National Politics

By Gregory Krieg, CNN (CNN) — Her message has been consistent, but Kamala Harris has in the closing days of the presidential race dropped two notable words from her stump speech: Donald Trump. The former president’s name was again absent from the vice president’s speeches on Monday night in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, where she promised

By Alayna Treene and Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — Popular podcast host Joe Rogan officially endorsed Donald Trump on the eve of the election, a move Trump’s team swiftly touted as a major win in the final hours of their campaign. Rogan on Monday released his latest podcast featuring a two-and-a-half-hour interview with billionaire X

By Eric Bradner and Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump described the United States as an “occupied country,” pointing to both undocumented and legal migrants as he pledged Monday to “rescue every city and town that has been invaded and conquered.” The former president’s comments, at his election eve rally in the critical battleground

CNN By Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump is re-using his 2020 playbook to baselessly claim the 2024 election is being stolen from him and is being joined by allies with big megaphones amplifying his falsehoods ahead of Election Day. Trump has made repeated false claims that Democrats are cheating in the election, and

By Isabel Rosales and Paul P. Murphy, CNN (CNN) — An American social media influencer said he was paid $100 by a pro-Kremlin propagandist to post a fake video of Haitian immigrants claiming to vote in the US presidential election. The payment was one of several the man said he received from the propagandist- a

By Tierney Sneed, Fredreka Schouten and Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — Thousands of mail-in ballots in the battleground state of Pennsylvania have been targeted for rejection as part of a last-minute campaign that has set off alarms for voting rights groups and exasperated local election officials. The effort – which appears to be spearheaded by

By Marshall Cohen, CNN Philadelphia (CNN) — A Pennsylvania judge ruled Monday that Elon Musk’s daily $1 million giveaway to voters can continue, in a victory for the tech billionaire and Donald Trump ally. The practical impact of the ruling, however, is limited and mostly symbolic, because the sweepstakes is set to end Tuesday on

By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — A US soldier who was critically injured over the summer while on the temporary Gaza pier mission died last week, the Army said Monday. The soldier, 23-year-old Sgt. Quandarius Davon Stanley, was one of three US service members injured in non-combat incidents during the mission, though two were immediately

CNN By Molly English, Ethan Cohen and Matt Holt, CNN (CNN) — Pre-election voting is winding down across the country, with many states wrapping up in-person early voting over the weekend. More than 78 million ballots have already been cast in 47 states and the District of Columbia, according to data gathered by CNN, Edison

CNN By Tierney Sneed, Fredreka Schouten and Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — Thousands of mail-in ballots in the battleground state of Pennsylvania have been targeted for rejection as part of a last-minute campaign that has set off alarms for voting rights groups and exasperated local election officials. The effort – which appears to be spearheaded

By Molly English, Ethan Cohen and Matt Holt, CNN (CNN) — Pre-election voting is winding down across the country, with many states wrapping up in-person early voting over the weekend. More than 78 million ballots have already been cast in 47 states and the District of Columbia, according to data gathered by CNN, Edison Research

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump began the final full day of the 2024 presidential campaign as he has spent many of the days prior: lying about immigration, the economy and other subjects. At the first campaign rally of his planned four-rally day, in Raleigh, North Carolina, Trump repeated numerous

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear an appeal over Louisiana’s more Democratic-friendly congressional districts, though the case won’t impact this year’s election. The fight over how to divvy up the state into six congressional districts has been playing out for years, with repeated stops at the Supreme

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Monday ordered a federal appeals court to take another look at the case of a death row inmate in Alabama whom lower courts found has an intellectual disability. The Supreme Court could still decide to hear the underlying questions raised by the appeal in the

By Michelle Shen, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday declined to say how she voted on Proposition 36, a California ballot initiative that would allow for increased sentencing for people convicted of retail theft or drug crimes. “I am not going to talk about the vote on that because honestly, it’s the

CNN By Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump is re-using his 2020 playbook to baselessly claim the 2024 election is being stolen from him and is being joined by allies with big megaphones amplifying his falsehoods ahead of Election Day. Trump has made repeated false claims that Democrats are cheating in the election, and

By Arit John, Veronica Stracqualursi and Alison Main, CNN (CNN) — On a recent 70-degree Tuesday evening, Democratic state Rep. Judy Schwiebert went canvassing in a north Phoenix neighborhood where yards were adorned with Halloween decorations and Trump campaign signs. When Schwiebert, who is running for a Republican-held state Senate seat, knocks on doors, she

By Manu Raju, Ted Barrett and Lauren Fox, CNN (CNN) — Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell’s potential successors have been crisscrossing the country, cozying up to former President Donald Trump and barnstorming key battleground states in the final days of the election to help their party win back the Senate — and help themselves, too.

By Sara Murray, CNN (CNN) — The deep mistrust between conservatives and Republican election officials in Georgia is hampering efforts to slow the tide of election misinformation swirling in this pivotal battleground state. When Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger warned a video of immigrants voting with multiple IDs was fake and likely a Russian

By Arlette Saenz, CNN Spring House, Pennsylvania (CNN) — First lady Jill Biden stood at a church roughly 10 miles from the Philadelphia suburb where she grew up Sunday morning, making an urgent plea before several hundred churchgoers, many of whom held fans with a picture of the woman at the top of the Democratic