Politics

By Hannah Rabinowitz and Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Prosecutors on Tuesday filed the charge of attempted assassination of a major presidential candidate against Ryan Wesley Routh, the man they say camped outside of Donald Trump’s West Palm Beach golf course for hours on end, armed with a rifle that he pointed through a chain-link

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — Special counsel Jack Smith this week will be allowed to file hundreds of pages of legal arguments and evidence gathered in the 2020 election subversion and January 6 US Capitol attack criminal case against former President Donald Trump, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. The filing is likely to be the largest

By John King, CNN Decatur, Georgia (CNN) — Step into the Rebel Teahouse and look to the right: a stack of Kamala Harris campaign brochures on the shelf gives away a big change here. Owner Christine Nguyen has a candidate now and is not only excited to cast her vote but is also doing a

CNN By John King, CNN Decatur, Georgia (CNN) — Step into the Rebel Teahouse and look to the right: a stack of Kamala Harris campaign brochures on the shelf gives away a big change here. Owner Christine Nguyen has a candidate now and is not only excited to cast her vote but is also doing

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — During his presidency, Donald Trump talked repeatedly about the terrorist attacks that occurred in the United States on his watch. He sometimes denounced these attacks in vivid detail. In his 2018 State of the Union address, he spoke of “two terrorist attacks in New York” in “recent weeks.”

CNN By Jennifer Agiesta, Ariel Edwards-Levy and Edward Wu, CNN (CNN) — The race for president between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump is exceedingly close, with Harris’ support resting on stronger personal appeal, while Trump draws on a die-hard base and a wide advantage on handling the economy to run about

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — Former New York City Mayor and Donald Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani has been told he must pay a bill of about $300,000 for a forensic accounting firm’s work to trace his money in his now-aborted bankruptcy proceeding. The dispute over how much Giuliani owes to the accounting firm Global

By Tierney Sneed and Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge in North Dakota ruled Monday that the federal government cannot enforce new regulations mandating employers provide time off for abortion and fertility treatments against thousands of Catholic employers nationwide while their lawsuit challenging the regulations plays out. More than 7,000 Catholic parishes and another 1,380 Catholic employers are

By Manu Raju, Ted Barrett and Sam Fossum, CNN Washington (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris’ vow to gut the Senate’s filibuster rule to pass a bill codifying abortion rights has cost her an endorsement from a leading Senate moderate: Joe Manchin. The West Virginia independent, one of the staunchest defenders of the potent delay

By Terence Burlij and Jeff Zeleny, CNN (CNN) — Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen said Tuesday that he has “no plans to call a special session” to change the way the state allocates electoral votes to a winner-take-all system, ending an effort led by Donald Trump. The announcement comes after Republican state Sen. Mike McDonnell said he

By Gregory Krieg, CNN (CNN) — New York Rep. Anthony D’Esposito, one of the GOP’s most endangered House incumbents, reportedly gave both his lover and his fiancée’s daughter part-time jobs in his district office on Long Island, a potential violation of House ethics rules. D’Esposito hired the pair shortly after taking office in 2023, according

By Jennifer Agiesta, Ariel Edwards-Levy and Edward Wu, CNN (CNN) — The race for president between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump is exceedingly close, with Harris’ support resting on stronger personal appeal, while Trump draws on a die-hard base and a wide advantage on handling the economy to run about even

By Holmes Lybrand and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — The son of the man who allegedly attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump at his Florida golf course was arrested on child pornography charges Tuesday, according to court records. Oran Alexander Routh, whose father is Ryan Wesley Routh, the man prosecutors say set up a “sniper’s nest” at

By Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — A US Navy replenishment ship sustained damage while operating in the Middle East in an incident that remains under investigation, according to a Navy official. The USNS Big Horn was damaged after the ship refueled and replenished Navy vessels operating in the region, including the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft

By Katie Lobosco, CNN Washington (CNN) — Fewer low-income students applied for college financial aid for the current school year after the rollout of an updated version of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, known as the FAFSA, was plagued with problems. Submitting the form is required in order to access federal Pell grants,

By Kylie Atwood, Jennifer Hansler and Michael Conte, CNN (CNN) — House Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul is moving forward with his plan to hold Secretary of State Antony Blinken in contempt of Congress on Tuesday for failing to appear at a hearing regarding the Biden administration’s handling of the 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan, even

By Kate Sullivan and Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump cast himself as a “protector” of women at a Pennsylvania rally Monday evening and claimed that American women won’t be “thinking about abortion” if he’s elected. The plea to ignore Trump’s own role in undoing national abortion rights protections is a clear

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — As the US Department of Justice gears up to try to indict the man who allegedly plotted to shoot Donald Trump while he was golfing, a federal prosecutor said his team has been focused on one charge in particular: attempting to kill a major presidential candidate. In court Monday, prosecutor

By Tami Luhby and Katie Lobosco, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump portrays himself as a big friend of big business. Among the most notable efforts of his first administration was slashing the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% as part of his 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which contained multiple other beneficial measures