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By Alejandra Jaramillo, CNN (CNN) — Sen. Rand Paul is “of course” invited to the annual congressional picnic Thursday, President Donald Trump said after a dispute with the Kentucky Republican over his invite to the long-held bipartisan gathering. “Of course Senator Rand Paul and his beautiful wife and family are invited to the BIG White

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — A family whose home was mistakenly raided in the middle of the night by the FBI eight years ago will be permitted to continue their damages lawsuit after the Supreme Court on Thursday sent their case back to a federal appeals court for additional review. The outcome represents a

By Shania Shelton, CNN (CNN) — Nearly all of the members of the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board resigned on Wednesday, claiming the Trump administration is taking “unprecedented actions” they believe are “impermissible under the law.” The board said the Trump administration denied a “substantial number” of Fulbright awards to people who had already been selected

By Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump drew charged reactions of both admiration and ire at the Kennedy Center’s opening night of “Les Misérables” – with a greeting of cheers and boos, drama at intermission and drag queens in the audience. When the lights came on after the end of the first act

CNN By Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump drew charged reactions of both admiration and ire at the Kennedy Center’s opening night of “Les Misérables” – with a greeting of cheers and boos, drama at intermission and drag queens in the audience. When the lights came on after the end of the first

By Arit John and Ethan Cohen, CNN (CNN) — David Hogg will not seek reelection to his Democratic National Committee leadership position after the party announced Wednesday that members had voted to redo the vice chair contests he and Malcolm Kenyatta won in February. “Ultimately, I have decided to not run in this upcoming election

By Shania Shelton and Chris Isidore, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump is expected to sign a set of resolutions Thursday to reverse California’s 2035 ban on the sale of new gas-powered cars, a White House official said. California GOP Rep. Kevin Kiley addressed the move earlier this week, writing on X that Trump would

By Manu Raju, Alison Main and Aileen Graef, CNN (CNN) — GOP Sen. Rand Paul is accusing the White House of “immaturity” and engaging in “petty vindictiveness” after he and his family were disinvited from the annual White House picnic long held with members of both parties. Paul, a libertarian-minded deficit hawk who has been

By Natasha Bertrand, Kylie Atwood and Michael Williams, CNN (CNN) — The US State and Defense departments on Wednesday made efforts to arrange the departure of non-essential personnel from locations around the Middle East, according to US officials and sources familiar with the efforts. It’s not clear what is causing the sudden change in posture,

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump has broad authority to revoke protected land designated as national monuments by past presidents, the Justice Department said in a new legal opinion. The May 27 legal opinion from the Justice Department found that presidents can move broadly to cancel national monuments, challenging a 1938 determination

By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — Two weeks after President Donald Trump set a 14-day timeline for determining the willingness of his Russian counterpart to end the conflict in Ukraine, he says he is coming to believe Vladimir Putin doesn’t care about the human cost of his war. “I’m starting to think maybe he doesn’t,”

By Alayna Treene, Kaitlan Collins, Kristen Holmes and Hadas Gold, CNN (CNN) — Elon Musk called President Donald Trump Monday night, two sources told CNN, before saying early Wednesday that he regrets some of his social media posts about the president during their very public blow-up last week. The call with the president, which lasted

By Kylie Atwood, CNN (CNN) — The preeminent body tracking alleged Russian war crimes in the war with Ukraine, including the abduction of Ukrainian children, has transferred its data to Ukraine’s government and the US State Department as it prepares to shut down in the coming weeks after the Trump administration terminated its funding. “Right

By John Fritze and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — A federal appeals court in New York wrangled Wednesday with President Donald Trump’s claim that his hush money conviction should be reviewed by federal courts and seemed open to the idea that the Supreme Court’s landmark immunity decision may weigh in the president’s favor. “It seems

CNN By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — Democratic politicians have spent the last few months talking about standing up to President Donald Trump in his second term. California Gov. Gavin Newsom is among the first faced with figuring out what standing up actually looks like. Allies and opponents agree how Newsom handles the protests –

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — Democratic politicians have spent the last few months talking about standing up to President Donald Trump in his second term. California Gov. Gavin Newsom is among the first faced with figuring out what standing up actually looks like. Allies and opponents agree how Newsom handles the protests – including

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — Five months after President Donald Trump was sentenced without penalty in the New York hush money case, his attorneys will square off again with prosecutors Wednesday in one of the first major tests of the Supreme Court’s landmark presidential immunity decision. Trump is relying heavily on the high court’s

