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CNN By Shawna Mizelle, CNN (CNN) — Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana said Sunday he doesn’t think Donald Trump would be able to win a general election, pointing to the GOP’s disappointing performance in last year’s midterm elections when several candidates endorsed by the former president went down to defeat. “The president’s kind of

By Shawna Mizelle, CNN (CNN) — Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana said Sunday he doesn’t think Donald Trump would be able to win a general election, pointing to the GOP’s disappointing performance in last year’s midterm elections when several candidates endorsed by the former president went down to defeat. “The president’s kind of high-profile

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — Ron DeSantis is going to run for president talking about his record in Florida. Joe Biden is too. Biden advisers believe they can hold up what the GOP governor calls his “Florida blueprint” as a warning to the country about what would happen if DeSantis or any other Republican

By Kevin Liptak, Betsy Klein, Sam Fossum, Arlette Saenz, Kristin Wilson and Phil Mattingly, CNN Hiroshima, Japan (CNN) — Staff-level discussions over the debt ceiling and budget between the White House and congressional Republicans will resume Sunday evening after President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy spoke by phone in the afternoon, according to

By Kevin Liptak, CNN Hiroshima, Japan (CNN) — Group of Seven talks culminated Sunday with a series of dramatic, in-person appeals from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as he pressed leaders gathered in Japan to remain united against Russian aggression. Zelensky’s decision to travel halfway across the world to deliver his entreaties to the world’s major

CNN By Paula Reid, Kaitlan Collins, Katelyn Polantz, Kristen Holmes and Sara Murray, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump asked whether he could push back against Justice Department efforts last year to recover any classified documents still in his possession during conversations with his lawyer over compliance with a federal subpoena, according to multiple sources familiar

By Kaanita Iyer, CNN Washington (CNN) — Former Donald Trump attorney Timothy Parlatore, who departed the former president’s legal team earlier this week, said Saturday he left because of infighting among the group. “It had nothing to do with the case itself or the client,” Parlatore told CNN’s Paula Reid on “Newsroom.” “The real reason

By Jake Tapper, Jasmine Wright and Shawna Mizelle, CNN (CNN) — Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser, said Sunday that the White House is working “extremely hard” on the case of a US Navy officer jailed in Japan but declined to say whether President Joe Biden had brought it up during his trip to the

By Sydney Kashiwagi, CNN Washington (CNN) — A bill that would legalize recreational marijuana in Minnesota is on its way to Democratic Gov. Tim Walz for his signature after the state Senate gave the legislation its final stamp of approval following weeks of debate. The Minnesota Senate voted 34-32 early Saturday morning after the measure

CNN By Gregory Wallace, CNN (CNN) — While President Joe Biden’s administration publicly hammered airlines for flight delays and cancellations last summer, behind the scenes Federal Aviation Administration officials were well aware that their own agency also bore responsibility for disrupting thousands of flights, according to previously unreported internal FAA records The FAA’s problem, according

By Gregory Krieg and Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — North Carolina Republicans jumped out on a limb this week when they passed a controversial new abortion ban. Democrats are now rushing to saw it off. The state GOP legislative supermajority’s decision to override Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of the measure sharpened the stakes for

By Gregory Wallace, CNN (CNN) — While President Joe Biden’s administration publicly hammered airlines for flight delays and cancellations last summer, behind the scenes Federal Aviation Administration officials were well aware that their own agency also bore responsibility for disrupting thousands of flights, according to previously unreported internal FAA records The FAA’s problem, according to

By Sean Lyngaas and Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The FBI improperly searched an intelligence database for information on suspects in the January 6, 2021, US Capitol riot and people arrested at 2020 protests after the police killing of George Floyd, according to a court opinion that was unsealed and released Friday. The new details

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — The Treasury Department is steadily draining the funds it has to pay the nation’s bills during the debt ceiling impasse. Treasury had $57.3 billion in cash on hand as of Thursday, according to federal data. The amount bounces around as the agency takes in revenue and makes payments, but

By Jack Forrest (CNN) — A Nebraska bill combining a ban on most abortions after 12 weeks and restrictions on gender-affirming care for transgender Nebraskans under 19 is poised to become law after the state’s unicameral legislature voted for its passage Friday. Nebraska’s LB 574, also known as the “Let Them Grow Act” was first

By Zachary Cohen, Oren Liebermann and Haley Britzky, CNN Washington (CNN) — An early Biden administration initiative to root out extremism in the military was designed to identify people like Jack Teixeira, the 21-year-old Air National Guardsman with a long-history of violent and racist behavior now accused of perpetrating one of the biggest leaks of