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By Devan Cole, CNN Washington (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump and his 18 co-defendants have been accused of breaking a variety of criminal laws in the Georgia 2020 election subversion case, but one crime ties all their alleged misconduct together: the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. The state law – which is commonly

By Lauren del Valle, CNN (CNN) — The former head of counterintelligence for the FBI’s New York field office pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of conspiracy in connection to a scheme working for a sanctioned Russian oligarch in 2021. Charles McGonigal, a 22-year veteran of the FBI who retired in 2018, pleaded guilty in

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN Washington (CNN) — Suspected Chinese hackers breached the personal and campaign email accounts of a Republican congressman who has been critical of the Chinese government, the lawmaker said in a social media post on Monday. Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska is the first known lawmaker to have their email account hacked

By Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — Special counsel David Weiss said the deal his team previously reached with Hunter Biden to resolve a felony gun possession charge was never approved by a probation officer and is not binding. The Justice Department prosecutors said in a court filing on Tuesday that for the “diversion agreement” to

By Shawn Nottingham, CNN (CNN) — Carlos de Oliveira, the Mar-a-Lago property manager, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to multiple obstruction-related offenses tied to former President Donald Trump’s alleged unlawful retention of documents after leaving office, including classified material at Trump’s Florida resort. De Oliveira, 56, was accompanied by his attorney at the arraignment, which lasted

By Betsy Klein and Kevin Liptak, CNN Milwaukee, Wisconsin (CNN) — President Joe Biden hasn’t let his predecessor’s previous three indictments stop him from traveling the country and trying to break through with a pitch on “Bidenomics.” On Tuesday, he’ll try it again in Wisconsin, hoping his argument about more jobs and manufacturing can lend

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump has launched a barrage of attacks, many of them dishonest, against the Georgia district attorney who is prosecuting him over his attempts to overturn his 2020 election defeat in the state. Both before and after he was indicted Monday in Fulton County, Trump targeted

By Betsy Klein and Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday said he will travel to Maui soon to visit the devastation left behind by wildfires that ravaged the Hawaiian island last week, leaving scores dead and untold damage. In his first comments on the disaster since late last week, Biden said

By Jeremy Herb and Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump on Monday was criminally charged for the fourth time this year in a sweeping Georgia indictment accusing him of being the head of a “criminal enterprise” to overturn the 2020 election. The indictment from Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis included 18

By Marshall Cohen and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — An Atlanta-based grand jury on Monday indicted former President Donald Trump and 18 co-defendants on state charges stemming from their efforts to overturn the former president’s 2020 electoral defeat in the Peach State. Here are the 19 people charged in the Georgia case, according to the

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn his defeat in Georgia in the 2020 presidential election was built on lies. Beginning on Election Night in November 2020 and continuing into 2023, Trump has delivered a relentless barrage of false claims about what happened in Georgia. These claims ranged

By Sara Murray, Jason Morris, Zachary Cohen, Maxime Tamsett, Tierney Sneed, Devan Cole, Marshall Cohen and Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — An Atlanta-based grand jury has indicted Donald Trump and 18 others on state charges stemming from their efforts to overturn the former president’s 2020 electoral defeat. The historic 41-count indictment unsealed Monday is the

By CNN (CNN) — An Atlanta-based grand jury on Monday indicted former President Donald Trump on state charges stemming from his efforts to overturn his 2020 electoral defeat in the Peach State. Read the indictment: The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2023 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — Special counsel Jack Smith’s office argued Monday that allowing Donald Trump to set up a secure room for discussing the classified evidence in the documents case at his Florida residence, as the former president has requested, would be giving him “special treatment” that no other defendant would receive. “Creating

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump is trying to put on hold one of the January 6-related lawsuits he faces because he is now facing criminal charges. The lawsuit accuses Trump of having responsibility for the death of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick and is at an

By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — Cecily Aguilar, the woman charged in connection with the 2020 killing of Army Spc. Vanessa Guillen, has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison. Aguilar pleaded guilty last year to one count of accessory after the fact, and three counts of making a false statement. Aguilar’s boyfriend at

By Alayna Treene and Katelyn Polantz, CNN Washington (CNN) — Donald Trump’s frustration over his ability to speak publicly about his federal election conspiracy case is fueling his plans to continue posting about it on social media, slamming the judge over the weekend after she warned him not to intimidate witnesses, obstruct justice or try

By Ethan Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The Nevada Republican Party will hold its 2024 presidential caucuses on February 8, the party announced Monday. That date will make Nevada the third Republican presidential nominating contest after the Iowa caucuses, which are scheduled for January 15, and the New Hampshire primary, which doesn’t yet have an official