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By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump told two fictional stories about Oprah Winfrey on Saturday – one of them new, another he has been telling for at least 11 years. Trump’s claims about Winfrey are both trivial. But they are the latest on a long list of recent examples of

By Fredreka Schouten and Sara Murray, CNN (CNN) — In Pennsylvania, officials are bracing for another presidential election in which the state could once again be the decisive battleground and take days to determine the winner. Seth Bluestein, a Republican city commissioner in vote-rich Philadelphia, put the odds of knowing the winner on election night at

By Elise Hammond and Shania Shelton, CNN (CNN) — After graduating from high school in 2017, N’Dea Gordon entered the workforce. Deterred by the high cost of college and the prospect of thousands of dollars of student loans, her plan was to work her way up in the service industry, get promotions and gain skills

By Em Steck and Manu Raju, CNN (CNN) — Angela Alsobrooks, the Democratic nominee for US Senate in Maryland, improperly took advantage of tax breaks she did not qualify for, including one meant for low-income senior citizens, saving thousands of dollars in taxes on two properties she owned in Washington, DC, and in Maryland. A

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — Weeks after the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, a then-little-known Republican congressman from Louisiana introduced a short bill that proposed amending the Social Security Act to ensure child support payments be made for an “unborn child.” “The Unborn Child Support Act” has gone nowhere. But the congressman has.

By Kevin Liptak, CNN Washington (CNN) — Foreign dignitaries descending on this week’s United Nations General Assembly are looking to take advantage of a choice opportunity to sound out the next leader of the free world, seeking early clues where US foreign policy is heading next. The most sought-after meeting this week may be an

By Gregory Krieg, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris will not attend next month’s Al Smith charity dinner in New York City, her campaign has told organizers, opting instead to stump in a battleground state on October 17, less than three weeks before the election. The historic Catholic fundraiser traditionally features light roasts by the

CNN By Samantha Waldenberg, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday accepted an invitation from CNN to debate former President Donald Trump on October 23, challenging her rival to another engagement on a public stage in the final weeks of the campaign. “Vice President Harris is ready for another opportunity to share a stage with

By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — The first presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump dominated Americans’ political attention in the week that followed. It also served to elevate a set of false social media claims about migrants to sudden national prevalence. That’s the latest from The Breakthrough, a CNN polling project that tracks

By Samantha Waldenberg, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday accepted an invitation from CNN to debate former President Donald Trump on October 23, challenging her rival to another engagement on a public stage in the final weeks of the campaign. “Vice President Harris is ready for another opportunity to share a stage with Donald

By Shania Shelton, CNN (CNN) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday signed a bill that aims to reduce social media use among children, the latest state effort to regulate the medium over increasing concerns that heavy use is damaging to young people. The Protecting Our Kids from Social Media Addiction Act makes it unlawful for online services and applications

By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump returned Saturday for a campaign rally in North Carolina, where the former president is confronting a mess he played a key role in making in the critical battleground state. The Republican nominee for governor, Mark Robinson – whom Trump has repeatedly compared to Martin Luther King Jr.

By Tami Luhby and Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump has dangled in front of voters what many Republican candidates before him have offered in the past. “If you vote for me, I’m going to reduce your taxes,” the former president told a New York crowd this week. How Trump plans to cut taxes,

By Bob Ortega and Anna-Maja Rappard, CNN Phoenix (CNN) — When the ballot counting begins inside Arizona’s Maricopa County Tabulation Center this November, election workers will be protected behind doors and windows with bullet-proof glass and two layers of fencing. Security cameras will be monitored for suspicious activity inside and outside the building. A fleet

By David Wright and Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — Kamala Harris entered September – and the closing weeks of the presidential campaign – with significantly more available campaign cash than Donald Trump, new federal filings show, after setting a grassroots fundraising record during her first full month as the Democratic presidential nominee. Fundraising by the

By Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The Arizona Supreme Court ruled Friday that nearly 100,000 residents who may not have fulfilled the state’s proof-of-citizenship requirements can still vote in state and local races this year, quickly resolving how election officials should address a clerical glitch that had left in question the eligibility of those registered voters

By Jeff Zeleny, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump believes he will win four electoral votes from Nebraska, but it’s the fifth one that he is increasingly fretting about – leading the former president and his Republican allies to mount a last-ditch effort to try and change state election law only weeks before ballots are cast.

By Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — The US soldier who ran across the border from South to North Korea last year was sentenced Friday to one year in confinement and dishonorable discharge after pleading guilty to charges of desertion and assault. Pvt. Travis King pleaded guilty at a court martial in Fort Bliss, Texas, to

By Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, CNN (CNN) — Offensive posts by North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson were removed from the pornographic website Nude Africa on Thursday, hours after a CNN KFile investigation revealed a series of inflammatory comments posted on the forum by the controversial and socially conservative Republican nominee for governor of North

CNN By Steve Contorno and Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — When absentee ballots first landed on doorsteps in Michigan last month, so did Paul Hudson, a Grand Rapids lawyer and a Republican running to represent the area in Congress. Armed with an app that told him where likely voters lived and which houses might be

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — Facing intense criticism for promoting false claims that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, are abducting and eating other residents’ pets, Sen. JD Vance has tried to pivot by blaming Vice President Kamala Harris and the influx of Haitians during her vice presidency for a variety of broader social issues in the city.

By Holmes Lybrand and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — Secret Service acting Director Ronald Rowe admitted a shocking breach of protocol before former President Donald Trump was shot at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13. “There was complacency on the part of others that led to a breach in protocol,” Rowe said at

By Arlette Saenz and Samantha Waldenberg, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden convened the leaders of Australia, India and Japan for a Quad summit in his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware, this weekend, aiming to put a final stamp on an alliance he hopes will endure beyond his presidency. The current four-nation partnership is set to enter a new era

By Oren Liebermann, Natasha Bertrand and Alex Marquardt, CNN (CNN) — The US is expected to announce a major weapons package to Ukraine as soon as next week, but it will likely delay the shipping of the equipment due to inventory shortages, according to two US officials. The US currently has $5.9 billion left in Presidential

By Marshall Cohen and Jason Morris, CNN (CNN) — Allies of former President Donald Trump who control the Georgia State Election Board approved a controversial new rule Friday requiring counties to hand-count the number of ballots cast at polling places on Election Day, despite bipartisan objections from election officials and poll workers. The vote was 3-2,

By Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign on Friday launched a new television ad seeking to tie former President Donald Trump to North Carolina’s Republican gubernatorial nominee Mark Robinson, a day after a bombshell KFile report detailed a series of inflammatory comments Robinson made more than a decade ago. This is

By Annie Grayer, Danya Gainor and Haley Talbot, CNN Washington (CNN) — House Speaker Mike Johnson believes former President Donald Trump understands that House Republicans do not have the votes to pass the SAVE Act, following a private meeting between the two men on Thursday night. Publicly, the former president has called on Republicans to

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Friday declined a request from the Green Party to ensure presidential candidate Jill Stein could appear on the ballot in the battleground state of Nevada. The Green Party, which was represented by a lawyer for former President Donald Trump, argued that its candidates were “ripped

By Marshall Cohen, Sara Murray and Ali Main, CNN (CNN) — Suspicious packages were sent this week to election offices in more than 20 states, leading to an FBI investigation, triggering evacuations and rattling staff, according to a CNN survey of state offices and Associated Press reporting. The threatening envelopes arrived as election officials across the country

By Kevin Liptak, Nikki Carvajal and Michael Williams, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden wrapped a meeting with his Cabinet on Friday, his first high-profile convening of his advisers in a year as he tries to set his post-presidential legacy. Ahead of the meeting, a White House official said Biden would instruct Cabinet members

CNN By Elizabeth Wolfe, Melissa Alonso, Jeff Winter and Chelsea Bailey, CNN (CNN) — The Trump campaign continued to push false claims about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, even after a top city leader told a campaign staffer for its vice presidential nominee ahead of this month’s presidential debate the rumors were “baseless,” the city’s

By Elizabeth Wolfe, Melissa Alonso, Jeff Winter and Chelsea Bailey, CNN (CNN) — The Trump campaign continued to push false claims about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, even after a top city leader told a campaign staffer for its vice presidential nominee ahead of this month’s presidential debate the rumors were “baseless,” the city’s mayor

CNN By Gregory Krieg and Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump said Thursday that “the Jewish people” would be partially to blame if he loses in November, escalating his persistent campaign trail criticism of Jewish voters and insisting that Democrats hold a “curse” over them. “I’m not going to call this as

CNN By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump returned Saturday for a campaign rally in North Carolina, where the former president is confronting a mess he played a key role in making in the critical battleground state. The Republican nominee for governor, Mark Robinson – whom Trump has repeatedly compared to Martin Luther King

