National Politics

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — The judge in the federal January 6, 2021, criminal case against Donald Trump will wait at least seven days before releasing exhibits containing evidence that special counsel Jack Smith is using to argue that the former president is not immune from prosecution. Trump opposes the release of the heavily

By Michael Williams, MJ Lee and Sunlen Serfaty, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden said Thursday that the federal government is rushing to help those affected by Hurricane Milton — and had a stark message for his predecessor, who has been spreading falsehoods about the federal response. Asked by reporters after his remarks at

By Ella Nilsen, CNN Washington (CNN) — The US Federal Emergency Management Agency is rapidly spending its disaster funding as it responds to back-to-back major hurricanes Helene and Milton – coming on top of a nonstop disaster year filled with tornadoes, wildfires and floods. After getting a recent infusion of around $20 billion from Congress

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — A federal appeals court appeared unlikely to fully reverse a judge’s ruling that would end the immigration program known as DACA, which protects undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as minors. However, at a hearing Thursday in New Orleans, judges on the conservative 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals

CNN, GETTY IMAGES, AFP, GETTY IMAGES, SKAKEL FAMILY, WHITE HOUSE, INSTAGRAM, KHOU, KXTV, WABC, TIME MAGAZINE, CNN, CNN, Getty Images, AFP/Getty Images By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — Ethel Kennedy, the widow of former US Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and a longtime human rights activist, died Thursday, her family said. She was 96.

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — Former President Bill Clinton will hit the trail this weekend to begin what is expected to be a very targeted push across battleground states through Election Day, three sources familiar with his plans told CNN. The former president will seek to appeal to rural voters, among whom polls have shown

By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — Ethel Kennedy, the widow of former US Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and a longtime human rights activist, died Thursday, her family said. She was 96. Former Massachusetts Rep. Joe Kennedy III announced the news of his grandmother’s passing on X. Ethel Kennedy was hospitalized after suffering a

By Betsy Klein, Kayla Tausche, Arlette Saenz and Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump’s team has blown past a pair of key deadlines for his presidential transition in a break from precedent that could have longterm national security ramifications. With just over 100 days until a new president is inaugurated and less

By Fredreka Schouten and Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris’ political team has raised $1 billion since entering the presidential race in late July, two sources familiar with the figure told CNN – marking a massive fundraising milestone in her campaign against former President Donald Trump. Other presidential candidates, alongside their political

By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden held a “direct,” 30-minute phone call with his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, their first conversation in almost two months and a chance to confer over Israel’s planned response to an Iranian ballistic missile attack. “They discussed a range of issues,” press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — In the middle of two devastating hurricanes, misinformation about federal assistance for disaster survivors has been running rampant. One major part of FEMA’s assistance that has been mischaracterized by former President Donald Trump and others is a $750 payment that goes to disaster survivors in the immediate aftermath of

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Haley Barbour, former governor of Mississippi. Personal Birth date: October 22, 1947 Birth place: Yazoo City, Mississippi Birth name: Haley Reeves Barbour Father: Jeptha F. Barbour Jr., attorney Mother: Grace LeFlore (Johnson) Barbour Marriage: Marsha (Dickson) Barbour (1971-present) Children: Sterling and Haley

By Haley Talbot, CNN Washington (CNN) — Republicans are fighting a war against misinformation to keep their constituents safe as they brace for Hurricane Milton to make landfall in Florida, including being willing to point the finger at members of their own party — and their presidential nominee. The Category 4 storm is forecast to touch down

By Priscilla Alvarez, Sean Lyngaas, Kayla Tausche and Pete Muntean, CNN (CNN) — In the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, senior Biden administration officials raced to engage in a round-the-clock effort to respond to what appeared to be an unprecedented amount of misinformation circling about the storm and the federal response to it. Meetings were quickly convened across government to

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — A Claude Monet pastel painting stolen by Nazis from a Jewish family during World War II, which vanished for decades only to show up with a Louisiana art dealer, was returned Wednesday in New Orleans to the descendants of its original owners. “Bord de Mer” was one of Monet’s early works and valued at over $500,000

By John Fritze and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court grappled Wednesday with an appeal from an Oklahoma death row inmate who even the state’s conservative attorney general believes should not be executed, with some justices signaling a willingness to let state courts further review allegations that prosecutors withheld evidence in the case.

By Gregory Krieg, Priscilla Alvarez, Eva McKend, MJ Lee and Camila DeChalus, CNN (CNN) — In the two-and-a-half months since Joe Biden ended his reelection bid, Kamala Harris swiftly secured the Democratic presidential nomination, headlined the party’s most rapturous convention since 2008, brought in hundreds of millions of dollars in new campaign donations and surged

By Isabelle Chapman, Majlie de Puy Kamp and Casey Tolan, CNN Pittsburgh (CNN) — In the years that Pennsylvania Senate candidate Dave McCormick led one of the world’s largest hedge funds, the firm bet millions of dollars against some of the state’s biggest and most iconic companies, financial filings show. Under McCormick’s leadership, Bridgewater Associates