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CNN By Fredreka Schouten, Annie Grayer, Tierney Sneed, CNN Jackson, Mississippi (CNN) — National party operatives, lawyers, grassroots activists and content creators are descending on Mississippi to observe the vetting of thousands of provisional ballots in the coming days and to gear up for possible legal challenges over the final results. Mississippi, a state not

By Fredreka Schouten, Annie Grayer, Tierney Sneed, CNN Jackson, Mississippi (CNN) — National party operatives, lawyers, grassroots activists and content creators are descending on Mississippi to observe the vetting of thousands of provisional ballots in the coming days and to gear up for possible legal challenges over the final results. Mississippi, a state not used

By Kaanita Iyer, Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — While Democratic victories in marquee national contests took the spotlight this week, with the party securing at least 250 seats in the House and winning back the Senate, several candidates in down-ballot races across the country clinched what appear to be surprising wins. Here are some

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — A blockbuster Supreme Court appeal challenging a ban on AR-15-style semi-automatic rifles may be thrown into disarray by a mysterious request to remove the lead plaintiff from the case, a puzzling twist that prompted the ban’s defenders to ask the justices on Thursday to dismiss the case. The case,

By Alejandra Jaramillo, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump signed a proclamation on Thursday that he said would designate the White House’s Oval Office and Cabinet Room as national landmarks — a move he said would protect the two West Wing spaces from future changes. The signing ceremony, which came on the heels of Republicans’

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — An FBI agent hit a pedestrian with their agency car in New York early one morning in February, before moving the man to a nearby bench and speeding away, according to a federal indictment handed up this week. The now-former agent, Andrew Reyes, was driving his FBI-issued car with

By Kara Scannell, Lauren del Valle, CNN (CNN) — Two years into his second term, President Donald Trump is still trying to wipe his 2024 felony conviction from the books. A panel of New York appellate justices on Thursday heard Trump’s legal challenges to his conviction on falsifying business records to cover up hush money

By Logan Schiciano and Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Democratic socialist Nithya Raman will defeat incumbent Karen Bass in the Los Angeles mayor’s race, CNN’s Decision Desk projects. Raman, a city councilmember, overtook Republican Spencer Pratt in June’s nonpartisan primary to set up what was arguably a tougher race for Bass, a Democratic former congresswoman.

By Hannah Rabinowitz, Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — Harmeet Dhillon has resigned from her post as the head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, making her the first senior official to leave the administration since the midterms. Attorney General Todd Blanche announced her resignation in a social media post, saying that she has “led

By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — The coalition that helped return Donald Trump to the presidency two years ago is beginning to fracture, CNN Voter Poll data shows, with Democratic Senate candidates peeling away voters to win seats in deeply Republican territory this cycle. In five races won by Democrats in states where Trump voters

By Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — Vice President JD Vance’s seemingly straightforward path to succeeding President Donald Trump suddenly looks much murkier. The Republican shellacking in Tuesday’s midterm elections has quickly triggered a public reckoning within the GOP over Trump’s place in the future of the party — one that threatens to complicate Vance’s efforts

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Democratic rout in Tuesday’s midterm elections sparked an immediate sense of unease on the right about the future of the Supreme Court and a new round of Republican anxiety over decisions by Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas to stick it out rather than step down. Multiple sources

By Adam Cancryn, Sarah Ferris, Zachary Cohen, Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump may have made the decision to launch the war that tanked voters’ support for the GOP and dealt them a midterm shellacking. But the historic losses are accelerating a push for someone else to take the fall: Defense Secretary Pete

By Fredreka Schouten, Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — An unpopular president, a charismatic Democratic candidate and an incumbent who has underperformed other Republicans in recent elections have turned a US Senate race in Mississippi into the nail-biter of the midterms. As of Wednesday afternoon, Democrat Scott Colom was just a few dozen votes ahead of

By Kevin Liptak, Kristen Holmes, Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump, resoundingly rejected by voters on Tuesday night, is entering the final phase of his elected career wounded but newly determined to retain an iron grip on power. The concluding years of his presidency will be frustrating ones, many of his allies admit,

By Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — First lady Melania Trump will bring representatives from Russia and Ukraine to the White House on Thursday, after announcing a ceasefire in the city of Oleshky last month. “First lady Melania Trump will personally bring representatives of Russia and Ukraine, two nations actively at war, together at the White

By Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — Soon after Hakeem Jeffries arrived in the House in 2013, one of his earliest mentors approached a group of senior Black Democrats with a message. “I think he is the one,” former Rep. Eddie Bernie Johnson told lawmakers at the time, including Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, who recalled she was

By Eric Bradner, Patrick Svitek, Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — A historic Democratic wave swept the party into power in Congress and in statehouses across the country on Tuesday, as voters rebuked President Donald Trump and rejected the candidates he’d propped up in key races. In an election in which Trump urged his faithful to

By Patrick Svitek, CNN (CNN) — For decades, Texas Democrats have dreamt of turning the state blue, rallying around exciting candidates who drew big crowds and big money but could not ultimately overcome the state’s stubborn conservative majority. On Tuesday, their dream finally came true – and in dramatic fashion. Not only did Democrats win

By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — By the time the House and Senate had been called for Democrats on Tuesday, a consensus among members of both parties was forming: voters had rejected President Donald Trump’s record in office, and he would face a starkly different political reality for the remainder of his term. Trump, however,