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CNN, POOL, CBS, OBTAINED BY CNN, TRUTHSOCIAL, @REALDONALDTRUMP, TruthSocial/@realDonaldTrump By Evan Perez, Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — The suspected gunman who charged past a security checkpoint at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday has renewed questions about Secret Service protocols and whether there should be changes to the already tight cordon at the annual

CNN, KCBS, KCAL, KABC, WJLA, OBTAINED BY CNN, KCBS/KCAL By Evan Perez, Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — The suspected gunman who charged past a security checkpoint at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday has renewed questions about Secret Service protocols and whether there should be changes to the already tight cordon at the annual

By Evan Perez, Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — The suspected gunman who charged past a security checkpoint at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday has renewed questions about Secret Service protocols and whether there should be changes to the already tight cordon at the annual star-studded event. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, appearing on

By Renée Rigdon, Gillian Roberts, Kevin Liptak, Rhyannon Bartlett-Imadegawa, CNN (CNN) — A suspected gunman was apprehended Saturday after blowing past a security checkpoint at the Washington Hilton just as events were getting underway for the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner. President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, first lady Melania Trump and many Cabinet

By Eric Bradner, CNN Rockville, Indiana (CNN) — Five months ago, Indiana Republican legislators withstood pressure from President Donald Trump and rejected his urgent political demands. Now there are signs here on the ground that GOP voters may be poised to do the same. Trump and his allies are out for revenge in the Hoosier

By Jeremy Herb, Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump were seated on the stage of the cavernous Washington Hilton ballroom just after 8:30 p.m. ET Saturday evening, playfully engaging with the evening’s entertainer, mentalist Oz Pearlman. Just outside, a man sprinted through a security checkpoint with a shotgun

By Wolf Blitzer, Todd Symons, Logan Schiciano, CNN (CNN) — CNN’s Wolf Blitzer was just a few feet away from a gunman when shots were fired outside the main ballroom at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner. Blizter had just left the men’s restroom on an upper floor outside the ballroom at the Washington Hilton when

CNN By Wolf Blitzer, Todd Symons, Logan Schiciano, CNN (CNN) — CNN’s Wolf Blitzer was just a few feet away from a gunman when shots were fired outside the main ballroom at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner. Blitzer had just left the men’s restroom on an upper floor outside the ballroom at the Washington Hilton

CNN By Kaanita Iyer, Alayna Treene, Kevin Liptak, Kristen Holmes, Riane Lumer, John Miller, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump was swiftly escorted off the stage by Secret Service after possible shots were fired at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington, DC, on Saturday. Vice President JD Vance and several members of Trump’s Cabinet

By Kaanita Iyer, Alayna Treene, Kevin Liptak, Kristen Holmes, Riane Lumer, John Miller, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump was swiftly escorted off the stage by Secret Service after possible shots were fired at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington, DC, on Saturday. Vice President JD Vance and several members of Trump’s Cabinet who

By Aleena Fayaz, CNN (CNN) — Family and friends of Virginia Giuffre, one of the best known accusers of Jeffrey Epstein, gathered on the National Mall in Washington on Saturday to celebrate her life and legacy on the one-year anniversary of her death and in the wake of the Justice Department’s release of millions of

By Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — The US has agreed to allow the Venezuelan government to fund the defense of ousted President Nicolás Maduro, ending a legal standoff that has clouded the case for weeks. Federal prosecutors and attorneys for the Maduros informed the judge overseeing the case in a joint letter filed late Friday

By Jeremy Herb, Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — As undersecretary of the Navy, Hung Cao, a retired Navy captain and former Republican Senate candidate in Virginia, was supposed to have a broad portfolio as the service’s No. 2 civilian, which included personnel issues and safeguarding the Navy’s “warfighter ethos.” But in reality, Cao was often

By Aleena Fayaz, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Friday questioned the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS and Treasury Department over the leak of his tax returns, ordering a hearing to determine whether the president can sue federal agencies that he oversees. Florida District Judge Kathleen M. Williams

By Michael Williams, Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — After US troops captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in January, the image of him handcuffed and blindfolded while wearing a Nike tracksuit wasn’t the only thing that went viral. The Internet was soon buzzing over an anonymous trader on Polymarket, the prediction market, who netted hundreds of

