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By Gianluca Mezzofiore and Sean Lyngaas, CNN Images of the leaked classified documents were posted to at least two chatrooms on Discord, a social media platform popular with video gamers, according to a CNN review of Discord posts and interviews with its users. The leaks began months ago on the first chatroom, called Thug Shaker

By Casey Gannon, CNN A Connecticut man who assaulted a Washington, DC, police officer during the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol was sentenced on Friday to seven and a half years in prison. Patrick McCaughey III, 25, was found guilty on nine charges during a bench trial in September 2022, including seven

By Kate Sullivan and Shania Shelton, CNN Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Friday he is not running for president in 2024. “This isn’t our moment,” Pompeo said on Fox News. Pompeo, who had been fueling speculation about a potential bid, said choosing not to run in 2024 was a “deeply personal decision” for

By Sydney Kashiwagi, CNN Michigan’s Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed a package of six expansive gun violence prevention bills into law Thursday that will create universal background checks for all firearms and mandate safe storage requirements around children. Michigan has felt the impact of deadly school shootings in recent years. In February, a gunman killed

By Steve Contorno, CNN Floridians woke up Friday morning to discover Gov. Ron DeSantis had signed into law a six-week abortion ban overnight, meeting behind closed doors with a select group of invited guests to give final approval to a bill that had just passed the state legislature earlier in the day. In backing a

By Holmes Lybrand, Maegan Vazquez and Jennifer Hansler, CNN The Biden administration announced a significant series of actions on Friday intended to target those involved with the deadly influx of illegal fentanyl into the United States stemming from Mexico and chemicals supplied from China. The actions include criminal charges announced by the Department of Justice

By Kevin Liptak and Phil Mattingly, CNN Like so many Americans do each year, President Joe Biden returned to Ireland this week in search of his roots, seeking some connection and some answers in the land his people left so many years ago. He found it in pubs, priests and Parliament, which he said (in

By Katelyn Polantz and Sara Murray, CNN Federal prosecutors investigating former President Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents are pressing multiple witnesses for details about their attorneys, including whether any of them have attempted to influence testimony in order to protect the former president, multiple sources tell CNN. Investigators have focused these questions toward a

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN The sister of Paul Whelan, a US citizen who is wrongfully detained in Russia, on Thursday expressed frustration at her brother’s continued imprisonment in Russia and called on the White House to bring him home. “Paul Whelan deserves better than he is getting for results. He has the White House attention

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter The Supreme Court held Friday that a party involved in a dispute with the Federal Trade Commission or the Securities and Exchange Commission does not have to wait until a final determination in the proceeding has been issued before bringing a constitutional challenge to the agency’s structure

By Hannah Rabinowitz and Jeremy Herb, CNN The suspect in the leak of classified Pentagon documents posted on social media has been charged under the Espionage Act with unauthorized retention and transmission of national defense information and unauthorized removal of classified information and defense materials. Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old airman with the Massachusetts Air National

By Ariane de Vogue, Tierney Sneed and Devan Cole, CNN Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Friday extended a hold on a lower court ruling that would have imposed restrictions on access to an abortion drug, a temporary move meant to give the justices more time to consider the issue. Alito said the order is

By Blake Ellis, Scott Glover, Jeff Winter and Melanie Hicken, CNN Three years ago, before he was granted top secret clearance by the US government and entrusted with highly sensitive eyes-only information intended for officials in the Pentagon, graduating high school senior Jack Teixeira chose the following motto for his yearbook: “Actions speak louder than

By Eric Bradner, Steve Contorno and Kristen Holmes, CNN A slew of 2024 GOP presidential hopefuls courted gun rights activists Friday at a National Rifle Association convention in Indianapolis that took place in the wake of mass shootings in Kentucky and Tennessee in recent days. Former President Donald Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence