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By Sunlen Serfaty, Isabelle Khurshudyan, CNN (CNN) — A final vote to approve President Donald Trump’s proposed triumphal arch on Thursday is poised to kick off a fresh round of legal wrangling as efforts to stop its construction intensify through the courts. The National Capital Planning Commission, one of two federal agencies that oversees architectural

By Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — Vice President JD Vance’s seemingly straightforward path to succeeding President Donald Trump suddenly looks much murkier. The Republican shellacking in Tuesday’s midterm elections has quickly triggered a public reckoning within the GOP over Trump’s place in the future of the party — one that threatens to complicate Vance’s efforts

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Democratic rout in Tuesday’s midterm elections sparked an immediate sense of unease on the right about the future of the Supreme Court and a new round of Republican anxiety over decisions by Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas to stick it out rather than step down. Multiple sources

By Adam Cancryn, Sarah Ferris, Zachary Cohen, Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump may have made the decision to launch the war that tanked voters’ support for the GOP and dealt them a midterm shellacking. But the historic losses are accelerating a push for someone else to take the fall: Defense Secretary Pete

By Fredreka Schouten, Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — An unpopular president, a charismatic Democratic candidate and an incumbent who has underperformed other Republicans in recent elections have turned a US Senate race in Mississippi into the nail-biter of the midterms. As of Wednesday afternoon, Democrat Scott Colom was just a few dozen votes ahead of

By Kevin Liptak, Kristen Holmes, Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump, resoundingly rejected by voters on Tuesday night, is entering the final phase of his elected career wounded but newly determined to retain an iron grip on power. The concluding years of his presidency will be frustrating ones, many of his allies admit,

By Patrick Svitek, CNN (CNN) — For decades, Texas Democrats have dreamt of turning the state blue, rallying around exciting candidates who drew big crowds and big money but could not ultimately overcome the state’s stubborn conservative majority. On Tuesday, their dream finally came true – and in dramatic fashion. Not only did Democrats win

By Jeremy Herb, Fredreka Schouten, Gabe Cohen, Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration’s unprecedented crusade to hunt for voter fraud spurred widespread fears of federal election interference but ultimately never materialized on Election Day – thanks to resistance from local election officials and federal courts. In what quickly became a wave election for

By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — By the time the House and Senate had been called for Democrats on Tuesday, a consensus among members of both parties was forming: voters had rejected President Donald Trump’s record in office, and he would face a starkly different political reality for the remainder of his term. Trump, however,

By Aleena Fayaz, CNN (CNN) — Winners up and down the 2026 ballot will make history this year, CNN’s Decision Desk projects, including the first Black woman governor, the first Muslim elected to the US Senate and the first out gay male US senator. As President Donald Trump takes on the latter half of his

By Adam Cancryn, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump was in the midst of his fourth political rally in three days when he asked a close associate the question that had been troubling him for some time: How did the Republican Party get in this bad of shape? It was mid-October, and with just weeks

By Dianne Gallagher, CNN (CNN) — In a stunning upset in typically reliably Republican South Carolina, CNN’s Decision Desk is projecting that Democrat Annie Andrews will defeat President Donald Trump’s hand-picked candidate Sen. Darline Graham. Andrews is flipping a seat Republicans have held for nearly three decades and a state that voted for Trump by

By Eric Bradner Democratic state Rep. Josh Turek will flip Iowa’s open Senate seat, CNN’s Decision Desk projects, defeating GOP Rep. Ashley Hinson and renewing the state’s battleground status. The two were vying to replace retiring Republican Sen. Joni Ernst in a state that had been competitive until recently, but where the GOP had dominated

By Lauren Fox Democratic former Sen. Sherrod Brown will return to the US Senate after unseating Republican Sen. Jon Husted in Ohio, CNN’s Decision Desk projects, giving his party a major win in one of the country’s most closely watched Senate contests. Brown’s victory marks a major political comeback in a state that has reliably