By Annie Grayer and Alex Leeds Matthews, CNN (CNN) — In the days before President Donald Trump suddenly paused most of the punishing tariffs on foreign countries he had revealed in early April, more than a dozen congressional lawmakers were tied to thousands of dollars’ worth of stock transactions, including significant purchases as the US

By Gabe Cohen, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he plans to phase out the Federal Emergency Management Agency after this year’s hurricane season, offering the clearest timeline yet for his administration’s long-term plans to dismantle the disaster relief agency and shift responsibility for response and recovery onto states. “We want to

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — Protests unfolding nationwide against President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda come as Immigration and Customs Enforcement races to meet White House arrest quotas. Since Trump took office, ICE, which had previously been operating with a set of guidelines focused on public safety and national security threats, has had to pivot

By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — The US Army said Tuesday it will restore the names of seven Army bases that previously honored Confederate leaders. “We are also going to be restoring the names to Fort Pickett, Fort Hood, Fort Gordon, Fort Rucker, Fort Polk, Fort A.P. Hill, and Fort Robert E. Lee,” President

By Arit John, David Wright, Arlette Saenz and Danny Freeman, CNN Parsippany, NJ (CNN) — Mikie Sherrill, a four-term Democratic congresswoman, and former Republican state Rep. Jack Ciattarelli have won their parties’ nominations for New Jersey governor. Tuesday’s results set the stage for one of this year’s two potentially competitive gubernatorial races, along with Virginia,

By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump made a series of false claims to members of the military on Tuesday in a partisan and combative speech at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. Trump lied again about the 2020 election. He repeated a long-debunked story about a Minnesota National Guard deployment in 2020. He

By Kevin Liptak and Alayna Treene, CNN Fort Bragg, North Carolina (CNN) — When President Donald Trump returned from a Bastille Day visit to Paris during his first term, he asked his military brass to organize a parade akin to the one he’d watched march down the Champs-Élysées. His defense secretary at the time, James

By Eric Bradner and Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s deployment of military troops to California is forcing Democrats back onto politically perilous turf, as they look for ways to condemn his actions without being drawn into a broad debate over immigration or tying themselves to the chaotic scenes emerging from Los Angeles.

By Shania Shelton, CNN (CNN) — The Smithsonian Institution on Monday emphasized its “nonpartisan stature” and said “all personnel decisions” are made by its secretary more than a week after President Donald Trump said he would remove the director of the National Portrait Gallery. The institution said in a statement on Monday that “all personnel

By Natasha Bertrand, Zachary Cohen, Kristen Holmes and Haley Britzky, CNN Washington (CNN) — Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Tuesday strongly defended the Trump administration’s military response to protests in Los Angeles, his first appearance in a series of congressional hearings over the next week that are likely to be a major test of

By Arlette Saenz, Danny Freeman and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Old Bridge, NJ (CNN) — New Jersey voters will select their nominees for governor on Tuesday, testing the direction of the Democratic and Republican parties in a state that shifted towards President Donald Trump in the 2024 election. The Republican primary has coalesced around Jack Ciattarelli,

By Donald Judd, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s border czar Tom Homan argued Monday that it was necessary to deploy hundreds of Marines to Los Angeles to quell immigration protests that are happening in the city – despite local officials saying it’s unclear why they are there or what they are doing. “Yes, it

By Manu Raju, Annie Grayer and Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — Multiple Republican lawmakers are voicing concerns about backing a high-profile measure later this week to codify Elon Musk’s DOGE cuts – raising questions about whether it can pass the House at all. Two Republicans – Reps. Mark Amodei of Nevada and Nicole Malliotakis of

By Evan Perez, Paula Reid, Kristen Holmes and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump and Stephen Miller, the architect of his immigration crackdown, have repeatedly used the word “insurrection” to describe the protests in Los Angeles, hinting they might invoke a rarely-used law by that name to dramatically escalate US military intervention on

By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN (CNN) — GOP Rep. Mark Green, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, announced Monday that he intends to leave Congress after the House votes again on President Donald Trump’s sweeping domestic policy package. “It is with a heavy heart that I announce my retirement from Congress. Recently, I was offered

By Casey Gannon, CNN (CNN) — Bradley Bondi, the brother of Attorney General Pam Bondi, overwhelmingly lost his bid to be the next president of the DC Bar in a closely watched election that drew national attention, the organization announced Monday. The powerful organization plays a limited role in enforcing ethics rules, but critics of

