Politics

Yevgeny Prigozhin leaves the headquarters of the Southern Military District amid Wagner’s pullout from the city of Rostov-on-Don, Russia, June 24. Alexander Ermochenko/ReutersWagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin is listed among passengers on board a plane that crashed north of Moscow, according to Russian state media.Prigozhin, the founder and bombastic leader of Russia’s private military group Wagner, was

CNN  —  A federal judge on Wednesday rejected efforts by former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and ex-Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark to avoid arrest if they fail to turn themselves in by Friday’s deadline in the Georgia election subversion case. US District Judge Steve Jones declined the emergency requests by Meadows

CNN  —  The South Carolina Supreme Court on Wednesday reversed a temporary block on the state’s abortion restrictions, with four justices agreeing and one dissenting in three separate opinions.  The law, known as the ”Fetal Heartbeat and Protection from Abortion Act,” limits most abortions as early as six weeks into a pregnancy, when early cardiac activity can

CNN  —  With front-runner Donald Trump skipping the first 2024 Republican presidential primary debate, eight of his GOP rivals will vie to emerge as the party’s top alternative to the former president in their first on-stage showdown Wednesday night in Milwaukee. The two-hour debate is set to start at 9 p.m. Eastern time. It is

CNN  —  The day before former President Donald Trump announced he would not participate in the 2024 Republican presidential primary debate, GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia campaigned at the Iowa State Fair on Trump’s behalf. Greene was photographed pouring drinks for fair goers and parading a Trump campaign flag on the iconic ski

CNN  —  Special counsel Jack Smith’s office is continuing to investigate whether two employees of Donald Trump gave false testimony to a grand jury as part of the criminal probe into the former president’s retention of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, prosecutors revealed in a court filing Tuesday. The filing provides the most direct explanation of

A view of the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, Georgia, on Aug. 15. Cheney Orr/ReutersDonald Trump is expected to surrender at the Fulton County Jail on Thursday in the Georgia 2020 election subversion case – and when he does the former president will have three different options to pay the $200,000 bond that will keep

CNN  —  Former President Donald Trump has attracted a lot of attention for his lead in the polls and the money race, but he’s also already ahead in an essential area that’s gotten less notice: the delegate process. Trump’s team has the lead in both its understanding of the delegate process and the steps the

CNN  —  Chalk up another first for Donald Trump. In the latest stage of his transformation from the world’s most powerful man to criminal defendant four times over, the ex-president pledged a $200,000 bond Monday, as he steels for another indignity unthinkable in his White House years. The spectacle of him being booked at an