By Arlette Saenz Democrat Gina Hinojosa will become the first Latina governor of Texas, CNN’s Decision Desk projects, ending the more than three-decade Republican hold on the seat. Hinojosa, a 52-year-old state lawmaker and attorney, defeated Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, a mainstay of Texas politics who was seeking a fourth term. She will be the

CNN By Arlette Saenz Democrat Gina Hinojosa will become the first Latina governor of Texas, CNN’s Decision Desk projects, ending the more than three-decade Republican hold on the seat. Hinojosa, a 52-year-old state lawmaker and attorney, defeated Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, a mainstay of Texas politics who was seeking a fourth term. She will be

CNN By Arlette Saenz Democratic state Rep. James Talarico will win the Senate race in Texas, CNN’s Decision Desk projects, delivering a stunning defeat to Republican state Attorney General Ken Paxton. Talarico, 37, is the first Democrat elected to the US Senate to represent Texas in 38 years and the first Democrat elected statewide since

By Arlette Saenz Democratic state Rep. James Talarico will win the Senate race in Texas, CNN’s Decision Desk projects, delivering a stunning defeat to Republican state Attorney General Ken Paxton. Talarico, 37, is the first Democrat elected to the US Senate to represent Texas in 38 years and the first Democrat elected statewide since 1994.

By David Wright Democrat Amy Acton will be elected Ohio’s next governor, CNN’s Decision Desk projects, defeating Republican Vivek Ramaswamy after the race garnered national attention over a controversial attack ad. Acton is the first Democrat to win Ohio’s governorship since 2006 and the first woman ever elected to the office. She succeeds term-limited GOP

By Eric Bradner, Patrick Svitek, Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — A historic Democratic wave swept the party into power in Congress and in statehouses across the country on Tuesday, as voters rebuked President Donald Trump and rejected the candidates he’d propped up in key races. In an election in which Trump urged his faithful to

By Dianne Gallagher Democrat Annie Andrews will win the U.S. Senate race in South Carolina, CNN’s Decision Desk projects, defeating Sen. Darline Graham and flipping a seat that Republicans have held for nearly three decades. Andrews, a pediatrician, will become the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate from South Carolina. The last time a

CNN By Dianne Gallagher Democrat Annie Andrews will win the U.S. Senate race in South Carolina, CNN’s Decision Desk projects, defeating Sen. Darline Graham and flipping a seat that Republicans have held for nearly three decades. Andrews, a pediatrician, will become the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate from South Carolina. The last time

By Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — Soon after Hakeem Jeffries arrived in the House in 2013, one of his earliest mentors approached a group of senior Black Democrats with a message. “I think he is the one,” former Rep. Eddie Bernie Johnson told lawmakers at the time, including Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, who recalled she was

CNN By Katherine Koretski Democratic Rep. Chris Pappas will win New Hampshire’s open Senate seat, CNN’s Decision Desk projects, making history as the first out gay man to be elected to the chamber. Pappas fended off a closely watched bid from GOP former Sen. John E. Sununu, who held the seat before being ousted by

CNN By Steve Contorno Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff will win reelection, CNN’s Decision Desk projects, defending a crucial Democratic seat that Republicans once considered a top pick-up opportunity. Ossoff’s victory in a state President Donald Trump carried two years ago is all but certain to further fuel speculation about the Democrat’s political future. He is

By Steve Contorno Republican Rep. Byron Donalds will be Florida’s next governor, CNN’s Decision Desk projects, and will make history as the state’s first Black leader. Donalds defeated David Jolly, a former Republican congressman who became a Democrat last year and tried to appeal to voters as a pragmatic centrist. However, Donalds overwhelmed Jolly with

By Hannah Rabinowitz, Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department sent target letters to more than a dozen people it believes helped recruit a Senate candidate with the same name as the Republican incumbent, in Alaska — an indication that the department is working towards bringing federal charges, according to two sources familiar with

