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By Natasha Bertrand and Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration is searching for ways to keep US forces and assets in Niger to continue anti-terror operations, even as it becomes increasingly unlikely that the military junta that overthrew the country’s government last month will cede power back to the democratically elected president. The

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — Just hours after former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows was dealt state charges accusing him, along with 18 other defendants including Donald Trump, of taking part in a broad criminal conspiracy to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results, he mounted an effort to move his case to federal

CNN By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — Just hours after former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows was dealt state charges accusing him, along with 18 other defendants including Donald Trump, of taking part in a broad criminal conspiracy to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results, he mounted an effort to move his case to

By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — A conservative retired federal judge on Wednesday condemned former President Donald Trump’s criticisms of judges hearing criminal cases brought against him, calling the recent attacks “unprecedented” and “inexcusable.” “The former president’s comments and attacks on the federal judiciary and on the specific individual judges who will preside over

WTVD By Dianne Gallagher, CNN (CNN) — The North Carolina legislature’s Republican supermajority voted to override vetoes from the state’s Democratic governor on a slew of bills Wednesday evening, including a trio of measures that target transgender youth. The House’s and Senate’s override votes, which passed largely along party lines, mean bills that ban gender-affirming

By Rashard Rose, CNN (CNN) — A Texas woman has been charged with threatening in a voicemail to kill the federal judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s criminal case in Washington, DC, over his attempts to overturn the 2020 election. Abigail Jo Shry called the chambers of Judge Tanya Chutkan on August 5, and left

CNN By Kaitlan Collins and Paula Reid, CNN (CNN) — With his attorney in tow, Rudy Giuliani traveled to Mar-a-Lago in recent months on a mission to make a personal and desperate appeal to former President Donald Trump to pay his legal bills. By going in person, a source familiar with the matter told CNN,

By Kaitlan Collins and Paula Reid, CNN (CNN) — With his attorney in tow, Rudy Giuliani traveled to Mar-a-Lago in recent months on a mission to make a personal and desperate appeal to former President Donald Trump to pay his legal bills. By going in person, a source familiar with the matter told CNN, Giuliani

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice (CNN) — Prosecutors from the special counsel’s office have raised ethical questions about the attorney representing one of Donald Trump’s co-defendants in the Mar-a-Lago documents criminal case, marking the second time they’ve raised potential issues about lawyers representing multiple people who’ve worked for the former president. The

By Kaanita Iyer and Ethan Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The issue of recreational marijuana legalization will be on Ohio’s general election ballot in November after the initiative gathered enough signatures, the Ohio secretary of state’s office announced Wednesday. With the ballot measure, Ohio joins several states that have taken on the issue in recent years.

By Dianne Gallagher, CNN (CNN) — The North Carolina legislature’s Republican supermajority voted to override vetoes from the state’s Democratic governor on a slew of bills Wednesday evening, including a trio of measures that target transgender youth. The House’s and Senate’s override votes, which passed largely along party lines, mean bills that ban gender-affirming care

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden made three false claims about his own past in a Tuesday speech in Milwaukee. The speech was focused on the economy and the Inflation Reduction Act the president signed into law one year ago Wednesday, and his economic claims in the prepared address were almost

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — A Georgia indictment of former President Donald Trump for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election lists at least 27 lies Trump told about the election – and that’s counting conservatively. The new indictment, handed up Monday by a grand jury in Fulton County, Georgia, is the second

By Priscilla Alvarez and Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — The White House ordered federal agencies to shore up their cybersecurity after agencies have lagged in implementing a key executive order President Joe Biden issued in 2021, according to a memo first obtained by CNN. Multiple federal departments and agencies have, as of the end of

By Aaron Pellish, Eva McKend and Kim Berryman, CNN (CNN) — After two hours at the Iowa State Fair spent posing for photos, glad-handing attendees visiting the livestock barn and indulging in carnival games and the famous pork chop grill, Tim Scott was heading for the exits when he stopped to meet a group of

By Donald Judd (CNN) — President Joe Biden celebrated the first anniversary of his administration’s signature climate and health care law on Wednesday – and knocked Republicans for opposing the measure during a lively event in the White House’s East Room. “The idea that not one single Republican voted for it, you know, I and

By Jennifer Hansler, Kylie Atwood and Kayla Tausche, CNN (CNN) — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke by phone on Wednesday with American Paul Whelan, who is being held in a remote prison camp in Russia, a source familiar told CNN. The top US diplomat told Whelan to “keep the faith and we’re doing

By Lauren del Valle, CNN (CNN) — A campaign fundraiser for indicted US Rep. George Santos has been charged for allegedly impersonating a high-ranking congressional aide to solicit contributions for the New York Republican’s campaign in 2021, according to court documents. A federal grand jury in Brooklyn indicted Samuel Miele, who worked for the Santos

By Zachary Cohen and Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has asked a judge to set a trial date of March 4, 2024, for former President Donald Trump and his 18 co-defendants – a proposal that would put the Republican presidential candidate on trial a day before he competes in