Politics

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — News organizations targeted by President Donald Trump’s attempt to ban them from the White House asked a federal judge late Monday to extend his order temporarily restoring their access, describing the ban as an “unlawful assault on the most fundamental First Amendment freedoms.”The new filing, submitted by attorneys for

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has signed a memo directing the military to defend the US midterm elections from foreign interference, the Pentagon said Monday.US Cyber Command, the military’s cyberwarfare unit, and combat support agencies will “deploy advanced intelligence and cyber capabilities” to “identify, disrupt, and neutralize foreign interference in

By Morgan Rimmer, CNN (CNN) — The Senate on Monday passed a major bill to overhaul college athletics with a large bipartisan vote, 77-22.The bill now moves to the House, but that chamber is on recess until after the November midterms, and it remains to be seen whether it will back the Senate bill. Notably,

By Hannah Rabinowitz, Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — A lawyer who aided President Donald Trump’s 2020 election reversal schemes has left the sweeping federal investigation into the president’s foes, a person familiar with the matter told CNN.The lawyer, Kurt Olsen, departed the so-called “grand conspiracy” investigation, the person said. The source initially told CNN that

CNN By Kristen Holmes, Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump has personally driven the controversial, taxpayer-funded video ads promoting himself and his administration’s policies, including helping select the imagery and videos used, a source familiar with the matter told CNN. Two Trump advisers familiar with the ads said that they were being created

By Priscilla Alvarez, Norma Galeana, CNN (CNN) — In a Texas courtroom Monday, 25 migrant children lined the pews — a 6-year-old pretended to fly an airplane, a 3-year-old played with the mic, and a teen girl tried to make eye contact with a friend. The judge reminded everyone of what was at stake.“I see

By Sean Lyngaas, Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — A week after a cybercriminal group claimed to steal sensitive personal data on thousands of current and former FBI employees, the bureau is still assessing the extent of the damage while facing internal criticism about the agency’s handling of the incident.It’s one of the most serious breaches

By Kristen Holmes, Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump has personally driven the controversial, taxpayer-funded video ads promoting himself and his administration’s policies, including helping select the imagery and videos used, a source familiar with the matter told CNN.Two Trump advisers familiar with the ads said that they were being created in-house by

By Donald Judd, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said Monday that he did not discuss the US selling weapons to China during his recent meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, contradicting an assertion made by the US ambassador to China a day earlier.US Ambassador to China David Perdue had told Fox News Sunday that

By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — Facing abysmal poll numbers on inflation as the midterm elections approach, President Donald Trump is sticking to the communications strategy he tried in the summer: lie.Trump has tried for months to concoct an alternate reality in which the country has experienced broad deflation during this presidency, with prices for

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito announced Monday that he will recuse himself from a major climate change-related case the court is set to hear next week, following weeks of pressure from environmental groups that argued he was compromised by his financial holdings in the oil and gas industry.In a

By Patrick Svitek, CNN (CNN) — Angela Paxton, who is divorcing Texas Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton, posted a video Monday of recent remarks urging Republican women to support GOP candidates in Texas this fall even if they have reservations about them.In the speech, titled “The Elephant in the Room,” Angela Paxton, a Texas state

By Josh Campbell, CNN (CNN) — Andrew Bailey, a senior FBI official and former Republican politician, told the agency’s workforce early Monday that he is resigning to spend more time with his family, two sources familiar told CNN.Bailey served as Missouri’s attorney general before being hired by the FBI last year in an unusual move

By Kristen Holmes, Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump is willing to give Iran sanctions relief and release frozen funds as part of a final deal, but only if Tehran offers “concrete progress” on the nuclear issue, a US official told CNN Monday, as mediators try to bring both countries back to the

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s administration urged the Supreme Court on Monday to allow federal prison officials to deny certain types of medical care for transgender inmates, such as surgeries – putting another culture war issue on the high court’s burgeoning fast-track docket.The Bureau of Prisons policy that began early in