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department announced Friday it is continuing to clear the way for expediting federal death-penalty cases, including by expanding the manners of execution to include death by firing squad. Under President Joe Biden, the Justice Department reversed much of the work done under President Donald Trump’s first administration

By Jennifer Hansler, Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration has frozen $344 million in cryptocurrency it says was linked to Iran as the United States ratchets up pressure on Tehran. The move, first reported by CNN, comes as shaky diplomatic efforts to reach a deal to end the war continue to stall and

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — A divided federal appeals court on Friday rejected President Donald Trump’s effort to unilaterally bar migrants who cross the US-Mexico border from seeking asylum, teeing up a likely showdown over the policy at the Supreme Court. The 2-1 decision is a major defeat for a signature component of Trump’s

By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s claims about prescription drug prices make no mathematical sense. But his team – including Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. this week – keeps straining to defend them. Since last year, Trump has asserted that he has cut or will cut prescription drug prices by numbers like “500%,” “600%,”

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — Big businesses are lining up at the Supreme Court as the justices hear the final arguments of the term, pressing the conservative majority to shield industries from multimillion-dollar jury verdicts, limit the marketing of generic drugs and neuter the government’s ability to issue fines. Verizon, Monsanto and Cisco Systems

By Arit John, CNN (CNN) — If Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro has his way, the Democratic path to winning back the US House will run through his state. Shapiro has committed to helping Democrats flip four Republican-held seats. He’s endorsed in three of the districts, including one where his chosen candidate is locked in a

By Alejandra Jaramillo, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Thursday brushed off remarks by Prince Harry asking the US for more action to end the war in Ukraine, saying the British royal does not speak for the United Kingdom. “I know one thing, Prince Harry is not speaking for the UK, that’s for sure.

By Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are pushing to cut red tape around the Congressional mechanisms to hold those in their own ranks accountable for wrongdoing as a series of scandals rock Capitol Hill. But even those with the best intentions are realizing that the road to reforming

CNN By Hannah Rabinowitz, Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — A US special forces soldier involved in the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was arrested and charged for allegedly betting on that operation, netting him $400,000 in profits. According to an indictment unsealed Thursday, Master Sgt. Gannon Ken Van Dyke opened an account in late

By Hannah Rabinowitz, Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — A US special forces soldier involved in the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was arrested and charged for allegedly betting on that operation, netting him $400,000 in profits. According to an indictment unsealed Thursday, Master Sgt. Gannon Ken Van Dyke opened an account in late December

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department’s internal watchdog is launching a review into the DOJ’s production of files and documents related to Jeffrey Epstein as controversy continues over the handling of the case of the convicted sex offender. The Inspector General will focus on “the DOJ’s identification, collection, and production of responsive

By Hannah Rabinowitz, Steve Contorno, Alicia Wallace, CNN (CNN) — Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche signed an order Thursday reclassifying state-licensed medical marijuana as a less dangerous drug, changing a policy that has for decades made the drug’s potential medicinal benefits more difficult to research. The order from Blanche does not make recreational use legal

By Sarah Ferris, Fredreka Schouten, Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — Senior Republicans in Washington are ramping up the pressure on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to redraw his state’s US House map after Virginia Democrats flipped potentially four seats in their favor. With just six months until the midterms, Republicans see Florida as their last major

By Hannah Rabinowitz, Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department announced charges Tuesday against the Southern Poverty Law Center, alleging the storied civil rights organization defrauded its donors by funding the extremism it claimed to be fighting. The fraudulent scheme played out over nearly 10 years, prosecutors allege, when the Southern Poverty Law Center

By Morgan Rimmer, Sarah Ferris, Ted Barrett, CNN (CNN) — With Congress at a stalemate over how to end the Department of Homeland Security shutdown, Senate Republicans took a key step to tee up a party-line measure that would fund only the most controversial immigration programs — to eventually reopen the government completely. The GOP

By Eric Bradner, Patrick Svitek, CNN (CNN) — Four Democrats and two Republicans vying to become California’s next governor exchanged occasional barbs in a debate Wednesday night. But mostly, the Democrats took aim at President Donald Trump, and the Republicans criticized the state’s Democratic leadership. The debate, hosted by Nexstar, came two weeks after the

