Below are some of the top political news stories of the day:
Former President Donald Trump is facing accusations that he and aides asked a staffer to delete camera footage at his Florida estate in an effort to obstruct the classified documents investigations. (July 27)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump faced new charges Thursday in a case accusing him of illegally possessing classified documents, with prosecutors alleging that he asked a staffer to delete camera footage at his Florida estate in an effort to obstruct a federal investigation into the records.
New charges added to the classified documents case against former President Trump underscore how the Mar-a-Lago investigation is still very much ongoing.
President Joe Biden delivered remarks in Washington, DC, Thursday, paying tribute to the nation’s 33rd president – who, 75 years ago this week, signed an executive order desegregating the US military – while issuing a scathing rebuke of Alabama GOP Sen. Tommy Tuberville, who’s now blocked more...
A staff member at former President Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate has been charged in the special counsel's probe into Trump's handling of classified documents.
Fierce fighting is raging in southeastern Ukraine, where a Western official says Kyiv has launched a major push and Russian President Vladimir Putin says “hostilities have intensified significantly.”
Trump was charged with an additional count of willful retention of national defense information and two new obstruction counts amid Special Counsel Jack Smith's investigation.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis went after Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., over his expressed opposition to the state's new history curriculum and its approach to slavery.
Lawyers for Donald Trump have met with members of special counsel Jack Smith’s team ahead of a potential indictment over the former president’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
The Justice Department’s investigation into former President Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election and in connection to the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol is twisting his Republican primary com…
The U.S. is concealing a longstanding program that retrieves and reverse engineers unidentified flying objects, a former Air Force intelligence officer testified in front of Congress.
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) sharply rebuked a suggestion from Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) that President Biden’s national drug control strategy is flawed because it does not mention God or faith, calli…
Special counsel Jack Smith on Thursday brought additional charges against former President Donald Trump in the case alleging mishandling of classified documents from his time in the White House.
Federal prosecutors’ superseding indictment against former President Trump in his classified documents case on Thursday has brought to light several new charges and revelations. Trump now faces a t…
Lawmakers are reacting to additional charges being brought against former President Donald Trump by special counsel Jack Smith on Thursday evening in his investigation into the mishandling of classified documents from his time at the White House. Republicans are voicing concerns over the news...
House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan announced Thursday that he is scrapping his plans to move forward with a contempt vote in light of Facebook turning over more documents to the committee.
In the 76 days since President Joe Biden imposed tough new restrictions on the nation’s asylum system, the number of migrants crossing the United States’ southern border illegally every day has dropped significantly. Why? The answer to that question is at the heart of a legal challenge to the...
The unraveling of Hunter Biden’s plea agreement has thrust his criminal case into uncertain waters and given new fodder to Republican critics in Congress as they push ahead with investigations into the president’s youngest son.
Read CNN's annotated analysis of the first-ever federal indictment of an ex-president. Trump is charged with a total of 40 counts, including 32 counts of willful retention of national defense information.
President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden goes on trial Monday on three felony gun charges in what federal prosecutors have characterized as "a simple case."
The unprecedented criminal conviction of former President Trump has opened a dark chapter in the history of America's criminal justice system, according to several legal experts.
A New York jury on Thursday pronounced Trump guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in what prosecutors called a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election. Trump is now the first former president to ever be convicted of a crime. He is scheduled to be sentenced on July 11 and may be sent to prison.
Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz is...
Most American agree with the verdict in former President Trump's "hush money" trial and believe he received a fair trial, according to CBS polling. Skyler Henry has more on the numbers.
As the White House finalizes plans for a U.S.-Mexico clampdown that would shut off asylum requests and automatically deny entrance to migrants once a threshold is met, the
The Gila River Indian Community has issued a temporary ban on dances after a tribal police officer was fatally shot and another wounded while responding to a reported disturbance at a Santan home
Rob Burrow, a former rugby star who was widely praised for his fundraising and awareness campaigns after being diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease in 2019, has died
Oregon authorities have closed the state's entire coastline to mussel harvesting due to an outbreak of shellfish poisoning they described as “unprecedented.”
Voters in at least three rural South Dakota counties are set to decide Tuesday whether to return to counting ballots by hand, the latest communities around the country to consider ditching machine tabulators based on unfounded conspiracy theories stemming from the 2020 presidential election.
The three counties, each with fewer than 6,000 residents, would be among the first in the U.S. to require old-school hand counts, which long ago were replaced by ballot tabulators in most of the country.
A number of other states and local governments have...
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