Politics

CNN By Devan Cole, Betsy Klein, John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court cleared the way Monday for President Donald Trump to continue construction of a massive new ballroom at the White House, rejecting a challenge from a preservation group that was seeking to indefinitely halt the controversial project. The ruling was 5-4, with

By Aaron Blake, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump is doing plenty of things that must be making his party nervous ahead of the midterm elections. But high on that list is his rah-rah advocacy for much-derided AI data centers. And his and Vice President JD Vance’s very different comments about the subject Monday underscored

By Priscilla Alvarez, Tierney Sneed, Gabe Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The Department of Homeland Security is planning a surge in its efforts to investigate voter fraud in select states starting Tuesday, according to internal federal guidance reviewed by CNN. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has accelerated efforts to make the department a central force in

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — A likely Russian-speaking cybercriminal gang on Monday leaked what appear to be sensitive law enforcement files it stole from the Justice Department’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The dumped files appear to include information on targets of past ATF investigations and analyses of their phone communications, according

By Hannah Rabinowitz, Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — Federal prosecutors issued a grand jury subpoena requiring Daniel Richman, a longtime friend and adviser to former FBI director James Comey, to testify in a renewed probe into whether Comey improperly shared sensitive information with the media, according to a source familiar with the investigation. The subpoena

By Marshall Cohen, Patrick Svitek, CNN (CNN) — The prediction market Kalshi on Monday fined the Republican nominee in a competitive House race and imposed its first-ever lifetime ban, against former Rep. George Santos, after insider trading investigations. The North Carolina candidate, Laurie Buckhout, admitted in a statement to CNN that she bet on her

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN Arlington, Massachusetts (CNN) — The Boston Tea Party wasn’t really about the tea, and it certainly wasn’t about the Mohawks though those were the costumes the colonists wore as they dumped the boxes overboard. In Tuesday’s Democratic Senate primary in deep blue Massachusetts, longtime Sen. Ed Markey is harking back to

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — Republican campaign groups – supported by the Trump administration – asked the Supreme Court on Monday to let them purchase television advertising at discounted rates, handing the nation’s highest court another emergency appeal that could influence the outcome of this year’s midterm elections. The quick-turn appeal follows a series

By Aaron Blake, CNN Washington (CNN) — I still remember my first job interview to cover politics in Washington back in 2006. The job was writing about House and Senate campaigns, and I think I spent more time talking about which midterm races I was interested in than why I was the right candidate for

By Katherine Dautrich, CNN (CNN) — Brad Lander, a Democratic congressional nominee in New York City, faced heckling Saturday over his stance on Israel as he protested a Hindu nationalist politician speaking at Madison Square Garden. Lander, a critic of the Israeli government who identifies as a liberal Zionist, was welcomed by some protesting Rashtriya

By Logan Schiciano, Julia Benbrook, CNN (CNN) — Anyone in the United States searching for Lake Ontario on Google Maps can no longer find it as of this weekend. Users in the country will now see the smallest of the Great Lakes identified as “Lake America” on that site, following President Donald Trump’s executive order

By Brian Stelter, Logan Schiciano, CNN (CNN) — Treating the Federal Communications Commission like his own personal enforcer, President Donald Trump said on social media Sunday that NBC’s Kristen Welker would be “reported to the FCC for rebuke or punishment” over a TV segment he didn’t like. In a separate post, Trump complained in all

By Manu Raju, Patrick Svitek, David Wright, CNN (CNN) — Senate GOP leaders gave President Donald Trump a clear warning before the Texas primary election in May as he weighed endorsing Ken Paxton over longtime incumbent John Cornyn: If the state attorney general won, Trump’s political operation would have to bankroll the expensive general election

By Aleena Fayaz, Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — A plan being considered by the Trump administration to allow a developer to use a portion of Yosemite National Park land is facing strong opposition from elected officials and conservationists, reflecting broader concerns about privatizing some of the country’s most cherished landmarks. The National Park Service is

By Eric Bradner, CNN Lansing, Michigan (CNN) — Abdul El-Sayed, the Michigan Democratic Senate nominee, is scrambling this weekend to try to win over skeptical Jewish Democrats — meeting individually and with groups of Jewish party leaders and apologizing for controversial past remarks as he tries to unite a fractured party before November. But he

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — At this point more than two months before the midterm elections, Democrats retaking control of Congress and its subpoena power is far from certain. But President Donald Trump is already laying down legal markers for how he’ll fight any attempt by lawmakers to investigate him. In a Justice Department

By Jeff Zeleny, CNN Independence, Iowa (CNN) — Of all the cities to visit in Iowa, Rob Sand did not stop here in Independence because it’s a fitting metaphor in his campaign for governor. Yet, he surely needs voters to believe that it is. “I think our political system is broken,” Sand told a crowd

By Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration settled an insider-trading case Friday against President Donald Trump’s longtime teleprompter operator, fining him $65,000 for “unlawful” prediction-market trades about Trump’s speeches. The White House aide, Gabriel Perez, will also give up $107,000 in ill-gotten profits from his trades on Kalshi, according to the Commodity Futures

By Sunlen Serfaty, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s proposed 250-foot triumphal arch will have “adverse” effects on dozens of historical landmarks, the National Park Service found. Nonetheless, the agency concluded in a report released Friday that the arch must stay at the proposed site on the banks of the Potomac River as the project