Politics

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — The man prosecutors say was the first rioter to enter the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, has been sentenced to 53 months behind bars. Michael Sparks, from Kentucky, was convicted in March by a Washington, DC, jury on several counts, including disorderly conduct in the Capitol. When Sparks

By Gregory Krieg, CNN (CNN) — Former President Barack Obama offered a note of caution to Democrats buzzing over Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign, telling donors on Martha’s Vineyard Monday night that the party needs to ramp up its focus – and spending – on down-ballot races across the country. “Kamala’s (convention) speech showed her

By Michael Williams and Kevin Liptak, CNN Washington (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz will sit with CNN for their first joint interview on Thursday as Democrats work to broaden their base’s excitement from last week’s Democratic National Convention.  The interview, conducted by CNN’s chief political correspondent and anchor Dana

CNN By Marshall Cohen, John Fritze and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — Special counsel Jack Smith provided the latest twist in the 2020 election subversion case against former President Donald Trump, filing a retooled indictment Tuesday that he hopes comports with the US Supreme Court’s controversial immunity ruling and will let the case move forward.

By CNN Staff (CNN) — Special counsel Jack Smith filed a retooled indictment in the federal election interference case against former President Donald Trump, slimming down the allegations against the 2024 Republican presidential nominee in light of the US Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity. Read the superseding indictment below. The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2024 Cable

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump keeps lying that “everybody,” including Democrats, wanted the Supreme Court to overturn the Roe v. Wade decision that had guaranteed abortion rights around the country since 1973. “Every Democrat, every Republican, everybody wanted Roe v. Wade terminated and brought back to the states,” Trump,

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — Republican officials in 24 states asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to halt a Biden administration effort to reduce emissions of the planet-warming gas methane, adding to a series of emergency appeals challenging environmental regulations. Led by Oklahoma, the states are asking the high court to pause an Environmental

By Alejandra Jaramillo, Hadas Gold and Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced on Truth Social that he has “reached an agreement” to participate in a September 10 debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, noting that “the rules will be the same as the last CNN debate, which seemed to work out

By Aaron Pellish, CNN (CNN) — An environmental group is calling for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be investigated over a recently resurfaced incident described by his daughter in which he beheaded a whale carcass that had washed ashore near his home, the latest in a series of revealing anecdotes highlighting his bizarre personal life.

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson told CBS News that she is “concerned” about the court’s divisive decision to grant sweeping immunity to former President Donald Trump because it treats one person differently than others in the criminal justice system. “I was concerned about a system that appeared to

By Kristen Holmes and Michelle Shen, CNN (CNN) — Former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who recently suspended his own presidential campaign as an Independent, have both been added to Donald Trump’s transition team. Both endorsed Trump in recent days. “As President Trump’s broad coalition of supporters and endorsers expands across

By Daniel Strauss and Allison Gordon, CNN (CNN) — These days, the only thing Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem seem to have in common is that they’re both former-members-of-Congress-turned-Midwestern-governors. Walz, Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, is a darling of the liberal wing of the Democratic Party, while Noem, once seen

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The recent US Supreme Court decision changing voter registration rules in Arizona has voting rights advocates anxious about how the justices will approach emergency election appeals in the runup to the November election. Not only was the Arizona ruling a missed opportunity for the justices to explain when they

By Jack Forrest, CNN (CNN) — Retired Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, who served as national security adviser under former President Donald Trump, said Monday his onetime boss bears some responsibility for the US’ chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. McMaster told CNN’s Anderson Cooper that the former president had made a decision in 2017 to

CNN By Jack Forrest, CNN (CNN) — Retired Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, who served as national security adviser under former President Donald Trump, said Monday his onetime boss bears some responsibility for the US’ chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. McMaster told CNN’s Anderson Cooper that the former president had made a decision in 2017

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — A federal appeals court gave Florida the green light Monday to begin enforcing for now state restrictions on gender-affirming care for minors and adults. A federal judge in the state had ruled in June that the restrictions were unconstitutional, with the judge broadening a block he previously placed on them as part

By Katelyn Polantz and Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — Special counsel Jack Smith is arguing to revive his office’s classified documents case against Donald Trump with a vigorous defense of its authority in the first formal filing since Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the criminal case last month. In a brief filed with the 11th US Circuit

By Fredreka Schouten and Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — Democrats, with the backing of Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign, on Monday sued to block controversial new election rules in Georgia that they warned could lead to post-election “chaos” in the presidential battleground state in November. The lawsuit, filed in Georgia state court by the Democratic National Committee, the

By Holmes Lybrand and Danny Freeman, CNN (CNN) — Members of the bipartisan congressional task force established to investigate the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump promised Monday to get to the bottom of the security failures of that day even if it may be a “slow process,” after the group toured the Pennsylvania