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By Katie Lobosco, CNN (CNN) — The Department of Education imposed a record $14 million fine on Liberty University, a Christian college located in Virginia, over violations of a campus safety law, officials said Tuesday. The Department of Education said it was the largest fine ever imposed for violating the Clery Act, which requires colleges

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — Top State Department official Victoria Nuland will retire in the coming weeks, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced Tuesday. Nuland departs her role as undersecretary of state for political affairs – where she played a key role in the US response to the war in Ukraine – as funding

By Christopher Hickey, CNN (CNN) — At one point or another, voters in 42 different states have cast ballots in a presidential primary or caucus on a Super Tuesday. Sixteen of those states are holding elections today — the most since 2008, when two dozen states held contests on that year’s Super Tuesday. Super Tuesday

By Shawn Nottingham, CNN (CNN) — A federal appeals court upheld a lower court’s ruling that part of Florida’s anti-“woke” law infringes on the free speech rights of employers. “The government cannot favor some viewpoints over others without inviting First Amendment scrutiny,” the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals said in its ruling Monday. The Individual

By Gregory Krieg and Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — The beginning of the end of the 2024 presidential primaries starts Tuesday, when President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are expected to all but clinch a rematch of their 2020 contest eight months ahead of the November general election. There will be contests in

CNN By Marshall Cohen and Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Right-wing attorney Kenneth Chesebro, who helped devise the Trump campaign’s fake electors plot, continued proposing ways to overturn the 2020 presidential election even after the US Capitol attack on January 6, 2021, according to texts and emails made public Monday as part of a lawsuit.

By Oren Liebermann and Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — An Air Force employee has been charged with sharing classified information on a foreign dating website after prosecutors say he sent sensitive information about Russia’s war in Ukraine to a person who claimed to be a woman living in Ukraine. Prosecutors say 63-year-old David Franklin Slater, a retired Army

By Gregory Krieg, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump will win North Dakota’s Republican presidential caucuses, CNN projects, claiming one final boost before the campaign expands to 15 states on Super Tuesday. It is the former president’s third straight primary victory in the state. He ran unopposed in 2020 after defeating Texas Sen. Ted

CNN Analysis by Joan Biskupic, CNN Senior Supreme Court Analyst (CNN) — Justice Amy Coney Barrett packed two very different messages into her one-page opinion on Monday as the Supreme Court declared states could not toss former President Donald Trump off the ballot. She chastised her colleagues on the right for breaking significant – and in her mind unnecessary – ground

CNN Analysis by Joan Biskupic, CNN Senior Supreme Court Analyst (CNN) — Justice Amy Coney Barrett packed two very different messages into her one-page opinion on Monday as the Supreme Court declared states could not toss former President Donald Trump off the ballot. She chastised her colleagues on the right for breaking significant – and in her mind unnecessary – ground

By Joan Biskupic, CNN Senior Supreme Court Analyst (CNN) — Justice Amy Coney Barrett packed two very different messages into her one-page opinion on Monday as the Supreme Court declared states could not toss former President Donald Trump off the ballot. She chastised her colleagues on the right for breaking significant – and in her mind unnecessary – ground in the

By Marshall Cohen and Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Right-wing attorney Kenneth Chesebro, who helped devise the Trump campaign’s fake electors plot, continued proposing ways to overturn the 2020 presidential election even after the US Capitol attack on January 6, 2021, according to texts and emails made public Monday as part of a lawsuit. The

CNN By Alayna Treene, Kristen Holmes and Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — As former President Donald Trump gears up for a costly general election campaign with President Joe Biden and faces staggering legal expenses of his own, his campaign is actively working to keep costs in check. Senior adviser Susie Wiles has privately joked that the campaign staff

By John Fritze and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Monday temporarily froze enforcement of Texas’ controversial immigration law that allows state law enforcement to arrest and detain people they suspect of entering the country illegally. Justice Samuel Alito issued the administrative hold, which will block the law from taking effect until

By Ethan Cohen, Amy O’Kruk and Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — She’s won just a single contest so far – the primary in Washington, DC – but former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley still thinks she has a role to play in the Republican primary. Haley told NBC she would stay in the race

By Manu Raju, CNN Senate GOP Whip John Thune announced Monday that he is running for Republican leader, setting up a contested battle in the first major shakeup at the top of the Senate GOP hierarchy in nearly two decades. Thune, speaking to Keloland News in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, said that he wants to

By Nick Valencia, Jason Morris and Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Defense attorney Ashleigh Merchant has been subpoenaed to appear before a Georgia state Senate committee hearing on Wednesday as it investigates the actions of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. Merchant confirmed to CNN that she had been subpoenaed for the hearing, which will

By Tierney Sneed, CNN Washington (CNN) — The ruling by Alabama’s state Supreme Court on IVF has set off alarm bells across the country that the issue may be swept up in the war over abortion rights unleashed by the US Supreme Court 2022 Roe v. Wade reversal. Almost every state has a version of

By John Fritze and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that former President Donald Trump could not be removed from the ballot in Colorado or any other state – a sweeping and historic ruling that brushed aside a lawsuit claiming that he disqualified himself from office because of his actions