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By Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — James Buckley, a former conservative US senator and a Reagan-appointed federal judge, has died, the Conservative Party of New York State confirmed to CNN on Friday. He was 100. Buckley drew national attention when he secured victory in New York in 1970 with the Conservative Party, becoming the state’s

By Sara Murray, Tierney Sneed and Ryan Young, CNN (CNN) — If former President Donald Trump were facing the booking process that newly charged criminal defendants in Fulton County typically experience, he might find himself lingering for hours at the Rice Street jail waiting for his fingerprints and mug shot to be taken. Even by

By Ryan Young and Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump is expected to surrender himself to the Fulton County jail at the end of next week – on Thursday or Friday, a senior law enforcement official with knowledge of the surrender told CNN. Trump and 18 co-defendants were charged on Monday

By Nikki Carvajal (CNN) — President Joe Biden on Friday said he had no comment and deferred to the Department of Justice when asked for his reaction to the special counsel appointment in the case of his son, Hunter Biden. “I have no comment on any investigation that’s going on,” the president said during a

By Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump is planning to skip the first Republican presidential debate on Wednesday and is instead expected to sit for an interview with former Fox News Host Tucker Carlson, multiple sources familiar with his plans tell CNN. Over the last 24 hours, Trump has increasingly been informing

By Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — A debate whisperer to collegiate champions and past presidential nominees is coaching Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Former Vice President Mike Pence is practicing with and without someone acting his onetime running mate. And South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott’s campaign manager wants him to “have fun” onstage. The GOP’s first

By Katelyn Polantz and Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — A federal appeals court in Washington issued a ruling Friday that jeopardizes the sentences of some January 6 rioters who were convicted of misdemeanors for trespassing at the Capitol and were sentenced to both jail time and probation. The ruling means sentences may need to be

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — After a more than year-long investigation, federal officials have concluded that five Chinese solar panel companies have been skirting US tariff laws by routing their operations through four other Southeast Asian countries. The Commerce Department investigation, which began in March 2022, examined eight companies that manufacture solar panels and

CNN By Andrew Kaczynski, Em Steck and Yahya Abou-Ghazala, CNN (CNN) — When conspiracy theorist Alex Jones marched his way to the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, riling up his legion of supporters, an unassuming middle-aged man in a red “Trump 2020” hat conspicuously tagged along. Videos and photographs reviewed by CNN show the

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice Washington (CNN) — The Justice Department is seeking three-decade prison sentences for the leaders of the Proud Boys convicted of seditious conspiracy for plotting and leading the crowd at the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot, positioning the men as failed, thuggish political revolutionaries. In a new court

By Katie Bo Lillis and Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine has ramped up missile strikes on Russian-occupied Crimea in recent weeks in an effort to disrupt Russian logistics and resupply efforts as fighting rages in southern Ukraine – but it’s a strategy that some US officials in Washington are viewing with skepticism. For some

By Andrew Kaczynski, Em Steck and Yahya Abou-Ghazala, CNN (CNN) — When conspiracy theorist Alex Jones marched his way to the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, riling up his legion of supporters, an unassuming middle-aged man in a red “Trump 2020” hat conspicuously tagged along. Videos and photographs reviewed by CNN show the man

By Ella Nilsen and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s disaster fund is already running out of money in a year that’s setting records for billion-dollar weather disasters – all before the peak of Atlantic hurricane season has even arrived. The relief fund is expected to be depleted by the middle

By Nikki Carvajal, CNN (CNN) — On a fall day in September, two men sat watching movies about cowboys and the Old West at a rustic retreat in Maryland. It could have been a relaxing way to spend a weekend – except the men were President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, and

By Arlette Saenz, Kayla Tausche and Donald Judd, CNN (CNN) — The United States and two of its closest allies in Asia on Friday announced renewed commitments in a show of solidarity and force in the face of an ascendant China. The leaders of the United States, South Korea and Japan put aside a fraught

By Kylie Atwood and Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — The Camp David invitation President Joe Biden extended to his Japanese and South Korean counterparts this week – the first summit held at the legendary presidential retreat since 2015 – was a significant show of camaraderie for two increasingly essential US allies. Undergirding the talks is

CNN By Kylie Atwood and Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — The Camp David invitation President Joe Biden extended to his Japanese and South Korean counterparts this week – the first summit held at the legendary presidential retreat since 2015 – was a significant show of camaraderie for two increasingly essential US allies. Undergirding the talks

By Ryan Young and Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — The FBI is aware that some Fulton County officials have received threats of violence, the bureau’s Atlanta office said in a statement Thursday. The threats come days after a local grand jury voted to indict former President Donald Trump and others stemming from their efforts

CNN By Kate Sullivan and Kaitlan Collins, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump on Thursday reacted for the first time on camera to the Georgia indictment that accuses him of being the head of a “criminal enterprise” to overturn the 2020 election, dismissing the criminal charges as a “witch hunt” and a “horrible thing

By Tierney Sneed (CNN) — US District Judge Aileen Cannon has canceled tentative plans to hold a hearing on August 25 on a protective order for classified evidence in the Mar-a-Lago documents case against former President Donald Trump. She said in an order Thursday that the proceeding will take place under seal at a different