In a new court filing, the Trump administration indicated they could possibly begin construction on the president's proposed 250-foot triumphal arch on November 5, just two days after midterms. CNN's Sunlen Serfaty reports.

In his new book, "How to Lose Friends and Antagonize Presidents," GOP Sen. Thom Tillis calls voting to confirm Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense as "the biggest regret of my career." "He has all the hallmarks of somebody that's waded out of his depth," says Tillis.

Anderson Cooper takes a look at President Trump's history of commenting on men's bodies after his recent remarks on a senator's body.

President Trump's former personal attorney, Alina Habba, is denying a New York Times report that says a Venezuelan billionaire wanted a Trump pardon and his family gave Habba a $50 million deal. The Times' Tyler Pager, who broke the story, has more on his reporting.

Ohio GOP gubernatorial nominee Vivek Ramaswamy is facing bipartisan criticism of an ad featuring the estranged mother of his Democratic opponent, Amy Acton. Ana Navarro says the ad, "is the most disgusting, sleaziest, cowardly, inhumane ad I could possibly imagine."

White House Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, one of President Trump's top negotiators, sparked controversy when he called Vladimir Putin a "humanitarian." "Sickened and surprised," says Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal.

With midterms less than two weeks away, CNN's Tom Foreman looks at the attack ads from both sides of the aisle this campaign season.

“It is an ad from our campaign,” Vivek Ramaswamy, the Republican nominee for Ohio governor, told reporters after a town hall Tuesday evening. The ad features his opponent's estranged mother urging people not to vote for her. CNN's Lauren Fox has the details.

Alyssa Farah Griffin slams a controversial new ad from Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy as "the grossest ad I can think of" warning it "will absolutely backfire" and "anyone behind it should be ashamed."

Trump takes his campaign blitz to North Carolina, another state he won two years ago where Republicans are now vulnerable.

CNN's Sunlen Serfaty reports on President Trump's efforts to remodel a DC golf course, and the heated hearing where a federal judge grilled government lawyers about the president's project after he said construction will start "immediately."

Kara Swisher reacts to President Trump once again sidestepping questions about who is responsible for restricting Ukraine's use of Elon Musk's Starshield service, the military counterpart to SpaceX's Starlink network. "This is a typical tactic of both Musk and Trump," she says.

Ukraine's Pres. Zelensky said that changes in the Starshield system were limiting the speed of his country's battlefield drones. "The Starshield debacle is probably something that could not happen without Donald Trump knowing about it," says Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy

The relationship between the U.S. and Ukraine is in crisis, as both sides argue over the cause of a slowdown in a critical Ukrainian military system running on Elon Musk’s Starshield service. "It's a grim picture," says CNN Global Affairs Analyst Brett McGurk.

Former White House Press Secretary Joe Lockhart weighs in on President Trump’s hiring and firing of Katie Zacharia as his top messenger all within five days. “It doesn’t appear that he takes the substance of these jobs very seriously,” says Lockhart.

CNN's Nick Watt reports on the latest from Bend, Oregon where a teen shooter killed three students and a teacher at an elementary school. "There are no kids playing, no kids laughing," says Watt.

Police say 3 children and one teacher were killed in a school shooting in Bend, Oregon. The town's former mayor, Jeff Eager, lives nearby and rushed to the scene. “The thing that struck me about the scene, half an hour after it happened, was how quiet it was,” he says.

White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia denies she misrepresented herself as a lawyer despite failing the California bar exam. Attorney and former federal prosecutor Margaret Donovan calls the situation "totally bizarre" and "a really slippery slope."

Democratic Rep. Janelle Bynum says she's on her way to Bend, Oregon after learning of a deadly shooting there at an elementary school.

Presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin delves into the history of "October surprises" in midterm elections.