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By Jake Tapper, CNN (CNN) — Chris Krebs’, President Donald Trump’s former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, membership in Global Entry has been revoked. Krebs, who has repeatedly attested to the security of the 2020 election, told CNN he finds it hard to believe this isn’t another act of retribution from the

By Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — At what might have been his last Cabinet meeting for the foreseeable future, billionaire presidential adviser Elon Musk donned two baseball caps, one stacked atop the other. The first, emblazoned with the name of his government-slashing “DOGE” agency, was covered by a red and white “GULF OF AMERICA” hat,

By Morgan Rimmer, Ted Barrett and Manu Raju, CNN (CNN) — Vice President JD Vance traveled to Capitol Hill late Wednesday to cast a tie-breaking vote in the Senate that killed a bipartisan effort to rebuke President Donald Trump’s trade policy. Earlier in the evening, the Senate rejected the resolution that would have effectively blocked

By Kevin Liptak, Jeff Zeleny and Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — On his 100th day in office, President Donald Trump crowed to a rally of supporters about a dawning “golden age” for the American economy, made possible by his new tariffs. On his 101st, he warned in a different setting that children may have to

By Brian Todd, CNN (CNN) — Affordable housing advocates and congressional Democrats are warning that more foreclosures may occur as the Department of Veterans Affairs phases out a mortgage rescue program for financially strapped veterans this week. Beginning Thursday, the VA will no longer accept enrollees to the Veterans Affairs Servicing Purchase Program, or VASP,

By Priscilla Alvarez and Kylie Atwood, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration has discussed with Libya and Rwanda the possibility of sending migrants who have criminal records and are in the United States to those two countries, according to multiple sources familiar with the talks. The proposals mark a dramatic escalation in the administration’s push

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — The agency charged with policing federal campaign finance laws is losing its enforcement and policy-making powers with the resignation of a Republican commissioner. Allen Dickerson’s departure Wednesday — combined with President Donald Trump’s February firing of long-serving Democratic Commissioner Ellen Weintraub — leaves the Federal Election Commission with just

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Wednesday seemed open to backing the creation of a Catholic charter school in Oklahoma, a decision that would expand the availability of taxpayer money for religious education in school systems across the nation. During more than two hours of at times feisty arguments

By Priscilla Alvarez, Katelyn Polantz, Paula Reid and Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele have been directly in touch about the detention of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whom the US mistakenly deported to El Salvador’s notorious megaprison, according to multiple sources familiar with the previously undisclosed

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — An American detained in Belarus has been freed, Special Envoy for Hostage Response Adam Boehler and a second US official told CNN on Wednesday. Youras Ziankovich was arrested in Moscow in 2021 and then was brought to Belarus’s capital Minsk, where he was accused of being part of a

By Evan Perez, CNN Senior Justice Correspondent (CNN) — The Federal Bureau of Investigation has reassigned several agents who were photographed kneeling with demonstrators during a 2020 protest in the wake of police killing of George Floyd, people briefed on the matter told CNN. The reassignments, viewed as demotions by many inside the FBI, come

By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — A rising share of Americans say that President Donald Trump’s deportation policies have gone too far, a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS finds. Just over half, 52%, say Trump has gone too far in deporting undocumented immigrants, up from 45% in February. A similar 52% now say that

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN Manchester, New Hampshire (CNN) — JB Pritzker greeted Rep. Maggie Goodlander with a joke. Answering his own question about how the New Hampshire congresswoman’s first few months in office have been, the Illinois governor laughed: “Awful, right?” But the conversation immediately became a mini-huddle about the debates they’ve each been having

By Lauren Fox and Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — As top Republicans give themselves just two months to pass President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax and spending cuts package, some GOP lawmakers are worrying it’s not enough time to resolve their biggest intraparty fights. Under fierce pressure from the White House, GOP officials are attempting to

By Kevin Liptak and Jeff Zeleny, CNN Warren, Michigan (CNN) — On the 100th day, he rallied. Crossing the symbolic barrier between the first 100 days of his presidency and the 1,361 that remain, Trump basked in adulation from a supportive crowd and declared that he had just completed the “the most successful first 100

By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump has lied for more than four years that he won the 2020 election he lost to Joe Biden. At a rally in Michigan on Tuesday to mark his first 100 days back in office, Trump added a related lie – wrongly asserting that he served as

