Politics

By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — More than 800 records of service members who were kicked out of the military under the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy were recently upgraded to receive honorable discharges, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Tuesday. “Just over a year ago, I announced that the Department would, for the first time, begin to proactively review

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — Sen. JD Vance, the Republican vice presidential nominee, falsely claimed Sunday that former President Donald Trump “didn’t go after his political opponents” during his presidency – an assertion that is contradicted by a mountain of evidence. Vance, who said Friday that the attorney general would be the most

CNN By Jeremy Diamond, Natasha Bertrand and Kylie Atwood, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration sent a letter to the Israeli government demanding it act to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza within the next 30 days or risk violating US laws governing foreign military assistance, suggesting US military aid could be in jeopardy. The Sunday letter, jointly written by US Secretary of State

By Jeremy Diamond, Natasha Bertrand and Kylie Atwood, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration sent a letter to the Israeli government demanding it act to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza within the next 30 days or risk violating US laws governing foreign military assistance, suggesting US military aid could be in jeopardy. The Sunday letter, jointly written by US Secretary of State Antony

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday revived the case of a citizen journalist who was arrested in 2017 for seeking information from a police department source in Laredo, Texas. The court threw out a decision against the journalist and ordered the appeals court to look at the case again. Priscilla

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