Politics

By Alayna Treene, Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — The US military carried out limited strikes on Iran’s Qeshm Island on Monday, three US officials…

By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — By the time President Donald Trump had concluded his hourlong closing argument speech in front of the Lincoln…

By Eric Bradner, Patrick Svitek, Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — Late last fall, Haley Stevens decided to get off social media.The Michigan…

By Rhyannon Bartlett-Imadegawa, Ethan Cohen, CNN (CNN) — It’s almost Election Day, and the balance of power in Washington is at stake as…

By John Fritze and Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Monday quickly shut down President Donald Trump’s effort to force…

By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — Can the polls be trusted? It depends on what you’re trusting them to do. Even the most carefully conducted…

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge has thrown out a case against two former FBI officials who were charged with lying to Congress…

By Gabe Cohen, Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Election officials have spent months preparing to run the 2026 vote — and bracing for what could…

By Eric Bradner, Edward-Isaac Dovere, Brian Todd, CNN Detroit (CNN) — As recently as Saturday night, the prospect of Democrat Haley Stevens…

By Jennifer Agiesta, CNN (CNN) — As Election Day comes to a close and results start to roll in, it can be difficult to understand what the…

By Dan Berman, Tierney Sneed, Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Sunday threw out the Justice Department’s lawsuit seeking to…

By Alison Main, CNN (CNN) — Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy has been hospitalized after experiencing a stroke and is expected to make a full…

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN Virginia Beach, Virginia (CNN) — No part of a rolling, decadelong existential crisis is ever easy, even when things…

By Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — Millions of voters will cast their ballots Tuesday in an election that will decide the balance of power in…

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Holly Hendricks, who is battling an autoimmune disease that leaves her with open wounds down to the muscle, did…

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — With the midterms just days away, the channels for federal officials to communicate foreign threats to election…

By Aleena Fayaz, CNN (CNN) — Eighteen months after President Donald Trump stepped in to remake the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing…

By Sarah Owermohle, Isabelle Khurshudyan, CNN (CNN) — Just two years after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his “Make America Healthy Again”…

By Casey Tolan, Audrey Ash, Curt Devine, Isabelle Chapman, CNN (CNN) — As a Justice Department investigation scrutinizes whether Democrats…

By Jeremy Herb, Ted Barrett, CNN (CNN) — After Election Day, all eyes in the political world could turn to Alaska. Alaska has already been at…

By Lauren Fox, Morgan Rimmer, CNN (CNN) — In the closing days of the race, Rep. Max Miller is making the case to voters that divorce is messy…

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge imposed a sweeping emergency order halting various aggressive tactics employed by the Trump…

By Austin Culpepper, Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Friday was skeptical of the Trump administration’s urgency to rush…

By Davis Winkie, CNN (CNN) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky welcomed US approval of a potential $2.1 billion sale of 500 vital Patriot…

By John Fritze, Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge opened a formal investigation Friday into whether Justice Department attorneys and…

By Holmes Lybrand, Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — The federal judge overseeing the new case against former FBI Director James Comey is now set to…

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN Atlanta (CNN) — The G20 foreign ministers meeting kicked off in Atlanta on Friday without a “family photo” after…

By Kevin Liptak, Kaitlan Collins, Adam Cancryn, Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — Flying on Thursday to South Carolina to headline his 25th midterm…

By Brianna Keilar, CNN (CNN) — Christina Fuller is an American former military spouse living without legal residency in southern Spain, where a…

By Annie Grayer, Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s political future could be on the line if Democrats win the House…

By Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — For Republicans, the midterm alarm bells are increasingly coming from inside their house. In Georgia, Rick…

By Isabelle Khurshudyan, CNN (CNN) — Before there were two Dan Sullivans, there were three Bob Fergusons. In 2024, Washington’s Democratic…

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — Elon Musk has plowed nearly half a billion dollars into elections in the 2026 cycle, a spending spree that…

By Hannah Rabinowitz, Evan Perez, Tierney Sneed, CNN The Justice Department has dramatically accelerated a criminal probe into whether Alaska…

By Sean Lyngaas, Priscilla Alvarez, Thomas Bordeaux, CNN (CNN) — The Department of Homeland Security is investigating after hackers claimed to…

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — The hardware underpinning major AI models can be hacked so that chatbots provide faulty and dangerous answers to…

By Tierney Sneed, Annette Choi, CNN (CNN) — Never before has the federal government been more focused on finding evidence of mass noncitizen…

By Patrick Svitek, David Wright, CNN (CNN) — Candidates are trading accusations of being beholden to big donors, debating who wants to restrict…

By Jennifer Agiesta, Ariel Edwards-Levy, Edward Wu, CNN (CNN) — CNN polling across four key Senate races in the final days of the midterm…

By Zachary Cohen, Brad Lendon, CNN Washington (CNN) — US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired the Pentagon’s top planning officer as…

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The Defense Department’s watchdog has declined a bipartisan request to open an investigation into the…

By Katelyn Polantz, Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge is refusing to allow the Justice Department to intervene in California’s…

By Tierney Sneed, Patrick Svitek, Tori B. Powell, CNN (CNN) — Alaska officials said new revelations in The New York Times about efforts by…

By Sunlen Serfaty, CNN (CNN) — US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told a federal judge that President Donald Trump’s proposed triumphal arch…

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz said the Trump administration is ejecting a Cuban diplomat from the United…

By Eric Bradner (CNN) — A Minnesota county attorney is charging right-wing influencers James O’Keefe and Cameron Higby with felony counts of…

By Rachel Siegel (CNN) – The Federal Reserve is widely expected to keep interest rates steady on Wednesday, even as officials weigh another…

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…

By Joan Biskupic, CNN Chief Supreme Court Analyst (CNN) — Religious groups have long urged the Supreme Court to reverse a 1990 decision that…

By Jeff Zeleny, Steve Contorno, Eric Bradner, CNN Atlanta (CNN) — Americans have elected three Black governors in the nation’s 250-year…