Politics

By David Wright, Gloria Pazmino, CNN (CNN) — Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik announced her campaign for New York governor on Friday with a video seizing on the issue of affordability and attacking Democratic incumbent Gov. Kathy Hochul for her support of New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, declaring that “the Empire State has fallen.” “Kathy

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court will meet behind closed doors Friday to consider a longshot bid to overturn its decade-old same-sex marriage precedent, an appeal that is churning fear among some LGBTQ advocates even though the justices themselves have repeatedly signaled little appetite for reopening the landmark decision. The pending appeal

By Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — Former President Barack Obama on Thursday celebrated Democrats’ sweeping victory in Tuesday’s election, but stressed that there’s more work for the party to do. “Tuesday was nice, but we’ve got a lot of work to do,” Obama said during a live taping of the podcast “Pod Save America.” Democrats

By Haley Britzky, Josh Campbell, Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — A suspicious package was delivered to a US military base in Maryland on Thursday which caused at least seven people to fall ill and be taken to the hospital, CNN has learned. Several people were transported to the on-base Malcolm Grow Medical Center after the

By Clay Voytek, CNN (CNN) — The US military conducted a strike against a vessel in the Caribbean on Thursday, killing three people, according to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. “Today, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War carried out a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by a Designated Terrorist

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — The Congressional Budget Office has been hacked, potentially exposing its communications with the offices of lawmakers, according to an email sent to congressional staff this week and obtained by CNN. The email from the Senate sergeant at arms did not name a culprit, but a US official briefed on

By Daniel Dale, CNN President Donald Trump keeps touting the fact that Walmart’s promotional Thanksgiving meal basket is cheaper this year than it was last year. But Trump hasn’t mentioned that this year’s basket is different than last year’s – in particular, that it contains significantly fewer items. This year’s basket contains 15 products, six

By Devan Cole, Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge in Rhode Island said Thursday that the Trump administration must fully cover food stamp benefits for tens of millions of Americans in November. “People have gone without for too long,” US District Judge John McConnell said during a hastily called hearing Thursday. “Not making

By John Fritze, Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the Trump administration to require the sex designation on US passports to align with a traveler’s biological sex, a blow to transgender and nonbinary Americans who have argued the policy is unconstitutional. The order represented another win for President Donald Trump

By Marshall Cohen, CNN Washington (CNN) — There’s a cottage industry of investors who monitor former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s disclosed stock trades, match her every move, and usually make a profit along the way. That trend will now end in 2027. Pelosi announced Thursday that she is retiring after a storied four-decade career in

CNN By Marshall Cohen, CNN Washington (CNN) — There’s a cottage industry of investors who monitor former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s disclosed stock trades, match her every move, and usually make a profit along the way. That trend will now end in 2027. Pelosi announced Thursday that she is retiring after a storied four-decade career

By Edward Wu, Amy O’Kruk, CNN (CNN) — Zohran Mamdani won Tuesday’s election for mayor of New York City, leading former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo by nearly 9 percentage points so far. See how Mamdani did in precincts across the city: Turnout surged across the city — total votes cast in many areas rivaled

By Holmes Lybrand, Casey Gannon, CNN (CNN) — The man who threw a Subway sandwich at a federal officer in the early days of the Trump administration’s law enforcement surge in Washington, DC, earlier this summer has been found not guilty of assault. The incident quickly became a symbol – somewhat in jest – for

By Tal Shalev, Jennifer Hansler, Betsy Klein, Alejandra Jaramillo, CNN (CNN) — Kazakhstan is joining the Abraham Accords, US President Donald Trump announced on Thursday, although the country already has longstanding diplomatic relations with Israel. “I just held a great call between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, of Israel, and President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, of Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan

By Manu Raju, Sarah Ferris, Ted Barrett, CNN (CNN) — After days of real progress in bipartisan talks to end the government shutdown, the Senate now appears to be heading — for now — toward another dead end. The status of the Senate’s negotiations continue to change by the hour. But as of Thursday night,

CNN By Tami Luhby, Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — Certain blockbuster obesity drugs will be available for as little as $149 per month and more Medicare enrollees will have access to them under two deals announced Thursday by the Trump administration. The arrangements with drugmakers Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk, which President Donald Trump foreshadowed

By Kara Scannell, John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — A federal appeals court in New York on Thursday said that President Donald Trump should be allowed to make a case for why federal courts should review his hush money conviction for possible conflicts with the Supreme Court’s landmark immunity decision last year. A panel of three

By Natasha Bertrand, Jennifer Hansler, Katie Bo Lillis, Zachary Cohen, Kylie Atwood, CNN (CNN) — Trump administration officials told lawmakers on Wednesday that the US is not currently planning to launch strikes inside Venezuela and doesn’t have a legal justification that would support attacks against any land targets right now, according to sources familiar with

By René Marsh, Dianne Gallagher, Michael Williams, CNN Martinsburg, West Virginia (CNN) — Onita Norris is constantly running the numbers to try to solve a problem with no good answer: Figuring out much her two children, both under five, will have to eat, and how much she will have to go without. The West Virginia

By Eric Levenson, CNN New York (CNN) — Sen. Chuck Schumer, the New York Democrat and one of the most powerful Jewish politicians in the United States, did not endorse Zohran Mamdani and would not say who he voted for in New York City’s mayoral election. But on Wednesday morning, he said he called the

By Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — When Hakeem Jeffries handed Mike Johnson the speaker’s gavel on the House floor in October 2023, the pair hugged, marking the promise of a new era of bipartisanship. In one of their first private meetings, the two party leaders agreed they would not launch personal attacks against each other,

By Joan Biskupic, CNN Senior Supreme Court Analyst (CNN) — President Donald Trump, who has declared it a matter of “LIFE OR DEATH,” opted against attending Wednesday’s Supreme Court hearing over his billion-dollar tariffs, but his lawyer presented the case in similarly audacious terms. “President Trump determined that our exploding trade deficits had brought us to

By Tami Luhby, Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The US Department of Agriculture issued revised guidance to states on Wednesday evening that will result in food stamp enrollees receiving somewhat larger partial benefits in November. The update, disclosed in a new court filing, calls for reducing the maximum Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefit by 35%,

By Alison Main, Morgan Rimmer, Manu Raju, Jennifer Hansler, Kylie Atwood, CNN (CNN) — Senate Intelligence Vice Chairman Mark Warner on Wednesday expressed confidence in the intelligence used by the Pentagon to strike alleged drug traffickers in the Pacific Ocean, but he urged the Trump administration to divulge more information to a skeptical public as

By Kevin Liptak, CNN Miami (CNN) — President Donald Trump spent the morning after a terrible election night for Republicans publicly processing the results, and arrived at several conclusions. First, he determined his party was losing the messaging battle over the now-record-length government shutdown, and told GOP senators so in no uncertain terms over coffee

By Sarah Ferris, Manu Raju, Adam Cancryn, CNN (CNN) — Hours before the first major elections since President Donald Trump’s win last November, Sen. Bernie Sanders offered a stern warning for Democrats about the party’s closed-door talks to end the shutdown. Inside a tense, three-hour meeting at the Capitol on Tuesday, a fiery Sanders urged