National Politics

By Holmes Lybrand and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department concluded Friday that former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed state employees, supporting the findings of a previous state civil review of allegations against the former governor. The department reached an agreement with the New York State Executive Chamber resolving the claims

By Annie Grayer, CNN Hunter Biden business associate John Robinson Walker said in a closed-door interview on Friday that President Joe Biden “was never involved” in any of his business dealings with the president’s son, according to Walker’s opening statement provided first to CNN. Walker is among a growing list of Biden family business associates

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Soaring prices for natural gas, electricity and home heating oil in recent years have resulted in a record number of Americans falling behind on their utility bills and applying for help from the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, or LIHEAP. Are you struggling to pay your utility bills?

By Shirin Faqiri, CNN (CNN) — The Georgia state Senate on Friday passed a resolution creating a special committee to investigate Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis amid allegations of an improper affair with her lead prosecutor in the 2020 election subversion case against former President Donald Trump. The resolution, which cleared the GOP-controlled state

By Annie Grayer and Zachary Cohen, CNN The White House is offering a key Republican lawmaker the chance to review transcripts from the House January 6 committee’s interviews, according to a letter obtained by CNN, with the goal of appeasing a GOP-led investigation into the panel. GOP Rep. Barry Loudermilk will have the opportunity to

By Joan Biskupic, Devan Cole and Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The Colorado voters trying to disqualify Donald Trump from the state ballot told the Supreme Court on Friday that the violence the former president provoked on January 6, 2021, qualifies as an insurrection under the terms of the Constitution and bars him from holding future office.

By Kevin Liptak, Alex Marquardt and Becky Anderson, CNN (CNN) — Efforts to secure the release of hostages held in Gaza and broker a prolonged pause in fighting are at an important juncture as President Joe Biden deploys his point person on hostage talks to Europe for multiparty talks on the contours of a possible

By Lauren Fox and Manu Raju, CNN House Speaker Mike Johnson is warning in a new letter that the emerging border deal is “dead on arrival” in his chamber if it resembles anything close to what has been reported, while also announcing that the House will soon vote to make Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas the second Cabinet secretary in

By Fredreka Schouten and Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — As former President Donald Trump marches closer to the Republican presidential nomination, some conservative outside groups and donors opposed to his candidacy say they now must redouble their efforts to win the Senate in November. And some fret that with Trump at the top of the ticket

By Edward-Isaac Dovere and Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — Three words from Joe Biden’s somber speech about Donald Trump had one man in the back of Charleston’s Mother Emanuel AME Church the most excited: “He’s a loser.” The man, cracking up, poked the woman next to him with a “Can you believe it?” expression on his face. He made the

By Joan Biskupic, CNN Senior Supreme Court Analyst (CNN) — As Donald Trump wages a Supreme Court battle to stay on state presidential ballots, a potent contingent of the conservative legal world has united behind him. His new principal attorney for the case, Jonathan Mitchell, is a former Supreme Court clerk connected to the right-wing elite who devised the 2021 Texas abortion ban

By Ella Nilsen, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Biden administration will pause federal approval for several pending liquified natural gas export projects as it undertakes a broad review of the massive increase in US exports to foreign nations, administration officials announced Friday – roiling the US gas industry and handing a temporary victory to climate

By Oren Liebermann and Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — Despite there being no money left for Ukraine aid, the Defense Department is keeping the training pipeline going, with nearly 1,600 Ukrainian troops currently in US training programs in Europe and the US. At Grafenwoehr Training Area in Germany — the US military’s largest training base

WANF, CNN Opinion by Bruce A. Green (CNN) — Editor’s note: Bruce A. Green is the Louis Stein chair at Fordham Law School, where he directs the Stein Center for Law and Ethics. He is a former federal prosecutor in New York. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely his own. View more opinion on CNN.

By MJ Lee and Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden was working a photoline backstage on Wednesday after receiving the United Auto Workers’ coveted political endorsement at its’ annual conference in Washington, DC, when a small group of union members supporting a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war approached him. Biden briefly spoke with the members

CNN By Gregory Krieg, Lauren del Valle, Kara Scannell and Allison Morrow, CNN New York (CNN) — Two days after dominating the New Hampshire GOP’s presidential primary, all but assuring himself a third straight nomination and rematch with President Joe Biden, Donald Trump returned to a Manhattan federal courthouse. The former president took the stand for

By Gregory Krieg, Lauren del Valle, Kara Scannell and Allison Morrow, CNN New York (CNN) — Two days after dominating the New Hampshire GOP’s presidential primary, all but assuring himself a third straight nomination and rematch with President Joe Biden, Donald Trump returned to a Manhattan federal courthouse. The former president took the stand for what

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Biden administration plans to increase assistance to Ecuador amid growing concerns over the deteriorating security situation in the country, ranging from equipment to deploying personnel, according to a senior administration official. The scale of US assistance to Ecuador underscores the urgency and concern within the Biden administration

By Eric Bradner, Arit John, Alayna Treene, Kylie Atwood and MJ Lee, CNN (CNN) — Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is growing more defiant in the face of Donald Trump’s efforts to push her out of the 2024 Republican primary race, poking and prodding at the former president and encouraging supporters to wear Trump’s

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump’s attorneys are joining calls for the dismissal of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis in the 2020 election subversion case against the former president and his co-defendants in Georgia, pointing to alleged misconduct between Willis and her lead prosecutor. In a filing in Fulton County Superior Court