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — A congressional map approved by Virginia voters that aims to help Democrats net four US House seats in November’s midterms faces another legal hurdle just one day after its passage. A judge in rural southern Virginia on Wednesday ordered that the results of Tuesday’s vote not be certified on

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department has reached a settlement in a lawsuit brought by former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, who sued the DOJ and FBI over flawed government surveillance he faced due to his Russian contacts in 2016, according to a filing with the Supreme Court Wednesday. Page, who investigators

By Haley Britzky, Zachary Cohen, Kristen Holmes, Natasha Bertrand, Kaitlan Collins, CNN (CNN) — Secretary of the Navy John Phelan was ousted from his position Wednesday, six sources familiar with the matter told CNN, amid tension with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over his implementation of shipbuilding reform and his close relationship with President Donald Trump.

By Sunlen Serfaty, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s newly appointed head of the Kennedy Center offered a full-throated defense of the decision to close the renowned arts institution for renovations for two years, telling reporters on Wednesday that it was his idea. “The president asked: ‘how do you make these projects the best, how

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — White House staff are still following the “preservation” mandates of the Presidential Records Act, the Justice Department told a federal court as it pushes back on a new lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s disavowal of a Watergate-era documents law. The filings made public the White House’s official approach to

By Marshall Cohen, CNN Washington (CNN) — The prediction market Kalshi suspended three political candidates from its platform on Wednesday for “political insider trading” after an internal probe found that they bet on their own campaigns. These suspensions and fines, reported first by CNN, are the most aggressive enforcement actions taken to date by a

By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN (CNN) — US Democratic Rep. David Scott, who represented Georgia’s 13th Congressional District, has died at 80 years old. Scott’s death was announced Wednesday on the House floor. The congressman was first elected in 2002 and was running for reelection to a 13th term. Born on a farm in South Carolina,

By Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — The company behind President Donald Trump’s social media network is changing leaders amid mounting financial losses, a sagging stock price and lingering uncertainty about the long-term viability of its flagship product, Truth Social. Devin Nunes, a former California member of Congress and longtime Trump loyalist, is exiting his position

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday sided with an Army specialist who was severely injured by a suicide bomber on Bagram Air Base and is attempting to sue a military contractor for failing to supervise the Afghan employee who carried out the attack. The 6-3 decision, which split the court’s

By Adam Cancryn, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s political team knows voters aren’t thrilled with the current state of affairs. But they’re betting they can convince them things will get markedly worse if Democrats win back power in November. Top Trump advisers are plotting an electoral push centered on messaging the midterms as a

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — US companies in the retail, hospitality and medical sectors trusted Angelo Martino to negotiate with hackers who were trying to extort them. Instead, he made the extortion worse, federal prosecutors allege. Martino allegedly accumulated at least $10 million in assets, including a luxury fishing boat and two properties, as

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — Virginia voters approved a map that gives Democrats the chance to net as many as four US House seats in a major boost to the party’s effort to win House control in the midterms. The map set to go into effect represents one of the most extreme political gerrymanders

CNN, POOL, IRANIAN RED CRESCENT SOCIETY, TELEGRAM, TRUTH SOCIAL, @REALDONALDTRUMP, IRAN’S MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, CNN VIA WEBEX CISCO, CNN, CNN, POOL, Iranian Red Crescent Society/TELEGRAM, Truth Social/@realDonaldTrump, Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs By Kaitlan Collins, Kevin Liptak, Kristen Holmes, Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump huddled with his national security team Tuesday

By Kaitlan Collins, Kevin Liptak, Kristen Holmes, Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump huddled with his national security team Tuesday afternoon at the White House facing a major decision: what to do next with Iran. His ceasefire deadline was nearing its end, and Air Force Two was sitting on the tarmac at Joint

CNN By Jeff Zeleny, CNN (CNN) — Virginia is the latest front in an unprecedented coast-to-coast redistricting war, with voters on Tuesday set to determine whether to accept or reject a Democratic plan to dramatically redraw the state’s congressional maps and help shape the midterm elections. Nearly 1.4 million Virginians have already cast early ballots,

