Politics

CNN By Curt Devine, Yahya Abou-Ghazala and Kyung Lah, CNN (CNN) — Police officers in Texas, senior citizens at a nursing home in Pennsylvania and people who had registered to vote at a Marine base in California. They are among the thousands of voters whose right to cast a ballot has been needlessly challenged ahead

By Karl de Vries, CNN (CNN) — Alma Johnson Powell, the wife of the late Secretary of State Colin Powell, has died. She was 86. Her death was confirmed by the former diplomat’s chief of staff and family spokesperson, Peggy Cifrino. “(Powell) was the grounding force of our family,” the couple’s three children, Michael, Linda

CNN By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — Kamala Harris’ plan as a running mate was to brush past JD Vance as nothing but a rubber stamp for Donald Trump. But now that she’s the presumptive Democratic nominee, her campaign is seizing on the Ohio senator as a major liability, looking to her own vice presidential

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — Kamala Harris’ plan as a running mate was to brush past JD Vance as nothing but a rubber stamp for Donald Trump. But now that she’s the presumptive Democratic nominee, her campaign is seizing on the Ohio senator as a major liability, looking to her own vice presidential selection

By Aileen Graef, Julia Benbrook, John Fritze and Arlette Saenz, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden called for major Supreme Court reforms Monday, a long-shot move that would make him the first sitting president in generations to back seismic changes to the way the nation’s highest court operates. “I have great respect for our institutions and

By Curt Devine, Yahya Abou-Ghazala and Kyung Lah, CNN (CNN) — Police officers in Texas, senior citizens at a nursing home in Pennsylvania and people who had registered to vote at a Marine base in California. They are among the thousands of voters whose right to cast a ballot has been needlessly challenged ahead of

By Joan Biskupic, CNN Chief Supreme Court Analyst (CNN) — The Supreme Court began the year poised to build on its 2022 decision overturning Roe v. Wade and to deliver a new blow to abortion access. In January, the court took the extraordinary step of letting Idaho enforce its ban on abortion with an exception only

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Text messages between law enforcement before the assassination attempt against Donald Trump earlier this month suggest that some officers raised the shooter’s presence at the rally more than 90 minutes before he climbed onto a roof and fired eight rounds at the former president. In text messages obtained by

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — Mark Meadows’ lawyers say they’ve asked the Supreme Court this weekend to take up his bid to move the Georgia election subversion prosecution against him to federal court, where the former White House chief of staff to ex-President Donald Trump would bring arguments that he is entitled to immunity

By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump has revived his four-year-old false claim about how he and Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz handled the civil unrest that followed the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer in 2020. Walz is among the Democrats whom sources say Vice President Kamala Harris is considering as a

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — As soon as Vice President Kamala Harris hit the campaign trail this week, she made it clear what one of her top priorities would be if she wins the presidential election in November. “Building up the middle class will be a defining goal of my presidency,” she said at

By Simone Pathe, CNN (CNN) — When Kamala Harris held her first campaign rally as the presumptive Democratic nominee last week, one of the most vulnerable senators in the country was on hand to welcome her. Tammy Baldwin, the two-term Wisconsin Democrat, didn’t attend President Joe Biden’s post-debate rally in the state earlier this month.

By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are entering the last 100 days of one of the fastest-moving and least predictable campaign seasons in memory, after a historic month upended the 2024 presidential race. The ground has shifted under both political parties since June 27, when President Joe Biden’s poor performance

By Tami Luhby, Meg Tirrell, Ella Nilsen, Bryan Mena, Priscilla Alvarez, Alex Marquardt and Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — A week after announcing her run for president, Kamala Harris has yet to tell voters how she will address the key issues facing the nation. The vice president’s platform will likely be in the same vein

By Steve Contorno and Aaron Pellish, CNN Nashville (CNN) — For a time, Donald Trump would have made for an unlikely headliner at a cryptocurrency confab. As president, Trump declared bitcoin “not money” and criticized it as “highly volatile and based on thin air.” He cautioned that crypto assets helped facilitate illegal underground markets. “We have

CNN By Evan Perez, Alayna Treene, Hannah Rabinowitz and Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — The FBI said Friday that Donald Trump was hit by a bullet, or a fragment from one, fired by the would-be assassin at his Pennsylvania rally earlier this month. “What struck former President Trump in the ear was a bullet, whether

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — Ex-FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page reached settlements with the Justice Department that will see the government paying out a total of $2 million in their lawsuits over the department’s 2018 release of their text messages. Former agent Strzok will get $1.2 million and Page, who was an FBI lawyer, will get

By Eric Bradner and Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump said Friday he plans to return to Butler, Pennsylvania – the place where the former president survived an assassination attempt nearly two weeks ago – for a rally that will honor slain supporter Corey Comperatore and those injured in the shooting. Trump announced the

CNN By Alayna Treene and Kylie Atwood, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday, the first such meeting between the two men since Trump left the White House more than three years ago. The meeting at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence was requested by Netanyahu, sources familiar with the planning