Politics

By Sarah Ferris, Morgan Rimmer, CNN (CNN) — Speaker Mike Johnson nearly lost control of the House floor — again — because of a group of disgruntled conservatives. Then a pair of Democrats stepped in to help. Two centrist Democrats, Reps. Jared Golden of Maine and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington, took the unusual step

By Annie Grayer, Ellis Kim, CNN (CNN) — The House passed a bill on Tuesday to extend government funding to December 11, clearing a path to avert a shutdown ahead of the midterm elections. The bill passed with overwhelming bipartisan support and now heads to President Donald Trump’s desk to be signed into law. By

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in the field are expected to have body cameras by the end of September, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said at a press conference in New York on Tuesday. Asked by CNN whether the administration was still on track to distribute body cameras to

By Patrick Svitek, CNN Las Vegas (CNN) — Vice President JD Vance has in recent months given voice to a rising skepticism in America toward Israel, leaving some Jewish Republicans uncomfortable, if not openly concerned, about the expected GOP frontrunner in the next presidential election. Some Jewish GOP activists have expressed a preference for Secretary

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — The US Postal Service effort to develop a sweeping new system for verifying mail ballots has invited a host of IT concerns among agency officials, with some describing the process internally as a “sh*t show,” according to a new whistleblower report released Tuesday by a Democratic senator. The unnamed

By Joan Biskupic, CNN Chief Supreme Court Analyst (CNN) — “The White House is not just any building.” So said Chief Justice John Roberts, who has often deferred to Donald Trump’s executive authority, but on Monday separated himself from the president and fellow Supreme Court conservatives to protest the colossal ballroom project. It was a rare

CNN By Haley Britzky, Kristen Holmes, Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — Army Secretary Dan Driscoll has submitted his resignation to President Donald Trump, multiple sources familiar with the matter told CNN. One source said the decision was unsurprising given tension between Driscoll and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. A second source familiar said that in

By Haley Britzky, Kristen Holmes, Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — Army Secretary Dan Driscoll has submitted his resignation to President Donald Trump, multiple sources familiar with the matter told CNN. One source said the decision was unsurprising given tension between Driscoll and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. A second source familiar said that in his

By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — Vice President JD Vance said in Michigan on Monday that “there’s something about Abdul El-Sayed that is very, very, evil,” arguing that the state’s Democratic Senate nominee is symptomatic of a growing trend in America of fighting “for one group at the expense of others.” His sharp criticism of

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 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 Chief

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 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 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 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 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