By Priscilla Alvarez and Ebony Davis, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris directed her team this week to immediately schedule a visit to Georgia following a media report that revealed two deaths linked to the battleground state’s abortion restrictions, according to two sources familiar with the planning – a callback to the rapid response

By Clare Foran, Annie Grayer and Haley Talbot, CNN Washington (CNN) — The House unanimously voted Friday to pass a bill bolstering Secret Service protection for major presidential and vice presidential candidates, a move that comes in the wake of two apparent assassination attempts targeting GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump. The vote was 405-0. The bill

By MJ Lee, CNN (CNN) — Kamala Harris’ revelation at the most recent presidential debate that she is a gun owner caught some viewers by surprise – the vice president has said relatively little over the years about her personal experience of owning a firearm. Responding to Donald Trump’s warning that Harris “wants to confiscate

By Katie Lobosco, CNN Washington (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to abolish the Department of Education. He most recently called for a “virtual closure of Department of Education in Washington” during a wide-ranging interview with Time magazine, which published on December 12. “You’re going to need some people just to make sure they’re

By Devan Cole, CNN Washington (CNN) — Attempts by conservatives to purge state voter rolls ahead of the November election, including from Donald Trump’s campaign and the Republican National Committee, are ramping up, prompting concern from the Justice Department that those efforts might violate federal rules governing how states can manage their lists of registered

By Ebony Davis and Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris sought to capitalize on the star power of Oprah Winfrey and a host of Hollywood celebrities to help her win over persuadable voters during an online rally Thursday night that ranged from participants’ searing accounts of personal loss and trauma to the Democrat’s unguarded

By Gregory Krieg and Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump said Thursday that “the Jewish people” would be partially to blame if he loses in November, escalating his persistent campaign trail criticism of Jewish voters and insisting that Democrats hold a “curse” over them. “I’m not going to call this as a

By Tierney Sneed and Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — With an election approaching, the US Supreme Court is being asked again to consider the Affordable Care Act, the landmark 2010 health reform law that has been the target of non-stop conservative legal attack, with a challenge to the law’s mandates for no-cost preventive care coverage.

By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump’s campaign declined to say Thursday whether North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, whom the former president once described as “Martin Luther King on steroids,” should drop out of the battleground state’s race for governor. Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign, meanwhile, highlighted Trump’s history of praise for Robinson, in the wake of a CNN report Thursday about

CNN By Michael Williams, CNN (CNN) — The father of an American hostage still being held in Gaza by Hamas criticized the deadly attacks in Lebanon that caused pagers and walkie-talkies to explode killing dozens, stating “this pager, mission-impossible action, it’s like treating agony with more agony.” Adi Alexander, whose son Edan Alexander is being held, said in an interview on “The Lead with

CNN By Zachary Cohen and Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — Federal investigators are scouring electronics and examining other evidence as they work to bring more serious charges against the suspect in the apparent assassination attempt of Donald Trump at a Florida golf club, according to law enforcement sources familiar with the matter. Among the outstanding

By Zachary Cohen and Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — Federal investigators are scouring electronics and examining other evidence as they work to bring more serious charges against the suspect in the apparent assassination attempt of Donald Trump at a Florida golf club, according to law enforcement sources familiar with the matter. Among the outstanding questions

By Michael Williams, CNN (CNN) — The father of an American hostage still being held in Gaza by Hamas criticized the deadly attacks in Lebanon that caused pagers and walkie-talkies to explode killing dozens, stating “this pager, mission-impossible action, it’s like treating agony with more agony.” Adi Alexander, whose son Edan Alexander is being held, said in an interview on “The Lead with Jake Tapper,” that “this vicious cycle

By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Hillary Clinton has criticized Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance for suggesting that families could ease the financial burden of child care by tapping grandparents for more help, saying that the Ohio senator is “just not in touch with what goes on in the lives and the working careers of the vast majority

CNN By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Hillary Clinton has criticized Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance for suggesting that families could ease the financial burden of child care by tapping grandparents for more help, saying that the Ohio senator is “just not in touch with what goes on in the lives and the working careers of the vast

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of Hillary Clinton, 2016 Democratic nominee for president. The first woman in American history to be nominated by a major party, Clinton is also a former secretary of state. Personal Birth date: October 26, 1947 Birth place: Chicago, Illinois Birth name: Hillary Diane Rodham

