Politics

By Betsy Klein, CNN Washington (CNN) — As he approaches the lame duck era of his first and only term, President Joe Biden is showing signs that he’s less constrained by the scrutiny of a campaign. On Wednesday, that meant he took a little time to enjoy “The View.” Joining the more freewheeling format of

By Betsy Klein and Jamie Gangel, CNN (CNN) — The second assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump in as many months has underscored the strain that’s been placed on the US Secret Service during both a busy campaign season and what its acting director refers to as an “unprecedented and hyper-dynamic threat environment.” “Everyone is focused on the

By Clare Foran, Sarah Ferris, Lauren Fox and Haley Talbot, CNN Washington (CNN) — Congress set up a chaotic, high-stakes fight over spending at the end of the year, after both chambers voted on Wednesday to avert a government shutdown. The Senate approved the stopgap spending bill – which will fund the government until December

By Holmes Lybrand, Annie Grayer and Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Secret Service agents failed to take charge of decision-making for security at the Butler, Pennsylvania, rally where former President Donald Trump was shot in July, a bipartisan Senate committee revealed in a new report Wednesday, leading to key lapses in preparation and communication that

By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris holds a 12-point lead over former President Donald Trump among voters younger than 35 – a group that’s largely dissatisfied with the influence it holds in American politics, but remains optimistic about the country’s future, according to new CNN polling conducted by SSRS. Harris leads

By MJ Lee, Kevin Liptak and Kylie Atwood, CNN (CNN) — With the Biden administration essentially pausing work on ceasefire negotiations to end the war in Gaza, Israel’s fresh assaults on Hezbollah in Lebanon this week are adding another layer of complication, making prospects for a near-term deal all the more difficult – if not impossible – at least

By Phil Mattingly, Andrew Seger and Jeremy Moorhead, CNN Lordstown, Ohio (CNN) — For this long-beleaguered region of Northeast Ohio, a gleaming new 2.8 million-square-foot manufacturing plant symbolizes something that has been fleeting in recent years: hope. Hope that years of promises – so often broken or deferred – have been replaced by action in

CNN By Phil Mattingly, Andrew Seger and Jeremy Moorhead, CNN Lordstown, Ohio (CNN) — For this long-beleaguered region of Northeast Ohio, a gleaming new 2.8 million-square-foot manufacturing plant symbolizes something that has been fleeting in recent years: hope. Hope that years of promises – so often broken or deferred – have been replaced by action

By Oren Liebermann, Sarah Ferris and Manu Raju, CNN (CNN) — The US plans to announce billions of dollars for Ukraine in the coming days, committing the funding before it expires after Congress failed to include an extension for the aid in its stopgap measure to keep the government open, according to two defense officials and several congressional sources. The first

By Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, CNN (CNN) — Republicans running for office in North Carolina and around the country are distancing themselves from Mark Robinson, deleting photos of themselves side by side with the embattled Republican nominee for governor and removing any reference to his endorsement from their campaign materials. Robinson has become politically

CNN By Manu Raju, Ted Barrett and Sam Fossum, CNN Washington (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris’ vow to gut the Senate’s filibuster rule to pass a bill codifying abortion rights has cost her an endorsement from a leading Senate moderate: Joe Manchin. The West Virginia independent, one of the staunchest defenders of the potent

By Morgan Rimmer, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Senate unanimously passed a bill guaranteeing that former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris receive the same level of Secret Service protection as a sitting president. Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida brought the legislation to the floor almost days after the House of Representatives

By Hannah Rabinowitz and Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Prosecutors on Tuesday filed the charge of attempted assassination of a major presidential candidate against Ryan Wesley Routh, the man they say camped outside of Donald Trump’s West Palm Beach golf course for hours on end, armed with a rifle that he pointed through a chain-link

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — Special counsel Jack Smith this week will be allowed to file hundreds of pages of legal arguments and evidence gathered in the 2020 election subversion and January 6 US Capitol attack criminal case against former President Donald Trump, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. The filing is likely to be the largest

CNN By John King, CNN Decatur, Georgia (CNN) — Step into the Rebel Teahouse and look to the right: a stack of Kamala Harris campaign brochures on the shelf gives away a big change here. Owner Christine Nguyen has a candidate now and is not only excited to cast her vote but is also doing

By John King, CNN Decatur, Georgia (CNN) — Step into the Rebel Teahouse and look to the right: a stack of Kamala Harris campaign brochures on the shelf gives away a big change here. Owner Christine Nguyen has a candidate now and is not only excited to cast her vote but is also doing a

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — During his presidency, Donald Trump talked repeatedly about the terrorist attacks that occurred in the United States on his watch. He sometimes denounced these attacks in vivid detail. In his 2018 State of the Union address, he spoke of “two terrorist attacks in New York” in “recent weeks.”

CNN By Jennifer Agiesta, Ariel Edwards-Levy and Edward Wu, CNN (CNN) — The race for president between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump is exceedingly close, with Harris’ support resting on stronger personal appeal, while Trump draws on a die-hard base and a wide advantage on handling the economy to run about

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — Former New York City Mayor and Donald Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani has been told he must pay a bill of about $300,000 for a forensic accounting firm’s work to trace his money in his now-aborted bankruptcy proceeding. The dispute over how much Giuliani owes to the accounting firm Global

By Tierney Sneed and Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge in North Dakota ruled Monday that the federal government cannot enforce new regulations mandating employers provide time off for abortion and fertility treatments against thousands of Catholic employers nationwide while their lawsuit challenging the regulations plays out. More than 7,000 Catholic parishes and another 1,380 Catholic employers are