Politics

By CNN staff (CNN) — New York City voters will choose their next mayor Tuesday, closing out an eventful campaign between Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani, independent candidate Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa. In the months after Mamdani’s surprise Democratic primary win, the 34-year-old democratic socialist has sought to grow his base and reassure voters

By Alayna Treene, Kevin Liptak, Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump was heading to Florida on Friday, watching Fox News, when he saw the network run a story on how Christians were being targeted by Islamic groups in Nigeria, two sources familiar with the matter told CNN. The president was “immediately” angered by

By Alejandra Jaramillo, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump urged New Yorkers in his strongest terms yet to vote for former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the city’s mayoral race on the eve of the election. “Whether you personally like Andrew Cuomo or not, you really have no choice. You must vote for him, and hope

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Potential jurors who were not selected to serve in the trial of a DC man accused of throwing a sub sandwich at a Customs and Border Protection officer expressed deep skepticism of the federal case. A group of eight dismissed jurors spoke to CNN Monday, questioning whether any jury

By Hannah Rabinowitz, Katelyn Polantz, Devan Cole, Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s personal vendetta against James Comey did not lead to his indictment, the Justice Department said in a court filing Monday, urging a judge not to throw out the charges against the former FBI director over Trump’s extraordinary social media post

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — Two former employees of cybersecurity firms that sold services helping companies combat hackers have been indicted and accused of participating in a conspiracy, outside of their day jobs, to hack multiple US firms and extort them for millions of dollars. The two men are accused of deploying ransomware used

By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump littered his new “60 Minutes” interview with a wide-ranging assortment of false claims, the vast majority of them previously debunked. We counted at least 18 inaccurate assertions. Trump told his usual lie that the free and fair 2020 election was stolen from him. He lied again

By Hannah Rabinowitz, Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department is dispatching federal monitors to polling locations in New Jersey and California, two Democratic states with crucial off-year elections on Tuesday. The announcement put the decadeslong federal monitoring practice under new scrutiny, as some Democrats and voting rights activists worry that this year’s monitors

By Jeff Zeleny, CNN (CNN) — Even as Tuesday’s elections hang in the balance, President Donald Trump has bluntly suggested that he is already looking ahead to the 2026 midterm races with a sense of dread. “We’ve had success like nobody, but for some reason, you lose the midterms,” Trump said late last month at

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN Ashland, Virginia (CNN) — Only a party going through the Democrats’ identity and existential crises could, nine months into Donald Trump’s second presidency, have Zohran Mamdani and Abigail Spanberger as its front-runners in two of Tuesday’s biggest races. Spanberger is a 46-year-old former CIA officer, the daughter of a nurse and

By Jennifer Agiesta, CNN (CNN) — For decades, Americans have relied on exit polls to illuminate the story of what happened on election night. By gathering opinions from voters largely after they’ve cast their ballots, exit polls fill in the details that our secret-ballot elections otherwise leave impossible to know. This year, for the first