By Natasha Bertrand and Haley Britzky, CNN More than 700 Marines based out of the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in California have been mobilized to respond to the protests in Los Angeles, and the troops will join the thousands of National Guard members who were activated by President Donald Trump over the weekend

By Kylie Atwood, CNN Washington (CNN) — The US State Department ordered diplomatic posts around the world to “resume processing” of Harvard University student and exchange visitor visas on Friday after a judge halted President Donald Trump’s latest attempt to block international students from coming to the institution. The new guidance replaced one that posts

By Alayna Treene and Alejandra Jaramillo, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump hosted a roundtable at the White House on Monday to promote a key feature of the sweeping Republican domestic policy bill — a provision that would provide every American newborn with a $1,000 investment account. The accounts, which the administration has dubbed “Trump

By Sunlen Serfaty, CNN (CNN) — The US Department of Education is paying more than $7 million a month to employees it has forced to go on leave, according to analysis from the American Federation of Government Employees Local 252, the union that represents department employees. The payments could continue for years amid a long

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s attorneys are pushing to keep a civil case against the Trump administration alive so they can seek sanctions against officials for allegedly violating orders to return him from El Salvador, where he was wrongly deported earlier this year. After the government returned Abrego Garcia to the

By Julia Benbrook, Alison Main and Aileen Graef, CNN Washington (CNN) — Even with a theme of reaching people around the world, US politics took center stage as Washington, DC, hosted World Pride 2025, an international festival celebrating the LGBTQ community. The celebrations throughout the weekend, which included a parade, free concerts featuring artists Cynthia

By Priscilla Alvarez and Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — Tensions between the Trump administration and California intensified this weekend as President Donald Trump decided to deploy 2,000 National Guard members to the Los Angeles area, a move the state’s Democratic leaders cast as an unnecessary escalation amid protests over the administration’s immigration policies. Trump campaigned

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — When President Donald Trump issued a proclamation last week blocking nationals from Afghanistan and 11 other countries from traveling to the United States, it added to the fear, uncertainty and sense of betrayal that some vulnerable Afghans were already feeling. There are a number of immigration pathways for Afghans

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — In 2018, Toni Easter held a party in her yard in St. Louis to promote what would become a successful ballot initiative on redistricting — only to see it overturned when Republican lawmakers in Missouri put a competing initiative on the ballot. Then last year, she collected signatures in

By Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — Vice President JD Vance rolled his eyes when shown during a podcast taping Elon Musk’s suggestion that President Donald Trump should be impeached and Vance should replace him. “Oh, my God,” Vance said, sipping Celsius while sitting across from comedian and podcaster Theo Von. “See, this is what I’m

By Betsy Klein, Hadas Gold and Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — They’re the Washington couple at the center of power in the Trump administration. They’re also straddling opposing sides of an explosive breakup between President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk. CNN reported last week that Katie Miller, the wife of Stephen Miller, Trump’s deputy

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — As Harvard University, elite law firms and perceived political enemies of President Donald Trump fight back against his efforts to use government power to punish them, they’re winning thanks in part to the National Rifle Association. Last May, the Supreme Court unanimously sided with the gun rights group in

By Lauren Fox, Morgan Rimmer and Manu Raju, CNN (CNN) — Republicans have set an ambitious deadline of trying to pass President Donald Trump’s sweeping agenda through Congress by the fourth of July, kickstarting an intensive negotiation in the US Senate where Republican lawmakers are all over the map when it comes to the specific

By Priscilla Alvarez and Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s case started quietly, boiling down to a clerical error that moved him up on a list to land on a deportation flight destined to El Salvador in March. And then a court filing from the Trump Justice Department acknowledging the mistake brought it

By Kristen Holmes and Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump has asked aides and advisers if they believe Elon Musk’s behavior over the past 48 hours could be related to his alleged drug use, privately seeking to understand the tech billionaire’s broadsides against him while signaling publicly he doesn’t care, a source familiar

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Friday mistakenly sent out email alerts to attorneys and others laying out which cases it would hear days before it was scheduled to do so, the latest major technical glitch to come from the high court during its busiest month of the year. The high

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Members of the Proud Boys who were convicted by a jury on several counts related to the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack – each of whom were later pardoned or had their sentences commuted by President Donald Trump – are now suing the Justice Department for what they say

