Politics

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 began,

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — With under a week to go in what many polls are showing as a still tight Senate race in Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed hasn’t called his former primary opponent Rep. Haley Stevens in months — and there are no plans for that to change before Election Day.Stevens narrowly lost to

By Joan Biskupic, CNN Chief Supreme Court Analyst (CNN) — Religious groups have long urged the Supreme Court to reverse a 1990 decision that diminished free-exercise protection and that was written, paradoxically, by the conservative exemplar Justice Antonin Scalia.That decision, against two members of a Native American church who lost their jobs after engaging in the

By Jeff Zeleny, Steve Contorno, Eric Bradner, CNN Atlanta (CNN) — Americans have elected three Black governors in the nation’s 250-year history. By next week, that figure could multiply.From Keisha Lance Bottoms in Georgia to Byron Donalds in Florida to David Crowley in Wisconsin, Black candidates are vying to lead eight states from the South

CNN By Hannah Rabinowitz, Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Justice Department prosecutors on Tuesday tried and failed to secure a grand jury indictment of former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson over her testimony about President Donald Trump’s role in the January 6, 2021, US Capitol riot, according to two people familiar with the matter. Hutchison

By Hannah Rabinowitz, Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Justice Department prosecutors on Tuesday tried and failed to secure a grand jury indictment of former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson over her testimony about President Donald Trump’s role in the January 6, 2021, US Capitol riot, according to two people familiar with the matter.Hutchison was a

By Patrick Svitek, CNN (CNN) — Maine’s battleground Senate race is being roiled by a late burst of Republican ads mocking Democratic nominee Troy Jackson over his relationship with his longtime partner, whom Sen. Susan Collins and GOP allies have said is his second cousin.Collins has distanced herself from one radio ad from the Senate

By Evan Perez, Hannah Rabinowitz, Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — The FBI searched a Beverly Hills mansion Tuesday in connection to an investigation into former Rep. Eric Swalwell, according to two people familiar with the probe. The home is owned by a Swalwell donor, one of the people said.CNN has reached out to a lawyer

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN Boca Raton, Florida (CNN) — A week before the Israeli elections that will determine Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s future, the only two Jewish candidates running against each other to represent one of the most heavily Jewish House districts in the country met for their first face-to-face at a synagogue the name

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge extended an order blocking tree removal from a Washington, DC golf course President Donald Trump is seeking to renovate, while imposing new notice requirements on any other major changes the administration seeks to make on the golf course grounds.The new 70-page opinion from US District Judge

By Jeremy Herb, Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — A federal appeals court on Monday rejected the Trump administration’s unprecedented attempt to force California to set aside votes from 20,000 people it claims could be noncitizens.The Justice Department’s lawsuit in California, filed earlier this month, is part of its escalating effort to insert the federal government

By Hannah Rabinowitz, Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department criminally charged James Comey over a decade-old allegation that he ordered his staff to leak classified information to a reporter, the third time that prosecutors have levied criminal allegations against the former FBI director.Comey is charged over allegedly leaking a sensitive national security document

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — A little over a week ago, an “official statement,” appearing to be printed on State Department letterhead with its seal, was posted on Kristi Noem’s official special envoy X account and her own personal X account about the end of her tenure as an envoy to the Shield of

By Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Monday found the Justice Department’s firing of Maurene Comey, a former federal prosecutor who presided over several high-profile cases including those of Jeffrey Epstein and Sean “Diddy” Combs, was unconstitutional.Comey, an assistant US attorney for the Southern District of New York for nearly a decade,

By Zachary Cohen, Jim Sciutto, Tal Shalev, CNN (CNN) — US forces in the Middle East are prepared to launch new, potentially major, military operations against Iran “within 96 hours of receiving” an order from President Donald Trump, according to two US officials.Sufficient forces are now deployed in the region to carry out the potential

By Jeremy Herb, Katelyn Polantz, Aleena Fayaz, Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — A three-judge US Circuit Court of Appeals panel expressed significant skepticism Sunday over the Justice Department’s desire to inject itself into California’s midterm vote-counting process by forcing election officials to set aside the votes of suspected noncitizens who have been issued mail ballots.During

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — Voters will pick the winners of next month’s midterm elections, but it is the conservative Supreme Court that has set the rules.Long before early voting got underway to decide control of Congress, the court exerted an unusually profound impact on the election with a series of decisions that have

By Katherine Koretski, CNN (CNN) — The campaign signs across New Hampshire read “Sununu” in block letters.They’re for Republican Senate nominee John E. Sununu, who held the seat from 2003 to 2009 and is running to replace retiring Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen. But they also invoke the legacy of New Hampshire’s preeminent GOP family, including

By Eric Bradner, Jeff Zeleny, CNN Cincinnati (CNN) — Democrats could be poised for a revival in the heartland, as furor over high costs and doubt about President Donald Trump’s willingness to change the nation’s trajectory threaten to loosen the GOP’s grip on working-class voters.A decade after the Trump era began, when he first turned

By Sarah Owermohle, David Wright, CNN (CNN) — As the debate season kicked off in Iowa’s heated gubernatorial race, one question seemed to animate and, in some ways, unify the candidates.“What are the immediate and specific steps that you would take to combat Iowa’s cancer crisis?” the moderator asked the Democrat Rob Sand and Republican

By Annie Grayer, CNN QUAKERTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA (CNN) — GOP Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick was weaving through the crowd of a fall street festival when he was confronted by a man enraged by the skyrocketing costs he’s experiencing.Dave Woods, a contractor and registered Democrat, held up red signs with big white letters in Fitzpatrick’s face to show

By Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — The videos that pop up on social media appear alarming: A voter seemingly touches one candidate’s name, only to see the machine highlight an opposing candidate instead.With early voting underway, there have been a scattering of reports across the country already about voting machines “flipping votes” to the wrong

By Eric Bradner, Lauren Fox, CNN (CNN) — Vivek Ramaswamy is ending his run for Ohio governor the same way he launched himself onto the political scene four years ago — with a bet that voters will reward him for a never-back-down bombast that mirrors President Donald Trump’s instincts.But interviews with voters over three days

By Katelyn Polantz, Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said on Friday he wanted an election-related lawsuit to be filed in Alaska.The man to do it for him was Stanley Woodward, the associate attorney general.Holding the third highest ranking job at the Justice Department and having never appeared in federal court in Alaska

By Karina Tsui, Maria Aguilar Prieto, Isa Mudannayake, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department on Friday ordered California election officials to identify suspected noncitizens on voter rolls and set aside their mail-in ballots — warning that officials who knowingly count ballots cast by noncitizens could face criminal liability.The action marks an escalation in the Trump