CNN By Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — Virginia voters approved a map that gives Democrats the chance to net as many as four US House seats in a major boost to the party’s effort to win House control in the midterms. The map set to go into effect represents one of the most extreme political

By Sarah Ferris, Ellis Kim, CNN (CNN) — A deeply personal grudge between a pair of Republicans — Reps. Cory Mills of Florida and Nancy Mace of South Carolina — has escalated on Capitol Hill, as Mills accused his long-time foe of trying to profit off efforts to oust him. The spat between the two

CNN By Annie Grayer, Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — Embattled Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick resigned from the US House of Representatives Tuesday, staving off a high-stakes vote on whether she should be forced out of Congress. The Florida Democrat’s decision to step down came just moments before the chamber’s bipartisan Ethics Committee was set to consider

CNN By Annie Grayer, Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — Embattled Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick resigned from the US House of Representatives Tuesday, staving off a high-stakes vote on whether she should be forced out of Congress. The Florida Democrat’s decision to step down came just moments before the chamber’s bipartisan Ethics Committee was set to consider

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration has been working for nearly a year on an effort to weed out noncitizens from voter rolls using a faulty data system while keeping those plans hidden from courts and Democratic election officials, internal Justice Department communications obtained by CNN show. The White House was kept

By Annie Grayer, Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — Embattled Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick resigned from the US House of Representatives Tuesday, staving off a high-stakes vote on whether she should be forced out of Congress. The Florida Democrat’s decision to step down came just moments before the chamber’s bipartisan Ethics Committee was set to consider punishment

By Zachary Cohen, Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — The US military has significantly depleted its stockpile of key missiles during the war with Iran and created a “near-term risk” of running out of ammunition in a future conflict should one arise in the next few years, according to experts and three people familiar with recent

By Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — Senate GOP leaders formally declared Tuesday that they will attempt to circumvent Democrats in the months-long stalemate over Department of Homeland Security funding and deliver as much as $70 billion for immigration enforcement on their own. After months of failing to resolve the DHS shutdown, Republicans are now planning

By Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Tuesday that the US military will no longer require the annual flu vaccine for troops. “Our new policy is simple. If you, an American warrior entrusted to defend this nation, believe that the flu vaccine is in your best interest, then you’re free to

By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump made false claims about inflation and birthright citizenship in an interview with CNBC on Tuesday morning. Inflation CNBC anchor Joe Kernen correctly informed Trump that while there were significant price increases during former President Joe Biden’s administration, the inflation rate “was down to about where it

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — The Southern Poverty Law Center was indicted Tuesday for allegedly using funds to secretly pay leaders of violent extremist groups to act as confidential informants without telling donors, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said. The indictment, which was handed up by a federal grand jury in Alabama, charged the

By Paula Reid, Casey Gannon, CNN (CNN) — Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche traveled to Florida on Monday where he met with a new prosecutor tapped to handle one of the most important cases to President Donald Trump — the investigation into former CIA director and Trump critic John Brennan. The meeting comes as Blanche

By Jeff Zeleny, CNN (CNN) — Virginia is the latest front in an unprecedented coast-to-coast redistricting war, with voters on Tuesday set to determine whether to accept or reject a Democratic plan to dramatically redraw the state’s congressional maps and help shape the midterm elections. Nearly 1.4 million Virginians have already cast early ballots, a

By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — One day after he posted — then deleted — an image comparing himself to Jesus Christ, President Donald Trump sat at his desk in the Oval Office and read from the Bible directly to a camera. The president recorded his two-and-a-half-minute passage, 2 Chronicles 7:11-22, last week, and it

By Alayna Treene, Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — As the weekend approached, the US and Iran appeared to be closing in on a deal to end the seven-week war. Then President Donald Trump did exactly what his staffers have repeatedly said they wouldn’t do: He seemed to try negotiating via the press, posting about ongoing

By Alejandra Jaramillo, Alicia Wallace, CNN (CNN) — Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer is stepping down from the Trump administration to take a job in the private sector amid an internal investigation into possible misconduct. “Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer will be leaving the Administration to take a position in the private sector,” White House communications director