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — A majority of the Supreme Court signaled on Tuesday it would allow Catholic preschools receiving taxpayer money to deny enrollment to children of same-sex couples, potentially delivering another significant win for religious rights in schools. The court’s conservative majority was unconvinced that a Colorado law, which bars discrimination based

By Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — First lady Melania Trump will bring representatives from Russia and Ukraine to the White House on Thursday, after announcing a ceasefire in the city of Oleshky last month. “First lady Melania Trump will personally bring representatives of Russia and Ukraine, two nations actively at war, together at the White

By Kit Maher, Oren Liebermann, Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the United States is cutting off $4 billion in aid to Israel at the end of the year because “they don’t need it.” Trump, speaking to Fox News on the morning of Election Day, suggested that US aid to

By Jennifer Agiesta, Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — CNN’s Election Night coverage has for decades featured the results of surveys, known as exit polls that aim to explain how and why voters made their decisions. This year, those surveys are changing and they have a new name. The CNN Voter Poll incorporates traditional in-person exit

By Alayna Treene, Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — The US military carried out limited strikes on Iran’s Qeshm Island on Monday, three US officials told CNN, characterizing the action as defensive in nature and meant to protect US assets in the region. One official said the US attack came in response to Iran firing at

CNN By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — By the time President Donald Trump had concluded his hourlong closing argument speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Monday, the water in the basin behind him had become still, a perfect mirror of the Washington Monument and a grey November sky. If the pool

CNN By John Fritze and Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Monday quickly shut down President Donald Trump’s effort to force California to sideline potentially thousands of ballots that the Justice Department claims may have been cast by noncitizens, rejecting the administration’s emergency request hours after it was filed. The unusually fast

By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — By the time President Donald Trump had concluded his hourlong closing argument speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Monday, the water in the basin behind him had become still, a perfect mirror of the Washington Monument and a grey November sky. If the pool was

By Eric Bradner, Patrick Svitek, Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — Late last fall, Haley Stevens decided to get off social media. The Michigan congresswoman told staffers working on her Democratic Senate campaign to send her important news — but she didn’t need to be distracted by mean-spirited comments about her appearance or mannerisms. But Jason

By Rhyannon Bartlett-Imadegawa, Ethan Cohen, CNN (CNN) — It’s almost Election Day, and the balance of power in Washington is at stake as Americans vote to determine control of the Senate and House of Representatives — plus, settle races for governor and decide many other key issues. This is a comprehensive guide to poll closing

By John Fritze and Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Monday quickly shut down President Donald Trump’s effort to force California to sideline potentially thousands of ballots that the Justice Department claims may have been cast by noncitizens, rejecting the administration’s emergency request hours after it was filed. The unusually fast decision

By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — Can the polls be trusted? It depends on what you’re trusting them to do. Even the most carefully conducted polls are imprecise snapshots of public opinion, not precision instruments — and when they’re pressed into predictive tools, they don’t always get it right. But while surveys can’t provide an

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge has thrown out a case against two former FBI officials who were charged with lying to Congress as part of a winding probe from lawmakers focused in part on whether FBI investigators sought to minimize allegations of Biden family corruption and evidence related to Hunter Biden’s

By Gabe Cohen, Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Election officials have spent months preparing to run the 2026 vote — and bracing for what could disrupt it. They’re training workers, tightening security and readying legal challenges for threats that could stretch well beyond Election Day. “Lately we have to take into account really horrible, worst-case

By Eric Bradner, Edward-Isaac Dovere, Brian Todd, CNN Detroit (CNN) — As recently as Saturday night, the prospect of Democrat Haley Stevens endorsing Republican Mike Rogers in Michigan’s Senate race had seemed implausible. Stevens issued a statement praising Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed for saying he disagreed with a controversial advertisement that blamed the high cost

By Jennifer Agiesta, CNN (CNN) — As Election Day comes to a close and results start to roll in, it can be difficult to understand what the numbers you’re seeing might be saying about who will ultimately win a key race. CNN Sightline, a new election tool designed to surface insights from CNN’s Decision Desk,

