National Politics

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump has been making false claims about transgender people – including an inflammatory and baseless claim on Friday that schools are secretly providing or obtaining gender-affirming surgeries for children. “The transgender thing is incredible. Think of it. Your kid goes to school and comes home

CNN By Sean Lyngaas, Evan Perez, Kylie Atwood, Zachary Cohen and Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration announced a sweeping set of actions to tackle a major Russian government-backed effort to influence the 2024 US presidential election on Wednesday, including unveiling criminal charges against two Russian nationals, sanctions on ten individuals and entities, and the

By Stefano Pozzebon, Natasha Bertrand and Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — A US service member has been detained in Venezuela, according to four US officials familiar with the matter. The service member, a US Navy sailor, is a US citizen and was detained on August 30 in Caracas, according to the officials. One of the

By Sean Lyngaas, Evan Perez, Kylie Atwood, Zachary Cohen and Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration announced a sweeping set of actions to tackle a major Russian government-backed effort to influence the 2024 US presidential election on Wednesday, including unveiling criminal charges against two Russian nationals, sanctions on 10 individuals and entities, and the seizure

By Lauren del Valle and Paula Reid, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump will continue to fight to move his New York hush money case into federal court – and delay his sentencing on that conviction – by now appealing to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, according to a notice of appeal filed Tuesday night.

CNN By Jennifer Agiesta, Ariel Edwards-Levy and Edward Wu, CNN (CNN) — The 2024 presidential campaign’s home stretch kicks off with a mixed outlook across six key battlegrounds, according to new CNN polls conducted by SSRS in each state. Vice President Kamala Harris holds an advantage over former President Donald Trump among likely voters in Wisconsin and

By Priscilla Alvarez, Kristen Holmes and Kevin Liptak, CNN Washington (CNN) — When Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris walk onstage at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia next week, it will be their first in-person encounter — a moment each has been mulling as they prepare with advisers for the high-stakes moment. For

By Lauren Fox, CNN Washington (CNN) — Congress is poised for yet another funding showdown this fall as Republicans and Democrats face off over spending levels ahead of the October deadline and as both sides already appear to be digging in just two months before the election. It’s a dynamic that comes as House Speaker

By Jennifer Agiesta, Ariel Edwards-Levy and Edward Wu, CNN (CNN) — The 2024 presidential campaign’s home stretch kicks off with a mixed outlook across six key battlegrounds, according to new CNN polls conducted by SSRS in each state. Vice President Kamala Harris holds an advantage over former President Donald Trump among likely voters in Wisconsin and Michigan,

By Katelyn Polantz, Zachary Cohen and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — While Donald Trump faces a fresh indictment over efforts to overturn the 2020 election, some of his biggest allies are hoping the revised charging document helps them evade professional consequences and criminal prosecution for their roles nearly four years ago. Special counsel Jack Smith

By Jeff Zeleny, CNN Omaha, Nebraska (CNN) — The battlegrounds of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania may be pivotal in the race for the White House, but winning those blue wall states alone do not guarantee a campaign victory without something else: Omaha’s blue dot. Yard signs with blue circles have begun appearing on lawns across

CNN By Jeff Zeleny, CNN Omaha, Nebraska (CNN) — The battlegrounds of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania may be pivotal in the race for the White House, but winning those blue wall states alone do not guarantee a campaign victory without something else: Omaha’s blue dot. Yard signs with blue circles have begun appearing on lawns

By Katie Lobosco, CNN Washington (CNN) — A group of seven Republican-led states filed a fresh lawsuit Tuesday, seeking to block new student loan forgiveness plans that the Biden administration expected to start rolling out this fall. The lawsuit marks yet another legal challenge to President Joe Biden’s student loan policies and could potentially tie

By Haley Talbot, CNN (CNN) — The House Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday subpoenaed Secretary of State Antony Blinken to appear later this month to discuss its report on the US’ withdrawal from Afghanistan. “The Committee is holding this hearing because the Department of State was central to the Afghanistan withdrawal and served as the

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — A former federal judge along with a government watchdog group and two top scholars on judicial ethics want an appeals court to reassign the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump to a new judge. The group is seeking to file an amicus brief with the 11th US

By John Fritze and Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday backed a Biden administration plan to redistribute $4.5 million in public health funding that had been earmarked for Oklahoma because the state bars clinics from giving out a hotline number that patients can use to access information about abortion. Conservative Justices

By Aaron Pellish, CNN (CNN) — A Michigan judge ruled Tuesday that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. must remain on the ballot in the battleground state after he filed a lawsuit asking the court to remove him, inhibiting his plan to withdraw from key states to ease former President Donald Trump’s path to victory after endorsing

By Tami Luhby and Katie Lobosco, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris is adding tax relief for small businesses to her economic policy platform aimed at helping middle-class and working Americans. Harris unveiled Wednesday a proposal to massively increase the existing small business tax deduction for startup costs and cut the red tape that

By Tierney Sneed and Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump is pleading not guilty to the charges laid out in special counsel Jack Smith’s retooled election subversion indictment against him in federal court. The pleading came in a Tuesday court filing, which also indicated he wants to be excused from appearing in

By Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge Tuesday denied Donald Trump’s request to move the New York hush money case to federal court, finding there is nothing in the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity ruling that alters his view of the fact that the payments were “private, unofficial acts.” Last week, the former president’s