The Trump administration battled with CNN for half a year to obtain the email records of a reporter and insisted it all take place under an extraordinary order of secrecy, CNN's lead attorney revealed on Wednesday.The pursuit -- which started…
The US has purchased and will donate 500 million doses of Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine worldwide as it seeks to be a key player in getting other nations vaccinated, a person familiar with the move told CNN.President Joe Biden will announce…
The Biden Justice Department on Wednesday afternoon updated its court filing in a case where it is defending the right of religious schools to discriminate against LGBTQ students after a backlash from critics and a statement from plaintiffs in the…
Democratic Rep. Val Demings on Wednesday officially announced she's running for US Senate in 2022 as the party looks to unseat incumbent GOP Sen. Marco Rubio in a pivotal race.Her candidacy provides Democrats with a high-profile candidate as they hope…
The Republican governors of Florida and Texas are headed toward showdowns with some of the world's largest cruise lines, including Norwegian and Carnival, over whether passengers boarding ships leaving their states can be required to show proof they've been vaccinated.The…
It's a flight delay 17 years in the making.The White House press charter plane scheduled to leave Washington on Tuesday evening ahead of Joe Biden's first trip abroad as president was delayed by cicadas, the noisy insects that have emerged…
When President Joe Biden told officials this spring that he wanted to meet soon with his Russian counterpart for a summit, his team quickly set out to make it happen -- even if some wondered what he really hoped to…
Federal prosecutors have subpoenaed material related to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's book about leadership during the Covid-19 pandemic, people familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal.As part of a broader probe into Covid-19 deaths in New York…
The Justice Department will require federal agents to wear and activate cameras whenever encountering the public "during pre-planned law enforcement operations," according to a memo issued by Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco.As a part of the Justice Department's continued efforts…
They both fidget while they talk, like any teenager would when being questioned in front of multiple cameras. One jokes about her imperfect manicure. The other adjusts her necklace that says "Misery.""Prom is on my birthday," Lauren Hogg says. "I…
The Justice Department argued in a brief filed Monday that it should be permitted to substitute itself for former President Donald Trump as defendant in a defamation lawsuit brought by a longtime magazine columnist, E. Jean Carroll, who accused him…
Senate Democrats are openly frustrated with the immovable man in their caucus -- Sen. Joe Manchin -- and are now resigned to the likelihood that a bulk of their party's agenda stands little chance of passing the evenly divided Senate…
Former President Barack Obama said Republicans have been "cowed into accepting" a series of positions that "would be unrecognizable and unacceptable even five years ago or a decade ago," telling CNN's Anderson Cooper he is worried about the state of…
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday that the Biden administration is looking "at every possible contingency" to help thousands of Afghans who may be at risk of retaliation from the Taliban after US forces withdraw but his answers left…
Never-before-heard audio, obtained exclusively by CNN, shows how former President Donald Trump's longtime adviser Rudy Giuliani relentlessly pressured and coaxed the Ukrainian government in 2019 to investigate baseless conspiracies about then-candidate Joe Biden.The audio is of a July 2019 phone…
The White House is defending President Joe Biden's upcoming meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Geneva next week, saying it's "vital" to protecting America's interests."At the end of the day, what we are looking to do is for the…
Truck driver Clifton Hughey heard talk all his life about a potential third highway bridge to cross the Mississippi River near Memphis.But with one of the two interstate spans here closed after inspectors discovered a critical crack, Hughey's once thirty-minute…
Stormy Daniels said Monday that she has not yet testified in a New York criminal probe into the Trump Organization but that she would "love nothing more than" to be interviewed by prosecutors investigating former President Donald Trump's sprawling company."I…
President Joe Biden has invited Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to visit the White House this summer, national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Monday.Sullivan said Biden discussed the visit during a call with Zelensky earlier Monday afternoon as part of…
US investigators have recovered millions in cryptocurrency they say was paid in ransom to hackers whose attack prompted the shutdown of the key East Coast pipeline last month, the Justice Department announced Monday.The announcement confirms CNN's earlier reporting about the…
