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By Ariel Edwards-Levy and Jennifer Agiesta, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden faces continued headwinds from broadly negative job ratings overall, widespread concerns about his age and decreased confidence among Democratic-aligned voters, according to a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS. There is no clear leader in a potential rematch between Biden and former President

By Arit John, CNN (CNN) — The crowd of Democrats gathered on the sweltering tiki-themed deck of Kilroy’s, a sports bar in deep-blue Northern Virginia, knew better than most people what’s at stake in their state’s November elections. But Tim Kaine, one of their party’s two US senators, reminded them anyway. “I would argue that

By Manu Raju and Melanie Zanona, CNN (CNN) — GOP Sen. Mitt Romney thinks a government shutdown is “very likely,” citing the House for his pessimism. Senate GOP Whip John Thune says that House Republicans are going to have to show “some movement” in the impasse. And Republican Sen. Shelley Moore Capito thinks the House

By Marshall Cohen, CNN Washington (CNN) — A Washington-based advocacy group filed a lawsuit on Wednesday to block former President Donald Trump from the 2024 Republican primary ballot in Colorado, citing the 14th Amendment’s ban on insurrectionists holding public office. In recent weeks, a growing number of liberal and conservative legal scholars have embraced the

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — The Chinese hackers who breached senior US officials’ emails in May and June were able to do so by first stealing sensitive data from a Microsoft engineer, the company revealed Wednesday. Multiple mishaps, including the crash of an internal Microsoft system in April 2021 and the hack of the

By Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — Former congressional aide Celeste Maloy will win the Republican special primary election to succeed her onetime boss, GOP Rep. Chris Stewart, in Utah’s 2nd Congressional District, CNN projects. Stewart, who had endorsed Maloy, is expected to vacate the seat on September 15 over his wife’s health concerns. Maloy will

By Sara Murray, CNN (CNN) — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis wants to keep the identities of jurors who may be chosen to hear the Georgia 2020 election interference case secret, after grand jurors who issued the indictment against Donald Trump and his allies were doxed online, according to a new court filing. Willis

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge ordered Texas to remove floating barriers in the Rio Grande and barred the state from building new or placing additional buoys in the river, according to a Wednesday court filing, marking a victory for the Biden administration. Judge David Alan Ezra ordered Texas to take down

CNN By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — Mar-a-Lago IT worker Yuscil Taveras has struck a cooperation agreement with the special counsel’s office in the federal case over former President Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents, Taveras’ former defense attorney said in a new court filing. Taveras struck the deal with prosecutors after he was threatened

By Kara Scannell, Marshall Cohen, Annie Grayer and Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — Special counsel David Weiss intends to seek an indictment against President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, relating to gun charges by the end of the month, the Justice Department said Wednesday. Hunter Biden had previously reached a deal involving a felony gun

CNN By Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — The shape of the sprawling Fulton County, Georgia, trial against former President Donald Trump and 18 co-defendants began to emerge Wednesday at the first televised hearing in the case since the indictment was filed last month. The Fulton County district attorney’s office said it’s planned a four months-long

By Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — The shape of the sprawling Fulton County, Georgia, trial against former President Donald Trump and 18 co-defendants began to emerge Wednesday at the first televised hearing in the case since the indictment was filed last month. The Fulton County district attorney’s office said it’s planned a four months-long trial

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration announced Wednesday it will cancel seven Trump-era oil and gas leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and protect more than 13 million acres in the federal National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska, stymieing a years-long attempt to drill in the protected region. The cancellation will affect

By Manu Raju and Melanie Zanona, CNN (CNN) — Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell addressed his colleagues behind closed doors on Wednesday about his health, telling them that his cognitive ability is not impaired and saying that he intends to stay atop the conference he has led for the past 16 years. McConnell, 81, went

By Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge ruled that the jury hearing E. Jean Carroll’s defamation lawsuit will only need to decide how much money Donald Trump will have to pay her, after the judge found the former president was liable for making defamatory statements. The finding is a significant blow to Trump,

By Jeff Zeleny, Chief National Affairs Correspondent Claremont, New Hampshire (CNN) — Republican Gov. Chris Sununu grew animated – and agitated – when asked whether Donald Trump was on an unstoppable march to the Republican nomination. “Oh God no!” said Sununu, who has emerged as one of the former president’s biggest GOP critics. “Not even

By Michael Callahan, CNN (CNN) — The US Air Force on Wednesday tested an unarmed nuclear-capable long-range missile, according to the Air Force Global Strike Command. The unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile, equipped with three test reentry vehicles, was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California and traveled 4,200 miles to the Kwajalein

CNN By Manu Raju, Chief Congressional Correspondent (CNN) — The escalating feud between Democrats and Sen. Tommy Tuberville over the Alabama Republican’s blockade of roughly 300 military nominees could soon lead to an even riskier situation: Holding up the confirmation of the nation’s highest-ranking military officer. Gen. C.Q. Brown, who was nominated to be the

By Simone Pathe, CNN (CNN) — Former GOP Rep. Mike Rogers is running for Senate in Michigan, he announced Wednesday, giving Republicans a prominent recruit in an open seat Democrats are trying to defend next year. “I thought I put politics behind me. But like you, I know something’s broken,” the former chairman of the