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By Eva McKend, David Wright, CNN Falls Church, VA (CNN) — It’s early on a Thursday evening and Winsome Earle-Sears, Virginia’s Republican…

By Sarah Ferris, Morgan Rimmer, Manu Raju, CNN (CNN) — As the Senate meets Friday for another vote to reopen the federal government, Democrats…

By Gabe Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The Federal Emergency Management Agency has halted the release of hundreds of millions of dollars in emergency…

By Josh Campbell, Jamie Gangel, CNN (CNN) — FBI Director Kash Patel has fired a longtime bureau employee who displayed a Pride flag in his…

By Sarah Ferris, Manu Raju, CNN (CNN) — Senate Republicans and top GOP donors still plan to attend a major fundraiser at a coastal resort in…

By Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump has determined that the US is in an “armed conflict” with the drug cartels his…

By Sunlen Serfaty, René Marsh, Michael Williams, CNN (CNN) — Multiple furloughed workers from the Department of Education had out-of-office…

By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — The White House is asking nine major colleges and universities to sign onto a series of demands in return for…

By Matt Stiles, Janie Boschma, CNN (CNN) — The government has now been shut down since October 1, with no end in sight. While the House has…

By Tami Luhby, Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — A self-described national park fanatic, Lucas Wall was excited to start a weeklong trip to visit seven…

CNN, POOL, SEE PREFONTS By Tami Luhby, Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — A self-described national park fanatic, Lucas Wall was excited to start a…

By Evan Perez, Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration fired the top national security prosecutor in the US Attorney’s Office…

By Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — When President Donald Trump announced he was sending troops to “protect war-ravaged” Portland, his…

By Sarah Ferris, Morgan Rimmer, Manu Raju, Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — Congress left town Wednesday without a solution to break its bitter…

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — Not since the years before the Civil War had a trial-level federal judge signed off on an opinion simply as…

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether President Donald Trump can temporarily fire Lisa Cook from the…

By Alejandra Jaramillo, Abbas Al Lawati, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump has signed an executive order for the US to guarantee the security…

By Eric Bradner, Eva McKend, CNN Chantilly, Virginia (CNN) — The federal government shutdown — and the escalating battle over which party…

CNN, POOL, SEE PREFONTS By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — The federal government has shut down as congressional lawmakers remain at odds over funding…

By Sarah Ferris, Morgan Rimmer, Manu Raju, Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — The federal government has officially shut down after a deadlocked Congress…

By Manu Raju, Alison Main, Nicky Robertson, Morgan Rimmer, CNN (CNN) — Democratic Rep. Madeleine Dean confronted Speaker Mike Johnson right off…

By Kristen Holmes, Adam Cancryn, Andrew Kaczynski, CNN (CNN) — The White House has sent paperwork to the Senate to withdraw the nomination of…

By Evan Perez, Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — In a memo to FBI employees, Director Kash Patel announced that some officials would be returning to…

By Evan Perez, Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — Lindsey Halligan, President Donald Trump’s handpicked U.S. attorney in one of the country’s most…

By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday previewed a $500 million deal on trade schools with Harvard University, following…

By Haley Britzky, Zachary Cohen, Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — Before a captive audience of hundreds of senior military officers on Tuesday…

By Devan Cole, Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Tuesday delivered an extraordinary 161-page rebuke of President Donald Trump,…

By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump made numerous false claims in a rambling Tuesday speech to hundreds of generals and admirals…

By Sean Lyngaas, Gabe Cohen, CNN (CNN) — An unidentified hacker stole sensitive data from Customs and Border Protection and Federal Emergency…

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Amid government spending negotiations, President Donald Trump and other GOP leaders are accusing Democrats of…

By Tami Luhby, Kristen Holmes, Samantha Waldenberg, Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced a multipronged…

By Eva McKend, CNN (CNN) — Just days after Charlie Kirk’s assassination, Vice President JD Vance hosted an episode of the Turning Point USA…

CNN, POOL, NYSE By Jeanne Bonner, Tami Luhby, Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — US congressional lawmakers have failed to agree on a spending…

By Joan Biskupic, CNN Chief Supreme Court Analyst (CNN) — Justice Anthony Kennedy considered quitting the Supreme Court over abortion.…

By Gillian Roberts and Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — The US federal government remains shut down with a spending deal to reopen still out of reach…

By Sarah Ferris, Arlette Saenz, Manu Raju, Morgan Rimmer, CNN (CNN) — Congress is veering even closer to a government shutdown at midnight…

By Sarah Boxer, CNN (CNN) — Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney revealed Monday night that he called the White House during the…

By Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — As the US government barrels toward a shutdown, President Donald Trump shared a racist video on social media, which…

Associated Press (AP) — A federal judge agreed Monday to temporarily suspend the Trump administration’s plan to eliminate hundreds of jobs at…

By Adam Cancryn, Sarah Ferris, Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — Top Democrats emerged from a White House meeting believing that President Donald Trump…

By Kevin Liptak, Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump emerged from talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on…

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — US President Donald Trump publicly released his roadmap for Gaza peace Monday as he argued that he is “very…

By Katelyn Polantz, Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department is conducting a national security investigation around the FBI leadership…

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — As President Donald Trump publicly pressures the Justice Department to bring criminal cases against his perceived…

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — On what otherwise would have been her 247th day in the White House, Kamala Harris was in New York to finish…

By Gloria Pazmino, CNN (CNN) — Andrew Cuomo’s allies are hoping Eric Adams’ exit from the New York City mayoral race will breathe new life…

By Sarah Ferris, Aileen Graef, Adam Cancryn, Manu Raju, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans believe there is only…

CNN By Sarah Ferris, Aileen Graef, Adam Cancryn, Manu Raju, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans believe there is…

