Politics

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned a lower court ruling from Pennsylvania that allowed residents under 21 to carry firearms in public, though the justices declined for now to hear arguments in the case themselves. At issue was a state law that barred 18-to-20 years olds from open carrying

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — County election officials in Georgia cannot delay or decline to certify election results, a state judge ruled Monday, dealing a blow to an effort by conservatives in the critical battleground state to gain the legal right to reject results based on a suspicion of fraud or abuse. “Election superintendents in Georgia

By David Wright and Alex Leeds Matthews, CNN (CNN) — Democrats have outspent Republicans on television advertisements in the races that will be crucial to deciding control of the US House of Representatives, with California and New York seeing the highest spending by the two parties, according to a CNN analysis of advertising data from

By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, have assured the United States that a counterstrike on Iran will be limited to military targets rather than oil or nuclear facilities, according to a person familiar with the discussions. President Joe Biden, who has conveyed in public his opposition to striking

By Marshall Cohen, CNN Washington (CNN) — After losing the 2020 election, former President Donald Trump has championed the baseless lie that the results were tainted by widespread fraud. To fix this made-up problem, Trump has proposed a four-part solution: The US should switch exclusively to paper ballots, require proof of citizenship to register to vote, require

By Ashley Killough and Ed Lavandera, CNN Waxahachie, Texas (CNN) — On a sunny October afternoon, Republican Sen. Ted Cruz posed for photos with supporters next to his campaign bus in downtown Waxahachie – a historic square complete with quaint shops and a storied, almost mythical-looking courthouse. The city is the seat of conservative Ellis

By Sara Murray, CNN (CNN) — Two critical battleground states – Georgia and North Carolina – are kicking off early in-person voting this week, and the Peach State is already seeing a record number of voters. Between a flurry of legislative changes and the fallout from Hurricane Helene, the experience could look different for many voters

By Jack Forrest and Em Steck, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris has been accused by a conservative activist of plagiarizing passages in a book she co-authored more than a decade ago. Christopher Rufo, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank, on Monday cited in an online post an analysis by so-called Austrian plagiarism hunter Stefan Weber,

By Kara Scannell, Lauren del Valle and Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — Lawyers for Donald Trump asked a federal appeals court to give them a second chance to argue that the former president’s New York state hush money case should be moved into federal court. “On September 3, the district court issued a conclusory summary

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign, anticipating losses among some corners of the party’s coalition in Michigan, is zeroing in on a strategy that they think will help overcome those losses by locking in reliably Democratic voters and growing their numbers among others. The trouble spots they see are among

By Priscilla Alvarez and Eric Bradner, CNN Erie, Pennsylvania (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris slammed Republican rival Donald Trump in Pennsylvania on Monday night over the former president’s comment that the US military should handle “the enemy from within” on Election Day. It was the latest example of Harris’ campaign drawing sharper distinctions with

By Zachary B. Wolf, CNN Washington (CNN) — American voters are divided in many ways – by gender, by race, by region – and any of these can be used to explain the current state of politics. More women support Democrats, a gender gap that seems likely to widen as the fall of Roe v.

By Eric Bradner and Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump’s campaign is highlighting former President Bill Clinton’s comment Sunday that Georgia nursing student Laken Riley’s death “probably wouldn’t have happened” if migrants, including her alleged killer, had “all been properly vetted.” Clinton’s remark came as he lambasted Trump for scuttling a bipartisan

CNN By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump suggested using the military to handle what he called “the enemy from within” on Election Day, saying that he isn’t worried about chaos from his supporters or foreign actors, but instead from “radical left lunatics.” “I think the bigger problem are the people from

By Katie Lobosco, CNN Washington (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump is once again pledging to save American manufacturing and bring back jobs by rewriting a trade agreement with Mexico and Canada. But this time, instead of replacing the North American Free Trade Agreement, known as NAFTA, which he has often described as the “worst

By Annie Grayer and Alison Main, CNN (CNN) — Black state lawmakers in Michigan have called on the state’s attorney general and a county prosecutor to investigate Tom Barrett, a GOP candidate for the US House, over a newspaper advertisement in a Black-owned newspaper that listed the wrong date for Election Day. The complaint from

By Arit John, CNN Ridgefield, Washington (CNN) — Dozens of families lined up outside the Clark County Fairgrounds here on a recent Saturday, their young kids eager to ride on tractors, toss balls into massive vacuum truck hoses and add new stickers to their tiny construction hats. Democratic Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez stood before the

By Ebony Davis and Eva McKend, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday unveiled new proposals targeting Black men as she seeks to strengthen her coalition ahead of Election Day. The announcement comes as Harris lags behind President Joe Biden’s numbers with Black voters in 2020, especially men, though recent polling suggests she

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — In Arizona’s third most-populous county, a Republican supervisor who is responsible for certifying November’s election results has argued that fellow county officials conspired to manufacture his lopsided defeat in the primary for sheriff, a contention recently shot down by independent investigators. Still, when the time came to sign off on