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By Aileen Graef, CNN (CNN) — Nancy Pelosi said on Sunday that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was “playing politics” with the idea of expunging former President Donald Trump’s two impeachments. “Kevin is, you know, playing politics. It is not even clear if he constitutionally can expunge those things. If he wants to put his members

By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN (CNN) — Former Vice President Mike Pence said he’s “not yet convinced” that Donald Trump’s actions on January 6, 2021, were criminal, as the former president faces a potential indictment over his actions that day. “I really do hope it doesn’t come to that,” Pence told CNN’s Dana Bash in an

CNN By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN (CNN) — Former Vice President Mike Pence said he’s “not yet convinced” that Donald Trump’s actions on January 6, 2021, were criminal, as the former president faces a potential indictment over his actions that day. “I really do hope it doesn’t come to that,” Pence told CNN’s Dana Bash in

By Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told CNN that the US is attempting to strengthen “lines of communication” with China to avoid conflict between the two superpowers. “We are working to put some stability into the relationship, to put a floor under the relationship, to make sure that the

By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden plans to name a new national monument next week after Emmett Till, a White House official told CNN, honoring the Black teenager whose murder in 1955 helped galvanize the civil rights movement. Biden will designate the monument on Tuesday, which would have been Till’s 82nd birthday.

CNN By Elle Reeve and Samantha Guff, CNN West Palm Beach, Florida (CNN) — They wore Trump hats and Trump T-shirts and cheered wildly when former President Donald Trump took the stage to fireworks. But at the Turning Point Action conference in West Palm Beach, Florida, some of the conservative attendees said they had a

By Kaitlan Collins, CNN Washington (CNN) — Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith’s team has contacted Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, whom former President Donald Trump pressured to overturn the 2020 election, a Kemp official told CNN. “I can confirm our office has been contacted by Jack Smith’s office, but we will decline to comment further

By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — First lady Dr. Jill Biden will travel to Paris next week to celebrate the US rejoining UNESCO, according to senior administration officials, in a visit that will highlight the national security imperative of American involvement in such coalitions and emphasize the role of US leadership in the world. President

By Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) has “no reason to doubt” Russian President Vladimir Putin’s claim that Russia has moved a first batch of tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus, senior DIA officials said on Friday. Putin said last month at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum that “the first [Russian]

By Dianne Gallagher, CNN (CNN) — Alabama GOP Gov. Kay Ivey on Friday approved a new congressional map with just one majority-Black district, despite a court order calling for the redrawn lines to create two majority-Black districts or “something quite close to it.” The state’s Republican-controlled legislature gave final passage to the remedial map earlier

By Andrew Millman and Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — John Lauro, the recent addition to former President Donald Trump’s legal team, told Fox News on Friday there is no reason for the former president to appear before a federal grand jury investigating the 2020 election aftermath, adding that Trump “did absolutely nothing wrong.” Earlier this

CNN By Jason Morris, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump’s legal team in Georgia is continuing its efforts to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from pursuing her 2020 election interference investigation, as possible indictments in the state loom. In a new, 650-page filing in the Superior Court of Fulton County, Trump’s lawyers

By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden is elevating CIA Director Bill Burns to his Cabinet, a symbolic measure that nonetheless represents the major role he has played in national security amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “Under his leadership, the CIA is delivering a clear-eyed, long-term approach to our nation’s top national security

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — Newly declassified court documents revealed Friday that the FBI improperly searched for the name of a US senator in an intelligence database after indications of a foreign threat against the lawmaker, as the intelligence program has come under a barrage of criticism in Congress and from privacy advocates. The

By Elle Reeve and Samantha Guff, CNN West Palm Beach, Florida (CNN) — They wore Trump hats and Trump T-shirts and cheered wildly when former President Donald Trump took the stage to fireworks. But at the Turning Point Action conference in West Palm Beach, Florida, some of the conservative attendees said they had a little

By Jason Morris, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump’s legal team in Georgia is continuing its efforts to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from pursuing her 2020 election interference investigation, as possible indictments in the state loom. In a new, 650-page filing in the Superior Court of Fulton County, Trump’s lawyers stepped

By Marshall Cohen (CNN) — Newly released charging documents provide fresh insights into how the Michigan attorney general built a criminal case against the fake GOP electors who tried to subvert the Electoral College process after the 2020 election. The group of 16 Republicans were charged this week with state felonies for signing certificates falsely

By Haley Britzky and Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden has selected Admiral Lisa Franchetti to be the Navy’s top officer. If confirmed, she would be the first woman in the Navy’s history to hold the job, and the first woman in the joint chiefs of staff. Franchetti, who is currently serving as

By Rebekah Riess and Shania Shelton, CNN (CNN) — The Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, a voting rights group, and several Florida citizens this week filed a federal lawsuit against Gov. Ron DeSantis and other state officials, alleging they created “a bureaucratic system around the implementation of Amendment 4,” preventing Florida citizens with prior felony convictions

CNN By Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — Michael Cohen reached a settlement with the Trump Organization in a dispute over nearly $1 million in unpaid legal bills, averting a civil trial set for Monday. During a court hearing Friday, lawyers for Cohen and the Trump Organization announced they reached the settlement and said the terms