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By Jasmine Wright, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris was fed up. At a March event in Des Moines, Iowa, Harris listened to a shy nursing student recount the harrowing story of a pregnant patient seeking an abortion. The patient’s sudden health complications required the early end of their pregnancy in a state where

By Eric Bradner and Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump addressed evangelical Christian voters at a major gathering in Washington on Saturday, seeking to shore up their support as his legal troubles mount and rivals take aim at his character. Trump told attendees at the Faith & Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority

By Zachary Cohen and Alex Marquardt, CNN (CNN) — The US intelligence community still believes it is plausible that Covid-19 originated in a laboratory or in the wild, a conclusion that has been consistent for months, according to newly declassified information released Friday evening. “All agencies continue to assess that both a natural and laboratory-associated

By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — American officials determined as early as January there was an internal power struggle underway between the private military group Wagner and the Russian government, and have been gathering and closely monitoring intelligence on the volatile dynamic ever since, according to officials. As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine stalled earlier this

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice (CNN) — The special counsel’s office has asked for Donald Trump to be tried in December in the Mar-a-Lago documents matter, because of how classified records must be handled carefully within the criminal case. A federal judge previously put the trial on the calendar for mid-August but

Sabrina Souza and Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — New York Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a bill into law Friday that legally protects doctors who prescribe and send abortion pills to patients in states where abortion services are outlawed or restricted. “We are witnessing a shameful regression of women’s rights in this country as abortion

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — Many Republicans have criticized Hunter Biden’s plea deal. Some of them have focused on how the prosecutor who negotiated the deal, an appointee of President Donald Trump, agreed not only to endorse a sentence of probation on two misdemeanor tax crimes to which Biden pleaded guilty but to

By Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump spoke Thursday at a fundraiser on behalf of defendants charged for their participation in the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, a Trump campaign official told CNN. The fundraiser was hosted at Trump’s private golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, on behalf of

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — The US Naval Criminal Investigative Service is investigating after multiple Navy personnel reported receiving unsolicited smartwatches in the mail that could be installed with data-stealing malicious software, an NCIS spokesperson told CNN on Friday. The news comes after the Army warned publicly this month that “service members across the

By Kylie Atwood and Sam Fossum, CNN (CNN) — The White House confirmed Friday that an official diplomatic reprimand, known as a démarche, had been given to the US Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns following President Joe Biden’s comments comparing China’s Xi Jinping to a dictator at a political fundraiser in California earlier this week.

By Morgan Rimmer, Lauren Fox and Haley Talbot, CNN (CNN) — Speaker Kevin McCarthy and his allies met with members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus ahead of a two-week recess to discuss their strategy for funding the government, as negotiations over appropriations bills loom large over the next month. The meeting came after members

By Hannah Rabinowitz and Kevin Liptak, CNN Washington (CNN) — Attorney General Merrick Garland on Friday rejected claims the Justice Department interfered in the Hunter Biden probe as the White House insisted President Joe Biden wasn’t involved in his son’s business dealings. In congressional testimony publicly released on Thursday, two IRS whistleblowers who worked on

By Rebekah Riess and Shania Shelton, CNN (CNN) — The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit filed by Andrew Warren, a state attorney who was ousted by Gov. Ron DeSantis last year, citing an “unreasonable delay” in filing a challenge to the Republican governor’s authority to suspend him. Warren, a twice-elected Democrat, drew

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — A key GOP election official in Arizona is suing defeated gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake for defamation, arguing that her repeated false claims of malfeasance in the 2022 election have upended his life. In the lawsuit, Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer asserts that Lake, her campaign and an affiliated fundraising

By Katelyn Polantz, Sara Murray, Zachary Cohen and Casey Gannon, CNN Washington (CNN) — Special counsel Jack Smith has compelled at least two Republican fake electors to testify to a federal grand jury in Washington in recent weeks by giving them limited immunity, part of a current push by federal prosecutors to swiftly nail down