By Dan Berman, Tierney Sneed, Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Sunday threw out the Justice Department’s lawsuit seeking to segregate ballots and delay certification of Alaska’s Senate race, the latest legal rebuke to a rash of Trump administration attempts to meddle in the 2026 midterms. US District Judge Sharon Gleason said

By Alison Main, CNN (CNN) — Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy has been hospitalized after experiencing a stroke and is expected to make a full recovery, his team announced Sunday. The 53-year-old experienced “numbness in his arm” on Saturday afternoon and was taken to a local hospital, where doctors determined he suffered a stroke, according to

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN Virginia Beach, Virginia (CNN) — No part of a rolling, decadelong existential crisis is ever easy, even when things seem on the cusp of going well — and especially when Democrats have had their hopes raised and dashed so many times. “It’s a little bit of deja vu,” said Elaine Luria,

By Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — Millions of voters will cast their ballots Tuesday in an election that will decide the balance of power in Congress and set the tone for President Donald Trump’s remaining two years in the White House. Democrats and Republicans are battling in tight contests across the country, while the governor’s

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Holly Hendricks, who is battling an autoimmune disease that leaves her with open wounds down to the muscle, did everything she could to maintain her Affordable Care Act coverage after the enhanced premium subsidies lapsed at the start of this year. But after a few months, the 49-year-old couldn’t

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — With the midterms just days away, the channels for federal officials to communicate foreign threats to election officials are at their weakest since the 2016 vote, numerous sources who work in elections told CNN. US intelligence officials are tracking familiar efforts by Russia, China and Iran to influence American

By Aleena Fayaz, CNN (CNN) — Eighteen months after President Donald Trump stepped in to remake the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in his image, a top official worried about the Washington institution’s hemorrhaging finances urged for it to be shut down, according to court documents filed on behalf of the Ohio

By Sarah Owermohle, Isabelle Khurshudyan, CNN (CNN) — Just two years after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his “Make America Healthy Again” movement helped propel President Donald Trump into the White House, the now-Secretary of Health and Human Services is highlighting a political vulnerability in a bellwether state. A measles outbreak in Pennsylvania has made

By Casey Tolan, Audrey Ash, Curt Devine, Isabelle Chapman, CNN (CNN) — As a Justice Department investigation scrutinizes whether Democrats recruited a Senate candidate to confuse Alaska voters, a big-money effort propping up a different fringe name on the ballot could also hurt Republicans in that race – and in another pivotal contest in Ohio.

By Jeremy Herb, Ted Barrett, CNN (CNN) — After Election Day, all eyes in the political world could turn to Alaska. Alaska has already been at the center of a roiling political controversy this week over how the second Dan Sullivan ended up on the state’s Senate ballot, which has sparked lawsuits, criminal investigations and

By Lauren Fox, Morgan Rimmer, CNN (CNN) — In the closing days of the race, Rep. Max Miller is making the case to voters that divorce is messy and the controversies that surrounded him this summer are behind him. But the high-profile custody case that roiled his reelection bid this cycle is scheduled to go

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge imposed a sweeping emergency order halting various aggressive tactics employed by the Trump administration in recent days to pressure election officials across the country. “Although Defendants claim that their actions are designed to halt unlawful voting by noncitizens, their actions are likely to have the effect

By Austin Culpepper, Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Friday was skeptical of the Trump administration’s urgency to rush construction of a controversial 250-foot triumphal arch that the president wants to begin next week. Judge Tanya Chutkan asked an administration attorney, “What’s the harm to the government to wait three or four

By Davis Winkie, CNN (CNN) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky welcomed US approval of a potential $2.1 billion sale of 500 vital Patriot interceptor missiles on Friday, but warned that it may take “a few years” for them to arrive. “We are asking our American partners to find a solution for the time when there

