Politics

By Alex Marquardt and Kaitlan Collins, CNN (CNN) — CIA Director Bill Burns visited Qatar on Tuesday for meetings with Qatari officials as well as his Israeli and Egyptian counterparts to push for a broader hostage deal that would expand beyond women and children to include negotiations for men and soldiers, a source familiar with the talks

By Sam Fossum, CNN Washington (CNN) — The US military will fly three planeloads of crucial humanitarian aid to North Sinai in Egypt to be brought into Gaza to aid civilians in the region, according to senior administration officials. The aid that is being brought will include medical supplies, food and winter weather gear as

CNN By Jake Tapper, CNN (CNN) — C.J. Rice could soon be a free man. Rice, whose case and ineffective representation in court we told you about on CNNand in a cover story in The Atlantic in October 2022, was granted a petition for writ of habeas corpus on Monday by Judge Nitza I. Quiñones Alejandro,

By Jake Tapper, CNN (CNN) — C.J. Rice could soon be a free man. Rice, whose case and ineffective representation in court we told you about on CNNand in a cover story in The Atlantic in October 2022, was granted a petition for writ of habeas corpus on Monday by Judge Nitza I. Quiñones Alejandro, United

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — The federal judge overseeing Donald Trump’s election subversion case in Washington, DC, denied the former president’s effort to subpoena records from the House select committee that investigated the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. Trump’s attorneys had claimed in their motion to subpoena records from the committee,

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — Billionaire Ken Langone plans to meet with former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley next week, becoming the latest prominent Republican donor to publicly weigh backing her White House bid. Langone, a Home Depot co-founder, said he has not decided whether to throw his financial support behind Haley in the 2024 GOP

By Lauren del Valle and Kara Scannell, CNN New York (CNN) — Attorneys for Donald Trump told the court Monday that they plan to call the former president to the stand on December 11 as their last witness in the New York civil fraud trial. His son Eric Trump, also a defendant, is slated to testify on

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN Washington (CNN) — A cyberattack that diverted ambulances from hospitals in East Texas on Thanksgiving Day is more widespread than previously known and has also forced hospitals in New Jersey, New Mexico and Oklahoma to reroute ambulances, hospital representatives told CNN on Monday. All of the affected hospitals are owned, or

CNN By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — Two ballistic missiles were fired from Houthi rebel-controlled Yemen toward a US warship in the Gulf of Aden, after the US Navy responded to a distress call from a commercial tanker that had been seized by armed individuals, the US military said Sunday. The tanker, identified as the

By Priscilla Alvarez, Ella Nilsen and Arit John, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden is not expected to attend the opening of the global climate summit in Dubai this week, according to a White House schedule of the president’s events. Instead, top US officials, including special envoy John Kerry and White House National Climate

By Eva McKend, Nick Valencia and Devon M. Sayers, CNN (CNN) — Former President Jimmy Carter is expected to attend the Tuesday memorial service for his late wife, Rosalynn Carter, in Atlanta, his grandson told CNN – a tribute that will also be attended by all of the living former first ladies. The former president is

By Kara Scannell, CNN New York (CNN) — Donald Trump urged a New York appeals court to continue to pause the gag order against him in his civil fraud trial, saying that threats to the judge and his law clerk do not “justify” limiting the former president’s constitutional right to defend himself. Lawyers for the

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN (CNN) — Idaho asked the Supreme Court on Monday to allow its state abortion ban that imposes penalties on doctors who perform abortions to take full effect despite federal requirements for emergency room doctors. The case comes to the high court more than a year after the justices overturned a constitutional right to abortion, altering the landscape of abortion

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of former US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack. Personal Birth date: December 13, 1950 Birth place: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Full name: Thomas James Vilsack Father: Bud Vilsack Mother: Dolly Vilsack Marriage: Christie (Bell) Vilsack (1973-present) Children: Jess and Doug Education: Hamilton College, B.A., 1972; Albany

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States. Personal Birth date: October 1, 1924 Death date: December 29, 2024 Birth place: Plains, Georgia Birth name: James Earl Carter Jr. Father: James Earl Carter Sr., a farmer and businessman Mother: Lillian (Gordy)

By Gregory Krieg, Kristen Holmes, Ebony Davis and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN (CNN) — The Republican primary campaign is careening toward its final act, with seven weeks to go until the Iowa caucuses and former President Donald Trump the overwhelming favorite to claim his third consecutive GOP presidential nomination – and a rematch with the politically