Politics

By Gregory Krieg, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris will not attend next month’s Al Smith charity dinner in New York City, her campaign has told organizers, opting instead to stump in a battleground state on October 17, less than three weeks before the election. The historic Catholic fundraiser traditionally features light roasts by the

CNN By Samantha Waldenberg, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday accepted an invitation from CNN to debate former President Donald Trump on October 23, challenging her rival to another engagement on a public stage in the final weeks of the campaign. “Vice President Harris is ready for another opportunity to share a stage with

By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — The first presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump dominated Americans’ political attention in the week that followed. It also served to elevate a set of false social media claims about migrants to sudden national prevalence. That’s the latest from The Breakthrough, a CNN polling project that tracks

By Samantha Waldenberg, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday accepted an invitation from CNN to debate former President Donald Trump on October 23, challenging her rival to another engagement on a public stage in the final weeks of the campaign. “Vice President Harris is ready for another opportunity to share a stage with Donald

By Shania Shelton, CNN (CNN) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday signed a bill that aims to reduce social media use among children, the latest state effort to regulate the medium over increasing concerns that heavy use is damaging to young people. The Protecting Our Kids from Social Media Addiction Act makes it unlawful for online services and applications

By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump returned Saturday for a campaign rally in North Carolina, where the former president is confronting a mess he played a key role in making in the critical battleground state. The Republican nominee for governor, Mark Robinson – whom Trump has repeatedly compared to Martin Luther King Jr.

By Tami Luhby and Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump has dangled in front of voters what many Republican candidates before him have offered in the past. “If you vote for me, I’m going to reduce your taxes,” the former president told a New York crowd this week. How Trump plans to cut taxes,

By Bob Ortega and Anna-Maja Rappard, CNN Phoenix (CNN) — When the ballot counting begins inside Arizona’s Maricopa County Tabulation Center this November, election workers will be protected behind doors and windows with bullet-proof glass and two layers of fencing. Security cameras will be monitored for suspicious activity inside and outside the building. A fleet

By David Wright and Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — Kamala Harris entered September – and the closing weeks of the presidential campaign – with significantly more available campaign cash than Donald Trump, new federal filings show, after setting a grassroots fundraising record during her first full month as the Democratic presidential nominee. Fundraising by the

By Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The Arizona Supreme Court ruled Friday that nearly 100,000 residents who may not have fulfilled the state’s proof-of-citizenship requirements can still vote in state and local races this year, quickly resolving how election officials should address a clerical glitch that had left in question the eligibility of those registered voters

By Jeff Zeleny, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump believes he will win four electoral votes from Nebraska, but it’s the fifth one that he is increasingly fretting about – leading the former president and his Republican allies to mount a last-ditch effort to try and change state election law only weeks before ballots are cast.

By Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — The US soldier who ran across the border from South to North Korea last year was sentenced Friday to one year in confinement and dishonorable discharge after pleading guilty to charges of desertion and assault. Pvt. Travis King pleaded guilty at a court martial in Fort Bliss, Texas, to

CNN By Steve Contorno and Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — When absentee ballots first landed on doorsteps in Michigan last month, so did Paul Hudson, a Grand Rapids lawyer and a Republican running to represent the area in Congress. Armed with an app that told him where likely voters lived and which houses might be

By Arlette Saenz and Samantha Waldenberg, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden convened the leaders of Australia, India and Japan for a Quad summit in his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware, this weekend, aiming to put a final stamp on an alliance he hopes will endure beyond his presidency. The current four-nation partnership is set to enter a new era

By Oren Liebermann, Natasha Bertrand and Alex Marquardt, CNN (CNN) — The US is expected to announce a major weapons package to Ukraine as soon as next week, but it will likely delay the shipping of the equipment due to inventory shortages, according to two US officials. The US currently has $5.9 billion left in Presidential

By Holmes Lybrand and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — Secret Service acting Director Ronald Rowe admitted a shocking breach of protocol before former President Donald Trump was shot at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13. “There was complacency on the part of others that led to a breach in protocol,” Rowe said at

By Marshall Cohen and Jason Morris, CNN (CNN) — Allies of former President Donald Trump who control the Georgia State Election Board approved a controversial new rule Friday requiring counties to hand-count the number of ballots cast at polling places on Election Day, despite bipartisan objections from election officials and poll workers. The vote was 3-2,