CNN By Dianne Gallagher and Daniel Strauss, CNN (CNN) — Several top operatives on Republican Mark Robinson’s campaign for North Carolina governor have stepped down, just days after a CNN report uncovered inflammatory comments the candidate made on a porn website. Robinson’s campaign announced Sunday evening that general consultant and senior adviser Conrad Pogorzelski III, campaign manager Chris Rodriguez, finance director

By Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, CNN (CNN) — Mark Robinson, the controversial and socially conservative Republican nominee for governor of North Carolina, made a series of inflammatory comments on a pornography website’s message board more than a decade ago, in which he referred to himself as a “black NAZI!” and expressed support for reinstating slavery, a CNN

By Clare Foran, Ted Barrett and Haley Talbot, CNN Washington (CNN) — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has taken steps that will give the Senate the option to set up a vote next week on a government funding extension as the threat of a shutdown looms at the end of the month. After the House failed on

By Marshall Cohen and Gabe Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Postmaster General Louis DeJoy pledged Thursday that the US Postal Service will undertake “heroic efforts” to deliver all mail-in ballots on time this year and urged people to put their ballots in the mail at least one week before Election Day on November 5. “Let me

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — An Alaska man was charged and arrested Wednesday for sending numerous graphic and violent messages through a public Supreme Court communications portal that threatened to injure and kill six justices, according to court filings and the Justice Department. Some of the messages, according to court filings, used the N-word in

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump is littering his public remarks with fictional stories. This isn’t run-of-the-mill political spin, the kind of statistic-twisting and accomplishment-exaggerating that political candidates of all stripes engage in. Rather, the Republican presidential nominee is telling colorful lies that are completely untethered to reality. Trump’s inflammatory

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have repeatedly touted on the campaign trail their efforts to lower drug prices, including a $2,000 limit on Medicare enrollees’ out-of-pocket prescription costs that starts in January. But what they haven’t talked about is that the cap has prompted insurers to

By Fredreka Schouten and Rene Marsh, CNN (CNN) — Waves of emotion washed over DeJuana Thompson as she stood in the convention hall in Chicago last month watching Vice President Kamala Harris become the first Black woman nominated for the presidency by a major political party. “I absolutely was overwhelmed with what can only be

By Jeff Zeleny and Aaron Pellish, CNN Asheville, North Carolina (CNN) — The sustained support from women has put Kamala Harris within reach of defeating Donald Trump, but her campaign is urgently working to bolster its standing with another group of voters that could ultimately determine the election: Men. In the final weeks of the

CNN By Kate Sullivan and Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Former first lady Melania Trump posted a new video on social media Wednesday defending her previous nude modeling work as she promoted her new book. “Why do I stand proudly behind my nude modeling work? The more pressing question is: Why has the media chosen

By Priscilla Alvarez, Kylie Atwood and Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Washington, DC, next week, according to three sources familiar with the planning. The meeting comes amid concerns over the impact the American election results will have on the Russia-Ukraine war

By Hannah Rabinowitz, Evan Perez and Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — Iranian hackers sent unsolicited information they stole from Donald Trump’s presidential campaign to people who were affiliated with Joe Biden’s campaign over the summer, federal law enforcement officials said Wednesday. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the FBI and the Cybersecurity and

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Two weeks after former President Donald Trump and his running mate Sen. JD Vance raised eyebrows when answering how they’d make child care more affordable, Vice President Kamala Harris was asked how she’d address the problem vexing millions of American families. Harris responded that she’d cap child care costs

By Arit John, CNN (CNN) — Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders reignited the controversy over how allies of Donald Trump talk about stepmothers and childless women when she told supporters of the former president Tuesday night that Kamala Harris doesn’t have anything to keep her humble. While introducing Trump at a Flint, Michigan, town hall,

By Michael Williams, Kayla Tausche and Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — The International Brotherhood of Teamsters declined to endorse a presidential candidate on Wednesday after releasing internal polling that showed a majority of its members supported former President Donald Trump over Vice President Kamala Harris. It’s the first time in nearly three decades that the

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — The FBI has used a court order to seize control of a network of hundreds of thousands of hacked internet routers and other devices that Chinese government-linked hackers were using to threaten critical infrastructure in the US and overseas, FBI Director Christopher Wray said Wednesday. “It is just one

By Kayla Tausche, CNN (CNN) — The Federal Reserve cut interest rates for the first time in the Biden era on Wednesday after the White House spent the last three years grappling with Americans’ dissatisfaction with the cost of living, raising new questions about the health of the economy and the impact on voters at

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on 12 Iranian officials for human rights abuses, including violent crackdowns on protesters, torture of prisoners and targeting Iranian dissidents abroad. The sanctions were unveiled around the second anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini in the custody of Iran’s “morality police.”

