National Politics

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — Former President Bill Clinton will hit the trail this weekend to begin what is expected to be a very targeted push across battleground states through Election Day, three sources familiar with his plans told CNN. The former president will seek to appeal to rural voters, among whom polls have shown

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Social Security recipients will see their monthly payments inch up by only 2.5% next year, as the steady decline in inflation puts a damper on the program’s annual cost-of-living-adjustment, the Social Security Administration announced Thursday. Retirees’ monthly payments will rise by about $50 to an estimated average of $1,976

By Michael Williams, CNN (CNN) — As Hurricane Milton barrels toward Florida, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have forcefully warned Americans multiple times on Wednesday about what the president is calling “the storm of the century.” “To the people of Florida and all affected states, we’ve got your back,” Biden said in

By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden held a “direct,” 30-minute phone call with his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, their first conversation in almost two months and a chance to confer over Israel’s planned response to an Iranian ballistic missile attack. “They discussed a range of issues,” press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — In the middle of two devastating hurricanes, misinformation about federal assistance for disaster survivors has been running rampant. One major part of FEMA’s assistance that has been mischaracterized by former President Donald Trump and others is a $750 payment that goes to disaster survivors in the immediate aftermath of

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Haley Barbour, former governor of Mississippi. Personal Birth date: October 22, 1947 Birth place: Yazoo City, Mississippi Birth name: Haley Reeves Barbour Father: Jeptha F. Barbour Jr., attorney Mother: Grace LeFlore (Johnson) Barbour Marriage: Marsha (Dickson) Barbour (1971-present) Children: Sterling and Haley

By Haley Talbot, CNN Washington (CNN) — Republicans are fighting a war against misinformation to keep their constituents safe as they brace for Hurricane Milton to make landfall in Florida, including being willing to point the finger at members of their own party — and their presidential nominee. The Category 4 storm is forecast to touch down

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — A Claude Monet pastel painting stolen by Nazis from a Jewish family during World War II, which vanished for decades only to show up with a Louisiana art dealer, was returned Wednesday in New Orleans to the descendants of its original owners. “Bord de Mer” was one of Monet’s early works and valued at over $500,000

By Gregory Krieg, Priscilla Alvarez, Eva McKend, MJ Lee and Camila DeChalus, CNN (CNN) — In the two-and-a-half months since Joe Biden ended his reelection bid, Kamala Harris swiftly secured the Democratic presidential nomination, headlined the party’s most rapturous convention since 2008, brought in hundreds of millions of dollars in new campaign donations and surged

By Isabelle Chapman, Majlie de Puy Kamp and Casey Tolan, CNN Pittsburgh (CNN) — In the years that Pennsylvania Senate candidate Dave McCormick led one of the world’s largest hedge funds, the firm bet millions of dollars against some of the state’s biggest and most iconic companies, financial filings show. Under McCormick’s leadership, Bridgewater Associates

By Aaron Pellish, CNN (CNN) — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said the Electoral College “needs to go,” while acknowledging “that’s not the world we live in,” during a campaign fundraiser in California on Tuesday, according to a pool report. “I think all of us know the Electoral College needs to go. We need, we need

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department announced charges Tuesday against an Afghan national who was allegedly plotting a terrorist attack in support of ISIS on Election Day in the United States. The FBI arrested 27-year-old Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi in Oklahoma on Monday after he purchased rifles and ammunition from an undercover law enforcement officer. He

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Yet again, the federal government spent far more than it collected in revenue, racking up a budget deficit of $1.8 trillion for fiscal year 2024, according to the Congressional Budget Office. While the deficit is typically a concern during presidential election years, former President Donald Trump and Vice President

By Nick Valencia and Jason Morris, CNN Atlanta (CNN) — The Donald Trump-allied Georgia State Election Board is pushing to install people who deny the result of the 2020 presidential election as part of a monitoring team in Fulton County, the biggest Democratic-leaning county in the state and one that was consequential for Joe Biden’s victory