By John Fritze, Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge opened a formal investigation Friday into whether Justice Department attorneys and others within the Trump administration misrepresented the president’s plans to renovate a golf course in Washington, DC, ratcheting up a dramatic showdown between the White House and the courts. In a fiery hearing

By Holmes Lybrand, Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — The federal judge overseeing the new case against former FBI Director James Comey is now set to decide whether placeholder charges can survive as prosecutors attempt to get an indictment from a Washington, DC, grand jury. During a hearing Friday, the Justice Department said it is working

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN Atlanta (CNN) — The G20 foreign ministers meeting kicked off in Atlanta on Friday without a “family photo” after numerous representatives were expected to walk out rather than be pictured alongside Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Two Western officials told CNN more than a third of attending officials had threatened to

By Kevin Liptak, Kaitlan Collins, Adam Cancryn, Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — Flying on Thursday to South Carolina to headline his 25th midterm rally this month, President Donald Trump and his political team made a decision, according to one of his advisers: Instead of holding an in-person rally this weekend in Kansas — a red

By Brianna Keilar, CNN (CNN) — Christina Fuller is an American former military spouse living without legal residency in southern Spain, where a custody fight has kept her and her son for years. When her family arrived near the Strait of Gibraltar on US military orders, her son was two. Now, he’s nearly 10. Fuller’s

By Annie Grayer, Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s political future could be on the line if Democrats win the House majority in next week’s midterm elections. A Democrat win of the House could breathe new life into an ongoing effort to impeach Hegseth, potentially convincing more Republicans to get on board

By Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — For Republicans, the midterm alarm bells are increasingly coming from inside their house. In Georgia, Rick Jackson, the GOP nominee for governor, has expressed concerns that rural voters had grown complacent. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis described turnout in his state as underwhelming and said, “Republicans have some work to

CNN By Isabelle Khurshudyan, CNN (CNN) — Before there were two Dan Sullivans, there were three Bob Fergusons. In 2024, Washington’s Democratic state Attorney General Bob Ferguson was joined in the gubernatorial primary race by two other Democratic hopefuls with the same name. Was it a coincidence? More like an age-old election trick that’s come

By Isabelle Khurshudyan, CNN (CNN) — Before there were two Dan Sullivans, there were three Bob Fergusons. In 2024, Washington’s Democratic state Attorney General Bob Ferguson was joined in the gubernatorial primary race by two other Democratic hopefuls with the same name. Was it a coincidence? More like an age-old election trick that’s come up

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — Elon Musk has plowed nearly half a billion dollars into elections in the 2026 cycle, a spending spree that makes him the single, largest disclosed donor in modern American politics and one of the Republican Party’s largest-ever benefactors. The world’s richest man has contributed more than $445 million to

By Hannah Rabinowitz, Evan Perez, Tierney Sneed, CNN The Justice Department has dramatically accelerated a criminal probe into whether Alaska Democrats sought to confuse voters by recruiting a Senate candidate intended to siphon votes from the Republican, issuing dozens of new grand jury subpoenas and homing in on new potential charges, according to people familiar

By Sean Lyngaas, Priscilla Alvarez, Thomas Bordeaux, CNN (CNN) — The Department of Homeland Security is investigating after hackers claimed to have stolen and leaked the sensitive personal information of tens of thousands of current and former department employees, including some that work on covert and sensitive missions. “DHS is aware of a potential breach

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — The hardware underpinning major AI models can be hacked so that chatbots provide faulty and dangerous answers to questions from users, according to new research shared exclusively with CNN. The researchers were able to subvert answers to sensitive national security and personal health questions. In one instance, they were

By Tierney Sneed, Annette Choi, CNN (CNN) — Never before has the federal government been more focused on finding evidence of mass noncitizen voting. What it’s found is exponentially more modest. Under the orders of President Donald Trump, the administration has launched a far-reaching effort to find evidence that foreigners are tainting elections. Top officials

By Patrick Svitek, David Wright, CNN (CNN) — Candidates are trading accusations of being beholden to big donors, debating who wants to restrict congressional stock trading more and running ads in which they stand in literal swamps. Fighting corruption has emerged as one of the biggest issues of the midterms, shaping battleground races from coast

