Politics

By John Fritze, CNN The Supreme Court appeared conflicted Monday about how it will resolve a lawsuit from a Colorado city that is attempting to hold two fossil fuel companies responsible for the impacts of climate change, though several conservative justices said they were concerned about the possibility of letting states wade into an area

By Brett H. McGurk, CNN (CNN) — Secure rooms in the US Capitol are cavernous compared to the White House Situation Room. They are designed for full committees or larger gatherings, not intimate discussions. On Nov. 20, 2024, Jake Sullivan and I had gone to one of those rooms to brief our successors two weeks

By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The United States moved all of its long-range bombers stationed in the United Kingdom back to their American home bases on Sunday after an unspecified new threat, officials said. It comes days after the British government arrested a number of individuals in connection with an alleged

By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — Latino voters have deeply soured on President Donald Trump and his party, particularly on crucial economic issues, a new NBC/Telemundo poll released Sunday finds.In the survey, Latino voters say by a 24-point margin, 59% to 35%, that they’d prefer to see the Democrats win control of Congress over the

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — When the Supreme Court kicks off a new, nine-month term on Monday, one key player will be noticeably absent: President Donald Trump.After months of near-constant confrontation with the White House, the nine justices will retake their seats behind the court’s mahogany bench without a docket full of Trump-driven, separation-of-powers blockbusters

By Julia Benbrook, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Sunday announced the leadership and duties of a “Super Intelligence Force,” which he said will “ensure that America continues to lead the world” when it comes to artificial intelligence.The president said in his announcement on Truth Social that the task force will “protect the interests”

By Annie Grayer, Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — Ahead of the November midterm elections, top Democrats are planning for doomsday scenarios for how President Donald Trump and his administration could intervene in the voting process and laying the groundwork for a forceful response.In closed-door meetings, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has convened Democratic senators, legal

By Logan Schiciano, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said Americans should cast their ballot using “every appropriate tool,” in a pre-recorded video imploring Republicans to vote in the midterm elections, including using methods that he has historically opposed like early and mail voting.“If your state has early voting, do not wait. Go out and

By Molly English, Logan Schiciano, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump railed against Sen. Tom Cotton in a series of posts on Saturday, accusing the Arkansas Republican of holding up a bill that would make Daylight Saving Time permanent and encouraging people to call the senator at his cellphone number.“Everybody in Arkansas, Tom Cotton, a

By Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — Ken Paxton’s estranged wife threw her support behind the Texas GOP Senate nominee without naming him, saying in a new ad that she will be “voting for the Republican ticket.”Angela Paxton, who filed for divorce from Ken Paxton last year and accused him of adultery, argued that in the

By Kaanita Iyer, Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said late Friday he will give around 20 million senior citizens $90 each to help pay for their Medicare Part B premiums, marking his latest effort to dole out funds to certain Americans weeks before the midterm elections.The funding will come from the Medicare

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — As one of the Supreme Court’s most stalwart conservative and prolific justices, Clarence Thomas’ views on the biggest cases of the day — from guns to race to religion — are rarely in doubt.Yet when it comes to perhaps the most significant climate change-related case to reach the high

By Sarah Ferris, David Wright, CNN (CNN) — Four weeks to Election Day, a growing number of House Republicans privately fear their chances of holding onto the majority are vanishing and have begun focusing on how to limit the size of a potential Democratic wave.Inside the House GOP, Republicans have watched with alarm as President

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department argued that President Donald Trump should be allowed to reinstate his White House ban of CNN, MS NOW and Politico in a court filing late Friday ahead of a hearing next week in the lawsuit from the news companies.“[T]he President determined that Plaintiff news networks had

CNN By Alejandra Jaramillo, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said Monday he will no longer use taxpayer money to fund a series of promotional television ads, announcing that he will instead pay for them with funds raised for MAGA, Inc., the pro-Trump super PAC. “The Radical Left is upset with the fact that I

Associated Press Miami (AP) — A former Miami congressman and longtime friend of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison in connection with a secret $50 million lobbying campaign on Venezuela’s behalf during the first Trump administration.Republican David Rivera has been jailed since jurors found him guilty in

By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration has created at least 13 campaign-style ads as part of its controversial taxpayer-funded, multi-million-dollar effort to promote President Donald Trump and his policies.Yet-to-be-aired spots include a trio of ads highlighting the US military and operations in Iran and Venezuela, one called “God Made Trump” and another

By Sunlen Serfaty, CNN (CNN) — For the first time, the annual Kennedy Center Honors will be held somewhere other than the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts amid a political and legal fight that has put the institution’s future in limbo.The “relocation” to Capital One Arena in downtown Washington, DC, on Monday, December

By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump has a long history of trying to rewrite history about his own public remarks. He is now doing it again about the war with Iran – wrongly describing his own past predictions that the war would last mere weeks.In March, Trump said he thought the war

By Patrick Svitek, CNN (CNN) — National Republicans are starting to make major moves to divert resources away from the North Carolina Senate race where GOP candidate Michael Whatley has long been trailing in polls.The Senate Leadership Fund, the top Republican super PAC in Senate contests, is putting a pause on its ad spending in

By Alayna Treene, Hadas Gold, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump is expected to pick Jay Clayton to be the White House’s new czar of artificial intelligence, two sources familiar with the discussion told CNN.The president could announce his decision about Clayton, who is director of national intelligence, as early as Friday, one of the

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The US State Department directed millions of dollars originally earmarked to promote human rights to promote far-right causes including Afrikaner rights in South Africa, safeguarding “Western civilizational norms,” and documenting “backsliding” in Europe related to mass migration, a source familiar with the matter told CNN.The funds, which come from

By Eric Bradner, Jeff Zeleny, CNN Waterloo, Iowa (CNN) — Republicans are on a rescue mission in Iowa, touting new plans for a $15 billion steel mill as President Donald Trump and the state’s GOP leaders rush to blunt the political impact of a battered economy and prevent the governor’s office, a Senate seat and

By Molly English, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump jokingly described Texas Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton as “a pain in the ass” during remarks in Denton, Texas, on Thursday – the latest in a long line of jabs he has made about his staunch ally who is running in a critical race for the

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department charged a military veteran Thursday for allegedly making dozens of disturbing texts and calls to Katie Miller, a conservative podcaster married to White House senior adviser Stephen Miller, and her family.The man, 41-year-old John Anthony Proia III of Massachusetts, has been charged with one count of

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump cannot fire US attorneys who have been appointed by courts, a federal judge in Washington state said Thursday in a first-of-its-kind ruling that tests the scope of a president’s removal power under the Constitution.The ruling comes from a lawsuit by Roger Rogoff, who was appointed by

By Sean Lyngaas, Josh Campbell, CNN (CNN) — An Iranian man accused of being part of a hacking scheme that breached more than 150 US universities and companies while targeting data worth over $3 billion has been extradited from Montenegro to the US to face criminal charges, police in the European country and a person

By Aaron Blake, CNN (CNN) — We don’t yet know how the 2026 midterm elections will shake out.What we can say right now is that President Donald Trump’s handling of inflation is a historic liability — the likes of which we’ve rarely seen in modern American politics.As many as 8 in 10 Americans now disapprove

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Thursday dismissed charges against David Hearn, the former US Olympian initially accused of damaging the Reflecting Pool at the Lincoln Memorial, with prejudice, citing President Donald Trump’s comments to ensure charges cannot be brought in the future.The judge found Hearn faced threats of a meritless