Politics

By Patrick Svitek, CNN (CNN) — The House Democratic campaign arm on Monday inflamed ongoing tensions over the influence of party leadership by taking sides in several competitive primaries for battleground House seats. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee waded in by announcing its latest round of “Red to Blue” candidates, a designation that is tantamount

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Gavin Newsom, governor of California. Personal Birth date: October 10, 1967 Birth place: San Francisco, California Birth name: Gavin Christopher Newsom Father: William Alfred Newsom III, lawyer and California state appeals court judge Mother: Tessa Thomas Menzies, waitress, secretary, paralegal and businesswoman

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — A federal magistrate judge compared the Department of Corrections’ treatment of the man accused of opening fire at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner to that of January 6, 2021, Capitol riot defendants during a Monday hearing over the man’s jail conditions. Attorneys for Cole Tomas Allen said in court

By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made a false claim about the military in his testimony to the House on Wednesday. Then he repeated the false claim in his testimony to the Senate on Thursday. Democratic Rep. Jill Tokuda asked Hegseth at a Wednesday hearing of the House Armed Services Committee

By Fredreka Schouten, Ethan Cohen, Renée Rigdon, CNN (CNN) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed into law a map he designed to give Republicans an edge in as many as four seats now held by Democrats. State lawmakers approved the new boundaries just hours after the US Supreme Court issued a decision limiting the

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — For decades, it’s generally been assumed that any mass purges of voter rolls had to be completed at least 90 days out from an election. But Republicans and the Trump administration are now testing the scope of the federal law that imposes that ban on “systematic” removal programs within

By Elise Hammond, CNN (CNN) — Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani is hospitalized in critical but stable condition as he recovers from pneumonia, his spokesperson said. “Mayor Giuliani is a fighter who has faced every challenge in his life with unwavering strength, and he’s fighting with that same level of strength as we speak,”

By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — On Saturday, President Donald Trump told reporters that he was “looking at” a new Iranian peace proposal. Then a reporter reminded Trump that he had said the previous night that the US might be better off not making a deal with Iran. “Well, I wouldn’t have to. I didn’t

By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — Winding down a major US airline is a complicated business. Doing so when the president of the United States hints it could be saved adds another layer of complexity. Wracked with financial trouble, Spirit Airlines had filed for bankruptcy for the second time in August 2025. Months later, the

By Alison Main, CNN (CNN) — Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow, a candidate in the state’s competitive Democratic US Senate primary, made the case for her “authenticity” while responding to criticism she’s facing after an investigation by CNN’s KFile revealed she deleted old social media posts criticizing the rural Midwest and praising California. McMorrow told

By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — US Attorney Jeanine Pirro said Sunday that the Secret Service agent who was shot at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner last weekend was hit by a shotgun blast from the suspect charged with attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump. “We now can establish that a pellet that came from

By Patrick Svitek, CNN (CNN) — The race to lead the country’s biggest blue state has been defined by voter concerns about their quality of life in California and the influence of special interests in Sacramento. It might not seem like the right moment for California’s next governor to come from Silicon Valley. Matt Mahan

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — As the Supreme Court was barreling toward the final weeks of its term last year, Chief Justice John Roberts made a rare public appearance to defend his colleagues from criticism that they were all too eager to kick decades-old precedent to the curb. Still bruising from anger on the

By Aleena Fayaz, Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — The FBI seized 2020 election materials from Georgia just a few weeks after opening a criminal probe, an unusually fast pace for a case of its kind, experts told CNN. The newly released timeline, filed on Friday, was provided by the Justice Department following an order from

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The makers of the abortion pill mifepristone filed an emergency appeal at the Supreme Court on Saturday urging the justices to pause a lower-court ruling that temporarily blocked Americans from accessing the drug through the mail. The fast-track case, filed with conservative Justice Samuel Alito, puts the drug and

By Jeff Zeleny, CNN (CNN) — Two decades have passed since California last elected a Republican governor, but GOP candidate Steve Hilton points to 6 million reasons why he believes it’s possible to do so again. Those are the number of votes President Donald Trump won in California in 2024, despite losing the state to