Politics

By Tierney Sneed, Alayna Treene and Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — An overseas ballot process that has long been seen as sacrosanct by both parties, due to its connection to US military members serving in foreign countries, is the target of multiple GOP-backed lawsuits filed in recent days. The new legal assault comes as ballots

CNN By Gregory Krieg and Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday repeated his false claim that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, are eating their neighbors’ pets, using a town hall with undecided Latino voters to prop up misinformation that has been rejected by local and statewide leaders from both parties.

By Oren Liebermann, Natasha Bertrand and Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — The US carried out a round of strikes in Yemen against the Iran-backed Houthis on Wednesday evening, according to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, targeting five underground weapons storage facilities using B-2 stealth bombers. The facilities housed advanced conventional weapons used to target military and civilian vessels

By Eric Bradner, Priscilla Alvarez and Ebony Davis, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris turned questions about her nearly four years in office into attacks on Republican rival Donald Trump’s record in a heated interview Wednesday on Fox News, her first appearance on the conservative network, as she courts disaffected Republican and independent voters.

CNN Analysis by Brian Stelter, CNN New York (CNN) — Interviewers make a choice every time they sit down with a newsmaker and start to ask questions. Do they start by warming their subject up or go straight for the jugular? Fox News anchor Bret Baier chose one way when interviewing former President Donald Trump

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — A judge in Georgia has struck down a slate of controversial new election rules passed by Donald Trump allies, including two that Democrats say would inject post-election “chaos” into the critical battleground state. Among the rules Fulton County Superior Court Judge Thomas Cox said violated state law are two

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — Four months after the Supreme Court tossed out a high-profile challenge to the abortion drug mifepristone, and as abortion access is a major flashpoint in the presidential election, three conservative states are following through on a promise to bring the issue back to the forefront with a new lawsuit. The states –

CNN By Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — Vice presidential candidate JD Vance said “no” former president Donald Trump did not lose the 2020 election “by the words” the Ohio Republican would use, when asked Wednesday what message it sends to independent voters that he has not directly answered that question. “On the election of 2020,

By Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — Rep. Cindy Axne, the last Democrat standing in Iowa, went to her party’s leadership about a month before the 2022 midterms to ask for a few hundred thousand more dollars in her race, or risk losing her seat. The money didn’t come, according to two people with knowledge of

By Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — Vice presidential candidate JD Vance said “no” former president Donald Trump did not lose the 2020 election “by the words” the Ohio Republican would use, when asked Wednesday what message it sends to independent voters that he has not directly answered that question. “On the election of 2020, I’ve

By Michael Williams, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday eulogized Ethel Kennedy, the human rights activist and widow of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, as “a hero in her own right,” remembering her decades of public service and personal friendship to him and his family. “She got me through a time I didn’t want

By Gregory Krieg and Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday repeated his false claim that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, are eating their neighbors’ pets, using a town hall with undecided Latino voters to prop up misinformation that has been rejected by local and statewide leaders from both parties. Asked

By Ella Nilsen and John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday handed President Joe Biden a surprise victory as it allowed the Environmental Protection Agency to temporarily enforce its rules regulating planet-warming pollution from power plants. The justices denied the emergency request from more than 20 Republican state attorneys general and industry

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has asked the state’s Court of Appeals to reinstate six counts in the election subversion case against Donald Trump and his co-defendants, including three specifically against the former president. The court filing brings the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, and the effort to

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge ordered Alabama’s Republican secretary of state on Wednesday to reverse a program that purged more than 3,000 names from the state’s voter rolls, agreeing with the Biden administration’s argument that the purge took place too close to the election. “For decades, federal law has given states a hard

CNN By Gregory Krieg and Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump on Tuesday declared himself the “father of IVF,” a fertility treatment that has come under threat following the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. It’s unclear what precisely the former president meant when he made the comment at a Fox News

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump, who trails with women in recent national polls, participated in a Fox News town hall event on Tuesday in front of a female audience. He told a bunch of lies. The Republican presidential nominee made at least 19 false claims in the one-hour event

By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — The US Navy is searching for two crew members after their aircraft crashed near Mount Rainier in Washington during a training flight on Tuesday. A US Navy EA-18G Growler aircraft — assigned to the Electronic Attack Squadron (VAQ) 130 in Washington — crashed on Tuesday afternoon east of Mount Rainier, according