CNN By Hannah Rabinowitz, Devan Cole, Katelyn Polantz and Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador in March, has been returned to the United States to face federal criminal charges, Attorney General Pam Bondi said Friday. For months, the Trump administration has been locked in an

By Katelyn Polantz, Devan Cole and Brian Stelter, CNN (CNN) — A federal appeals court will allow the White House to exclude the Associated Press from access to the Oval Office, Mar-a-Lago and Air Force One if it chooses, according to a new court order in the ongoing legal battle over press access. The decision

By John Fritze, Tierney Sneed and Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court handed the Department of Government Efficiency a pair of significant wins on Friday, allowing the entity to access sensitive Social Security data for millions of Americans while simultaneously pausing an effort to look into whether it is subject to a key

By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN (CNN) — Republican Rep. Mary Miller is facing bipartisan criticism over a now-deleted social media post in which she called it “deeply troubling” that a Sikh delivered the morning prayer on the US House floor. Giani Surinder Singh – a member of the Gurudwara South Jersey Sikh Society in Vineland, New

By Hannah Rabinowitz, Devan Cole, Katelyn Polantz and Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador in March, has been returned to the United States to face federal criminal charges, Attorney General Pam Bondi said Friday. For months, the Trump administration has been locked in an intense

By Molly Reinmann, CNN (CNN) — A former Washington, DC, police lieutenant was sentenced Friday to 18 months in prison for leaking confidential information to Enrique Tarrio about his force’s investigation into the Proud Boys leader’s burning of a Black Lives Matter flag and for misleading federal agents. Retired DC Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Shane

By Annie Grayer, Gabe Cohen and Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration is preparing to cancel a large swath of federal funding for California, an effort that could begin as soon as Friday, according to multiple sources. Agencies are being told to start identifying grants the administration can withhold from California. Sources said

By John Fritze and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s administration urged the Supreme Court on Friday to allow officials to gut the Department of Education, a key priority for the president that has been stymied by a series of lower court decisions. The emergency appeal landed at the high court days after

CNN By Andrew Torgan and Daniel Wine, CNN (CNN) — Every parent wants their children to be happy and healthy, but admit it: If they just happen to grow up to be professional athletes or tech entrepreneurs, so much the better. Well, it turns out that the key to raising an ultra-successful kid is not

By Dana Bash, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump told CNN on Friday he is “not even thinking about” billionaire Elon Musk and won’t be speaking to him in the near future. “I’m not even thinking about Elon. He’s got a problem. The poor guy’s got a problem,” Trump said in a brief phone call.

By Natasha Bertrand, Haley Britzky and Zachary Cohen, CNN Washington (CNN) — Millions of pounds of military hardware are expected to roll down the US capital’s streets in less than two weeks, fulfilling a dream of President Donald Trump but also sparking concerns about how the roads of Washington, DC, will fare under the literal

By Kaitlan Collins, Kevin Liptak and Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — Multiple allies caught in the middle of the implosion between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk were delicately attempting to broker peace between the two men on Thursday when their quiet conversations were disrupted by a post on X. “Time to drop the really

CNN By Kaitlan Collins, Kevin Liptak and Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — Multiple allies caught in the middle of the implosion between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk were delicately attempting to broker peace between the two men on Thursday when their quiet conversations were disrupted by a post on X. “Time to drop the

CNN By Betsy Klein, Hadas Gold and Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — One of the most powerful alliances in American politics appears to be over. President Donald Trump and Elon Musk explosively sparred on their respective social media platforms Thursday – with the president floating the idea of cutting the tech billionaire’s various government contracts

CNN By Betsy Klein, Hadas Gold and Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — One of the most powerful alliances in American politics appears to be over. President Donald Trump and Elon Musk explosively sparred on their respective social media platforms Thursday – with the president floating the idea of cutting the tech billionaire’s various government contracts

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — Elon Musk said Thursday that President Donald Trump couldn’t have won a second term without his help, a claim that can’t be easily proven or disproven. What’s clear is Trump’s campaign relied on him heavily. Last year, Trump tapped Musk, the world’s wealthiest person, to essentially lead his campaign’s

CNN By Kristen Holmes, Alayna Treene, Kaitlan Collins and Samantha Waldenberg, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump signed a proclamation Wednesday evening to ban travel from several countries to the US, citing security risks. The ban will fully restrict entry of nationals from 12 countries: Afghanistan; Myanmar, also known as Burma; Chad; Republic of the

By Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — House Oversight Chair James Comer has subpoenaed former President Joe Biden’s White House physician to appear for a deposition later this month, according to a copy of the subpoena letter shared with CNN. The subpoena to Dr. Kevin O’Connor marks an escalation of the Republican chairman’s probe into Biden’s

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — US Secretary of State Marco Rubio unveiled new sanctions to target the International Criminal Court for its attempts to investigate the United States and Israel for alleged war crimes. Thursday’s sanctions were imposed against four ICC judges under a executive order signed by President Donald Trump authorizing punitive measures

By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — For months, President Donald Trump has voiced varying degrees of optimism that he – and only he – will be able to resolve the conflict in Ukraine. But halting progress, ever-more deadly drone attacks and unmoving negotiating positions seem to have taken their toll. On Thursday, Trump used a

By Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — Air Force Secretary Troy Meink told lawmakers on Thursday that it will “probably” cost the Air Force less than $400 million to retrofit a luxury Qatari plane that President Donald Trump has said he is getting from the Qataris as a gift to use as the new Air Force

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN Washington (CNN) — A program designed to flag travelers for potential extra screening and monitoring at airports and on airplanes will be discontinued, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced Thursday. The program recently came under attack from Republicans after it was revealed that prior to her appointment to lead the US

By Betsy Klein, Hadas Gold and Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — One of the most powerful alliances in American politics appears to be over. President Donald Trump and Elon Musk explosively sparred on their respective social media platforms Thursday – with the president floating the idea of cutting the tech billionaire’s various government contracts and

By Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — The Pentagon notified Congress last week that it will be diverting critical anti-drone technology that had been allocated for Ukraine to US Air Force units in the Middle East, according to correspondence obtained by CNN and people familiar with the matter. The move reflects the US’ shifting defense priorities

By Arlette Saenz, CNN (CNN) — The high-profile battles to become the Democratic and Republican nominees for governor of New Jersey are centered on a single summer Garden State resident: President Donald Trump. While Democrats have debated their approaches to housing, affordability and immigration, they all agree that part of the role of the state’s

By John Fritze and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for a Catholic Charities chapter in Wisconsin to secure an exemption from certain state taxes in a decision that could expand the type of religious entities entitled to tax breaks under the First Amendment’s protections for religion. It

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Thursday tossed out a lawsuit from the Mexican government that alleged American gun manufacturers should be held responsible for cartel violence on the Southwest border, a decision that shields the companies from a suit that had claimed billions in damages. Justice Elena Kagan wrote the

By John Fritze and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Thursday sided with a straight woman in Ohio who filed a “reverse discrimination” lawsuit against her employer when her gay boss declined to promote her. The ruling will make it easier to win such suits in some parts of the country. Despite

By Kevin Liptak and Simone McCarthy, CNN Washington/Hong Kong (CNN) — President Donald Trump emerged Thursday from a long-awaited 90-minute telephone call with President Xi Jinping of China encouraged that ongoing trade tensions could soon be resolved. Calling the conversation “very good,” Trump said in a social media post after the call that follow-up talks

CNN, POOL, HOST TV, SEE PREFONTS By Kristen Holmes, Alayna Treene, Kaitlan Collins and Samantha Waldenberg, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump signed a proclamation Wednesday evening to ban travel from several countries to the US, citing security risks. The ban will fully restrict entry of nationals from 12 countries: Afghanistan; Myanmar, also known as

By Arit John, Eric Bradner, Edward-Isaac Dovere and David Wright, CNN (CNN) — Andrew Cuomo faced a two-hour pile-on Wednesday as eight other Democrats vying for the party’s nomination for New York City mayor spent their first debate attempting to knock the former governor off his perch. Cuomo faced attacks over his management of the

By Samantha Waldenberg, Alayna Treene and Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump ordered an investigation into former President Joe Biden’s actions and autopen use in a Wednesday memorandum that cites his predecessor’s “cognitive decline.” Part of the memo calls on the counsel to the president, in consultation with Attorney General Pam Bondi and

By Kristen Holmes, Alayna Treene, Kaitlan Collins and Samantha Waldenberg, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump signed a proclamation Wednesday evening to ban travel from several countries to the US, citing security risks. The ban will fully restrict entry of nationals from 12 countries: Afghanistan; Myanmar, also known as Burma; Chad; Republic of the Congo;

