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By Jason Morris and Sara Murray, CNN Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is asking a Georgia court to dismiss Donald Trump‘s request to toss the final report and evidence from a special grand jury that spent months investigating efforts by the former president and his allies attempting to overturn the 2020 election. The district

CNN By Tami Luhby, CNN It’s still likely that the US could default on its obligations early next month — possibly as soon as June 1 — if Congress doesn’t act, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen reiterated Monday. The looming deadline is keeping the pressure high on House Republicans and the White House to bridge their

By Tami Luhby, CNN It’s still likely that the US could default on its obligations early next month — possibly as soon as June 1 — if Congress doesn’t act, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen reiterated Monday. The looming deadline is keeping the pressure high on House Republicans and the White House to bridge their differences

By Zachary Cohen, Devan Cole, Tierney Sneed, Evan Perez, Hannah Rabinowitz, Jeremy Herb and Marshall Cohen, CNN Special counsel John Durham concluded that the FBI should never have launched a full investigation into connections between Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia during the 2016 election, according to a report compiled over three years by the Trump-administration

By Kevin Liptak, CNN It happens to every American president: a trip abroad gets derailed when crises are unfolding at home. With the US economy hanging in the balance, President Joe Biden departs this week for a week-long visit to Asia. He’s acknowledged the trip may be scrapped as negotiations on raising the nation’s borrowing

By Manu Raju, Annie Grayer, Kristin Wilson and Melanie Hicken, CNN Virginia Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly said two staffers were injured Monday by a man wielding a bat who came into his district office in Fairfax. Connolly told CNN that the assailant who entered his office and attacked two of his aides did so with

By Maegan Vazquez and Donald Judd, CNN President Joe Biden will nominate Dr. Monica Bertagnolli, who currently leads the National Cancer Institute, to be the next director of the National Institutes of Health, the White House announced on Monday. Biden called Bertagnolli “a world-class physician-scientist whose vision and leadership will ensure NIH continues to be

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter The Supreme Court on Monday sided with a death row inmate in Alabama — whose scheduled execution by lethal injection was called off at the last minute by the state — who seeks to die by nitrogen gas when he is ultimately executed. Alabama had asked the

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter The Supreme Court granted a request from the Biden administration to review a federal appeals court decision that allows for a handful of members of Congress to sue a government agency for records related to a Washington, DC, hotel once partly owned by former President Donald Trump

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to consider a lower court decision that struck down a congressional district in South Carolina as an illegal racial gerrymander. The lower court held that the congressional district — which includes Charleston — “constituted and unconstitutional racial gerrymander in violation of

By Joan Biskupic, CNN Senior Supreme Court Analyst Supreme Court justices are entering the peak season for back-channeling. This is when individual justices intensify their private huddling to try to resolve seemingly intractable differences and when a personal plea — out of sight of the others — might persuade someone to abandon a concurring opinion

By Aaron Pellish and Jack Forrest, CNN Former Energy Secretary Rick Perry on Sunday teased a possible 2024 presidential run while declining to support Donald Trump‘s campaign, becoming the latest onetime Trump appointee to distance himself from the former president’s third White House bid. Perry, who unsuccessfully sought the 2012 and 2016 GOP presidential nominations,

By Alayna Treene, CNN House Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul announced Sunday that he had formally requested a series of transcribed interviews from current and former State Department officials as part of his panel’s investigation into the Biden administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. The Republican-led committee’s requests for on-the-record interviews are its first in the probe

By Betsy Klein and Alayna Treene, CNN President Joe Biden is expected to meet Tuesday with congressional leaders on the debt ceiling limit following “productive” staff-level negotiations over the weekend, two sources familiar with the talks told CNN on Sunday, as the US barrels toward a deadline that could come as soon as June 1.