Politics

By Steve Contorno and Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — JD Vance is making a second pass at introducing himself to America as the Ohio senator attempts to put his uneven rollout as Donald Trump’s running mate in the rearview mirror. Simply put, the plan to get past this stretch is more Vance, not less. A

CNN By Oren Liebermann and Lauren del Valle, CNN (CNN) — The US has reached a plea deal with alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two other defendants accused of plotting the 2001 terror attacks, according to the Defense Department. The pretrial agreement – reached after 27 months of negotiations – takes the death penalty

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, drew gasps on Wednesday when he said at the National Association of Black Journalists convention that Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic nominee, had suddenly adopted a Black identity. Harris’ father is from Jamaica, her late mother from India.

By Oren Liebermann and Lauren del Valle, CNN (CNN) — The US has reached a plea deal with alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two other defendants accused of plotting the 2001 terror attacks, according to the Defense Department. The pretrial agreement – reached after 27 months of negotiations – takes the death penalty off

By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — For US Army Capt. Molly Murphy, the hardest part of the Army’s grueling Ranger Course was the very first day. “I did not sleep at all the night before, I was so scared, way in over my head,” she told CNN. Murphy, who currently works as a pediatric intensive

By John Fritze, CNN Alexandria, Virginia (CNN) — A former health care worker was convicted Wednesday of illegally accessing the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s medical records in 2019 as she was battling cancer, a move prosecutors claimed was driven by online conspiracy theories about her health. But the jury acquitted Trent Russell of a

CNN By Jeremy Herb, Scott Glover, Majlie de Puy Kamp and Danny Freeman, CNN (CNN) — Pennsylvania law enforcement officials are accusing acting Secret Service Director Robert Rowe of “misleading the American people” by saying that local snipers at Donald Trump’s rally should have “looked left” and spotted would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks. Beaver County District

By Jeremy Herb, Scott Glover, Majlie de Puy Kamp and Danny Freeman, CNN (CNN) — Pennsylvania law enforcement officials are accusing acting Secret Service Director Robert Rowe of “misleading the American people” by saying that local snipers at Donald Trump’s rally should have “looked left” and spotted would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks. Beaver County District Attorney

CNN By Eric Bradner and Aaron Pellish, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump falsely claimed Wednesday that his 2024 Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, “happened to turn Black” a few years ago, saying that “all of a sudden, she made a turn” in her identity. Trump’s comments at a gathering of Black journalists

CNN By Eric Bradner and Aaron Pellish, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump falsely claimed Wednesday that his 2024 Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, “happened to turn Black” a few years ago, saying that “all of a sudden, she made a turn” in her identity. Trump’s comments at a gathering of Black journalists

By Michael Williams, Alex Marquardt and Donald Judd, CNN Washington (CNN) — The White House on Wednesday said reports of the assassination of a Hamas political leader in Iran “don’t help with the temperature going down,” while repeating calls for a ceasefire deal that would see the release of hostages held by Hamas. “These reports

CNN Analysis by Gregory Krieg, CNN (CNN) — Meet the new Donald Trump, same as the old Donald Trump. The former president’s rant about likely Democratic nominee Kamala Harris’ racial identity, headlined by the false and offensive claim that the first Black woman elected vice president “happened to turn Black” only recently, as an act of political expedience,

By Eric Bradner and Aaron Pellish, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump falsely claimed Wednesday that his 2024 Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, “happened to turn Black” a few years ago, saying that “all of a sudden, she made a turn” in her identity. Trump’s comments at a gathering of Black journalists in