Politics

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — A day after promising to send $5,000 dividend payments to all Americans, President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he would distribute $500 rebate checks to nearly one million Affordable Care Act enrollees in 30 states. In a video posted on the White House X account, Trump said that these

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — Kamala Harris will keynote a Fulton County Democrats dinner and stump with Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff at the end of October, capping off a spate of appearances on the trail for a select group of candidates on the midterms ballot this year. That positions Harris as a closer in

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court sided with opponents of a Republican-friendly congressional map in Missouri on Thursday, rejecting a plan that could have given the GOP an extra seat in the House of Representatives. The order, issued without explanation and no noted dissent, will almost certainly mean the state will use

By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration on Wednesday proposed sweeping changes to the US census that could leave millions out of the count, dramatically altering the allocation of congressional seats and billions in federal funds. The proposed regulation posted in the Federal Register would add a citizenship question to the 2030

By Davis Winkie, CNN (CNN) — The UN’s nuclear watchdog agency is asking the body to hold Iran accountable for failing to stick with safeguards meant to prevent the development of nuclear weapons, diplomatic officials announced Wednesday. It’s the latest chapter in a more than decade-long effort to keep an eye on Iran that has

By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump vowed to pay every American adult $5,000 if Republicans retain their House and Senate majorities in November’s midterm elections – an extraordinary offer as he tries to keep his party in power. But he offered no details on how he would pay for such a move,

By David Wright, CNN (CNN) — Former CVS executive Helena Foulkes will win the Democratic nomination for governor of Rhode Island, CNN’s Decision Desk projects, defeating incumbent Gov. Dan McKee as she capitalized on voter frustration over the partial closure of a key bridge and the ensuing traffic chaos. Used by tens of thousands of

By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump made numerous false claims in his rambling Wednesday speech at the Republican midterm convention. Trump repeated long-debunked lies about elections and immigration. He delivered a whopper on the critical subject of inflation, wrongly saying “almost every item” is getting cheaper even as prices continue to rise.

By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — As her husband was out of town Wednesday night, first lady Melania Trump addressed a group of historians and preservation-minded VIPs in President Donald Trump’s newly renovated White House Rose Garden, where she spoke about being a good steward of the people’s house. “The White House stands as an

By Sarah Ferris (CNN) — Democratic Sen. John Fetterman praised his Republican colleague from his home state, Sen. Dave McCormick, in a surprise video appearance at the GOP midterm convention, and condemned the rise of far-left voices in his own party. In the roughly one-minute video introducing McCormick on stage, Fetterman made clear that he

CNN By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump vowed to pay every American adult $5,000 if Republicans retain their House and Senate majorities in November’s midterm elections – an extraordinary offer as he tries to keep his party in power. But he offered no details on how he would pay for such a

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — A fast-moving legal battle over Missouri’s effort to eke an additional Republican seat out of its congressional map for this year’s midterm election returned to the US Supreme Court on Wednesday, a day after Justice Brett Kavanaugh had effectively rejected the same proposed map. A group that organized opposition

By Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — The White House has removed from its website an arcade-style “Build the Wall” game closely styled like Tetris, which comes after the gaming company warned of copyright infringement. The White House last week launched a series of games on its website to tout the administration’s priorities. But two games

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — The issue of medication abortion was back before a New Orleans-based appeals court on Wednesday, in the latest iteration of a yearslong legal effort to end the provision of abortion drugs via telehealth. Medication abortion now accounts for two-thirds of US abortions, which overall have increased since the 2022

By Adam Cancryn, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he expects Iran will abandon its war effort after the US midterm elections – and he conceded American gas prices are unlikely to fall before then. Speaking to reporters on his way to the GOP midterm convention in Dallas, Trump asserted that Iran

By Alejandra Jaramillo, Kristen Holmes, Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — A military aide who was working on the Qatari-gifted jet that’s serving as Air Force One accidentally deployed an emergency slide on Wednesday, sources familiar with the matter told CNN, delaying President Donald Trump’s trip to Dallas for the GOP’s midterm convention. It was quickly