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Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is helped off the stage at a campaign event in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, July 13.

Trump injured in incident at rally

CNN – Former President Donald Trump was rushed offstage with blood on his ear and face after loud bangs during a Saturday evening rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Trump fell to the ground, seemingly...

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An unprecedented debate could shake up a White House race like no other

CNN — The confrontation in Atlanta between Joe Biden and Donald Trump Thursday night has a good chance of becoming the most fateful presidential debate in US history. For the first time, a sitting...

Visitors walk across the west plaza of the US Supreme Court on June 7, in Washington, DC.

Supreme Court strikes down Trump-era ban on bump stocks on guns

John Fritze, CNN and Devan Cole, CNN June 14, 2024

CNN — The Supreme Court on Friday struck down a federal ban on bump stocks approved by former President Donald Trump, the high court’s latest stroke limiting the power of federal agencies to act...

An abortion rights advocate shows a box of mifepristone outside the Supreme Court on March 26. Shuran Huang/The Washington Post/Getty Images

Supreme Court ruling allows abortion pill to remain widely available

Tierney Sneed and John Fritze, CNN June 13, 2024

CNN — The Supreme Court justices suggested that abortion opponents had other ways to seek stricter rules for abortion drugs in the court’s unanimous ruling that rejected a group of anti-abortion organizations...

Hunter Biden departs from federal court on Tuesday. Matt Slocum/AP

Hunter Biden convicted on all 3 charges at federal gun trial

Marshall Cohen and Holmes Lybrand, CNN June 11, 2024

CNN — A federal jury has convicted Hunter Biden on all three federal felony gun charges he faced, concluding that he violated laws meant to prevent drug addicts from owning firearms. The conviction...

City officials are asking people to come forward with information about an early morning shooting that injured more than two dozen people in Akron, Ohio, Sunday. Mike Vielhaber/News 5 Cleveland via AP

A 27-year-old man was killed and 24 other people were shot when gunfire erupted during an Ohio birthday party

CNN – A 27-year-old man was killed and 24 other people were shot after gunfire erupted early Sunday morning in Akron, Ohio, during what a police official said was a big birthday party. Officers responded...

Former U.S. President Donald Trump sits at the defendant's table inside the courthouse at his hush money trial at Manhattan Criminal Court on May 30, 2024 in New York City. (Justin Lane/Pool/Getty Images)

Trump found guilty in hush money trial

Jeremy Herb, CNN May 30, 2024

A Manhattan jury found Donald Trump guilty of 34 charges of falsifying business records Thursday, an unprecedented and historic verdict that makes Trump the first former president in American history...

What a US farmworker’s case of bird flu tells us about tracking the infection

Brenda Goodman, CNN May 3, 2024

A US farmworker who caught bird flu after working with dairy cattle in Texas appears to be the first known case of mammal-to-human transmission of the virus, a new study shows. The...

People eating ‘grass and peanut shells’ in Darfur, UN says, as hunger crisis engulfs war-ravaged Sudan

CNN -- Time is running out to prevent starvation in Darfur, in western Sudan, a UN agency has warned, as escalating violence devastates the African nation. People have been forced to consume “grass...

Metal detectors. No banners, flags or clear bags. Expect heightened security at university commencements after protests

  CNN -- Madelyn Gamble’s journey to graduation at Indiana University has been bookended by forces beyond her control. Gamble spent freshman year taking online university courses...

Takeaways from Day 10 of the Donald Trump hush money trial

CNN -- Donald Trump’s attorneys on Thursday sought to paint one of the witnesses at the heart of the hush money deal with Stormy Daniels as someone with a long history of...

At the student protest at UPenn, passions are clear and dialogue is lacking

The chants, banners and tents announce the presence of the student protest camp at the University of Pennsylvania from several blocks away. Unlike other colleges witnessing demonstrations around the...