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By Kevin Liptak, Nikki Carvajal and Samantha Waldenberg, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden asserted Friday that Hamas has been degraded to a point where it can no longer carry out the type of attack that launched the current eight-month conflict in Gaza, laying out a three-phase proposal Israel has submitted to wind down the grinding crisis as he declared,

By Clare Foran and Matt Holt, CNN (CNN) — Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, a longtime moderate Democrat, announced on Friday that he is registering as an independent. Manchin announced last year that he would not run for reelection in the deep red state, creating an opportunity for Republicans to flip the Senate seat.

By Priscilla Alvarez, Kayla Tausche and Camila DeChalus, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration is preparing to roll out a sweeping border executive action as early as Tuesday, according to two sources familiar with the discussions, who cautioned that timing is fluid. White House officials have begun reaching out to mayors who represent cities along

By Kyle Feldscher, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden on Friday congratulated the Kansas City Chiefs on their second Super Bowl victory in two years, joking, “back to back … I like that.” “When the doubters question whether you could pull it off again — believe me, I know what that feels like,” the president

By Edward-Isaac Dovere and Kevin Liptak, CNN Washington (CNN) — Well before the Manhattan jury finished deliberating on Thursday, most of President Joe Biden’s advisers concluded that a guilty verdict wouldn’t drastically alter their 2024 election strategy. But it has stoked some hopes among supporters of the president that if 12 people who focused on

By John King, CNN (CNN) — Some things take time to sink in. But don’t expect committed Donald Trump voters to suddenly waver because their candidate is now a convicted felon. “Just an abuse of the justice system,” Billy Pierce, a semi-retired consultant and Trump backer in Hartsville, South Carolina, said shortly after the former president

By Gregory Krieg and Sabrina Souza, CNN (CNN) — They had only been dating for a few months, but Nadine Arslanian, who would eventually become Sen. Bob Menendez’s second wife, had a very particular request for the New Jersey Democrat. In a 2018 text message about his upcoming remarks at the Egyptian Embassy, Arslanian asked,

CNN By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — A New York jury convicting Donald Trump on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records brought the former president’s weekslong trial to a close but ushered in a new phase of the historic case. Now in the unique position of being the first former US president convicted of a felony,

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — A New York jury convicting Donald Trump on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records brought the former president’s weekslong trial to a close but ushered in a new phase of the historic case. Now in the unique position of being the first former US president convicted of a felony, Trump

CNN By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — A New York jury convicting Donald Trump on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records brought the former president’s weekslong trial to a close but ushered in a new phase of the historic case. Now in the unique position of being the first former US president convicted of a felony,

CNN Opinion by CNN Contributors (CNN) — CNN Opinion asked our contributors to weigh in on Trump’s conviction on 34 counts of falsifying business records. The views expressed in these commentaries are their own. View more opinion on CNN. Patrick Brown: Trump verdict is a pyrrhic victory for Democrats The ranks of the anti-Trump #Resistance haven’t celebrated

By CNN Staff (CNN) — A Manhattan jury found Donald Trump guilty of all 34 charges of falsifying business records Thursday, an unprecedented and historic verdict that makes Trump the first former president in American history to be convicted of a felony. Read the jury’s verdict sheet here: The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2024 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery

CNN By Kara Scannell, Lauren del Valle and Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — Before the historic and unprecedented guilty verdict was delivered against Donald Trump on Thursday afternoon, the former president appeared to be the most relaxed he’d been since his hush money trial began in April. Trump was smiling and laughing with his attorney,

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — A man pleaded guilty in Washington, DC, to making more than 12,000 harassing phone calls to members of Congress as well as threatening to kill a congressional staff member, the Justice Department and US Capitol Police announced Thursday. New Yorker Ade Salim Lilly, 35, was arrested in Puerto Rico

By Eric Bradner and Clare Foran, CNN Washington (CNN) — Both Joe Biden and Donald Trump called attention to what’s at stake in November’s election in the moments after Trump’s conviction Thursday, as Republicans rushed to the former president’s defense. “There’s only one way to keep Donald Trump out of the Oval Office: At the ballot box,” Biden

By Kara Scannell, Lauren del Valle and Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — Before the historic and unprecedented guilty verdict was delivered against Donald Trump on Thursday afternoon, the former president appeared to be the most relaxed he’d been since his hush money trial began in April. Trump was smiling and laughing with his attorney, Todd

By Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — The US and UK carried out a series of strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen on Thursday for the first time in more than three months, according to US Central Command. In addition, the US unilaterally destroyed eight aerial attack drones over Yemen and the Red Sea. The coalition strikes

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) – Here’s a look at the life of former US Congressman Charles Rangel, who represented New York from 1971 to 2017. Personal Birth date: June 11, 1930 Death date: May 26, 2025 Birth place: New York, New York (Harlem) Birth name: Charles Bernard Rangel Father: Ralph Rangel Sr. Mother: Blanche (Wharton)

By Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — A Manhattan jury found Donald Trump guilty of all 34 charges of falsifying business records Thursday, an unprecedented and historic verdict that makes Trump the first former president in American history to be convicted of a felony. Not only is Trump the first former president to be found guilty of

CNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump’s first act on becoming a convicted criminal was to launch a raging new attack on the rule of law, laying bare the gravity of the choice awaiting America’s voters. In one sense, Trump’s conviction on all counts in his first criminal trial affirmed the principle