National Politics

By Clare Foran, Haley Talbot and Morgan Rimmer, CNN Washington (CNN) — Speaker Mike Johnson is once again facing a major challenge as he navigates a government funding fight while under pressure from an extremely narrow majority in the House and former President Donald Trump. Congress is up against a shutdown deadline at the end of the month,

By Kylie Atwood, CNN (CNN) — Washington and Seoul may strike a cost-sharing agreement for US forces based in South Korea before the end of the year — even though the current agreement does not expire until the end of 2025 — as both sides feel a sense of urgency to get a new deal solidified before the possibility of

By Curt Devine, Isabelle Chapman, Daniel Medina, Majlie de Puy Kamp, Scott Glover, Audrey Ash and Rob Kuznia, CNN (CNN) — A 58-year-old man detained Sunday in connection with an apparent assassination attempt on Donald Trump in Florida is a self-employed affordable housing builder in Hawaii who went on social media to weigh in on

CNN By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — Golf courses, and in particular former President Donald Trump’s own properties, have long been a source of concern among Secret Service officials tasked with securing the grounds while the commander in chief plays, according to people familiar with the matter. While security around Trump was bolstered in the

By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — Golf courses, and in particular former President Donald Trump’s own properties, have long been a source of concern among Secret Service officials tasked with securing the grounds while the commander in chief plays, according to people familiar with the matter. While security around Trump was bolstered in the aftermath

By Kristen Holmes, John Miller, Kate Sullivan, Evan Perez and Jeremy Herb, CNN West Palm Beach, Florida (CNN) — The FBI is investigating what it said is an apparent assassination attempt on Donald Trump at his Florida golf club Sunday, the second time in two months there’s been an apparent attempt on the former president’s

By Sam Fossum, CNN (CNN) — The North American Aerospace Defense command intercepted Russian military aircraft flying near Alaska four times over the last week in what appears to be an uptick in activity amid tensions between the US and Russia. On all four occasions the aircraft remained in international airspace in Alaska’s Air Defense

By Kit Maher and Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance on Sunday reiterated false claims about Haitian immigrants eating the pets of residents in Springfield, Ohio. Asked to support his claims in an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union,” Vance pointed to what he said are

By David Wright, CNN (CNN) — On an August afternoon last year in Washington, Kamala Harris appeared at a retail village to promote the Biden administration’s economic record. “Bidenomics is working,” the vice president announced, touting the latest round of job numbers. “That is called Bidenomics, and we are very proud of Bidenomics.” It was a fateful

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump has conjured up an inflammatory false claim about Vice President Kamala Harris’ policy positions — baselessly saying Friday that Harris is talking about forcing Americans to serve in the military. Trump claimed at a rally in Las Vegas that voting for Harris means voting for

By Manu Raju and Morgan Rimmer, CNN Washington (CNN) — Sen. Joe Manchin, the conservative Democrat-turned-independent who had toyed with a presidential run and has long been a thorn in the side of the left, has been mum about the candidate he’s backing in November. But that could soon change. In an interview with CNN,

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — Backstage, Kamala Harris pulled aside Jahana Hayes. She’d give the congresswoman her local press boost and photo op, but first, the vice president needed to talk about why she was popping into Connecticut of all places during the final month of her 2022 midterm campaigning: Hayes wasn’t raising enough money. Pick

By Annie Grayer, CNN Washington (CNN) — Multiple House Republicans have been working behind the scenes to convince Speaker Mike Johnson to hold a vote on legislation supporting in vitro fertilization before the November elections but told CNN their efforts have so far been brushed off or even denied. The direct pressure campaign from lawmakers