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Fact check: Amid bipartisan praise for Biden hurricane response, Trump falsely claims reviews are ‘universally’ negative

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump, seeking to capitalize politically on the devastation from Hurricane Helene, falsely claimed in a social media post on Thursday that President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris “are universally being given POOR GRADES for the way that they are handling the Hurricane, especially

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Georgia prosecutors urge Supreme Court to keep Mark Meadows’ election subversion case in state court

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — State prosecutors in Georgia who are pursuing election subversion charges against former President Donald Trump urged the US Supreme Court on Thursday to allow their case against his former chief of staff Mark Meadows to continue in state court. Meadows, a former North Carolina congressman who served as White House chief

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Four prominent previously pro-Trump GOP women to make the case against him in battleground Pennsylvania

By Jake Tapper, CNN (CNN) — Former House GOP conference chair Liz Cheney and former Trump White House aides Alyssa Farah Griffin, Cassidy Hutchinson and Sarah Matthews will make the case against the reelection of former President Donald Trump in a fireside chat in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, next week, CNN has exclusively learned. The event

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Justice Department and Microsoft disrupt Russian hacking operations aimed at US officials and civil society

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Justice Department and Microsoft on Thursday announced the seizure of more than 100 web domains that a Russian intelligence agency allegedly used to try to hack current and former US officials, civil-society groups and Russians living in the US. The sweeping hacking campaign sought to gather intelligence

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Melania Trump confirms support for abortion rights in new video, putting her at odds with husband’s position

By Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — Former first lady Melania Trump said in a new video posted Thursday that she believes there is “no room for compromise” when it comes to a woman’s “individual freedom,” after The Guardian reported excerpts from her forthcoming book in which she says she supports abortion rights “free from any

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US President Donald Trump is followed by Vice President Mike Pence in the Rose Garden of the White House on September 28

Pence and Trump’s frayed relationship leading up to Jan. 6 insurrection on full display in latest special counsel filing

CNN By Jack Forrest, Tierney Sneed, Hannah Rabinowitz and Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Former Vice President Mike Pence’s role in certifying Joe Biden’s 2020 election win over Donald Trump and his repeated refusals to help the former president overturn the results, was under a microscope in special counsel Jack Smith’s detailed court filing Wednesday.

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49th district rematch: Missouri House candidates discuss schools, guns and healthcare during public forum

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Candidates from Missouri’s 49th House District gave their vision for the state during a public forum on Wednesday night. Republican incumbent Rep. Jim Schulte (R-New Bloomfield) will go up against Democratic candidate Jessica Slisz in a rematch of the 2022 election. Schulte dominated the election, winning nearly 72 percent of the

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Pence and Trump’s frayed relationship leading up to Jan. 6 insurrection on full display in latest special counsel filing

By Jack Forrest, Tierney Sneed, Hannah Rabinowitz and Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Former Vice President Mike Pence’s role in certifying Joe Biden’s 2020 election win over Donald Trump and his repeated refusals to help the former president overturn the results, was under a microscope in special counsel Jack Smith’s detailed court filing Wednesday. Smith,

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Rudy Giuliani pictured with his daughter Caroline Giuliani.

Giuliani’s daughter details how she came to decision to break with father and endorse Harris

By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn and Rashard Rose, CNN (CNN) — Caroline Rose Giuliani, the daughter of Donald Trump’s former personal attorney and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, said Wednesday that she did not come lightly to her decision to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris. In her first television interview after endorsing Harris, Caroline

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The Guardian: Melania Trump says women must have abortion rights free from government pressure in memoir

By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — Former first lady Melania Trump says she supports abortion rights “free from any intervention or pressure from the government” in her upcoming memoir, according to excerpts of the book obtained by The Guardian. “Why should anyone other than the woman herself have the power to determine what she

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