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — A senior US delegation met with Cuban government officials in Cuba as the Trump administration ramps up its efforts to pressure Havana into a deal as it continues to exert its economic chokehold on the island. It was the one of the highest-level visits of US officials in roughly

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to review a Colorado law that requires preschools receiving taxpayer money to enroll children of same-sex couples — setting up an important First Amendment showdown at the high court that pits religious rights against LGBTQ families. At the same time, the court declined to

By Renée Rigdon, Ethan Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Virginia Democrats hope the new congressional map voters approved Tuesday will flip four Republican House districts, delivering 10 of 11 seats in a state former Vice President Kamala Harris won with just 52% of the vote in 2024. Here’s how they drew it up. The plan dramatically

By Alison Main, CNN (CNN) — Michigan’s attorney general is rejecting an effort by the US Justice Department to obtain ballots and other voting materials from the Detroit area, a target of the Trump administration’s efforts to probe elections in states that the president falsely claims he won in 2020. Harmeet Dhillon, the DOJ’s assistant

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN New Orleans (CNN) — Quietly, someone no one had been thinking about as a 2028 contender showed up to a meeting of Democratic activists here and started to incept a presidential campaign – including for himself. It helped that the meeting was in the city that gave Mitch Landrieu the accent

By Manu Raju, Alison Main, CNN (CNN) — Sitting in a coffee shop in his hometown of Ann Arbor, Abdul El-Sayed is ready to dispel the notion that he’s unelectable. The 41-year-old son of Egyptian immigrants whose sharply progressive views align with those of Sen. Bernie Sanders, El-Sayed is seen by many Democrats in Washington

By Sunlen Serfaty, CNN (CNN) — It was envisioned as an expansive sculpture garden to honor America’s 250th birthday, with 250 statues of figures like Kobe Bryant, Elvis Presley and Rosa Parks. But with July 4th rapidly approaching, it’s unlikely that even one statue for President Donald Trump’s National Garden of American Heroes will be

By Riane Lumer, Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — The White House opened its gates to members of the public for the annual spring garden tours this weekend, offering DC locals and tourists a chance to roam its outdoor grounds and view the South Lawn, trees planted by former presidents, and see its historic gardens in

By Paula Reid, Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — Joseph diGenova, who has worked with Donald Trump’s legal team on a variety of matters, including the 2020 election, will be joining the Justice Department in the Southern District of Florida, multiple people familiar with the matter told CNN. A Justice Department official confirms diGenova will work

By Alejandra Jaramillo, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Saturday signed an executive order aimed at encouraging expanded research into psychedelic drugs, part of a broader push to explore emerging mental health treatments. “In many cases, these experimental treatments have shown life-changing potential for those suffering from severe mental illness and depression, including our

By Arit John, CNN (CNN) — In a midterm election that will likely be decided by how voters feel about the economy, Republicans are grappling with how to discuss the war in Iran and its impact on fuel costs. Republicans had spent the weeks before the war touting lower prices under President Donald Trump. Now,

By Aleena Fayaz, CNN (CNN) — Lawyers for President Donald Trump are engaged in discussions with the IRS and the Treasury Department in an effort to resolve his $10 billion lawsuit accusing the agencies of an unauthorized leak of his tax information during his first administration. Trump’s lawyers disclosed the conversations in a court filing

By Adam Cancryn, Sarah Owermohle, CNN (CNN) — Over the course of a year, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has seen a traumatic shooting, abrupt leadership changes and a shattering of its image as a globally respected public health agency. So by the time the Trump administration started looking for a new director,

By Evan Perez, Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department has removed the career Miami federal prosecutor leading the investigation into John Brennan, after she resisted pressure to quickly bring charges against the former CIA director and prominent critic of President Donald Trump, according to people briefed on the matter. Maria Medetis Long on

By Alayna Treene, Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration is considering unfreezing $20 billion in Iranian assets as part of ongoing negotiations with Tehran, according to two sources familiar with the discussions. Officials are hoping that a broader deal to end the war could be finalized as early as this weekend, though some

By Ellis Kim, Morgan Rimmer, CNN (CNN) — Congress on Friday approved a short-term extension for a critical foreign surveillance program after GOP leaders failed to secure a longer term extension amid clamoring from some of their members for reforms to protect Americans’ privacy. The warrantless surveillance law, known as Section 702 of the Foreign

