Politics

By Josh Campbell and Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Crime in the United States dropped throughout the first six months of 2024, according to preliminary figures released Monday by the FBI, continuing a trend in falling crime rates the bureau recently noted for 2023. The new numbers show murders from January to June dropped 23% compared with

By Alayna Treene, Aaron Pellish and Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs improperly accessed the medical files of Sen. JD Vance and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the two major party vice presidential nominees, and an investigation is under way. Two sources familiar with the situation confirmed that VA employees

CNN By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — Tim Walz is telling people he’s just as nervous about facing JD Vance as he was the Sunday afternoon in August when he warned Kamala Harris in his running mate interview that he was a bad debater. Maybe more nervous, according to multiple people who’ve spoken to him. And the pressure

By Ebony Davis, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris will end her West Coast campaign swing early and travel from Las Vegas to Washington, DC, on Monday morning to be briefed on the ongoing impacts of Hurricane Helene at the FEMA Headquarters, according to a White House official. The vice president is expected to

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — Religious interest groups are queuing up a series of high-profile appeals at the Supreme Court this fall that could further tear down the wall separating church and state, seeking to take advantage of a friendly 6-3 conservative majority that has rapidly pushed the law in their favor in recent

By Sarah Ferris and Lauren Fox, CNN Washington (CNN) — Speaker Mike Johnson needed to convince former President Donald Trump that a shutdown could hurt their party on Election Day even as the Republican presidential nominee was itching for a fight with Democrats over cracking down on non-citizens voting in elections. So in a recent

By Katie Lobosco, CNN Washington (CNN) — A one-year grace period for student loan borrowers who miss a payment is ending this week. When student loan payments resumed last year after a three-plus year pandemic-era pause, the Biden administration provided what it called an “on-ramp period” through September 30, 2024. During that 12-month period, borrowers

By Daniel Strauss, CNN (CNN) — The only scheduled debate between the vice presidential nominees on Tuesday night – five weeks before Election Day – may also serve as the final word for the campaigns of Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump before a large audience on national television. It’s an unusual

By Alex Marquardt, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration is worried that an attack from Iran is being planned in the wake of Israel’s killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and is working with Israel on defenses, a US official said Sunday night. Joint defenses are being prepared to ward off an attack with changes

By Marshall Cohen and Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump has escalated his long-running assault on the integrity of US elections as the 2024 presidential campaign enters its final stretch, using a new series of lies about ballots, vote-counting and the election process to lay the groundwork to challenge a potential

By Jack Forrest, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump on Sunday repeated his personal insults about Vice President Kamala Harris’ mental state as some GOP allies urged him to stay on message and avoid such attacks after he made similar remarks at a rally the night before. “Joe Biden became mentally impaired. It’s sad, but lying

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department sued Alabama on Friday over the state’s recent effort to remove more than 3,000 names from its voter rolls, arguing the move violated federal law prohibiting such action from taking place too close to an election. Alabama GOP Secretary of State Wes Allen announced on August 13 that

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump is wildly distorting new statistics on immigration and crime to attack Vice President Kamala Harris. Trump falsely claimed Friday and Saturday that the statistics are specifically about criminal offenders who entered the US during the Biden-Harris administration; in reality, the figures are about offenders

By Simone Pathe, CNN Manchester, New Hampshire (CNN) — The last time Kelly Ayotte was on the ballot with Donald Trump, she lost. The former one-term Republican senator is giving it another go in New Hampshire this year, running in the most competitive governor’s race in the country. But the shadow of the top of

By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — Over the past week, Americans were more likely to hear news about former President Donald Trump than about Vice President Kamala Harris, according to The Breakthrough, a CNN polling project that tracks what average Americans are actually hearing, reading and seeing about the presidential candidates throughout the campaign. But

By Manu Raju, CNN Washington (CNN) — The next president could have the power to dramatically reshape the Supreme Court with one or more appointments. But for Kamala Harris, that might not be possible. If Republicans regain control of the Senate, a President Harris would have to rely on the next GOP leader to schedule

CNN By Steve Contorno, Kristen Holmes and Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — In the closing months of a crowded Republican primary for a US Senate seat in Ohio, JD Vance found himself stuck in the middle of the pack. He appeared badly damaged by a barrage of ads painting the venture capitalist and former Donald Trump critic as an anti-MAGA San Francisco

By Kevin Liptak and MJ Lee, CNN (CNN) — The death of Hassan Nasrallah has caught President Joe Biden in a bind: While no one in the White House shed any tears for the longtime Hezbollah leader, the Israeli airstrike that took him out has only worsened fears of an escalating conflict, something Biden says

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court’s divided decision this week allowing Missouri to execute a man for a 1998 murder even though his conviction was contested by prosecutors has heaped renewed scrutiny on the court’s approach to the death penalty. Marcellus Williams, convicted in 2001 of killing former newspaper reporter Felicia Gayle,

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — Tim Walz is telling people he’s just as nervous about facing JD Vance as he was the Sunday afternoon in August when he warned Kamala Harris in his running mate interview that he was a bad debater. Maybe more nervous, according to multiple people who’ve spoken to him. And the pressure is