Politics

By Peter Bergen, CNN (CNN) — Three years after the departure of the final US troops from Afghanistan, the situation in the country is bleak, with the Taliban tightening its grip as it introduces increasingly oppressive laws that restrict political freedoms and suppress the rights of women. Most Afghans have had to acquiesce to the Taliban not

By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — The 2024 presidential race is entering a critical stretch, with Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump set to debate and the first swing state ballots hitting mailboxes shortly after the Labor Day holiday weekend. As the calendar turns to September, both campaigns are focusing on on key

CNN By Samantha Waldenberg, Kate Sullivan and Shania Shelton, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump on Saturday continued to defend his visit this week to Arlington National Cemetery amid mounting criticism, including from Vice President Kamala Harris, who said the former president “is unable to comprehend anything other than service to himself.” Veterans, service members and their

By Samantha Waldenberg and Shania Shelton, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump on Saturday continued to defend his visit this week to Arlington National Cemetery amid mounting criticism, including from Vice President Kamala Harris, who said the former president “is unable to comprehend anything other than service to himself.” Veterans, service members and their families “should be

By Michael Williams and Arlette Saenz, CNN (CNN) — After spending much of the summer under the harshest microscope of his career, President Joe Biden spent most of the last two weeks out of sight as he prepared for the final act of his political life and a very different end to 2024 than he would have imagined a

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — A new television ad from former President Donald Trump’s campaign piles deception upon deception to attack Vice President Kamala Harris on immigration. The ad uses an edited quote to attack Harris over a supposed proposal that she hasn’t actually made. The ad features a narrator saying this: “Attention seniors: Kamala

By Tierney Sneed and Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump and special counsel Jack Smith are at odds over how the election subversion case in Washington, DC, should move forward, according to a status report filed late Friday. However, neither side is rushing to get to trial before the November presidential election

By Haley Britzky, Mary Kay Mallonee and Hamdi Alkhshali, CNN (CNN) — Seven US troops were injured in a raid in Iraq on Thursday that killed 15 ISIS members, three defense officials said. Five of the personnel were wounded during the operation, with one evacuated for further treatment. Two other US personnel were injured “from

By Michael Conte and Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov told CNN the Biden administration is still considering his request to lift restrictions on Ukraine using long-range weapons to strike deeper inside Russian territory and confirmed he’d presented a list of targets in meetings with senior officials in Washington on Friday

By Lauren del Valle and Paula Reid, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump’s legal team is asking to delay sentencing and any other substantive actions in the hush money case while a new effort to move the case to federal court plays out, according to a letter obtained by CNN. The request to New York State Supreme

By Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump said Friday that he will not support a ballot referendum to expand abortion access in his home state of Florida just 24 hours after suggesting he might. The rush to clarify his stance followed intense blowback from anti-abortion advocates online, leading to concerns among Republicans that Trump’s

By Holmes Lybrand and Allison Gordon, CNN (CNN) — For two Eastern Europeans, swatting the political establishment in the United States over the past few years was pure scripted entertainment. Lawmakers, election supervisors and “libtard zoomers” were all targets of a conspiracy including Nemanja Radovanovic, from Serbia, and Thomasz Szabo, from Romania, US prosecutors allege.

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — The Georgia election workers who successfully sued former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani for defamation asked a federal court on Friday to enforce the $146 million judgment in their favor, listing a wide variety of personal items that could be used to pay off the money they’re owed. Lawyers

By Tierney Sneed and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Maryland Supreme Court ruled Friday that the conviction of Adnan Syed should be reinstated because of procedural errors in how Syed’s conviction had been wiped away in 2022. The ruling is the latest twist in the legal saga made famous by the podcast “Serial,” which

By Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump, in his third White House bid, has sought to reignite the cultural battles over education that erupted throughout the country in recent years, and on Friday, he will appear before the conservative parents group that helped spark the fight. Trump’s visit to Moms for Liberty’s annual convention

CNN By Daniel Dale, Tami Luhby and Ella Nilsen, CNN Washington (CNN) — Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris and vice presidential candidate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz sat down with CNN anchor Dana Bash on Thursday for the first formal interview of their campaign. Bash directed most of the questions to Harris. Here is

By Lauren del Valle, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump has filed a petition seeking to move his New York state criminal case to a federal court in Manhattan and push off the upcoming sentencing for his conviction on 34 counts of falsifying business records. The petition filed Thursday asks the federal court to confirm the

CNN By Eric Bradner and Chelsea Bailey, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris said she was “deeply touched” by a photo of her young grandniece, in pigtails, watching her speak at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago last week. Though Harris hasn’t emphasized it — she said she is running to be president for

CNN By Eric Bradner and Chelsea Bailey, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris said she was “deeply touched” by a photo of her young grandniece, in pigtails, watching her speak at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago last week. Though Harris hasn’t emphasized it — she said she is running to be president for