By Jennifer Agiesta, Ariel Edwards-Levy, Edward Wu, CNN (CNN) — CNN polling across four key Senate races in the final days of the midterm campaign finds Democrats well-positioned in Michigan and Texas, with no clear leader in the races in Maine or Kansas. The four states tell the story of a midterm playing field that

By Zachary Cohen, Brad Lendon, CNN Washington (CNN) — US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired the Pentagon’s top planning officer as President Donald Trump weighs new strikes against Iran, according to a defense official and another source familiar with the matter. Lt. Gen. Brett Sylvia, who held the role of director for strategy, plans and

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The Defense Department’s watchdog has declined a bipartisan request to open an investigation into the slowdown of the SpaceX’s military-grade Starlink system in Ukraine, according to a letter obtained by CNN. Earlier this month, a group of nine bipartisan senators, led by Republican Sen. Thom Tillis and Democratic Sen.

By Katelyn Polantz, Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge is refusing to allow the Justice Department to intervene in California’s ongoing mail-in ballot counting, warning that the Trump administration’s request to segregate as many as 20,000 ballots to vet voters’ citizenship would “wreak havoc and disrupt the election that is already underway.” Federal

By Tierney Sneed, Patrick Svitek, Tori B. Powell, CNN (CNN) — Alaska officials said new revelations in The New York Times about efforts by Democrats to recruit a Senate candidate with the same name as GOP incumbent Sen. Dan S. Sullivan do not change the state’s opposition to a Trump administration lawsuit seeking to potentially

By Sunlen Serfaty, CNN (CNN) — US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told a federal judge that President Donald Trump’s proposed triumphal arch is a “generational national defense opportunity” in a legal briefing arguing the project is vital to protecting the nation’s capital. Originally proposed as a monument to celebrate the country’s 250th birthday, Trump last

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz said the Trump administration is ejecting a Cuban diplomat from the United States amid soaring tensions between Washington and Havana. The ejection comes after a shouting match erupted on the floor of the United Nations General Assembly Hall between Waltz and Cuban

By Eric Bradner (CNN) — A Minnesota county attorney is charging right-wing influencers James O’Keefe and Cameron Higby with felony counts of unlawful voting and identity theft, alleging that the two claimed other voters’ identities while visiting polling places with concealed cameras during the state’s August primary. Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said O’Keefe and

By Rachel Siegel (CNN) – The Federal Reserve is widely expected to keep interest rates steady on Wednesday, even as officials weigh another hike this year to tame rising inflation. Central bankers have struggled to tame inflation for years. But gas and energy prices have been on an upward climb since the war in Iran

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — With under a week to go in what many polls are showing as a still tight Senate race in Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed hasn’t called his former primary opponent Rep. Haley Stevens in months — and there are no plans for that to change before Election Day. Stevens narrowly lost

By Joan Biskupic, CNN Chief Supreme Court Analyst (CNN) — Religious groups have long urged the Supreme Court to reverse a 1990 decision that diminished free-exercise protection and that was written, paradoxically, by the conservative exemplar Justice Antonin Scalia. That decision, against two members of a Native American church who lost their jobs after engaging in

By Jeff Zeleny, Steve Contorno, Eric Bradner, CNN Atlanta (CNN) — Americans have elected three Black governors in the nation’s 250-year history. By next week, that figure could multiply. From Keisha Lance Bottoms in Georgia to Byron Donalds in Florida to David Crowley in Wisconsin, Black candidates are vying to lead eight states from the

CNN By Hannah Rabinowitz, Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Justice Department prosecutors on Tuesday tried and failed to secure a grand jury indictment of former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson over her testimony about President Donald Trump’s role in the January 6, 2021, US Capitol riot, according to two people familiar with the matter. Hutchison

