Politics

By MJ Lee, Jeff Zeleny, Edward-Isaac Dovere and Arlette Saenz, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden’s campaign is preparing to make a full pivot to the general election with some of the president’s top advisers in the West Wing set to move over to the reelection campaign, as it watches former President Donald Trump’s quick

By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump took a huge step toward winning a third consecutive Republican presidential nomination Tuesday, winning the New Hampshire primary in a one-on-one matchup with his last challenger standing, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley. Haley vowed to remain in the Republican race, saying she’ll now focus

CNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump’s voters get all the attention. But it’s Joe Biden’s who may decide the general election. A historic rematch for the White House between the ex-president and the current president — which few Americans seem to relish — is coming into view given Trump’s early dominance

By Michael Williams and Gregory Krieg, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden has won the New Hampshire primary, calming the anxieties of Democrats concerned that lagging enthusiasm over his campaign and the absence of his name from the ballot could add up to an embarrassing defeat. Those worries led Biden loyalists to launch an unofficial

By Alex Leeds Matthews and Alex Newman, CNN (CNN) — Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary, the second contest in the race to determine the Republican presidential nominee, features only two competitive candidates: Donald Trump and Nikki Haley. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ended his campaign on Sunday and endorsed Trump; Vivek Ramaswamy and Asa Hutchinson ended theirs

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration is preparing an executive order aimed at curbing the ability of foreign governments to access sensitive personal data on Americans that could jeopardize national security, one current US official and one former US official familiar with the matter told CNN. Foreign efforts to exploit Americans’ data represent an

By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — The voters who turned out for New Hampshire’s GOP presidential primary on Tuesday were less staunchly conservative and less closely tied to the Republican Party than the electorate in last week’s Iowa caucuses, according to the early results of CNN’s exit poll. But even in a state less naturally

By Oren Liebermann, Haley Britzky and Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — The US carried out airstrikes in Iraq targeting facilities used by Iranian-backed militias in the country on Tuesday following repeated attacks on US forces, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced in a statement. The strikes targeted three facilities used by Iranian-backed Kataib Hezbollah and other Tehran-affiliated groups in Iraq.

By Lauren Fox, Manu Raju, Ted Barrett and Melanie Zanona, CNN Republicans engaged in a tense back-and-forth during their conference lunch Tuesday over border talks with some openly questioning Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s strategy and others assailing colleagues for attacking the proposal before it’s even out. “I think everyone is questioning everyone’s strategy on

By Hannah Rabinowitz, Katelyn Polantz and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The federal appeals court in Washington, DC, declined to rehear arguments over whether former President Donald Trump can be prohibited from talking about witnesses and court staff while he awaits trial in the special counsel’s January 6 criminal case. Trump has unsuccessfully tried to

By Michael Williams and Donald Judd, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris rallied voters in Virginia during their first joint campaign appearance on Tuesday, seeking to emphasize the stakes for reproductive rights in the 2024 election. “The Supreme Court did what it had never done before,” Biden said at

By Mark Morales, CNN Central Islip, New York (CNN) — Disgraced former Rep. George Santos appeared in federal court on Tuesday for a status conference ahead of a possible trial later this year. Santos is facing 23 charges alleging he stole donors’ identities and ran up thousands of dollars in fraudulent charges on their credit

By David Wright and Alex Leeds Matthews, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump, Nikki Haley and their allies have traded sharp attacks on New Hampshire airwaves ahead of the second nominating contest in the Republican presidential primary. Haley and groups supporting her White House bid have invested heavily in the Granite State, spending roughly twice as much on

By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Tuesday made his first public appearance since he was hospitalized over complications of a procedure to treat prostate cancer, delivering opening remarks at a virtual meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group. Speaking from a nondescript white room with the Department of Defense seal

By Dan Berman, Paula Reid, Jason Morris, Nick Valencia and Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The allegations of an improper relationship between the Fulton County district attorney and a prosecutor she hired has roiled one of the major cases against former President Donald Trump. The situation is another twist in the multiyear effort to punish