Politics

By Kristen Holmes, Kevin Liptak, Holmes Lybrand, Alayna Treene, Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s decision to depart Turkey on an older plane while sending his new, Qatari-gifted jet ahead to England was driven at least in part by security concerns around the escalating conflict in Iran, according to four US officials. Two

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Former Olympic canoeist David Hearn pleaded not guilty in Washington, DC, Superior Court Thursday to damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, prompting a raucous scene at the courthouse where supporters chanted his name and accused the Trump administration of abusing the justice system. Hearn, 67, was indicted on July

CNN By Ethan Cohen, Jeff Zeleny, CNN (CNN) — Maine Democrats are embarking on a two-week sprint to pick a new nominee for one of the year’s most important races in the wake of Graham Platner’s decision to end his Senate campaign after allegations of sexual assault, which he denies. On July 25, about 600

By Aleena Fayaz, CNN (CNN) — Three more people have been criminally charged with destruction of property at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Officers say they detained Cameron Thiers, Sophie Dennison-Gibby and Justin Carreno one Saturday afternoon in June and described in court documents witnessing them peeling and removing pieces of blue paint from the

WKYT By Ellis Kim, Ted Barrett, Lauren Fox, CNN (CNN) — US Sen. Mitch McConnell has been hospitalized for about a month, and it’s still not clear why he was admitted or what his condition is. Aides for the Kentucky Republican have been fiercely protective of his condition – publicly and privately – during his

By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump delivered another series of false claims at a press conference Wednesday at the NATO summit in Ankara. His comments included some of the long-debunked lies he told the press while meeting with Turkey’s president on Tuesday. Here is a fact check of some of his Wednesday

By Kevin Liptak, CNN Ankara, Turkey (CNN) — As European leaders were walking into Wednesday’s NATO summit here, the mood was dark. President Donald Trump was seated just outside the conference hall doors, angrily unspooling every grievance he had with the defense alliance, from its refusal to give him Greenland to the refusal of Spain

By Sarah Ferris, David Wright, CNN (CNN) — Maine Democrats now have two weeks to find a new candidate to take on the nation’s most formidable blue-state Republican in one of their party’s most important midterms contests. With the party’s former nominee, Graham Platner, suspending his campaign in the face of heavy intraparty pressure, a

By Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the release of more than $5 million to E. Jean Carroll rejecting President Donald Trump’s attempt to delay paying the former magazine columnist a jury found he sexually abused and defamed. The ruling from federal Judge Lewis Kaplan comes after Trump had asked

By Tierney Sneed, Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — A federal appeals court for a second time said it would not quickly intervene to reverse a judge’s order that removed President Donald Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center. The new order from the DC US Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Trump’s arguments that taking his name

By Arlette Saenz, Jeff Zeleny, Arit John, CNN Portland, Maine (CNN) — Graham Platner is poised to speak with members of his campaign staff during a conference call Wednesday evening, people familiar with the matter told CNN, the end of a daylong series of conversations that is expected to pave the way for his withdrawal

By Sunlen Serfaty, CNN (CNN) — Crews began draining the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Sunday, according to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, for the second time in three months. In an interview released Tuesday with Katie Miller, a conservative podcaster and wife of President Trump’s deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, Burgum said they started

By Eric Bradner, David Wright, CNN (CNN) — Rep. Haley Stevens pitched herself as a “workhorse” on Capitol Hill. Abdul El-Sayed said he represents “a threat to politics as usual.” The two remaining Democrats competing in Michigan’s August 4 primary to take on Republican former Rep. Mike Rogers in one of the most important Senate