By Gloria Pazmino, CNN With her supporters and critics alike debating what she’ll do next, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s multi-day swing to parts of New York State hundreds of miles from her district gave some clues of what a potential statewide run – or a national one – might look like.There were meetings with local mayors,

By Kristen Holmes, Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — The midterms mood among Donald Trump’s inner circle has soured as GOP candidates openly break with the president and his approval ratings hit an all-time low, prompting a largely unspoken but age-old question: How does an unpopular president best help his party keep control of Congress?Trump advisers

By Aileen Graef, CNN (CNN) — Attorney General Todd Blanche said on Sunday that media outlets reporting what the Trump administration considers to be “one-sided” news is a national security issue severe enough to justify banning the press from gaining access to the White House and Air Force One.“By the way, that is what is

By Aileen Graef, CNN (CNN) — The White House has launched another taxpayer-funded television ad before the midterms, this time featuring imagery of President Donald Trump walking down a hall as audio plays of him saying “this is the final battle.”“We will cast out the communists, Marxists, and fascists. We will throw off the sick

By Patrick Svitek, David Wright, CNN (CNN) — Two years ago, President Donald Trump’s campaign buried then-Vice President Kamala Harris with ads on transgender issues as he stormed back into the White House.Now, Democrats are confronting a fresh wave of attacks that sound like Trump’s – and this time, after a party reckoning about how

By Jeremy Herb, Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — The California Supreme Court shut down a right-wing sheriff’s efforts to seize and investigate ballots over debunked allegations of vote “discrepancies,” in a legal fight that has helped election officials prepare for any similar attempts during November election.Sheriff Chad Bianco’s March seizure of 650,000 ballots from Riverside

By Aleena Fayaz, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump reposted a series of critical social media comments about GOP Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar on Saturday evening after the congresswoman made waves last week for breaking with him on his immigration tactics.The president shared in quick succession on Truth Social at least 14 posts from other

By Josh Campbell, CNN (CNN) — Two veteran FBI agents overseeing counterterrorism operations in the nation’s capital have been removed from their jobs and reassigned over the handling of an investigation involving Katie Miller, the conservative podcaster and wife of senior White House adviser Stephen Miller, according to two people familiar with the move.Michael Burgwald,

By Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration is moving to cancel $810 million of funding that has been appropriated by Congress for refugees, immigrants and other services it argues are unnecessary, according to a spokesperson for the Office of Management and Budget.In what is called a pocket rescission, the package of proposed cuts,

By Logan Schiciano, Julia Benbrook, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Saturday declined to say whether he agreed to allow Ukraine to manufacture Patriot missiles to fend off Russian attacks, an assertion made by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a day earlier.The two leaders met on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in

By Lauren Fox, Patrick Svitek, Dianne Gallagher, CNN (CNN) — Some Republicans are growing worried that two key Senate races once considered critical to holding their majority are slipping from their grasp.In more than a dozen interviews with campaign officials, senators and operatives, there is recognition that North Carolina and Georgia are looking less competitive

By Lauren Fox, CNN (CNN) — Lawyers for embattled Republican Rep. Max Miller have subpoenaed his former father-in-law Sen. Bernie Moreno as part of the ongoing custody battle between Miller and his ex -wife Emily Moreno, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to CNN.It is the second time that Miller’s lawyers have issued a

By Aleena Fayaz, Sunlen Serfaty, CNN (CNN) — Whistleblowers are alleging that Kennedy Center officials halted plans earlier this year to repair leaks in the building, which the Trump administration has highlighted as its reason to close the storied arts institution.In a letter to Congress Thursday, obtained by CNN, a lawyer representing the anonymous whistleblowers

CNN By Brian Stelter, Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — The White House is barring CNN from flying on Air Force One on Saturday as part of the news outlet’s duties covering the president on behalf of major television networks. CNN had been scheduled to fly aboard the president’s plane on his trip to Tennessee for