The Lead with Jake Tapper

CNN's lead DC anchor and chief Washington correspondent, Jake Tapper, hosts this two-hour long weekd

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Vladimir Putin is vowing retaliation after Ukrainian forces unleashed a pre-dawn strike on the bridg

A suspected serial killer has been in caught by law enforcement and makes his first court appearance

President Joe Biden on Thursday said he doesn't believe the war in Ukraine will drag on for years. P

FBI Director Christopher Wray faces off with his toughest critics during a heated congressional hear

President Zelensky appears at the NATO summit, requesting membership in the alliance as Turkey agree

The 31 member nations in NATO will meet to discuss Ukraine potentially joining the alliance. Plus, t

First: For the first time since the start of Russia's war, Ukraine will be getting an aid package fr

First: Walt Nauta, the Trump aide who allegedly hid boxes of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago befo

First: Lab tests confirm a baggy of white powder found just steps from the West Wing Sunday was fill

Special July 4th edition

2023/7/4

First: From iowa to New Hampshire to the White House, 2024 presidential candidates hit parades, kiss

Today on The Lead: CNN is on the front lines, where Ukraine's fight for freedom is in the trenches.

40 million Americans will not get the student loan forgiveness President Biden promised them after t

The Supreme Court rejects race-based affirmative action in college admissions in a landmark decision

Investigators from the special counsel’s office are in Atlanta to interview Georgia Secretary of Sta

A city center in eastern Ukraine is rocked by a missile strike. Why this target and why now? Plus, w

Putin makes his first public comments, claiming that any attempts of internal mutiny will end in def

What went so tragically wrong and caused the submersible filled with five people to implode near the

All five passengers on the missing Titanic submersible are believed dead after missing debris is fou

More reports of noises from the ocean in the desperate search for a missing sub that vanished during

Hunter Biden strikes a deal on a felony charge and agrees to plead guilty on two misdemeanors. Plus,