Biden has raised $28 million heading into a star-studded fundraiser Saturday, campaign officials told CNN, as the president leans on his Hollywood friends to help boost his campaign war chest. The president’s Los Angeles event with former President Barack Obama, George Clooney and Julia Roberts marks the campaign’s latest effort

By Kristen Holmes and Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump’s campaign is taking a vastly different approach to 2024 compared to 2020, with plans for fewer staff and expenses, including what they view as superfluous brick and mortar offices. Instead, the campaign pledges to run a more efficient operation that will rely heavily on data modeling, microtargeting and relying on wealthy conservative groups

By John Fritze and Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court’s decision this week rebuffing an effort to restrict access to mifepristone is unlikely to be the final word on the abortion pill – and the next person to speak will almost certainly be a Trump-appointed judge in Texas at the center of the

By Mary Kay Mallonee and Avery Lotz, CNN (CNN) — US forces launched successful attacks late this week on Houthi radars that helped facilitate the Iranian-backed group’s ongoing assaults on ships in the Red Sea, according to US Central Command. CENTCOM said the US military destroyed seven radars in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen, which had

By Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — Republican Rep. Garret Graves of Louisiana announced Friday that he will not seek reelection, ending months of uncertainty after a new congressional map made his seat significantly Democratic. “Representing South Louisiana and serving in the United States Congress has been an incredible honor,” Graves said in a statement, before

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump’s attorneys on Friday ridiculed special counsel Jack Smith’s gag order request in the former president’s classified documents case in Florida, calling it an unconstitutional attack on the 2024 Republican candidate and a ploy to help Joe Biden keep the presidency. “In Jack Smith’s most recent shocking display

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The US State Department on Friday designated a Nordic neo-Nazi group and three of its top officials as terrorists. It’s the second time in history that the US has designated a foreign White supremacist organization and its leaders as terrorists. The department designated the Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM) and three

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of George W. Bush, the 43rd president of the United States. Personal Birth date: July 6, 1946 Birth place: New Haven, Connecticut Birth name: George Walker Bush Father: George Herbert Walker Bush, 41st President of the United States Mother: Barbara (Pierce) Bush Marriage: Laura

By Tierney Sneed and Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — House Speaker Mike Johnson said Friday he will move in federal court to enforce a subpoena against Attorney General Merrick Garland to obtain audio recordings of President Joe Biden, after the Justice Department declined to act on the House’s contempt referral. Johnson said in a statement that he disagrees with the DOJ’s

By Michael Williams and Samantha Waldenberg, CNN Washington (CNN) — Right-wing media outlets used a deceptively cropped video to misleadingly claim President Joe Biden wandered off during an event with other world leaders at the G7 summit in Italy on Thursday. Video shared by the New York Post on X showed part of a skydiving