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Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani departs the US District Courthouse after he was ordered to pay $148 million in his defamation case in Washington

Rudy Giuliani must give control of luxury items and Manhattan apartment to Georgia election workers he defamed, judge rules

CNN By Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Tuesday ordered former Donald Trump attorney and New York mayor Rudy Giuliani to turn over all his valuable possessions and his Manhattan penthouse apartment to the control of Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, the Georgia election workers he defamed and to whom he now owes $150 million.

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Two US service members injured in raid that killed ISIS operatives In Iraq, Pentagon says

By Michael Conte, CNN (CNN) — Two US service members were injured in Iraq in a joint US-Iraqi raid overnight that killed “multiple ISIS operatives,” according to a Defense Department spokesperson. “My understanding is that both of them are in stable condition being treated for their injuries,” Pentagon press secretary Maj. Gen. Patrick Ryder said

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Federal prosecutors charge Iranian Revolutionary Guards official in assassination plot on US soil

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — Federal prosecutors in New York have charged a high-ranking official in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and three other people with connections to the Iranian government in an alleged plot to kill a New York-based journalist and human rights activist who is critical of the Iranian government. The charges made public

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Rudy Giuliani must give control of luxury items and Manhattan apartment to Georgia election workers he defamed, judge rules

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Tuesday ordered former Donald Trump attorney and New York mayor Rudy Giuliani to turn over all his valuable possessions and his Manhattan penthouse apartment to the control of Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, the Georgia election workers he defamed and to whom he now owes $150 million. Judge

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Fact check: Walz falsely claims Trump lost more manufacturing jobs than any other president

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz falsely claimed in a high-profile Monday television appearance that more manufacturing jobs were lost under President Donald Trump than any other president. “We know Donald Trump lost more manufacturing jobs than any president in American history. That’s simply factual,” the Minnesota governor

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US intel assesses Russian operatives behind fake video trying to smear Tim Walz

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — Russian operatives created and amplified false online content attempting to smear Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz, US intelligence agencies said on Tuesday. The content in question — which included manipulated audio content that circulated on the social media platform X in the last week — contained “several indicators of manipulation

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Judge orders US Army to release records on Trump’s controversial Arlington Cemetery visit

By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — The US Army has been ordered by a federal judge to release records related to former President Donald Trump’s controversial August visit to Arlington National Cemetery by Friday at the latest. The US Army issued a stark rebuke following the visit, stating that an employee of the cemetery was “abruptly pushed aside” after

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January 6 riot conviction of ‘Cowboys for Trump’ founder is upheld in precedent-setting case

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — The federal appeals court in Washington, DC, on Tuesday upheld the conviction of the Cowboys for Trump founder who entered the restricted area of the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, saying rioters didn’t have to know the Secret Service was protecting then-Vice President Mike Pence inside when they breached the area.

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A jittery Harris campaign makes big plans to clinch a narrow win

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — With two weeks to go until Election Day, Kamala Harris’ top advisers are staring down numbers that show a wide majority of Americans saying the country is on the wrong track. They’re also confident that the next two weeks will include Donald Trump dropping more references to the “enemy within” or January 6 as a “day of love” and going off on rambling

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Senior citizens could see their Social Security benefits cut by nearly a third in six years if former President Donald Trump's platform is enacted

Trump has promised to protect Social Security. His proposals could lead to benefit cuts in 6 years

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump has long vowed to protect Social Security. But the bevy of tax breaks he’s promised – including pledging to stop taxing Social Security benefits – could hasten the depletion of the beloved entitlement program’s trust funds and leave seniors with smaller monthly payments. Trump’s platform

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Philadelphia man charged with allegedly making gruesome threats against person recruiting poll watchers

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — A Philadelphia man is facing federal charges for allegedly threatening to skin alive a state party representative who was recruiting poll watchers, according to an indictment unsealed Monday. Prosecutors say that 62-year-old John Pollard sent several text messages to the representative, who isn’t named in court documents. The party

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken boards a plane as he departs Joint Base Andrews

Blinken heads to Middle East with hopes receding for a quick diplomatic breakthrough following Sinwar’s death

By Kevin Liptak, Alex Marquardt, Jennifer Hansler and Kylie Atwood, CNN (CNN) — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken departed Monday for Israel and other unspecified countries in the Middle East as the United States seeks to move forward on efforts to resolve the conflict in the wake of the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar. American officials, led

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Steve Bannon to be released from prison next week, Bureau of Prisons says, despite his attempts for earlier exit

By Katelyn Polantz, Sara Murray and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — Steve Bannon, the right-wing podcaster and former Donald Trump aide, is set to get out of federal prison next Tuesday despite repeated attempts he and his legal defense team have made for him to be released early. The Bureau of Prisons said in a letter to Bannon on Monday that

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Initial investigation into US intelligence leak on Israeli attack planning focusing on who had access to documents

By Katie Bo Lillis and Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — The publication on social media of two classified US intelligence documents detailing Israeli preparations for an attack on Iran has set off a scramble inside the US government to discover how they were leaked, a closely held investigation in its early stages that is zeroing in

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