By Kate Sullivan and Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Former first lady Melania Trump posted a new video on social media Wednesday defending her previous nude modeling work as she promoted her new book. “Why do I stand proudly behind my nude modeling work? The more pressing question is: Why has the media chosen to

By Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — US Army soldiers were deployed to a remote island southeast of Alaska last week as part of a “force protection operation” amid an expected increase in Russian and Chinese military exercises in the region, according to an Army statement.  The North American Aerospace Defense command (NORAD) intercepted Russian military aircraft

By Oren Liebermann and Kylie Atwood, CNN (CNN) — Israeli officials notified the US that the country was going to carry out an operation in Lebanon on Tuesday but did not give any details about what they were planning, according to three sources familiar with the matter, including in a call between Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant

CNN By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — Paul Whelan, who spent five-and-a-half years wrongfully detained in Russia, revealed Tuesday that he had spent the final five days leading up to his release in solitary confinement. “I couldn’t leave my cell, but I made it home,” he said in his first public comments since returning from Russia and

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking more than $100 million from the two corporations that owned and operated the container ship that destroyed Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge in March, claiming that their cost-cutting and negligence in the ship’s maintenance led to the “entirely avoidable” disaster. The two companies, Grace Ocean Private

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — Americans who are renewing their passports will now be able to do so online, a top State Department official announced Wednesday. “This is a new service which will allow Americans to pay to upload a photo and to apply completely online, with no need to appear in person or

By Annie Grayer and Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Acting USSS Director Ronald Rowe has made a concerted effort to put himself front and center after Sunday’s apparent assassination attempt at Donald Trump’s Florida golf course, as he makes his pitch, both publicly and privately, for Congress to provide his agency with more resources. But

By Clare Foran and Haley Talbot, CNN Washington (CNN) — The House failed on Wednesday to pass a six-month GOP government funding plan that included a controversial measure targeting noncitizen voting, an effort pushed by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. The defeat of the bill puts Republican divisions on full display, but it also creates an opportunity

By Gregory Krieg and Gloria Pazmino, CNN (CNN) — A hollowed-out state party apparatus. An off-kilter campaign by the governor. A botched redistricting plan that squeezed out incumbent House members. New York Democrats offered a wide array of excuses for their disastrous 2022 midterms, when Republicans flipped four seats outside New York City on their

CNN By Andrew Kaczynski, CNN (CNN) — A week after President Barack Obama won reelection in November 2012, JD Vance, then a law student at Yale, wrote a scathing rebuke of the Republican Party’s stance on migrants and minorities, criticizing it for being “openly hostile to non-whites” and for alienating “Blacks, Latinos, [and] the youth.”

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump indicated Tuesday that he would reverse a controversial provision of his 2017 tax cut package that limited Americans’ ability to deduct state and local taxes on their federal returns. In a Truth Social post highlighting his Wednesday rally on Long Island, New York, where many residents have

By Eric Bradner and Alison Main, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump told a Michigan crowd Tuesday night that steep tariffs he would impose on products imported from China, Mexico and other countries would rejuvenate the state’s automotive industry and drive an economic boom. Trump, in his first campaign event since Sunday’s apparent assassination

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — Paul Whelan, who spent five-and-a-half years wrongfully detained in Russia, revealed Tuesday that he had spent the final five days leading up to his release in solitary confinement. “I couldn’t leave my cell, but I made it home,” he said in his first public comments since returning from Russia and completing

By Kayla Tausche, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Biden administration submitted a special request to congressional committees in August asking for a boost to funding for the US Secret Service in the weeks leading up to and after the 2024 election, according to sources familiar with the matter, warning of “insufficient resources” for the agency

By Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Election officials in Arizona are racing to correct a clerical error that could shut out nearly 100,000 voters from casting ballots in state and local races. Officials say a glitch mistakenly marked that these voters had provided documentation proving their citizenship – which is required to vote in state

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — Microsoft said Tuesday that Russian operatives have in recent weeks intensified their online attacks on Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign by producing and disseminating videos promoting “outlandish conspiracy theories” aimed at stoking US racial and political divisions. One of the inauthentic videos, which Microsoft said had been viewed millions

