Politics

By Kevin Liptak, Kylie Atwood and Alex Marquardt, CNN Washington (CNN) — When President Joe Biden asked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday to dispatch a team of top Israeli officials to Washington, his hope was to preempt a large-scale ground invasion of Rafah, which the Biden administration believes would amount to a humanitarian catastrophe. Whether the meeting, now

By Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump is “thinking in terms of” supporting a 15-week federal abortion ban, he said in an interview that aired Tuesday. “The number of weeks now, people are agreeing on 15, and I’m thinking in terms of that, and it’ll come out to something that’s very reasonable.

By Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump says the controversial photograph of Catherine, Princess of Wales, and her three children that was recalled by global news agencies because it was found to have been edited “shouldn’t be a big deal.” “That shouldn’t be a big deal because everybody doctors. You look at

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump made a series of false claims on Tuesday while railing against the judge who issued the $454 million civil fraud judgment against him. Trump posted the claims on social media the day after his lawyers said in a court filing that he had been

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — Cyberattacks are hitting water and wastewater systems “throughout the United States” and state governments and water facilities must improve their defenses against the threat, the White House and Environmental Protection Agency warned US governors on Tuesday. “We need your support to ensure that all water systems in your state comprehensively

By Tierney Sneed, John Fritze and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump told the Supreme Court on Tuesday that future presidents could be vulnerable to “de facto blackmail and extortion while in office” if the justices did not accept his sweeping view of immunity against special counsel Jack Smith’s election subversion charges. However, the presumptive 2024

By Marshall Cohen and Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — A judge on Tuesday released pro-Trump lawyer Stefanie Lambert from a Washington, DC, jail after she promised to immediately return to Michigan and surrender to authorities there, where there is a warrant related to her indictment on election-tampering charges. DC Superior Court Magistrate Judge Heide Herrmann released Lambert

CNN By Devan Cole and John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for Texas to immediately begin enforcing a controversial immigration law that allows state officials to arrest and detain people they suspect of entering the country illegally. The court’s three liberals dissented. Legal challenges to the law are

By Oren Liebermann and Michael Conte, CNN (CNN) — The two senior generals in charge of the US military during the withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 both blamed the State Department for not sooner ordering a “noncombatant evacuation operation” for remaining US citizens in Afghanistan in a congressional hearing on Tuesday. “It is my assessment that that

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of former US Vice President Kamala Harris. Personal Birth date: October 20, 1964 Birth place: Oakland, California Birth name: Kamala Devi Harris Father: Donald Harris, economics professor Mother: Shyamala Gopalan Harris, physician Marriage: Douglas Emhoff (2014-present) Education: Howard University, B.A. political science and

By Devan Cole and John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for Texas to immediately begin enforcing a controversial immigration law that allows state officials to arrest and detain people they suspect of entering the country illegally. The court’s three liberals dissented. Legal challenges to the law are ongoing

CNN By Tierney Sneed and Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — Peter Navarro, an ex-White House aide to former President Donald Trump, has reported to a federal prison in Miami, making history as the first former White House official to be imprisoned for a contempt of Congress conviction. Navarro was sentenced to four months in prison

By Annie Grayer, CNN House Democrats on the Oversight Committee have selected an indicted associate of Rudy Giuliani, who played a role in former President Donald Trump’s first impeachment trial, to be their witness at the panel’s hearing on Wednesday, a source with Oversight Committee Democrats told CNN. Lev Parnas, a Ukrainian-American, worked with Giuliani in the lead-up to the

CNN By Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump said in an interview aired Monday that any Jewish person who votes for Democrats “hates their religion” and hates “everything about Israel,” again playing into an antisemitic trope that Jewish Americans have dual loyalties to the US and to Israel. Trump was asked on

CNN By Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump said in an interview aired Monday that any Jewish person who votes for Democrats “hates their religion” and hates “everything about Israel,” again playing into an antisemitic trope that Jewish Americans have dual loyalties to the US and to Israel. Trump was asked on

By Haley Britzky, CNN Ramstein Air Base, Germany (CNN) — US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin emphasized Tuesday that the US “will not let Ukraine fail,” as Congress continues to delay critical funding for Ukraine aid. Speaking in Germany at the 20th meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, Austin said Ukraine’s

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — Americans have experienced significant price increases during the tenure of President Joe Biden – but prices have not gone up nearly as much as former President Donald Trump keeps saying. Trump, now the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has a years-old habit of using inaccurate figures even when accurate

By Betsy Klein and Arlette Saenz, CNN Las Vegas (CNN) — President Joe Biden is taking his reelection pitch to a pair of Western battleground states this week, heading to Nevada and Arizona to shore up support in key states he’s looking to defend against former President Donald Trump in November. Biden’s pitch will zero-in on efforts to

By Tierney Sneed and Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — Peter Navarro, an ex-White House aide to former President Donald Trump, has reported to a federal prison in Miami, making history as the first former White House official to be imprisoned for a contempt of Congress conviction. Navarro was sentenced to four months in prison for