By Hannah Rabinowitz, Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Justice Department prosecutors on Tuesday tried and failed to secure a grand jury indictment of former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson over her testimony about President Donald Trump’s role in the January 6, 2021, US Capitol riot, according to two people familiar with the matter. Hutchison was

By Patrick Svitek, CNN (CNN) — Maine’s battleground Senate race is being roiled by a late burst of Republican ads mocking Democratic nominee Troy Jackson over his relationship with his longtime partner, whom Sen. Susan Collins and GOP allies have said is his second cousin. Collins has distanced herself from one radio ad from the

By Evan Perez, Hannah Rabinowitz, Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — The FBI searched a Beverly Hills mansion Tuesday in connection to an investigation into former Rep. Eric Swalwell, according to two people familiar with the probe. The home is owned by a Swalwell donor, one of the people said. CNN has reached out to a

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN Boca Raton, Florida (CNN) — A week before the Israeli elections that will determine Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s future, the only two Jewish candidates running against each other to represent one of the most heavily Jewish House districts in the country met for their first face-to-face at a synagogue the name

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge extended an order blocking tree removal from a Washington, DC golf course President Donald Trump is seeking to renovate, while imposing new notice requirements on any other major changes the administration seeks to make on the golf course grounds. The new 70-page opinion from US District

By Jeremy Herb, Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — A federal appeals court on Monday rejected the Trump administration’s unprecedented attempt to force California to set aside votes from 20,000 people it claims could be noncitizens. The Justice Department’s lawsuit in California, filed earlier this month, is part of its escalating effort to insert the federal

By Hannah Rabinowitz, Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department criminally charged James Comey over a decade-old allegation that he ordered his staff to leak classified information to a reporter, the third time that prosecutors have levied criminal allegations against the former FBI director. Comey is charged over allegedly leaking a sensitive national security

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — A little over a week ago, an “official statement,” appearing to be printed on State Department letterhead with its seal, was posted on Kristi Noem’s official special envoy X account and her own personal X account about the end of her tenure as an envoy to the Shield of

By Christopher Lamb, CNN (CNN) — Two Catholic bishops have expressed regret over attending a meeting with 10 other prelates and President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, saying they were “exploited.” Photos and video of 12 clergy members praying over the president were released on Thursday, less than two weeks before the midterm elections.

By Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Monday found the Justice Department’s firing of Maurene Comey, a former federal prosecutor who presided over several high-profile cases including those of Jeffrey Epstein and Sean “Diddy” Combs, was unconstitutional. Comey, an assistant US attorney for the Southern District of New York for nearly a

By Zachary Cohen, Jim Sciutto, Tal Shalev, CNN (CNN) — US forces in the Middle East are prepared to launch new, potentially major, military operations against Iran “within 96 hours of receiving” an order from President Donald Trump, according to two US officials. Sufficient forces are now deployed in the region to carry out the

By Jeremy Herb, Katelyn Polantz, Aleena Fayaz, Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — A three-judge US Circuit Court of Appeals panel expressed significant skepticism Sunday over the Justice Department’s desire to inject itself into California’s midterm vote-counting process by forcing election officials to set aside the votes of suspected noncitizens who have been issued mail ballots.

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — Voters will pick the winners of next month’s midterm elections, but it is the conservative Supreme Court that has set the rules. Long before early voting got underway to decide control of Congress, the court exerted an unusually profound impact on the election with a series of decisions that

By Katherine Koretski, CNN (CNN) — The campaign signs across New Hampshire read “Sununu” in block letters. They’re for Republican Senate nominee John E. Sununu, who held the seat from 2003 to 2009 and is running to replace retiring Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen. But they also invoke the legacy of New Hampshire’s preeminent GOP family,

By Eric Bradner, Jeff Zeleny, CNN Cincinnati (CNN) — Democrats could be poised for a revival in the heartland, as furor over high costs and doubt about President Donald Trump’s willingness to change the nation’s trajectory threaten to loosen the GOP’s grip on working-class voters. A decade after the Trump era began, when he first