By Jack Forrest, CNN (CNN) — Republicans including vice presidential candidate JD Vance fueled a firestorm of misinformation this month when they spread false claims about Haitian immigrants eating pets in Springfield, Ohio, injecting the town with chaos. The claims, which have been widely discredited, have made their way onto the national stage. Former President

By Andrew Kaczynski, CNN (CNN) — A week after President Barack Obama won reelection in November 2012, JD Vance, then a law student at Yale, wrote a scathing rebuke of the Republican Party’s stance on migrants and minorities, criticizing it for being “openly hostile to non-whites” and for alienating “Blacks, Latinos, [and] the youth.” Four

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — In the wake of the apparent assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump on Sunday, Trump’s running mate, Sen. JD Vance, argued in a speech in Georgia on Monday that the two recent attempts to kill Trump are evidence that “the left needs to tone down the rhetoric

CNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Voters want more from Kamala Harris. But while the Democratic nominee has been clear about what she is not — Donald Trump — she is either unwilling or unable to spell out a comprehensive blueprint for exactly what she would do as the 47th president. In an

By John King, CNN Henderson, Nevada (CNN) — The sounds of blasting and bulldozing in the hills overlooking Las Vegas are proof change is a constant here, with the new $5 million homes evidence of the vibrant, upscale demand. It is progress, longtime Las Vegas real estate agent Zoila Sanchez says, as she points out

By Haley Talbot, Manu Raju and Clare Foran, CNN (CNN) — Speaker Mike Johnson has set up a Wednesday vote on a six-month GOP government funding plan that is expected to fail, as the Louisiana Republican is under pressure to show the bill cannot pass before pivoting to the next step. Johnson was forced to yank

By Clare Foran, Morgan Rimmer and Ted Barrett, CNN Washington (CNN) — Senate Republicans voted Tuesday to block a bill that would guarantee access to in vitro fertilization nationwide –- as Democrats spotlight the issue in the run-up to the November elections. Democrats brought the bill back to the Senate floor after Republicans previously blocked

Story by Associated Press (AP) — Suspicious packages were sent to election officials in at least six states on Monday, but there were no reports that any of the packages contained hazardous material. Powder-containing packages were sent to secretaries of state and state election offices in Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Tennessee, Wyoming and Oklahoma, officials in

By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump is set to hold his first rally Tuesday night since the second apparent assassination attempt of the former president, traveling to Flint, Michigan, for what’s being billed as a town hall hosted by his former White House press secretary, Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Vice

By Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump was walking down the fifth hole of the championship course at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, preparing for his birdie putt, when the all-too-familiar sound of gunfire prompted his Secret Service detail to pounce on the former president. This time, however, the

By Arit John, Eva McKend and David Wright, CNN Philadelphia (CNN) — Marcia Ruberg is old enough to remember what the country was like for women before the Supreme Court established a federal right to abortion in 1973, and the nearly 50 years that followed. On Sunday, the 69-year-old retired psychologist, whose shirt read “Vote

By Natasha Bertrand and Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — US military aid packages for Ukraine have been smaller in recent months, as the stockpiles of weapons and equipment that the Pentagon is willing to send Kyiv from its own inventory have dwindled. The shift comes amid concerns about US military readiness being impacted as US arms manufacturers play

CNN By Isabelle Chapman, Casey Tolan, Curt Devine and Audrey Ash, CNN (CNN) — The man suspected of trying to assassinate former President Donald Trump on Sunday depicted himself on social media as a globe-trotting freedom fighter – tweeting at world leaders, traveling to Ukraine to support its war effort, and professing his willingness to

By MJ Lee, CNN Washington (CNN) — Joe Biden’s national security advisers have no imminent plans to present the president with an updated proposal in the Israel-Hamas war ceasefire negotiations, two senior administration officials told CNN – the latest indication that talks to end the conflict have seriously stalled. Some US officials had indicated in

By Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump publicly recounted Sunday’s apparent assassination attempt against him in detail for the first time, praising US Secret Service, other law enforcement and the witness who took a photo of the suspect’s car that helped lead to his apprehension. “I was playing golf with some of my friends, it was

By Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — JD Vance on Monday blamed liberal rhetoric for the apparent assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump over the weekend. “I know it’s popular on a lot of corners of the left to say that we have a both sides problem. And I’m not going to say we’re always