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A super PAC tied to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell came to the rescue of J.D. Vance, the struggling Senate Republican candidate in Ohio, a state Democrat Joe Biden lost by 8 points in 2020.

A document unsealed Thursday, which offered specifics about the crimes the Justice Department is investigating, including "willful retention of national defense information," sharpens the focus on former President Donald Trump as a possible subject of the criminal probe, several legal experts told CNN.

After losing her primary this week, Wyoming GOP Rep. Liz Cheney's focus will turn back to her position as vice chair of the House select committee investigating January 6, which is expected to resume hearings and release its final report this fall. Those will come as Donald Trump is increasingly back in the political spotlight, between his mounting legal problems, his endorsed candidates steadily advancing through key midterm primaries and his teasing of another White House bid.

A federal judge in Florida on Thursday ruled that a law pushed by Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis restricting conversations around race in schools and the workplace is unconstitutional.

The FBI search of Donald Trump's Florida resort and the removal of classified information raise a compelling need for maximum public disclosure given the involvement of an ex-president who's a likely 2024 candidate.

In the days since the FBI seized classified and top secret documents from Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort, the former President and his allies have claimed that Trump had a "standing order" to declassify documents he took from the Oval Office to the White House residence.

The good news is that the government found a way to do something about climate change. The bad news is that lawmakers did it in a very inefficient way. The Inflation Reduction Act includes tax credits for electric vehicles, but zero of currently available EVs will be eligible for the full credit next year.

Former President Donald Trump asked the full bench of the DC US Circuit Court of Appeals to review a recent appellate panel ruling okaying the Internal Revenue Service's release of Trump's tax returns to a House committee.

Read CNN's Fast Facts on former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and learn about the presidential candidate.

Former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro asked a federal judge to dismiss the criminal contempt of Congress case that was brought against him after he did not comply with a House January 6 Committee subpoena.

Top Biden administration officials announced new steps Thursday to accelerate the US response to the spread of monkeypox amid high demand for vaccines and treatments.

Former President Donald Trump has created a unique gravitational pull for lawsuits and investigations that often hit the people in his orbit. Now there's a burst of activity from the authorities circling around him who are all considering ways to hold him accountable.

The Florida state Senate will pause its proceedings to remove state attorney Andrew Warren, who was suspended by Gov. Ron DeSantis for his pledge not to prosecute certain cases, according to a letter penned by Senate President Wilton Simpson on Wednesday.

The judge who approved the warrant to search former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate is holding a hearing Thursday to discuss requests to unseal investigators' probable cause affidavit. Follow here for live news updates from the courtroom.

Allen Weisselberg, the former chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, pleaded guilty Thursday to his role in a 15-year-long tax fraud scheme, and as part of the deal he has agreed to testify against former President Donald Trump's real estate company at trial.

Two provisions that have been quietly tucked into the newly signed Inflation Reduction Act aim to provide financial relief to farmers of color who say they have been discriminated against over the years.

An extraordinary dispute will play out in a federal courthouse in South Florida on Thursday afternoon over what transparency the American public is owed into the Justice Department investigation of the handling of classified documents from former President Donald Trump's White House.

Ex-President Donald Trump is considering the next escalation of his feud with the FBI, which has already put agents at risk and appears to be part of his effort to turn the search of his home for classified documents into a launch pad for his likely 2024 campaign.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp asked a judge on Wednesday to throw out a subpoena from the Fulton County district attorney requiring the Republican governor to appear before the grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump's attempts to overturn the 2020 election results in the state.