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By Kate Sullivan, Kylie Atwood and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley on Tuesday acknowledged the steep challenge Republicans face in trying to enact hardline national restrictions but said she believed the federal government should play a role in regulating the procedure and called for a “constructive conversation” on the polarizing issue. She

By Shania Shelton, CNN More than one in five local election officials will be working their first presidential election in 2024, according to a new poll out Tuesday — a sign of the continued strain on election workers who faced waves of threat and harassment after the 2020 election. The rate of turnover among local

By Kevin Liptak, Arlette Saenz, Maegan Vazquez and Jeremy Diamond, CNN President Joe Biden formally announced his bid for reelection Tuesday, setting off a battle to convince the country his record merits another four years in the White House and his age won’t impede his ability to govern. In a video released early Tuesday, Biden

By Lauren del Valle and Kara Scannell, CNN The civil battery and defamation trial for columnist E. Jean Carroll against former President Donald Trump is set to begin Tuesday. Carroll alleges Trump forcibly raped and groped her in a Manhattan luxury department store dressing room in the mid 1990’s. Trump denies the charges and has

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN Iranian hackers accessed a US municipal website for reporting unofficial election results in 2020 but were kicked off the network by US military hackers and didn’t have any impact on voting, a top US general said Monday. There was never a risk that vote counts could have been altered because such

By Em Steck and Andrew Kaczynski, CNN A scam PAC operator was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison Monday after pleading guilty to wire fraud and money laundering for operating a scheme to collect more than $3 million from donors during the 2016 election. Matthew Tunstall, 36, was one of three men who ran

By Holmes Lybrand and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN After months of legal battles, infighting between defense lawyers and dozens of rejected mistrial motions, the federal criminal trial against five Proud Boys accused of plotting to attack the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, moved to its final stage Monday. One prosecutor and two defense attorneys gave

By Maegan Vazquez, Nikki Carvajal and Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden said Monday that he would let people know “real soon” about his reelection plans — stopping short of announcing another run during a White House ceremony honoring the 2023 Teacher of the Year recipients. Asked by reporters about his reelection plans, Biden responded:

By Tierney Sneed A key Democratic senator is scrutinizing a Republican megadonor who financed luxury travel taken by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and a real estate transaction with his family, and examining whether the gifts and deal triggered obligations under US tax law. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden is asking the Texas billionaire

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN Domestic violent extremists have in the last year increasingly shared tactics with each other on using guns to attack electric power stations in a move that likely escalates the threat to US critical infrastructure, according to a Department of Homeland Security bulletin obtained by CNN. Following multiple high-profile attacks on US

By Daniel Dale, CNN Former President Donald Trump keeps using wildly inaccurate figures to minimize the threat of climate change. Trump, now a presidential candidate, has argued in speeches and interviews that the risk of nuclear war is a much more important issue than climate change. He is entitled to his opinion. But he has