National Politics

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 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 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,