Politics

By Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — With two months until the midterm elections, Democrats are laying the groundwork to launch far-reaching investigations into the Trump administration and preparing for high-stakes court battles if they win control of the House of Representatives in November. President Donald Trump’s war with Iran, his White House ballroom project, his

By Fadel Allassan, Aleena Fayaz, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge said in a filing Friday that a Trump administration order for the Federal Emergency Management Agency to cut its staffing nearly in half was illegal. In a decision that marked a critical victory for union workers in the ongoing lawsuit, US District Judge Susan

By Isabelle D’Antonio, Eduardo Cuevas, CNN (CNN) — Security stopped an alleged trespasser on Kamala Harris’ Malibu property on Friday night, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and her spokesperson, raising security concerns about the former vice president. “Last night, security personnel stopped an individual who illegally entered Vice President Harris and Second

By Zachary Cohen, Brian Stelter, CNN (CNN) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and political appointees in his department pushed for the two crew members of an F-15 who were shot down over Iran in April to participate in Sunday’s highly publicized “60 Minutes” report about the ensuing rescue operation, according to multiple sources familiar with

By Annie Grayer, Morgan Rimmer, CNN (CNN) — The Senate is set to return Monday after a five-week recess, and it is still unclear if GOP Sen. Mitch McConnell will end his three-month absence from the Capitol due to health issues. McConnell was hospitalized in June, which his office later said was due to a

By Tierney Sneed, Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — Republican attorneys general have shown their support for President Donald Trump’s election agenda by pressing courts to greenlight his proposed crackdown on mail voting. But election officials in at least half of those states have said that they won’t be able to comply with proposed US Postal

By Steve Contorno, CNN Dallas (CNN) — Behind closed doors on Thursday, Vice President JD Vance urged a room full of Republicans to sell voters on the administration’s more popular achievements that he worried weren’t always breaking through. One person, however, has proved particularly difficult to keep on message: President Donald Trump. Since joining Trump’s

By Kit Maher, Issy Ronald, Niamh Kennedy, CNN Dublin (CNN) — President Donald Trump said Saturday that Irish reunification “would be a fantastic thing” during a bilateral meeting with Ireland’s taoiseach, Micheál Martin, something he projected is “going to happen eventually.” When a reporter asked his view on the topic, Trump at first acknowledged his

By Ellis Kim, Lauren Fox, CNN (CNN) — A group of House Democratic lawmakers is pressuring Speaker Mike Johnson to reconvene the chamber immediately and cancel an upcoming break to address what they describe as the “catastrophic risk posed by advanced artificial intelligence.” In a letter to the speaker, the Democrats cite potential threats, including

By Molly English, CNN (CNN) — After spending the morning at the Pentagon to mark the 25th anniversary of the September 11th tragedy, President Donald Trump apparently had another attack on his mind in the afternoon — posting the 5-year-old video of him telling January 6, 2021, rioters to go home after they violently stormed

By Katie Bo Lillis, CNN (CNN) — The now-infamous warning to then-President Bill Clinton was tucked at the bottom of a presidential intelligence brief delivered on September 10, 1998: A group associated with al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden “may fly an explosive-packed airplane into a US city.” In the end, there were no explosives. Just

By Kylie Atwood, Katie Bo Lillis, Thomas Bordeaux, Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Saudi Arabia has shut down a key oil pipeline after it was attacked by drones from Iraq, as repercussions of the Iran war widen. The development is more bad news for the Saudi government after the Iran-backed Houthis captured strategic points along

By Tierney Sneed, Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — In a victory for President Donald Trump, the Justice Department announced Friday that it secured a first-of-its-kind deportation through the Alien Terrorist Removal Court, a secretive tribunal that had never been used before the administration activated it this summer. Nazira Haji Zada — an Afghan woman who

By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Vice President JD Vance offered Republicans a glimpse of what could be the party’s future on Thursday night, as he hammered home a midterm message with overtures to disaffected voters, a pro-family pitch in personal terms, and plenty of red-meat attacks on Democrats. Then President Donald Trump stepped on

By Daniel Dale, Deidre McPhillips, Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump delivered another rapid-fire series of false claims on the second night of Republicans’ midterm convention on Thursday. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. did his own barrage of wrongness. And various other speakers uttered statements that were untrue, misleading or missing critical

By Patrick Svitek, CNN (CNN) — Shouts of “he should be shot” could be heard multiple times Thursday night at the Republican midterm convention as Texas Sen. Ted Cruz was criticizing prominent Democratic politicians by name. Cruz mentioned three Democrats — New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed and Texas Senate