National Politics

By Manu Raju and Morgan Rimmer, CNN Warren, Michigan (CNN) — The day after January 6, 2021, Mike Rogers was blunt. The former Republican congressman blamed then-President Donald Trump’s “chaotic leadership style” for costing his party two critical Senate seats in Georgia. He said that “the spell” around Trump had been broken by the US Capitol attack,

By Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Minneapolis-area officials swiftly fired an election worker who left several boxes of mail-in ballots unattended while dropping them off at an election office Friday. A photo of the employee’s car outside Edina City Hall — with an open trunk containing nearly a dozen boxes of ballots — circulated Friday on

By Natasha Bertrand and Alex Marquardt, CNN (CNN) — The US is investigating a leak of highly classified US intelligence about Israel’s plans for retaliation against Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter. One of the people familiar confirmed the documents’ authenticity. The leak is “deeply concerning,” a US official told CNN. The

By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — As the 2024 presidential election season enters its final weeks, Kamala Harris is getting attention for a recent string of high-profile interviews, and Donald Trump for his campaign rallies, according to The Breakthrough, a CNN polling project that tracks what average Americans are actually hearing, reading and seeing about the presidential

By David Wright and Alex Leeds Matthews, CNN (CNN) — In the first two weeks of October, Donald Trump and his allies directed about a third of all their spending on broadcast TV advertisements to ads about transgender health care, a significant increase reflecting a major tactical shift from previous months’ ad expenditures. On the

By Katie Bo Lillis, Ivana Kottasová, MJ Lee, Kevin Liptak and Mostafa Salem, CNN (CNN) — It was around 5:30 in the morning on Thursday in Washington, DC, when senior US officials first got word — and photographs — from their Israeli counterparts: Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar might be dead. For more than a year since Hamas

CNN By Katie Bo Lillis, Ivana Kottasová, MJ Lee, Kevin Liptak and Mostafa Salem, CNN (CNN) — It was around 5:30 in the morning on Thursday in Washington, DC, when senior US officials first got word — and photographs — from their Israeli counterparts: Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar might be dead. For more than a year since

By Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump has vowed he’ll kick millions of undocumented immigrants out of the US when he returns to power. In the months since cheering supporters waved “mass deportation now” signs at the Republican National Convention, Trump and his surrogates have offered various visions for how they’ll

By Eric Bradner, Kate Sullivan and Aaron Pellish, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump collided Friday in Michigan, both barnstorming the state as they wage a tight battle for its potentially decisive 15 Electoral College votes. The two converged on vote-rich Oakland County, northwest of Detroit – where an increasingly educated, diverse population

By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — US Army boats, which carried out the temporary Gaza pier mission earlier this year, are poorly maintained and largely unprepared to meet the military’s growing mission in the Pacific, a new government oversight report said this week. The Government Accountability Office released a report on Wednesday that concluded there are “wide-ranging”

By Kristen Holmes, Alayna Treene and Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump’s campaign is in talks with former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley to join him on the trail in the final days of the 2024 race as he seeks to broaden his appeal among female voters, two sources familiar with the

By CNN staff (CNN) — The office of special counsel Jack Smith on Friday released, in four volumes, a trove of documents in his 2020 election subversion criminal case against former President Donald Trump. Read the documents below: The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2024 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.

By Jeremy Herb, Devan Cole, Holmes Lybrand, Hannah Rabinowitz and John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — Special counsel Jack Smith on Friday released nearly 2,000 heavily redacted pages of documents in his 2020 election subversion criminal case against former President Donald Trump, revealing snippets of the evidence Smith relied on to charge the former president. Most of

By Natasha Bertrand, CNN Brussels (CNN) — The imminent US presidential election hung over a meeting of NATO defense chiefs this week, as NATO allies braced for US support for Ukraine to shrink over the next year if Donald Trump wins even as Iran, North Korea and China step up their military aid to Russia.

By Steve Contorno and David Wright, CNN (CNN) — Over the first half of October, former President Donald Trump and his allies poured more than $21 million into television ads attacking Vice President Kamala Harris over her past support of certain rights for transgender people – a message they have spread during nationally televised NFL games, college football broadcasts