Politics

CNN By Evan Perez, Lauren Fox, Tierney Sneed, Holmes Lybrand and Whitney Wild, CNN (CNN) — US Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle has tendered her resignation amid scrutiny of security lapses related to the recent assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump, sources tell CNN. The move comes as lawmakers and an internal government watchdog move

CNN By Evan Perez, Lauren Fox, Tierney Sneed, Holmes Lybrand and Whitney Wild, CNN (CNN) — US Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle has tendered her resignation amid scrutiny of security lapses related to the recent assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump, sources tell CNN. The move comes as lawmakers and an internal government watchdog move

By Alex Marquardt, CNN (CNN) — A group of senior Israeli figures including former national security officials, academics and business leaders have sent US congressional leadership a blistering letter accusing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is set to speak to Congress on Wednesday, of threatening both Israeli and American national security. The letter calls Netanyahu

By Lauren Fox and Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — House Speaker Mike Johnson and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Tuesday officially announced a bipartisan House task force to investigate the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. “The security failures that allowed an assassination attempt on Donald Trump’s life are shocking. In response to bipartisan

By Tami Luhby and Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — As Kamala Harris prepares to run for president against Donald Trump, she will have to lay out for voters her own ideas on how to steer the economy and address Americans’ pressing concerns about the steep rise in prices in recent years. Although the vice president

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — No previous American candidate has ever launched a presidential campaign with the race already this much in motion. It’s like changing the quarterback, team mascot and entire playbook halfway through the third quarter. Advisers to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have already agreed to start planning joint events for them into the

By Em Steck and Andrew Kaczynski, CNN (CNN) — Ohio Sen. JD Vance, the Republican vice presidential nominee, repeatedly indicated in 2016 that he believed Donald Trump had committed sexual assault, even suggesting in one TV segment that in a “he said, she said” situation Trump was less credible than one of his accusers. Vance

CNN By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, Karl de Vries and Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — With President Joe Biden’s support unleashing a flood of endorsements from many prominent Democrats across the country, Kamala Harris has emerged as the favorite to take his place as the party’s nominee for president. Harris immediately received the endorsements of many Democratic party

By MJ Lee, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden is expected to meet this week with the families of Americans believed to be held hostage in Gaza. Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan told the families in a meeting Monday afternoon that the president would meet with them later this week, a source familiar told

By Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — The House Republican campaign arm is developing a targeted plan of attack to pin specific pieces of Vice President Kamala Harris’ record against Democrats running in competitive House races as Harris marches toward the Democratic nomination. The framing of GOP attacks on down-ballot Democrats are starting to take shape

By Ethan Cohen, Molly English, Matt Holt and Sydney Topf, CNN (CNN) — Kamala Harris has the support of enough Democratic delegates to win the party’s nomination for president, according to CNN’s delegate estimate. While endorsements from delegates continue to come in, the vice president has now been backed by well more than the 1,976

By Kara Scannell, Lauren del Valle and Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — Lawyers for Donald Trump asked a New York appeals court Monday to throw out the $454 million judgment in his civil fraud trial, arguing that the monetary penalty was unconstitutional and that most of the case should have been barred because the conduct

By MJ Lee, Ethan Cohen and Sam Fossum, CNN (CNN) — The Democratic National Committee is moving forward with a process that will determine the party’s presidential nominee by August 7, party officials said Monday night, shortly before Kamala Harris secured enough delegate endorsements to win the Democratic nomination. The party’s decision to move forward

By Manu Raju, Betsy Klein and Morgan Rimmer, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris declined to preside over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress on Wednesday, a source familiar with the matter told CNN. The decision to skip the joint meeting underscores the tense relationship between the Biden administration and Netanyahu at

By John King, CNN Easton, Pennsylvania (CNN) — Live to 94 like Pat Levin, and you think maybe you have seen it all. Well, think again. “We’ve been thrown into an emotional tailspin,” is how Levin described President Joe Biden’s abrupt departure from the 2024 campaign this weekend and his quick endorsement of Vice President