By Kevin Liptak and Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — For months, President Donald Trump has suggested his personal relationship with China’s Xi Jinping will be what unlocks the world’s most consequential trade dispute. Yet he couldn’t get Xi on the telephone for weeks. The long period of silence between the leaders will — at least

By Priscilla Alvarez and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — A group of migrants the Trump administration sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador earlier this year must now have an opportunity to challenge their removal under the Alien Enemies Act, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. The ruling from US District Judge James Boasberg said that

By Kaitlan Collins, CNN (CNN) — A Department of Homeland Security official conceded Wednesday that an undocumented migrant believed to have been framed with threatening to kill President Donald Trump is no longer under investigation. DHS and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem had initially highlighted the arrest of Ramon Morales-Reyes in connection with the threat

By Priscilla Alvarez and Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — A Guatemalan national who says he was wrongfully deported to Mexico is back in the United States, his legal team told CNN, in what appears to mark the first time the Trump administration has brought back a migrant after a judge ordered the administration to facilitate

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — A federal appeals court declined on Wednesday to lift a judge’s ruling that blocked the Trump administration from effectively shutting down the Department of Education. The unanimous decision from the 1st US Circuit Court of Appeals is another significant legal setback for President Donald Trump, whose efforts to rapidly

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — A group of migrants that the Trump’s administration has been holding on a military base in Djibouti have been unable to contact their attorneys, immigrant rights groups told the Supreme Court on Wednesday. The detainees, who were initially bound for South Sudan, are part of a high-profile emergency appeal

By Kristen Holmes, Jeff Zeleny, Hadas Gold and Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — When Elon Musk declared Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s signature legislation was a “disgusting abomination,” it caught the West Wing by surprise and sent Republican leaders in Congress scrambling, unsuccessfully, to get Musk on the phone. A day later, both GOP leaders

By Devan Cole and Molly Reinmann, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department on Wednesday pressed a federal appeals court to reverse a judge’s ruling that blocked nationwide President Donald Trump’s effort to end birthright citizenship. The hearing before a three-judge panel of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals represents the first time one of

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department and the state of Texas settled a lawsuit Wednesday, blocking the state from offering undocumented immigrants residing in Texas the in-state tuition rates for its public colleges and universities. The lawsuit, which was filed by the Justice Department earlier the same day, alleged that the Texas

CNN By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — Russian President Vladimir Putin told US President Donald Trump in a phone call Wednesday that Moscow was obligated to respond to Ukraine’s weekend drone attack, Trump said, setting up a potential escalation in the conflict just as the US president hopes to broker an end to the war.

By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — Russian President Vladimir Putin told US President Donald Trump in a phone call Wednesday that Moscow was obligated to respond to Ukraine’s weekend drone attack, Trump said, setting up a potential escalation in the conflict just as the US president hopes to broker an end to the war. The

By Arlette Saenz, CNN (CNN) – Karine Jean-Pierre, who served as White House press secretary under former President Joe Biden, has switched her party affiliation to independent, according to a publishing company’s description of her forthcoming book. Jean-Pierre, who has worked in Democratic politics for decades, is set to release a new book that will

CNN By Arlette Saenz, CNN (CNN) – Karine Jean-Pierre, who served as White House press secretary under former President Joe Biden, has switched her party affiliation to independent, according to a publishing company’s description of her forthcoming book. Jean-Pierre, who has worked in Democratic politics for decades, is set to release a new book that

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — An immigration judge on Wednesday said she needed more time to review the case of an undocumented immigrant who police investigators say was set up and delayed a hearing for a week. The man, Ramon Morales-Reyes, appeared before immigration Judge Carla Espinoza Wednesday morning over video conferencing, calling in

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — House Republicans’ sweeping tax and spending cuts package would add $2.4 trillion to the deficit over the next decade, according to the Congressional Budget Office’s analysis of the bill that GOP lawmakers narrowly approved last month. Also, nearly 11 million more people would be uninsured in 2034 due in

By Gabe Cohen, CNN (CNN) — In early April, President Donald Trump approved millions of dollars in assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency for Virginia, which was reeling from devastating winter storms and flooding. Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, issued a news release touting the president’s decision to sign his disaster declaration request, and

By Kaanita Iyer and Morgan Rimmer, CNN (CNN) — Sen. John Fetterman’s chief of staff Krysta Juris is departing her role and the office is elevating another adviser to fill the position, the Pennsylvania Democrat said on Tuesday. “I’m grateful for Krysta’s work. She’s been an invaluable member of the team for over two years