Politics

Morgan Rimmer, CNN (CNN) — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell delivered a scathing assessment of the modern Republican Party in an upcoming biography, saying the “MAGA movement is completely wrong” and that Ronald Reagan “wouldn’t recognize” the party today. “I think Trump was the biggest factor in changing the Republican Party from what Ronald Reagan

By Gabe Cohen, Sean Lyngaas and Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Georgia’s secretary of state’s office this month fended off a cyberattack believed to have come from a foreign country against the website voters use to request absentee ballots, the office told CNN. The state’s cyber defenses — aided by tech firm Cloudflare — repelled the hackers’ attempts to

By Kevin Liptak, Priscilla Alvarez and Samantha Waldenberg, CNN Washington (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris plans to deliver a final-stretch closing argument address next week at the same location her rival delivered a fiery speech on January 6, 2021, that set in motion the attack by his supporters at the US Capitol. Harris’ speech

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — A month after demanding that New York election officials keep his name on that state’s presidential ballot, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to remove him from the ballot in the battleground state of Wisconsin. In a longshot emergency appeal, Kennedy argued in part that

By Michael Williams and Samantha Waldenberg, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden believes his predecessor, former President Donald Trump, is a fascist, the White House said Wednesday – the clearest sign yet of what Biden believes is at stake with the election less than two weeks away. The comments from White House press secretary Karine

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — Former President Barack Obama said at a private fundraiser Monday evening that Donald Trump is “somebody who White nationalists explicitly rally around,” going further than how he has ripped into the former president in a series of intense recent campaign rallies. The comments, relayed to CNN by by two

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Personal Birth date: November 14, 1954 Birth place: Birmingham, Alabama Birth name: Condoleezza Rice Father: John Wesley Rice Jr., minister and dean Mother: Angelena (Ray) Rice, a high school teacher Education: University of Denver, B. A.,

By Evan Perez, Hannah Rabinowitz and Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department warned Elon Musk’s America PAC in recent days that his $1 million sweepstakes to registered voters in swing states may violate federal law, people briefed on the matter told CNN. Musk, who has thrown his support behind former President Donald Trump and

By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump and his team still have not taken critical steps toward preparing for a potential presidential transition if he wins the White House, with nonpartisan experts and Democrats raising alarms with just 13 days to go before Election Day. Trump’s team has blown past a pair

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — As former President Donald Trump turns to the final days of his campaign for a second term in the White House, some of his ex-aides are trying to get into another building in Washington: the Supreme Court. Trump’s former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, is urging the justices to

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris said for the first time Tuesday that she backs hiking the federal minimum wage to at least $15 an hour after blasting former President Donald Trump for dodging a question about whether he wants to raise it. As the two rivals race to win over

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — Both the United States and Israel issued security alerts Wednesday warning of a potential attack on tourist locations in a coastal area of Sri Lanka. The US Embassy alert advised they had received “received credible information warning of an attack targeting popular tourist locations in the Arugam Bay area.” “Due to

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — Iranian government-linked hackers have researched and probed election-related websites in multiple US swing states, in a possible effort to discover vulnerabilities that could be used to influence the presidential election, Microsoft said in a report released Wednesday. Officials from multiple federal agencies are looking closely at the Iranian activity, a US official told CNN. The

By Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — The monitor overseeing the Trump Organization’s finances wrote in its latest report that Donald Trump’s company intends to create 25 new entities for products or hotel licensing deals. “The Trump Organization informed the Monitor that, contingent upon the execution of certain agreements, it intended to create 25 new entities for the

By Sara Murray, Zachary Cohen, Jason Morris and Nick Valencia, CNN (CNN) — A review of the millions of registered voters in Georgia found just 20 noncitizens were registered to vote, Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced Wednesday. Those 20 people were removed from the state’s voter rolls – which total 8.2 million

By Sam Fossum, CNN (CNN) — The US and Western allies are moving forward with a $50 billion loan package to Ukraine backed by the profits of frozen Russian assets, which includes a US contribution of $20 billion, the White House announced Wednesday. “As part of the G7 package, the United States is announcing today

By Natasha Bertrand, Shania Shelton, Haley Britzky and Nikki Carvajal, CNN (CNN) — At least 3,000 North Korean soldiers arrived in eastern Russia this month, the White House said Wednesday, and while it remains unclear what exactly they will do, it is a “highly concerning probability” that they will join the fight against Ukraine. “We

By Sarah Ferris, CNN ALLENTOWN, Pennsylvania (CNN) — Bushy-bearded United Auto Workers leader Dan Vicente has watched first-hand as his fellow union workers have drifted away from the Democratic Party here in Pennsylvania. He was almost one of them. The plain-spoken UAW Region 9 director told a bustling hall on Sunday that he nearly voted

By Gregory Krieg and Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday night will deliver a final pitch to voters, less than two weeks out from the election and with early voting already underway, at a CNN town hall in Chester Township, Pennsylvania. The event, which will start at 9 p.m. ET,