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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...

Federal prosecutors say the man arrested with firearms went to former President Obama’s Washington, DC neighborhood after he saw former President Trump’s post on social media what he claimed to be the Obamas’ address. Taylor Taranto already had an open warrant for his arrest related to riot charges connected to the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol. CNN Chief Law Enforcement and Intelligence A...

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Israeli forces launched its largest military operation in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin in more than 20 years, killing at least eight people and injuring about 100 others, according to Palestinian officials. The Israel Defense Forces said in a statement it launched the ongoing “extensive counterterrorism effort in the area of the city of Jenin and the Jenin Camp,” striking “terrorist infras...

President Biden called the Supreme Court’s decision on student loans “wrong” and said he will “stop at nothing” to find student aid relief. The Supreme Court struck down his student loan forgiveness program, blocking millions of borrowers from receiving up to $20,000 in federal student debt relief, just months before student loan payments are set to restart after a yearslong pause. NPR Legal Affai...

The Supreme Court overturned the long-standing precedent that has benefited Black and Latino students in higher education by saying it’s unlawful for colleges and universities to take race into consideration as a specific factor for admissions. CNN Senior Supreme Court Analyst Joan Biskupic was in the courtroom when the opinions were read. She tells AC360 what the mood was like among the justices...

Former President Trump told Semafor and ABC News he has “no regrets” and claims he “didn’t have a classified document” despite CNN obtaining the audio recording of the 2021 meeting in Bedminster, New Jersey where Trump discusses holding secret documents he did not declassify. The former president called his words caught on tape “bravado.” Legendary journalists and authors Bob Woodward and Carl Ber...

Former President Trump insisted he did “nothing wrong” when asked about the audio recording CNN exclusively obtained of the 2021 meeting in Bedminster, New Jersey, where President Trump discusses holding secret documents he did not declassify. Trump claimed what he said was “absolutely fine and very perfectly.” Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe tells Anderson Cooper whether he thinks Jack S...

CNN has exclusively obtained the audio recording of the 2021 meeting in Bedminster, New Jersey, where President Trump discusses holding secret documents he did not declassify. The recording includes new details from the conversation that is a critical piece of evidence in special counsel Jack Smith's indictment of Trump over the mishandling of classified information, including a moment when Trump...

Armored vehicles are on the streets of Moscow after Russia’s FSB security service accused Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin of calling for an “armed rebellion.” Prigozhin is accusing Russia’s military of deliberately striking and killing a “huge amount” of his paramilitary forces. According to sources, White House officials are closely monitoring the situation and the potential power struggle....

The U.S Coast Guard says the Titanic-bound submersible that went missing with five people on board suffered a “catastrophic implosion” ultimately killing everyone. Search crews located “five different major pieces of debris" identified from the Titan submersible. James Cameron was the director of the iconic “Titanic” film and has traveled down to the wreckage more than 30 times. He tells Anderson...

The massive search operation continues for the submersible that went missing Sunday as officials fear there’s less than a day’s worth of oxygen for the five people onboard. The U.S. Coast Guard said this is still a “search and rescue mission” and they are unsure whether the banging noises picked up by sonar are from the missing sub. Josh Gates is the host of Expedition Unknown on Discovery and did...

A massive search operation continues to find the submersible with five people onboard that went missing on a trip to view the Titanic wreckage that sits at the bottom of the ocean nearly 13,000 feet underwater southeast of Newfoundland, Canada. The U.S. Coast Guard says they are working “around the clock” to try and find the missing sub. Per Wimmer is a self-described adventurer who has been invol...

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Sudanese rights organizations say atrocities are being committed in Darfur and CNN has uncovered evidence that the Russian mercenary group Wagner is complicit, continuing to support Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary throughout the months of fighting despite calls by the U.S and others for support to cease. In an exclusive investigation, CNN uncovered the Russian supply lines prolongi...

The U.S. District judge who will oversee the trial of former President Trump issued her first order since he pleaded not guilty to 37 charges related to alleged mishandling of classified documents. Judge Aileen Cannon gave “all attorneys of record and forthcoming attorneys of record” a Friday deadline for getting in touch with the Justice Department’s litigation security group so that they can exp...