By Holmes Lybrand, Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — The federal judge overseeing the new case against former FBI Director James Comey is now set to decide whether placeholder charges can survive as prosecutors attempt to get an indictment from a Washington, DC, grand jury. During a hearing Friday, the Justice Department said it is working

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The G20 foreign ministers meeting kicked off in Atlanta on Friday without a “family photo” after numerous representatives were expected to walk out rather than be pictured alongside Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Two Western officials told CNN more than a third of attending officials had threatened to walk

By Kevin Liptak, Kaitlan Collins, Adam Cancryn, Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — Flying on Thursday to South Carolina to headline his 25th midterm rally this month, President Donald Trump and his political team made a decision, according to one of his advisers: Instead of holding an in-person rally this weekend in Kansas — a red

By Brianna Keilar, CNN (CNN) — Christina Fuller is an American former military spouse living without legal residency in southern Spain, where a custody fight has kept her and her son for years. When her family arrived near the Strait of Gibraltar on US military orders, her son was two. Now, he’s nearly 10. Fuller’s

By Annie Grayer, Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s political future could be on the line if Democrats win the House majority in next week’s midterm elections. A Democrat win of the House could breathe new life into an ongoing effort to impeach Hegseth, potentially convincing more Republicans to get on board

By Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — For Republicans, the midterm alarm bells are increasingly coming from inside their house. In Georgia, Rick Jackson, the GOP nominee for governor, has expressed concerns that rural voters had grown complacent. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis described turnout in his state as underwhelming and said, “Republicans have some work to

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — Elon Musk has plowed nearly half a billion dollars into elections in the 2026 cycle, a spending spree that makes him the single, largest disclosed donor in modern American politics and one of the Republican Party’s largest-ever benefactors. The world’s richest man has contributed more than $445 million to

CNN By Isabelle Khurshudyan, CNN (CNN) — Before there were two Dan Sullivans, there were three Bob Fergusons. In 2024, Washington’s Democratic state Attorney General Bob Ferguson was joined in the gubernatorial primary race by two other Democratic hopefuls with the same name. Was it a coincidence? More like an age-old election trick that’s come

By Isabelle Khurshudyan, CNN (CNN) — Before there were two Dan Sullivans, there were three Bob Fergusons. In 2024, Washington’s Democratic state Attorney General Bob Ferguson was joined in the gubernatorial primary race by two other Democratic hopefuls with the same name. Was it a coincidence? More like an age-old election trick that’s come up

By Hannah Rabinowitz, Evan Perez, Tierney Sneed, CNN The Justice Department has dramatically accelerated a criminal probe into whether Alaska Democrats sought to confuse voters by recruiting a Senate candidate intended to siphon votes from the Republican, issuing dozens of new grand jury subpoenas and homing in on new potential charges, according to people familiar

By Sean Lyngaas, Priscilla Alvarez, Thomas Bordeaux, CNN (CNN) — The Department of Homeland Security is investigating after hackers claimed to have stolen and leaked the sensitive personal information of tens of thousands of current and former department employees, including some that work on covert and sensitive missions. “DHS is aware of a potential breach

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — The hardware underpinning major AI models can be hacked so that chatbots provide faulty and dangerous answers to questions from users, according to new research shared exclusively with CNN. The researchers were able to subvert answers to sensitive national security and personal health questions. In one instance, they were

By Tierney Sneed, Annette Choi, CNN (CNN) — Never before has the federal government been more focused on finding evidence of mass noncitizen voting. What it’s found is exponentially more modest. Under the orders of President Donald Trump, the administration has launched a far-reaching effort to find evidence that foreigners are tainting elections. Top officials

By Patrick Svitek, David Wright, CNN (CNN) — Candidates are trading accusations of being beholden to big donors, debating who wants to restrict congressional stock trading more and running ads in which they stand in literal swamps. Fighting corruption has emerged as one of the biggest issues of the midterms, shaping battleground races from coast

By Jennifer Agiesta, Ariel Edwards-Levy, Edward Wu, CNN (CNN) — CNN polling across four key Senate races in the final days of the midterm campaign finds Democrats well-positioned in Michigan and Texas, with no clear leader in the races in Maine or Kansas. The four states tell the story of a midterm playing field that

By Zachary Cohen, Brad Lendon, CNN Washington (CNN) — US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired the Pentagon’s top planning officer as President Donald Trump weighs new strikes against Iran, according to a defense official and another source familiar with the matter. Lt. Gen. Brett Sylvia, who held the role of director for strategy, plans and

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The Defense Department’s watchdog has declined a bipartisan request to open an investigation into the slowdown of the SpaceX’s military-grade Starlink system in Ukraine, according to a letter obtained by CNN. Earlier this month, a group of nine bipartisan senators, led by Republican Sen. Thom Tillis and Democratic Sen.

By Tierney Sneed, Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge is refusing to allow the Justice Department to intervene in California’s ongoing mail-in ballot counting, warning that the Trump administration’s request to segregate as many as 20,000 ballots to vet voters’ citizenship would “wreak havoc and disrupt the election that is already underway.” Federal

LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – A federal judge today rejected the Justice Department’s emergency bid to stop California from processing more than 20,000 ballots from people the federal government suspects may be non-citizens but are registered to vote in next week’s election. Such a request by the Trump administration “would wreak havoc and disrupt the election

By Tierney Sneed, Patrick Svitek, Tori B. Powell, CNN (CNN) — Alaska officials said new revelations in The New York Times about efforts by Democrats to recruit a Senate candidate with the same name as GOP incumbent Sen. Dan S. Sullivan do not change the state’s opposition to a Trump administration lawsuit seeking to potentially

By Sunlen Serfaty, CNN (CNN) — US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told a federal judge that President Donald Trump’s proposed triumphal arch is a “generational national defense opportunity” in a legal briefing arguing the project is vital to protecting the nation’s capital. Originally proposed as a monument to celebrate the country’s 250th birthday, Trump last

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz said the Trump administration is ejecting a Cuban diplomat from the United States amid soaring tensions between Washington and Havana. The ejection comes after a shouting match erupted on the floor of the United Nations General Assembly Hall between Waltz and Cuban

By Eric Bradner (CNN) — A Minnesota county attorney is charging right-wing influencers James O’Keefe and Cameron Higby with felony counts of unlawful voting and identity theft, alleging that the two claimed other voters’ identities while visiting polling places with concealed cameras during the state’s August primary. Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said O’Keefe and

By Rachel Siegel (CNN) – The Federal Reserve is widely expected to keep interest rates steady on Wednesday, even as officials weigh another hike this year to tame rising inflation. Central bankers have struggled to tame inflation for years. But gas and energy prices have been on an upward climb since the war in Iran