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By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected President Donald Trump’s controversial plan to change how mail ballots are sent to voters across the country, rebuffing a proposal that election officials warned would have had catastrophic consequences if allowed to take effect for this year’s midterms.In one of the most significant

By Davis Winkie, Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The Pentagon’s official watchdog released a special report about the Iran war on Monday, representing the Defense Department’s first formal accounting of US equipment and facility losses from the conflict.The inspector general, citing its communications with US Central Command, said that “Iranian strikes damaged and destroyed hundreds

By Arlette Saenz, CNN (CNN) — Former President Barack Obama and former Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday were among the latest high-profile Democrats to call for greater government action to address artificial intelligence as some industry leaders call for a slowdown in the technology’s development amid growing public concern.“We need government – and specifically

By Jake Tapper, CNN Stevensville, Montana (CNN) — We stood waist-deep in a cold Montana river, cursing at the elusive trout, and talking about whether he was going to run for president.California Gov. Gavin Newsom had invited me and my crew to his in-laws’ spread on Bitterroot Springs Ranch in Big Sky Country. I had

CNN By Jake Tapper, CNN Stevensville, Montana (CNN) — We stood waist-deep in a cold Montana river, cursing at the elusive trout, and talking about whether he was going to run for president. California Gov. Gavin Newsom had invited me and my crew to his in-laws’ spread on Bitterroot Springs Ranch in Big Sky Country.

By Tierney Sneed, Gabe Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The Department of Homeland Security is using legally questionable tactics and relying on unreliable data to investigate non-citizen voting, a whistleblower alleged in a report released by top Senate Democrats Monday.The disclosures prompted accusations by Democrats and voter advocates of a sweeping dragnet that could ensnare eligible

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration targeted one of Russia’s largest banks on Monday for its alleged support for Iran – the latest move in its pressure campaign against Tehran.The United States previously sanctioned VTB Bank in February 2022 in response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and again in January 2025

By Patrick Svitek, CNN (CNN) — Former West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, a Democrat-turned-independent, said Monday he supports two Republican Senate candidates running in battleground races in November.During an appearance on CNBC, Manchin expressed support for former Rep. Mike Rogers, who is running for an open seat in Michigan, and Sen. Susan Collins of Maine,

By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump spent Monday angrily rejecting calls from AI industry leaders for more government regulation on their cutting-edge models, making clear in a daylong string of social media posts he considers outpacing China and preserving AI-driven economic gains a higher priority than addressing growing public concerns.Trump asserted a

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — Nearly 80 immigrant detainees who were held at Florida’s makeshift detention center, known as Alligator Alcatraz, were briefly held in small metal enclosures for “periods ranging from several minutes to nearly 2 hours,” according to a federal watchdog report.The Department of Homeland Security inspector general, which visited the now-shuttered

By Joan Biskupic, CNN Chief Supreme Court Analyst (CNN) — Experience as a Supreme Court law clerk has long been a prized credential, now drawing signing bonuses up to $700,000 at law firms. But it has increasingly become a ticket to a judgeship of one’s own, ensuring that long after the current justices are gone, like-minded

By Evan Perez, Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department’s push to pursue a sweeping conspiracy probe into former officials behind investigations targeting President Donald Trump has descended into turmoil and possibly new delays following the abrupt resignation of the top prosecutor overseeing the probe.Joe diGenova, the Washington lawyer and former top prosecutor leading

By Sunlen Serfaty, Hanna Park, CNN (CNN) — Officials at the Kennedy Center have warned it could face “certain fiscal collapse” within weeks unless President Donald Trump’s name is added back to the building, according to documents included in a court filing.The documents – two draft resolutions concerning proposals to close the Kennedy Center and

By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — The American airman rescued from Iran after his aircraft was shot down in April shared for the first time details about the risky recovery operation during a “60 Minutes” interview Sunday.“Bravo,” the airman’s mission call sign used during the broadcast to shield his identity, said his parachute was

By Kit Maher, CNN Dublin (CNN) — On foreign land but home turf, Donald Trump presented the Irish Open trophy to Shane Lowry at the president’s Doonbeg golf course. He also presented a farewell gift: the elimination of tariffs on Irish whiskey.“I want to mention one thing. Taoiseach and I talked about it, and Shane

