National Politics

By Jack Forrest and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump called Democratic Reps. Adam Schiff and Nancy Pelosi each “an enemy from within,” even as the former president’s Republican allies attempt to argue that his previous comments labeling political opponents as such are being misinterpreted. “These are bad people. We have a lot of

By Eric Bradner and Ebony Davis, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris visited churches in Georgia on Sunday, urging congregants to cast early ballots as part of her campaign’s “souls to the polls” push to turn out Black voters. The early voting push comes as Harris attempts to motivate Black voters, who are a

CNN By Steve Contorno and Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump has pivoted to making his closing argument to voters heading into the final stretch of his race for the White House. Or so his campaign said Saturday as the former president took the stage in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. But shortly after walking out following

By Sam Fossum, CNN (CNN) — Paul Whelan, the American who spent five and a half years wrongfully detained in Russia, revealed Sunday that he had passed to Western officials information he received from fellow prisoners who were fighting for Russia on the frontlines in Ukraine. “The prisoners from the camp that went to the

By Steve Contorno and Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump has pivoted to making his closing argument to voters heading into the final stretch of his race for the White House. Or so his campaign said Saturday as the former president took the stage in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. But shortly after walking out following a

By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris turns 60 on Sunday – and, her campaign wants voters to know, that makes her 18 years younger than Donald Trump. Harris’ campaign is increasingly questioning the former president’s mental and physical fitness in the final weeks of the 2024 presidential race. “He’s becoming increasingly

CNN By Natasha Bertrand and Alex Marquardt, CNN (CNN) — The US is investigating a leak of highly classified US intelligence about Israel’s plans for retaliation against Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter. One of the people familiar confirmed the documents’ authenticity. The leak is “deeply concerning,” a US official told CNN.

By Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump is pulling one of the most iconic American companies — McDonald’s — into the political arena in the final days of his third White House bid. The former president stopped by one of the fast-food chain’s Pennsylvania franchises during his Sunday swing through the Keystone State, where

By Manu Raju and Morgan Rimmer, CNN Warren, Michigan (CNN) — The day after January 6, 2021, Mike Rogers was blunt. The former Republican congressman blamed then-President Donald Trump’s “chaotic leadership style” for costing his party two critical Senate seats in Georgia. He said that “the spell” around Trump had been broken by the US Capitol attack,

By Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Minneapolis-area officials swiftly fired an election worker who left several boxes of mail-in ballots unattended while dropping them off at an election office Friday. A photo of the employee’s car outside Edina City Hall — with an open trunk containing nearly a dozen boxes of ballots — circulated Friday on

CNN By Natasha Bertrand and Alex Marquardt, CNN (CNN) — The US is investigating a leak of highly classified US intelligence about Israel’s plans for retaliation against Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter. One of the people familiar confirmed the documents’ authenticity. The leak is “deeply concerning,” a US official told CNN.

By Natasha Bertrand and Alex Marquardt, CNN (CNN) — The US is investigating a leak of highly classified US intelligence about Israel’s plans for retaliation against Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter. One of the people familiar confirmed the documents’ authenticity. The leak is “deeply concerning,” a US official told CNN. The

By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — As the 2024 presidential election season enters its final weeks, Kamala Harris is getting attention for a recent string of high-profile interviews, and Donald Trump for his campaign rallies, according to The Breakthrough, a CNN polling project that tracks what average Americans are actually hearing, reading and seeing about the presidential

By Clare Foran and Tami Luhby, CNN Washington (CNN) — Lawmakers on Capitol Hill face major deadlines and key issues on their to-do list after the November elections, including averting a federal government shutdown before the end of 2024 and taking action to address the debt limit in the new year. The November elections – where control of

By David Wright and Alex Leeds Matthews, CNN (CNN) — In the first two weeks of October, Donald Trump and his allies directed about a third of all their spending on broadcast TV advertisements to ads about transgender health care, a significant increase reflecting a major tactical shift from previous months’ ad expenditures. On the

CNN By Katie Bo Lillis, Ivana Kottasová, MJ Lee, Kevin Liptak and Mostafa Salem, CNN (CNN) — It was around 5:30 in the morning on Thursday in Washington, DC, when senior US officials first got word — and photographs — from their Israeli counterparts: Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar might be dead. For more than a year since

By Katie Bo Lillis, Ivana Kottasová, MJ Lee, Kevin Liptak and Mostafa Salem, CNN (CNN) — It was around 5:30 in the morning on Thursday in Washington, DC, when senior US officials first got word — and photographs — from their Israeli counterparts: Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar might be dead. For more than a year since Hamas

By Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump has vowed he’ll kick millions of undocumented immigrants out of the US when he returns to power. In the months since cheering supporters waved “mass deportation now” signs at the Republican National Convention, Trump and his surrogates have offered various visions for how they’ll

By Eric Bradner, Kate Sullivan and Aaron Pellish, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump collided Friday in Michigan, both barnstorming the state as they wage a tight battle for its potentially decisive 15 Electoral College votes. The two converged on vote-rich Oakland County, northwest of Detroit – where an increasingly educated, diverse population

By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — US Army boats, which carried out the temporary Gaza pier mission earlier this year, are poorly maintained and largely unprepared to meet the military’s growing mission in the Pacific, a new government oversight report said this week. The Government Accountability Office released a report on Wednesday that concluded there are “wide-ranging”