Politics
The Biden administration is imposing sanctions on an Israeli group for disrupting humanitarian convoys headed to Gaza. Both the US Treasury Department and the US State Department took action against the “Tsav 9” movement for its repeated obstruction of the aid. The Tsav 9 movement, a grouping of demobilized reservists,…
President Joe Biden and former President Trump held competing fundraisers in London on Wednesday, sources told CNN, amid an intensifying race for campaign cash and signs that the former president is gaining some financial ground. Anna Wintour, editor-in-chief of Vogue, hosted Biden’s event, while actress and political activist Holly Valance hosted…
President Joe Biden will arrive at the G7 summit in Italy with over 300 new sanctions aimed at further isolating and financially weakening Russia. The measures are “guided by G7 commitments to intensify the pressure on Russia,” according to the US Department of Treasury, and they mark the latest move…
Lauren Windsor, a liberal documentary filmmaker, secretly recorded a conversation with Martha Alito and her husband Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito. During the separate conversations, Windsor represented herself as a religious conservative. CNN has not obtained the full audio and has reached out to the court for comment. Read the…
Vice President Kamala Harris, in an interview published Monday, criticized a suggestion made last week by Republican Rep. Byron Donalds that Black families were “together” during the Jim Crow era of racial segregation. Politico reports that the vice president called up the outlet to weigh in on former President Donald Trump’s…
Trump VP hopeful Gov. Kristi Noem defends sharing story about killing dog South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem tells CNN’s Dana Bash that she wrote about killing her dog “because it was difficult for me” and says “people are put in tough situations in life, and we learn from it.” Read…
The US began pulling military equipment and additional personnel out of Niger on Friday after waiting months for the ruling military junta to approve US military flights into the country, the US Department of Defense and the Department of National Defense of the Republic of Niger announced Saturday. The news…
Biden asked if he’d pardon Hunter if convicted in gun trial. Hear his response In an interview with ABC News, President Joe Biden says he will not pardon his son Hunter if he’s found guilty in his federal gun trial. CNN Political Director David Chalian joins Kasie Hunt to discuss.…
Watch the full interview with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin at 6 p.m. ET on “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer.” Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told CNN Thursday he believed the new policy allowing the Ukrainian military to carry out limited strikes inside Russia with US munitions will be “very, very helpful to the Ukrainians going…
Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday again suggested he would try to prosecute his political opponents if he’s reelected as he railed against his criminal conviction in New York. “It’s a terrible, terrible path that they’re leading us to, and it’s very possible that it’s going to have to happen…