Politics

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s administration on Sunday again asked the Supreme Court to allow the US Postal Service plan for mail ballots to take effect immediately, a mostly procedural move that nonetheless underscores the president’s desire to restrict mail voting during the critical midterm elections. In its emergency appeal, the

By Manu Raju, CNN (CNN) — Sen. John Fetterman is lashing out at former aides who accused him of showing indifference toward his work and of routinely skipping constituent meetings, dismissing them as “disgruntled staffers” pushing “smears” to tarnish his reputation. The first-term Pennsylvania Democrat broke his silence this weekend after The Wall Street Journal

By Steve Contorno, Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — Charlie Kirk sat before a Salt Lake City audience of restaurateurs last September 10, dispensing business advice drawn from his own unlikely rise. The conservative activist argued that a company needed a deep connection to the founder’s “energy and vision” to endure, but he also warned that

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision backing President Donald Trump’s massive ballroom at the White House is already playing into challenges over his other pet projects and has renewed a debate over a legal doctrine tied to an abandoned California ski resort and crocodiles in Egypt. Over the objection of

By Kaanita Iyer, Patrick Svitek, Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s super PAC has started spending its massive war chest on the midterm elections, disclosing ad buys totaling $10 million in support of Texas Senate candidate Ken Paxton. Republicans had long awaited action from MAGA Inc., growing anxious over being outspent in tough

By Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department has issued several subpoenas to Nevada’s secretary of state seeking voter information, marking another effort by the Trump administration to insert the federal government more directly into the administration of elections. The office of Nevada Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar, which oversees elections in the state,

By Fredreka Schouten, Patrick Svitek, CNN (CNN) — For months, Texas Republicans have anxiously awaited the arrival of national resources to help boost Ken Paxton, one of the GOP’s most vulnerable Senate candidates. Now, Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, has entered the scene, this week disclosing the first spending from his super PAC to

By John Fritze, Ethan Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Missouri officials urged the Supreme Court on Friday to reinstate a congressional map that includes an additional seat for the Republican Party, the latest emergency case tied to President Donald Trump’s nationwide redistricting fight to reach the high court. The emergency appeal comes a day after the

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Friday endorsed a request from Republican campaign groups that want to buy discounted TV advertising for this year’s midterms, the latest in a series of emergency rulings from the high court benefiting the GOP. The decision effectively upholds guidance issued by the Federal Communications Commission

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — US Secretary of State Marco Rubio this week instructed diplomats around the world to tell their host countries they must “systematically identify and sever” ties to Iran, and those with branches of Iranian banks must shut them down immediately. On Friday, the US Treasury Department announced it was targeting

By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Friday labeled the Iran war “small potatoes,” the latest attempt to minimize a six-month conflict that caused a spike in gas prices and led to the deaths of 18 American service-members. “A lot of people don’t call it a war. I call it a military

By Evan Perez, Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — For a decade, Venezuelan businessman Alejandro Betancourt has been ensnared in the tentacles of a sprawling Justice Department probe into a sophisticated billion-dollar money laundering scheme that US prosecutors allege embezzled funds from Venezuela’s state-owned oil company known as PDVSA. In recent months, federal prosecutors in Miami

By Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump is planning to take the Qatari-gifted jet used as Air Force One when he travels to Ireland later this month, a senior White House official told CNN, just two months after he flew it to Turkey and then secretly left the country on an alternate plane

By Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — Former Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer violated department policy by drinking alcohol at the office and telling her staff to perform personal tasks for her, an independent Labor Department investigation found. The scathing report published Thursday by the department’s Office of Inspector General also found that Chavez-DeRemer accepted expensive gifts

By Molly English, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump did not dispute that he is building monuments to himself amid his architectural blitz in Washington, DC, saying in a recent interview that “nobody will do it once I’m gone.” When asked about the monuments, such as the “triumphal arch,” by New York Magazine, Trump agreed