National Politics

By Arit John, CNN (CNN) — Kat Abughazaleh started off a recent debate in her Illinois Democratic primary with a correction for the moderator: She sees herself as a researcher and journalist, not an “influencer.” “My specialty was actually fighting the far right,” she said of her previous work. “Everyone that runs our country now

By Andrew Kaczynski, CNN (CNN) — A fundraising email from President Donald Trump’s political action committee has a provocative pitch: using an image from Saturday’s dignified transfer honoring six fallen US soldiers, it promises access to the president’s “private national security briefings.” The email, sent by Never Surrender, Inc., promotes what it calls a “National

By Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — The show will go on. The antitrust trial involving events operator Live Nation will restart Monday after the ticketing giant failed to reach a settlement with a consortium of state attorneys general. During a court hearing in New York on Friday, Judge Arun Subramanian said the states dropped their

CNN By Tierney Sneed, Jake Tapper, Bryan Mena, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge has quashed subpoenas the Justice Department had issued against Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, according to court documents unsealed Friday. The ruling is a major blow to President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly criticized Powell for not lowering interest rates, and

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department charged a man Friday whom they say sold the gun used in the Old Dominion University shooting, and the charging documents reveal new details about the Virginia attack. Kenya Mcchell Chapman was arrested Friday in connection to his sale of a pistol to Mohamed Bailor Jalloh,

By Tierney Sneed, Jake Tapper, Bryan Mena, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge has quashed subpoenas the Justice Department had issued against Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, according to court documents unsealed Friday. The ruling is a major blow to President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly criticized Powell for not lowering interest rates, and an

By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — Senate Republicans released an online ad this week in which a real-looking but fake version of a Democratic candidate, fabricated with artificial intelligence, appears to speak directly into the camera for more than a minute. The National Republican Senatorial Committee’s deepfake of James Talarico, the Democratic nominee in the

By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump disputed a recent report that he has bought members of his Cabinet dress shoes but then offered detailed thinking on why he has replaced top officials’ footwear, saying he doesn’t want his Cabinet sporting sneakers. The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this week that Trump has

By Ted Barrett, CNN (CNN) — Senate Armed Services Chairman Roger Wicker is planning soon to hold the first public oversight hearing of the Iran war with top US Department of Defense officials testifying, CNN has learned. Details on when and who will appear have not yet been finalized. Asked if he expects Defense Secretary

By Isabelle Khurshudyan, CNN (CNN) — Pentagon spending in September included nearly $9 million on Alaskan king grab and lobster tails, more than $200 million in furniture and $5.3 million in Apple devices – just some of the expenditures that added up to a record $93 billion price tag for the month, according to new

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — FBI agents will attend a training this weekend taught by Ultimate Fighting Championship fighters, the mixed martial arts company announced Wednesday. The UFC said fighters “will provide insight into how they train for competition, as well as demonstrate specific techniques and tactics, offering a unique perspective to the students

By Tierney Sneed, Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — The federal elections overhaul bill that’s a top priority for President Donald Trump already faced near-impossible odds in the Senate, but the White House is making the “SAVE America Act” even more difficult to pass by insisting that Republicans load it up with additional controversial provisions. The

By MJ Lee, Nicky Robertson, CNN (CNN) — Sarah Ferguson, the ex-wife of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, was desperate. Almost a decade and a half after her highly public divorce from the former prince in 1996, Ferguson – better known to many as “Fergie” – owed tens of thousands of pounds in rent, was feeling alone, and

By Kevin Liptak, Alayna Treene, Kristen Holmes, CNN Hebron, Kentucky (CNN) — President Donald Trump was touring a pharmaceutical company in Ohio Wednesday — trying again to turn attention to his domestic achievements — when talk again returned to the restive Middle East. Was the conflagration a war, a reporter asked, or merely an “excursion,”

By Alayna Treene, Lauren Fox, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump was gravitating toward endorsing Texas GOP Sen. John Cornyn last week. But he and some top advisers grew frustrated after his intentions leaked to the press, sources familiar with the matter told CNN, and the plan stalled. Then Cornyn’s opponent, Texas Attorney General Ken

CNN By Zachary Cohen, Thomas Bordeaux, Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN (CNN) — The US military accidentally struck an Iranian elementary school, in an attack that state media said killed at least 168 children and 14 teachers, likely due to outdated information about a nearby naval base, according to two sources briefed on the preliminary findings of