By Dan Berman, Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Sunday threw out the Justice Department’s lawsuit seeking to segregate ballots and delay certification of Alaska’s Senate race, the latest legal rebuke to a rash of Trump administration attempts to meddle in the 2026 midterms. US District Judge Sharon Gleason said the federal
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By Alison Main, CNN (CNN) — Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy has been hospitalized after experiencing a stroke and is expected to make a full recovery, his team announced Sunday. The 53-year-old experienced “numbness in his arm” on Saturday afternoon and was taken to a local hospital, where doctors determined he suffered a stroke, according to
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By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN Virginia Beach, Virginia (CNN) — No part of a rolling, decadelong existential crisis is ever easy, even when things seem on the cusp of going well — and especially when Democrats have had their hopes raised and dashed so many times. “It’s a little bit of deja vu,” said Elaine Luria,
Continue ReadingBy Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — Millions of voters will cast their ballots Tuesday in an election that will decide the balance of power in Congress and set the tone for President Donald Trump’s remaining two years in the White House. Democrats and Republicans are battling in tight contests across the country, while the governor’s
Continue ReadingBy Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Holly Hendricks, who is battling an autoimmune disease that leaves her with open wounds down to the muscle, did everything she could to maintain her Affordable Care Act coverage after the enhanced premium subsidies lapsed at the start of this year. But after a few months, the 49-year-old couldn’t
Continue ReadingBy Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — With the midterms just days away, the channels for federal officials to communicate foreign threats to election officials are at their weakest since the 2016 vote, numerous sources who work in elections told CNN. US intelligence officials are tracking familiar efforts by Russia, China and Iran to influence American
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By Aleena Fayaz, CNN (CNN) — Eighteen months after President Donald Trump stepped in to remake the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in his image, a top official worried about the Washington institution’s hemorrhaging finances urged for it to be shut down, according to court documents filed on behalf of the Ohio
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By Austin Culpepper, Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Friday was skeptical of the Trump administration’s urgency to rush construction of a controversial 250-foot triumphal arch that the president wants to begin next week. Judge Tanya Chutkan asked an administration attorney, “What’s the harm to the government to wait three or four
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By Sarah Owermohle, Isabelle Khurshudyan, CNN (CNN) — Just two years after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his “Make America Healthy Again” movement helped propel President Donald Trump into the White House, the now-Secretary of Health and Human Services is highlighting a political vulnerability in a bellwether state. A measles outbreak in Pennsylvania has made
Continue ReadingBy Casey Tolan, Audrey Ash, Curt Devine, Isabelle Chapman, CNN (CNN) — As a Justice Department investigation scrutinizes whether Democrats recruited a Senate candidate to confuse Alaska voters, a big-money effort propping up a different fringe name on the ballot could also hurt Republicans in that race – and in another pivotal contest in Ohio.
Continue ReadingBy Jeremy Herb, Ted Barrett, CNN (CNN) — After Election Day, all eyes in the political world could turn to Alaska. Alaska has already been at the center of a roiling political controversy this week over how the second Dan Sullivan ended up on the state’s Senate ballot, which has sparked lawsuits, criminal investigations and
Continue ReadingBy 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 and the controversies that surrounded him this summer are behind him. But the high-profile custody case that roiled his reelection bid this cycle is scheduled to go
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By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge imposed a sweeping emergency order halting various aggressive tactics employed by the Trump administration in recent days to pressure election officials across the country. “Although Defendants claim that their actions are designed to halt unlawful voting by noncitizens, their actions are likely to have the effect
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By Davis Winkie, CNN (CNN) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky welcomed US approval of a potential $2.1 billion sale of 500 vital Patriot interceptor missiles on Friday, but warned that it may take “a few years” for them to arrive. “We are asking our American partners to find a solution for the time when there
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By John Fritze, Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge opened a formal investigation Friday into whether Justice Department attorneys and others within the Trump administration misrepresented the president’s plans to renovate a golf course in Washington, DC, ratcheting up a dramatic showdown between the White House and the courts. In a fiery hearing
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By Holmes Lybrand, Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — The federal judge overseeing the new case against former FBI Director James Comey is now set to decide whether placeholder charges can survive as prosecutors attempt to get an indictment from a Washington, DC, grand jury. During a hearing Friday, the Justice Department said it is working
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By Jennifer Hansler, CNN Atlanta (CNN) — The G20 foreign ministers meeting kicked off in Atlanta on Friday without a “family photo” after numerous representatives were expected to walk out rather than be pictured alongside Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Two Western officials told CNN more than a third of attending officials had threatened to
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By Kevin Liptak, Kaitlan Collins, Adam Cancryn, Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — Flying on Thursday to South Carolina to headline his 25th midterm rally this month, President Donald Trump and his political team made a decision, according to one of his advisers: Instead of holding an in-person rally this weekend in Kansas — a red
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By Brianna Keilar, CNN (CNN) — Christina Fuller is an American former military spouse living without legal residency in southern Spain, where a custody fight has kept her and her son for years. When her family arrived near the Strait of Gibraltar on US military orders, her son was two. Now, he’s nearly 10. Fuller’s
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By Annie Grayer, Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s political future could be on the line if Democrats win the House majority in next week’s midterm elections. A Democrat win of the House could breathe new life into an ongoing effort to impeach Hegseth, potentially convincing more Republicans to get on board
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