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Officials say at least 6 people have died in the “unprecedented” wildfires that are raging through Hawaii’s Big Island and Maui. Hawaii Gov. Josh Green says much of Lahaina, the historic whaling village and tourism hotspot on Maui, is destroyed. Hurricane Dora and high pressure over the northern Pacific have created high winds that are moving westward. Kelly Bryce is a charter boat captain who was...

During a speech in New Hampshire, former President Trump attacked special counsel Jack Smith, calling the criminal investigation into the 2020 election interference “ridiculous,” and claimed it is targeting his First Amendment rights. Trump also suggested he wouldn’t be able to campaign because of the charges since he’d be sitting in a courtroom on “bullsh*t.” CNN National Correspondent Kristen Ho...

Former President Trump’s lawyers claim special counsel Jack Smith and his team are on a politically motivated campaign to restrict his First Amendment rights. Prosecutors have proposed a more restrictive protective order over evidence in the criminal election interference case, pointing to Trump’s public statements. The Trump team wants narrower rules over what he can do with evidence he is given....

Former President Trump pleaded not guilty to the new charges special counsel Jack Smith brought against him in the Mar-a-Lago documents case. This is the second time in 24 hours that he entered a not guilty plea. Just yesterday, the former President was arraigned in Washington, DC in the special counsel’s separate investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Former Republican U.S. Rep...

Former President Trump appeared in court for his third indictment and pleaded not guilty to four criminal charges related to his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election that he lost to now-President Joe Biden. The next hearing in the case is scheduled for August 28, just five days after the first Republican presidential primary debate. Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez tells Ande...

Former President Trump will be arrested and arraigned tomorrow at a Washington, DC federal courthouse after being indicted on four criminal charges by a grand jury in special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into attempts to overturn the 2020 election. Prosecutors allege that the former president “was determined to remain in power” after losing the election. Former Assistant U.S. Attorney Elie H...

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The newest co-defendant in the special counsel’s criminal case against former President Trump and his staff over their alleged mishandling of classified information made his first court appearance. Carlos De Oliveira, the Mar-a-Lago property manager, was indicted by a grand jury on four charges last week and was released on $100,000 bond pending trial. Trump and his aide Walt Nauta have already pl...

Sources tell CNN the Top Secret document that former President Trump was heard discussing at a 2021 meeting at his New Jersey golf club was returned to the National Archives in January 2022 despite the former President saying it didn’t exist. Trump was charged with retaining the classified document as part of the superseding indictment. Conservative lawyer George Conway joins AC360 to discuss the...

Special counsel Jack Smith has brought additional charges against former President Trump in the classified documents case. Court documents show that Trump is being charged with an additional count of willful retention of national defense information and two additional obstruction counts related to alleged attempts to delete surveillance video footage at Mar-a-Lago Club last summer. Former FBI Depu...

The plea deal between the Justice Department and Hunter Biden is on hold after a judge said she “cannot accept the plea agreement today.” District Judge Maryellen Noreika said she had “concerns” with the deal. The president’s son had agreed to plead guilty to two tax misdemeanors with prosecutors saying they’d recommend a sentence of probation. The deal was also meant to resolve a federal firearms...

Sources tell CNN that Trevor Reed, the former U.S. Marine who was wrongfully detained in Russia for nearly three years before being released in a prisoner swap, was injured in Ukraine and is being treated at a hospital in Germany. CNN Chief National Security Correspondent Jim Sciutto tells Anderson Cooper what he’s hearing about how and why Reed ended up in Ukraine. Plus, LeBron James’ eldest son,...

Sources tell CNN that special counsel Jack Smith and his team of investigators are looking closely at a February 2020 meeting in the Oval Office where then-President Trump praised improvements to the security of U.S. elections, including his administration’s work to expand the use of paper ballots and support security audits of vote tallies. These details contradict the voter-fraud conspiracy theo...

The federal judge presiding over former President Trump’s classified documents case has scheduled his trial for May 2024. That’s months after the December request by special counsel Jack Smith. If that May timeline holds, the trial would fall deep in the 2024 race for the White House and would be during multiple Republican presidential primaries. Journalists and authors Bob Woodward and Carl Berns...

Investigators with special counsel Jack Smith’s team are expected to talk to additional witnesses over the next several weeks in their election interference probe as a potential third indictment for the former President Trump looms. One of those witnesses is expected to be a former attorney for Trump. The former president was told by the special counsel that he is a target in the investigation int...

Sources tell CNN that former President Trump’s team of lawyers and advisers are trying to find out if there is any evidence or witnesses they don’t know about that are bolstering special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into the efforts to overturn the 2020 election. The former president said he received a target letter from Smith over the weekend. CNN Chief Correspondent Kaitlan Collins tells A...

Former President Trump says he’s been informed by special counsel Jack Smith’s office that he is the target of the criminal investigation into the attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, a sign he could be charged soon. The former President has already been indicted twice, in a New York hush money case and in Smith's probe into Trump's mishandling of classified documents. Former FBI D...

West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin defended his flirtation with a third-party presidential campaign saying he had no plans to play “spoiler” in the 2024 election. Manchin spoke at a No Labels forum in New Hampshire with former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, a Republican, who told reporters after that any talk of a Manchin-Huntsman ticket was premature and a distraction. Cornel West is running for...

Rex Heuermann, a New York architect, pleaded not guilty Friday to six counts of murder in connection with the deaths of three of the four women known as the "Gilgo Four". The charges relate to the deaths of Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman, and Amber Costello. A fourth woman, Maureen Brainard-Barnes, was found in the same spot, alongside the other victims, and authorities say Heuermann is also t...

Special counsel Jack Smith told a federal judge Thursday that there was no reason to postpone scheduling a trial date in the classified documents case against Donald Trump, in a court filing that aggressively rejected the reasons the former president and his co-defendant gave for why the trial should be delayed. Tim Parlatore, a former member of the former president's legal team, joins Anderson. ...

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a former Trump ally who launched his presidential bid in June, has made it his mission to sharply attack Trump. Christie told Anderson he has reached the number of donors that the Republican National Committee requires candidates to meet in order to make the first GOP primary debate stage in August. Christie also weighed in on how FBI Director Christopher Wra...

Former Pres. Trump is trying to run out the clock in the classified documents case. A court filing shows attorneys for him and his co-defendant Walt Nauta are asking a federal judge to delay the case. They argue the former president can’t be tried until after the 2024 election. Special counsel Jack Smith wants a December trial. Anderson talks to Rep. Daniel Goldman, who before running for office w...

Paperwork and photographs obtained exclusively by the London-based Russian investigations group the Dossier Center, and shared with CNN, and other news outlets, reveal details the Kremlin shrouds from public view. The fact that Putin uses a train is well known. The Kremlin itself has released images of meetings held on board, in an ornately decorated boardroom. The contents of the train’s other 20...

Special counsel Jack Smith and his investigators have a signaled a continued interest on a chaotic Oval Office meeting after then-President Trump lost the 2020 election and his allies allegedly schemed about ways to keep him in power over objections to White House counsel. Former National Security Adviser John Bolton wasn’t in the room for that meeting but is familiar with the players, including t...

Special counsel Jack Smith and his investigators have a signaled a continued interest on a chaotic Oval Office after then-President Trump lost the 2020 election and his allies allegedly schemed about ways to keep him in power over objections to White House counsel. Sources tell CNN that investigators have asked several witnesses before the grand jury and during interviews about that meeting. CNN C...