By Gabe Cohen, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump plans to nominate Cameron Hamilton to lead FEMA less than a year after he was unceremoniously fired from the disaster relief agency, three people familiar with the decision told CNN. Hamilton was first tapped to lead the Federal Emergency Management Agency at the start of Trump’s

CNN By Betsy Klein, Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s proposed triumphal arch project received overwhelmingly negative feedback from preservationist groups and members of the public as plans for the massive structure were presented on Thursday to a key committee for the first time. But the Commission of Fine Arts still appears poised

By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump continued his criticism of Pope Leo XIV on Thursday – in part by making a false claim about the pope’s stance on nuclear weapons. Asked by CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins why he is fighting with the pope, Trump said he has “nothing against the pope” but

By Kristen Holmes, Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — With Vice President JD Vance, a one-time Iran war skeptic, now tasked with brokering a deal to end it, President Donald Trump has been monitoring his progress closely and inquiring with various friends and advisers how they’d rank his performance, according to three people familiar with the

By Holmes Lybrand, Whitney Wild, CNN (CNN) — An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who is accused of pointing his government-issued firearm at another car and its passengers while driving on duty will turn himself in on Thursday, his attorney told CNN. An arrest warrant was issued for Greg Morgan in April after Hennepin County

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court’s emergency docket has resurfaced as a flashpoint within the federal judiciary as justices openly snipe at one another over the handling of short-fuse appeals, especially those involving President Donald Trump’s policies. The renewed debate over what critics call the “shadow docket” has been at the center

By Betsy Klein, Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s proposed triumphal arch project received overwhelmingly negative feedback from preservationist groups and members of the public as plans for the massive structure were presented on Thursday to a key committee for the first time. But the Commission of Fine Arts still appears poised to

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge has again ordered President Donald Trump to pause construction of a massive new ballroom at the White House, rejecting the president’s “disingenuous” bid to circumvent an earlier ruling against the project by claiming that it needed to proceed for national security reasons. The ruling Thursday from

By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — Army Secretary Dan Driscoll strongly praised an Army chief who was fired earlier this month by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth but conceded that civilian leadership of the military gets “to pick the leaders that they want.” “There is no person that has more respect for Gen. (Randy) George and

By Arit John, CNN (CNN) — Analilia Mejia has won a special election in New Jersey’s 11th District, allowing Democrats to further narrow Republicans’ razor-thin majority in the US House. Mejia will defeat Republican Joe Hathaway, a member of the Randolph Township council. She will fill the remainder of the term for the seat Mikie

By Adam Cancryn, CNN (CNN) — The White House had long circled Tax Day as the unofficial start to a critical midterm campaign meant to highlight how much money the administration was putting back in voters’ pockets. Then President Donald Trump launched a costly war in Iran, sent gas prices soaring and singlehandedly upended months

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — More than five years after he pushed a plan to help Donald Trump cling to power after losing the 2020 election, the president’s former election lawyer John Eastman has lost his license to practice law in the state of California. Eastman devised a multi-step plan for then-Vice President Mike

By Zachary Cohen, Evan Perez, Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard sent at least one criminal referral to the Justice Department seeking investigations of a whistleblower complaint and its handling by the intelligence community watchdog that led to the 2019 impeachment of President Donald Trump, a spokesperson for Gabbard’s office

CNN By Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — A jury found Live Nation and Ticketmaster operated as a monopoly in its dominance of the live events and ticketing industry, validating complaints that the industry giant was stifling competition and driving up fees for fans. The verdict was reached following a lengthy trial in New York federal

CNN, PRIME VIDEO, NETFLIX By Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — A jury found Live Nation and Ticketmaster operated as a monopoly in its dominance of the live events and ticketing industry, validating complaints that the industry giant was stifling competition and driving up fees for fans. The verdict was reached following a lengthy trial in

CNN By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a highly unusual public apology to a colleague Wednesday, saying her criticism of Justice Brett Kavanaugh for his writing in an earlier immigration case was unfair. “At a recent appearance at the University of Kansas School of Law, I referred to a disagreement with