By Kevin Liptak, Donie O’Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Saturday shared an apparently artificially created video of…

By Alireza Hajihosseini, Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — An American man who had been detained in Afghanistan by the Taliban since…

By Gloria Pazmino, CNN (CNN) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams is ending his reelection bid, a move long sought by rivals of Democratic nominee…

By Camila DeChalus, Aileen Graef, CNN (CNN) — Republican leaders in both chambers are holding the line and saying they are not ceding to…

By Alayna Treene, Kevin Liptak, Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump plans to attend a surprise gathering of top generals and…

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — As Zohran Mamdani was asleep on another continent, his top campaign aides wrangled over how he should sound…

By Kit Maher, Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — The top four congressional leaders will meet with President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday,…

By Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Saturday accused former FBI Director Christopher Wray of lying about FBI agents’ presence…

By Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said Saturday he will send troops to Portland, Oregon, a city he described as “war…

By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s Monday comments about autism and public health were filled with misinformation that left…

By Marshall Cohen, Tami Luhby, Sunlen Serfaty, CNN (CNN) — Federal employees from agencies across the US government say they’re…

By Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Friday she is deploying agents from the Justice Department to Immigration and…

By David Wright, CNN (CNN) — Former President Barack Obama on Friday criticized Israel’s ongoing military action in Gaza, saying that…

By Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — The FBI has fired 15 agents associated with a 2020 incident in which agents were photographed kneeling with…

By Devan Cole, John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to review the constitutionality of President…

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN Washington (CNN) — Even as she reflects on last year’s campaign in touring for her new book, Kamala Harris has…

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Friday allowed President Donald Trump to freeze $4 billion in foreign aid payments, handing…

CNN By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — As President Donald Trump publicly pressures the Justice Department to bring criminal cases against his…

By Evan Perez, Katelyn Polantz, Kaitlan Collins, Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — The alleged leak to the media that underpins the indictment of former…

By Natasha Bertrand, Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s surprise gathering of hundreds of generals and admirals…

By Jeremy Herb, Hannah Rabinowitz, Holmes Lybrand, Katelyn Polantz, Evan Perez, Aileen Graef, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s former…

By Jeff Zeleny, Michael Williams, Fadel Allassan, CNN (CNN) — Robert B. Barnett, a Washington, DC, lawyer and dealmaker who represented some of…

CNN By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump told reporters he expects other political opponents to be prosecuted after the…

By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump told reporters he expects other political opponents to be prosecuted after the indictment of…

By Jennifer Agiesta, CNN (CNN) — The CNN poll conducted by SSRS was designed to offer a deep-dive look at the different types of independents…

By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — In politics today, negativity is a much easier sell than enthusiasm. For the first time in nearly a decade…

By Phil Mattingly, Adam Cancryn, Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — A memo from the White House budget office telling federal agencies to prepare plans…

By Kaanita Iyer, Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — James Comey, the former FBI director who was indicted Thursday, has had a longstanding…

By Hannah Rabinowitz, Aileen Graef, Dan Berman, CNN (CNN) — James Comey’s son-in-law, Troy A. Edwards, Jr., resigned Thursday night from his…

CNN, POOL, SEE PREFONTS By Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — Get ready for a 2016 redux. The indictment of former FBI Director James Comey made…

By Brian Todd, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of current and former VA doctors, nurses and other caregivers have issued a warning to the Department of…

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — Get ready for a 2016 redux. The indictment of former FBI Director James Comey made public on Thursday is likely…

By Aditi Sangal, Helen Regan, Billy Stockwell, CNN (CNN) — US President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will not allow Israel to annex the…

CNN By Hannah Rabinowitz, Evan Perez, Aileen Graef, Katelyn Polantz, Kaitlan Collins, Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — Former FBI Director James…

CNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN A fossil unearthed in China is raising new questions about human evolution. Scientists say this 1-million-year-old skull…

By Arlette Saenz, David Wright, CNN (CNN) — Top Democrats in Washington are calling for investigations after a branch of the National Archives…

CNN By Hannah Rabinowitz, Evan Perez, Aileen Graef, Katelyn Polantz, Kaitlan Collins, Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — Former FBI Director James…

By Adam Cancryn, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Thursday sought to ramp up investigations of unnamed groups his administration suspects…

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — US cyber officials issued an “emergency directive” Thursday ordering federal agencies to defend their networks…

By Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a presidential memorandum seeking to reinstate the death penalty in…

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — A top Trump administration official on Thursday called for changes to long-standing international asylum…

By Haley Britzky, Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of US generals and admirals around the globe have been called to Virginia for a meeting…

By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — Vice President JD Vance tried Wednesday to rewrite the history of what happened before ABC suspended late-night…

By Katelyn Polantz, Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — Senior Justice Department leaders are advocating for a charge against President Donald…

By Hannah Rabinowitz, Evan Perez, Aileen Graef, Katelyn Polantz, Kaitlan Collins, Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — Former FBI Director James Comey…

By Arlette Saenz, David Wright, CNN (CNN) — Former President Barack Obama on Wednesday said the Trump administration engaged in “violence…

By MJ Lee, Andrew Seger, CNN (CNN) — Food insecurity remains at elevated levels for Washington, DC-area residents in 2025 and the percentage of…

By David Wright, CNN (CNN) — On the precipice of retirement, Mitch McConnell has become a pariah among the Republicans trying to succeed him.…

By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN (CNN) — Charlie Kirk’s organization, Turning Point USA, continued its national tour of college campuses on…

By Natasha Bertrand, Kylie Atwood, CNN (CNN) — NATO allies are divided over whether the alliance should make it a policy to shoot down Russian…

By Adam Cancryn, Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — The White House budget office is telling federal agencies to prepare plans for mass firings in the…