Politics

By Hannah Rabinowitz and Sara Murray, CNN (CNN) — Four years after certification of the presidential election led to rioting at the US Capitol, fights over the once pro forma process are becoming more frequent and widespread as Republicans in battleground states that could be decided by only thousands of votes try to challenge the

By Ethan Cohen, Molly English and Matt Holt, CNN (CNN) — While there are still five weeks until Election Day, voting is already underway across the country and a CNN review suggests pre-election voting this year will drop from the pandemic-era highs of 2020. More than 500,000 votes have already been cast as of Tuesday

By Betsy Klein, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden offered a 100th birthday greeting to former President Jimmy Carter, celebrating a predecessor he said he admires “so darn much.” Calling the former president a “moral force for our nation and the world,” Biden heralded Carter as “a voice of courage, conviction, compassion, and most of

By Eric Bradner and Gregory Krieg, CNN (CNN) — Democrat Tim Walz and Republican JD Vance are set to meet Tuesday night in the only vice presidential debate of the 2024 election – and in what might be the last time the two campaigns square off onstage. The matchup between Walz, the 60-year-old Minnesota governor,

By Michelle Shen and Dianne Gallagher, CNN (CNN) — Early voting in North Carolina is facing hurdles as the impacts of Hurricane Helene continue to devastate communities in the Southeast, blocking roads and disrupting services across the state. The start of mail-in voting in the key state of North Carolina had already been delayed by courts that

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — The man who allegedly claimed he had C4 explosives in his car and sped through a security checkpoint at Donald Trump’s rally in Michigan over the weekend pleaded not guilty to charges against him on Monday. Steven William Nauta has been charged with four state counts, including making a false threat of

By Gloria Pazmino and Gregory Krieg, CNN (CNN) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul told Mayor Eric Adams to clean house during a private phone call with the embattled mayor this past week, according to multiple sources familiar with the call. Hochul did not ask Adams to resign, but she made it clear Adams needs to work to

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance has sought to fill in some details about the “concepts” of a health plan that former President Donald Trump mentioned in the presidential debate in September. In an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press” the following week, Vance said that Trump’s plan

By Associated Press (CNN) — The FBI agreed Monday to pay more than $22 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging female recruits were singled out for dismissal in training and routinely harassed by instructors with sexually charged comments about their breast size, false allegations of infidelity and the need to take contraception “to control

By Jeff Zeleny, CNN Cumming, Georgia (CNN) — The moment Kannan Udayarajan decided to become politically active is seared into his memory. It was four years ago when Republican Sen. David Perdue struck a mocking tone at a Donald Trump rally as he repeatedly mispronounced Kamala Harris’ name. The Middle Georgia crowd laughed right along

By Devan Cole and Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Democrats sued Georgia’s State Election Board on Monday over a new rule that requires counties to hand-count the number of ballots cast at polling places on Election Day, arguing it will allow “for bad-faith actors to claim that fraud has affected election results.” The new lawsuit escalates

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — Migrant crossings at the US-Mexico border remain at their lowest levels since 2020, according to new federal data obtained by CNN, as Republicans and Democrats spar over border security. Immigration remains among the top issues for voters and former President Donald Trump has made it a cornerstone of his

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