National Politics

By Hannah Rabinowitz and Holmes Lybrand, CNN Federal prosecutors rested their case on Thursday against five alleged leaders of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group, ending the initial phase of the first seditious conspiracy trial in over a decade. Over four weeks, government witnesses — including several FBI agents, US Capitol Police officers, current and

By Shawna Mizelle, CNN Ohio Democratic Senate candidate Rep. Tim Ryan on Thursday said he doesn’t want help from his own national party, telling “CNN This Morning” that he doesn’t “really want them at this point.” “You know, the national Democratic Party has never been really good at strategic political decisions. So you know, it

By Dan Merica, CNN Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday said the Republican focus on crime ahead of the 2022 midterm elections was clear hypocrisy, telling CNN’s Don Lemon that the party is not “concerned about voter safety, they just want to keep voters scared.” Clinton, who will headline her first candidate specific

By Dan Merica and Gregory Krieg, CNN When Hillary Clinton takes the stage on Thursday in New York City to boost Democrats in her deep blue adopted home, it will be an unfamiliar scene for someone who was the party’s presidential standard bearer just six years ago. Clinton, despite being one of the best-known Democrats

By Gregory Krieg, CNN The fight for control of the US Senate could come down to Georgia — again. For the second time in less than two years, the Peach State, which elected two Democratic senators in the last election cycle, is home to a contest that has gripped both national parties and potentially holds

By Gabby Orr and Jeff Zeleny, CNN To say that Donald Trump is returning to the campaign trail would suggest he’s ever gone away. But starting Thursday night, the former president returned in a new way — four rallies in five days — for his sprint to Election Day, putting himself at the forefront of

By Annie Grayer, Daniella Diaz, Melanie Zanona and Whitney Wild, CNN When Retired Army Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré briefed House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy about security enhancements his task force would be recommending in the wake of the January 6, 2021, attack, Honoré told CNN McCarthy was skeptical about the need for more Capitol Police

By MJ Lee, Arlette Saenz and Allie Malloy, CNN President Joe Biden warned about threats to democracy should Republicans take Congress as he returned to the campaign trail to stump for Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham in what is poised to be one of his final western campaign stops of the midterms. The rally in

By Simone Pathe, CNN The race for the House is tilting strongly toward the GOP, but the struggle for Senate control is still very much a slog that could go either way, even as late-breaking national winds favor the party out of power. Every race will matter on Election Day as Republicans look to win

By Maeve Reston and Kyung Lah, CNN The voters who poured into a Phoenix high school to hear from former President Barack Obama were looking to send a message of defiance Wednesday night. They said they are determined to defeat former President Donald Trump’s hand-picked slate of election deniers — including gubernatorial nominee Kari Lake,

By Oren Liebermann, CNN An Ethiopian man was arrested outside the Pentagon last week after Pentagon police say he drove through a checkpoint toward officers and later said, “I hate America and I was trying to kill people” as he was being apprehended, according to an affidavit filed in federal court. Tamirat Yehualawork, 36, is

By CNN staff President Joe Biden on Wednesday delivered remarks from Union Station in Washington, DC, on democracy and the upcoming midterm elections. Read his speech as delivered below: Good evening, everyone. Just a few days ago a little before 2:30 a.m. in the morning, a man smashed the back window and broke into the

By Kara Scannell, CNN Former President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit in Florida state court trying to stop the New York attorney general from obtaining records from the trust that holds ownership of the Trump Organization. The civil lawsuit was filed hours after a New York judge denied an effort to move New York Attorney

By Eric Bradner, CNN Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan, who’s vying to hold onto her New Hampshire seat next week, didn’t hesitate to criticize President Joe Biden’s administration in a debate with Republican challenger Don Bolduc on Wednesday — especially distancing herself from the administration’s handling of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan. New Hampshire’s Senate seat