Politics
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley has gone on a media blitz in recent days, detailing how she would respond to the deadly weekend drone attack in Jordan if she were commander-in-chief – an approach that holds up her foreign policy experience in stark contrast to former President Donald Trump. In…
The Justice Department has issued a subpoena for documents to the Sergeant at Arms for the US House of Representatives. According to a source familiar with the matter, the subpoena involves a Democratic member and the misuse of funds surrounding security. The identity of the member was not immediately clear nor were…
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is facing criticism after suggesting some pro-Palestinian protesters are “connected to Russia.” “We have to think about what we’re doing, and what we have to do is try to stop the suffering in Gaza … but for them to call for a ceasefire is Mr.…
Officials in the political network affiliated with billionaire Charles Koch on Saturday defended their heavy investment in Nikki Haley’s long-shot campaign to derail former President Donald Trump’s bid for the GOP presidential nomination. In a presentation to the network’s top donors, Emily Seidel and Michael Palmer – senior advisers to…
A jury said that Donald Trump should pay $83.3 million in damages Friday, an eye-popping sum that marks the sharpest legal setback for a former president now entangled in multiple criminal and civil cases while he campaigns for the White House. The verdict was the second time over the past…
President Joe Biden was working a photoline backstage on Wednesday after receiving the United Auto Workers’ coveted political endorsement at its’ annual conference in Washington, DC, when a small group of union members supporting a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war approached him. Biden briefly spoke with the members about their concerns, in…
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell laid out the growing hurdles facing a national security package amid deep GOP divisions over immigration and Ukraine – and as former President Donald Trump has encouraged Republicans to sink a bipartisan compromise on new border security legislation. According to a GOP source familiar with the…
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 “unusual…
A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. One of the more interesting long-term experiments in the American version of democracy is on the verge of ending, but not before inspiring change elsewhere in the country. The…
Haley goes after Trump and Biden: We don’t need two 80-year-olds in the White House During an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash, 2024 Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley says she is confident she will win because former President Donald Trump and President Biden are “equally bad” for Americans. Read the…