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By Katelyn Polantz, Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge is refusing to allow the Justice Department to intervene in California’s ongoing mail-in ballot counting, warning that the Trump administration’s request to segregate as many as 20,000 ballots to vet voters’ citizenship would “wreak havoc and disrupt the election that is already underway.” Federal

By Tierney Sneed, Patrick Svitek, Tori B. Powell, CNN (CNN) — Alaska officials said new revelations in The New York Times about efforts by Democrats to recruit a Senate candidate with the same name as GOP incumbent Sen. Dan S. Sullivan do not change the state’s opposition to a Trump administration lawsuit seeking to potentially

By Sunlen Serfaty, CNN (CNN) — US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told a federal judge that President Donald Trump’s proposed triumphal arch is a “generational national defense opportunity” in a legal briefing arguing the project is vital to protecting the nation’s capital. Originally proposed as a monument to celebrate the country’s 250th birthday, Trump last

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz said the Trump administration is ejecting a Cuban diplomat from the United States amid soaring tensions between Washington and Havana. The ejection comes after a shouting match erupted on the floor of the United Nations General Assembly Hall between Waltz and Cuban

By Eric Bradner (CNN) — A Minnesota county attorney is charging right-wing influencers James O’Keefe and Cameron Higby with felony counts of unlawful voting and identity theft, alleging that the two claimed other voters’ identities while visiting polling places with concealed cameras during the state’s August primary. Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said O’Keefe and

By Rachel Siegel (CNN) – The Federal Reserve is widely expected to keep interest rates steady on Wednesday, even as officials weigh another hike this year to tame rising inflation. Central bankers have struggled to tame inflation for years. But gas and energy prices have been on an upward climb since the war in Iran

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 El-Sayed hasn’t called his former primary opponent Rep. Haley Stevens in months — and there are no plans for that to change before Election Day. Stevens narrowly lost

By Joan Biskupic, CNN Chief Supreme Court Analyst (CNN) — Religious groups have long urged the Supreme Court to reverse a 1990 decision that diminished free-exercise protection and that was written, paradoxically, by the conservative exemplar Justice Antonin Scalia. That decision, against two members of a Native American church who lost their jobs after engaging in

By Jeff Zeleny, Steve Contorno, Eric Bradner, CNN Atlanta (CNN) — Americans have elected three Black governors in the nation’s 250-year history. By next week, that figure could multiply. From Keisha Lance Bottoms in Georgia to Byron Donalds in Florida to David Crowley in Wisconsin, Black candidates are vying to lead eight states from the

CNN By Hannah Rabinowitz, Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Justice Department prosecutors on Tuesday tried and failed to secure a grand jury indictment of former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson over her testimony about President Donald Trump’s role in the January 6, 2021, US Capitol riot, according to two people familiar with the matter. Hutchison

By Hannah Rabinowitz, Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Justice Department prosecutors on Tuesday tried and failed to secure a grand jury indictment of former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson over her testimony about President Donald Trump’s role in the January 6, 2021, US Capitol riot, according to two people familiar with the matter. Hutchison was

By Patrick Svitek, CNN (CNN) — Maine’s battleground Senate race is being roiled by a late burst of Republican ads mocking Democratic nominee Troy Jackson over his relationship with his longtime partner, whom Sen. Susan Collins and GOP allies have said is his second cousin. Collins has distanced herself from one radio ad from the

By Evan Perez, Hannah Rabinowitz, Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — The FBI searched a Beverly Hills mansion Tuesday in connection to an investigation into former Rep. Eric Swalwell, according to two people familiar with the probe. The home is owned by a Swalwell donor, one of the people said. CNN has reached out to a

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN Boca Raton, Florida (CNN) — A week before the Israeli elections that will determine Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s future, the only two Jewish candidates running against each other to represent one of the most heavily Jewish House districts in the country met for their first face-to-face at a synagogue the name

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge extended an order blocking tree removal from a Washington, DC golf course President Donald Trump is seeking to renovate, while imposing new notice requirements on any other major changes the administration seeks to make on the golf course grounds. The new 70-page opinion from US District

By Jeremy Herb, Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — A federal appeals court on Monday rejected the Trump administration’s unprecedented attempt to force California to set aside votes from 20,000 people it claims could be noncitizens. The Justice Department’s lawsuit in California, filed earlier this month, is part of its escalating effort to insert the federal

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — A little over a week ago, an “official statement,” appearing to be printed on State Department letterhead with its seal, was posted on Kristi Noem’s official special envoy X account and her own personal X account about the end of her tenure as an envoy to the Shield of

By Christopher Lamb, CNN (CNN) — Two Catholic bishops have expressed regret over attending a meeting with 10 other prelates and President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, saying they were “exploited.” Photos and video of 12 clergy members praying over the president were released on Thursday, less than two weeks before the midterm elections.

By Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Monday found the Justice Department’s firing of Maurene Comey, a former federal prosecutor who presided over several high-profile cases including those of Jeffrey Epstein and Sean “Diddy” Combs, was unconstitutional. Comey, an assistant US attorney for the Southern District of New York for nearly a