By Jake Tapper, Aileen Graef, CNN (CNN) — The debate around artificial intelligence is ramping up in Washington, with Democratic lawmakers sounding alarms on the dangers they say the technology poses and Republican leaders suggesting those concerns are inflated and secondary to winning the AI race with China.Some Democratic lawmakers last week pressured House Speaker

By Kylie Atwood, Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Gulf diplomats and Iranian officials were set to meet Monday to discuss an Omani plan for reopening the Strait of Hormuz to regular tanker traffic, a conversation that would have happened without a critical player: the United States.But, as news of the meeting circulated on Sunday, it

By Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — With two months until the midterm elections, Democrats are laying the groundwork to launch far-reaching investigations into the Trump administration and preparing for high-stakes court battles if they win control of the House of Representatives in November.President Donald Trump’s war with Iran, his White House ballroom project, his family’s

By Fadel Allassan, Aleena Fayaz, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge said in a filing Friday that a Trump administration order for the Federal Emergency Management Agency to cut its staffing nearly in half was illegal.In a decision that marked a critical victory for union workers in the ongoing lawsuit, US District Judge Susan Illston

By Isabelle D’Antonio, Eduardo Cuevas, CNN (CNN) — Security stopped an alleged trespasser on Kamala Harris’ Malibu property on Friday night, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and her spokesperson, raising security concerns about the former vice president.“Last night, security personnel stopped an individual who illegally entered Vice President Harris and Second Gentleman

By Zachary Cohen, Brian Stelter, CNN (CNN) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and political appointees in his department pushed for the two crew members of an F-15 who were shot down over Iran in April to participate in Sunday’s highly publicized “60 Minutes” report about the ensuing rescue operation, according to multiple sources familiar with

By Annie Grayer, Morgan Rimmer, CNN (CNN) — The Senate is set to return Monday after a five-week recess, and it is still unclear if GOP Sen. Mitch McConnell will end his three-month absence from the Capitol due to health issues.McConnell was hospitalized in June, which his office later said was due to a fall.

By Tierney Sneed, Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — Republican attorneys general have shown their support for President Donald Trump’s election agenda by pressing courts to greenlight his proposed crackdown on mail voting.But election officials in at least half of those states have said that they won’t be able to comply with proposed US Postal Service

By Steve Contorno, CNN Dallas (CNN) — Behind closed doors on Thursday, Vice President JD Vance urged a room full of Republicans to sell voters on the administration’s more popular achievements that he worried weren’t always breaking through.One person, however, has proved particularly difficult to keep on message: President Donald Trump.Since joining Trump’s ticket in

By Kit Maher, Issy Ronald, Niamh Kennedy, CNN Dublin (CNN) — President Donald Trump said Saturday that Irish reunification “would be a fantastic thing” during a bilateral meeting with Ireland’s taoiseach, Micheál Martin, something he projected is “going to happen eventually.”When a reporter asked his view on the topic, Trump at first acknowledged his comments

By Ellis Kim, Lauren Fox, CNN (CNN) — A group of House Democratic lawmakers is pressuring Speaker Mike Johnson to reconvene the chamber immediately and cancel an upcoming break to address what they describe as the “catastrophic risk posed by advanced artificial intelligence.”In a letter to the speaker, the Democrats cite potential threats, including “mass

By Molly English, CNN (CNN) — After spending the morning at the Pentagon to mark the 25th anniversary of the September 11th tragedy, President Donald Trump apparently had another attack on his mind in the afternoon — posting the 5-year-old video of him telling January 6, 2021, rioters to go home after they violently stormed

By Katie Bo Lillis, CNN (CNN) — The now-infamous warning to then-President Bill Clinton was tucked at the bottom of a presidential intelligence brief delivered on September 10, 1998: A group associated with al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden “may fly an explosive-packed airplane into a US city.”In the end, there were no explosives. Just four

By Kylie Atwood, Katie Bo Lillis, Thomas Bordeaux, Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Saudi Arabia has shut down a key oil pipeline after it was attacked by drones from Iraq, as repercussions of the Iran war widen.The development is more bad news for the Saudi government after the Iran-backed Houthis captured strategic points along the