Politics

By Tierney Sneed and Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Judges in Michigan and North Carolina rejected lawsuits brought by the Republican National Committee and others that challenged overseas ballots cast by voters abroad who never resided in the states. The rulings in two separate cases on Monday are setbacks in efforts by Republicans to target

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump has long vowed to protect Social Security. But the bevy of tax breaks he’s promised – including pledging to stop taxing Social Security benefits – could hasten the depletion of the beloved entitlement program’s trust funds and leave seniors with smaller monthly payments. Trump’s platform

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — A Philadelphia man is facing federal charges for allegedly threatening to skin alive a state party representative who was recruiting poll watchers, according to an indictment unsealed Monday. Prosecutors say that 62-year-old John Pollard sent several text messages to the representative, who isn’t named in court documents. The party

By Kevin Liptak, Alex Marquardt, Jennifer Hansler and Kylie Atwood, CNN (CNN) — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken departed Monday for Israel and other unspecified countries in the Middle East as the United States seeks to move forward on efforts to resolve the conflict in the wake of the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar. American officials, led

By Katelyn Polantz, Sara Murray and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — Steve Bannon, the right-wing podcaster and former Donald Trump aide, is set to get out of federal prison next Tuesday despite repeated attempts he and his legal defense team have made for him to be released early. The Bureau of Prisons said in a letter to Bannon on Monday that

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump used a Monday visit to North Carolina to repeat debunked lies about the federal response to Hurricane Helene. Speaking to reporters in a hard-hit community near Asheville, Trump kept repeating a false claim that was widely debunked when he made it earlier in October

By Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — Two Naval aviators who were killed when their aircraft crashed near Mount Rainier in Washington State last week had just returned from a Middle East deployment where they took part in strikes against the Houthis in Yemen. Lt Cmdr. Lyndsay P. Evans, 31, and Lt. Serena N. Wileman, 31,

By Betsy Klein, CNN Washington (CNN) — First lady Dr. Jill Biden unveiled a reimagined public tour of the White House Monday aimed at making the People’s House more accessible, interactive and educational for visitors. After a multimillion-dollar upgrade, visitors on public tours will now be able to walk inside the White House’s Vermeil Room,

By Katie Bo Lillis and Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — The publication on social media of two classified US intelligence documents detailing Israeli preparations for an attack on Iran has set off a scramble inside the US government to discover how they were leaked, a closely held investigation in its early stages that is zeroing in

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court agreed to hear three cases Monday from industry groups seeking to choose how to fight federal environmental regulations, highlighting a long-running battle over efforts to pick conservative or liberal courts parties believe will be more friendly to their cause. The Supreme Court’s decisions next year could

By Devan Cole, CNN Washington (CNN) — An attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union is set to be the first openly transgender person to argue before the Supreme Court this December when the justices hear a challenge to Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors. Chase Strangio, the co-director of the ACLU’s LGBTQ and HIV Project,

CNN By Marshall Cohen, CNN Washington (CNN) — While stumping for former President Donald Trump on Saturday, tech billionaire Elon Musk announced that he will give away $1 million each day to registered voters in battleground states, immediately drawing scrutiny from election law experts who said the sweepstakes could violate laws against paying people to register. “We want

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — Members of the “Central Park Five” sued former President Donald Trump on Monday over “false and defamatory” statements they allege he made about their 1989 case during a presidential debate last month. The five men claim in a federal lawsuit that Trump knew he was acting with “reckless disregard”

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court declined Monday to hear an appeal challenging the structure of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the latest legal case that threatened independent government agencies. The appeal from two “educational organizations,” alleged that the 52-year-old independent consumer protection agency violates the Constitution because its five-member board can

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court brushed aside an appeal Monday from Michael Cohen, the one-time fixer for Donald Trump, who accused the former president of retaliating against him for promoting a critical tell-all book. Without comment, the justices declined to hear the case, leaving in place decisions from lower courts that

By Eric Bradner and Ebony Davis, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris is making an aggressive bid to win over independents and moderate Republicans in the suburbs, visiting vote-rich counties in three Great Lakes swing states Monday with former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney. In the presidential race’s closing days, Harris’ campaign is courting a

By Donald Judd and Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration is set to propose a new rule Monday that would require private insurance plans to cover over-the-counter contraception without a prescription at no cost. Jen Klein, the director of the White House Gender Policy Council, called the proposal “the most significant expansion of

By Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — The House task force investigating the first assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump released its interim report on Monday that included excerpts of new testimony from local law enforcement officials who provided firsthand accounts of the lack of communication and security failures at the Butler, Pennsylvania, rally. Based

By Brian Fung, CNN (CNN) — Three years ago, major internet platforms including Meta, Twitter and YouTube responded to the January 6, 2021, Capitol riots with decisive action — suspending thousands of accounts that had spread election lies and removing posts glorifying the attack on US democracy. Their efforts weren’t perfect, certainly; groups promoting baseless allegations of election fraud

By Natasha Bertrand, CNN Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) — Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin arrived in Kyiv early Monday morning, as the future of US aid to Ukraine hangs in the balance of the imminent US presidential election and as Russia continues to make small but steady gains on the battlefield. Austin met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Defense Minister