By Shimon Prokupecz and Rachel Clarke, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration ordered international students to be effectively designated as criminals without checking if the information was true, court records reviewed by CNN show, along with new information that was revealed by a government official at a court hearing Tuesday. Thousands of visa holders had

By Arlette Saenz, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration dismissed former second gentleman Doug Emhoff and other Biden-era appointees from the board that oversees the US Holocaust Memorial Museum on Tuesday, sources familiar with the matter said. “I was informed of my removal from the United States Holocaust Memorial Council,” Emhoff, who is Jewish, said

By Donald Judd, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump offered rare praise for a Democrat Tuesday, saying as he arrived at Selfridge Air National Guard Base that Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer “has done a very good job” — a marked shift from the previous frosty relationship between the two. “She came to see me —

By Annie Grayer, Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, CNN (CNN) — Ed Martin, President Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as US attorney for Washington, DC, did not recall some of his most controversial past statements in response to a series of questions put to him by members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, reviewed by CNN.

By Manu Raju, Veronica Stracqualursi and Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — House Republicans have thwarted Democratic efforts to probe Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s controversial use of Signal, using their power to stop the minority party from forcing a vote that could embarrass the Trump administration. GOP leaders tucked a provision into a rule approved Tuesday

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration was forced to reveal new information Tuesday about its ham-handed and legally dubious operation to cancel the immigration records of thousands of international students that a federal judge described as a blatant due process violation that “concerned” and “troubled” her. A Department of Homeland Security official

By Rob Kuznia, CNN (CNN) — Years ago, the Drug Enforcement Agency was shaken by a pair of particularly deadly overseas incidents: a botched operation by a US-vetted Colombian police squad that left 10 local officers dead, and a cartel’s brutal retaliation in a small Mexican town that killed dozens. In both Colombia and Mexico,

By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump filled his first 100 days back in office with the same relentless lying and inaccuracy that was a hallmark of his first presidency and his 2016 and 2024 presidential campaigns. Some of Trump’s 2025 false claims were about consequential policy matters, others about trivial personal fixations.

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in a blockbuster dispute over the nation’s first religious charter school, a case that critics say has prompted a “crisis of identity” in the school choice movement and that could vastly expand taxpayer funding for religious education. The battle over St. Isidore

By Zachary B. Wolf, Alicia Johnson and Curt Merrill, CNN (CNN) — Ever since the government-changing administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt, a president’s first 100 days in office have been viewed as a sprint to see how much they can get done in the honeymoon period after Inauguration Day. At the start of his second

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court signaled Tuesday that it will revive a lawsuit from a suburban Atlanta family that was mistakenly held at gunpoint in their bedroom after the FBI accidentally conducted a predawn raid at the wrong address. After about an hour of oral argument, it seemed clear that conservative

By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Tuesday he was ending the Defense Department’s Women, Peace and Security program which he termed a ‘Biden initiative’ that was enacted by President Donald Trump in his first term, championed by his daughter Ivanka Trump and based on a law co-sponsored by Secretary of

By Alayna Treene and Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — Delivering the longest inaugural address in history in January, newly inaugurated President Donald Trump made clear he had little time to waste. “From this moment on, America’s decline is over,” he said, before adding: “All of this will change starting today, and it will change very

By Morgan Rimmer, Ted Barrett and Alison Main, CNN (CNN) — Perhaps the only greater challenge for congressional Democrats than President Donald Trump’s sledgehammer approach to governing is a growing anxiety that the party’s base voters don’t feel they are doing enough to fight back. So, as Trump rallies Tuesday to mark his first 100

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — A congressional watchdog agency is investigating President Donald Trump’s efforts to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, CNN has learned, responding to Senate Democrats who are also demanding that the agency’s Trump-appointed acting director turn over information about how the bureau can meet its statutory obligations amid attempts to

By Jennifer Agiesta and Emily R. Condon, CNN (CNN) — The American public is frustrated, disappointed and increasingly angry at the state of politics 100 days into Donald Trump’s second term in the White House, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, with neither party positioned to change the mood. Approval ratings for

By Tierney Sneed and Dianne Gallagher, CNN (CNN) — Nearly six months after he voted in the 2024 election, North Carolinian Josiah Young still isn’t sure if his ballot will be counted in a high-stakes race for a state Supreme Court seat. Born and raised in western North Carolina, the 20-year-old college student studied abroad

By Paula Reid and Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — Approximately 70% of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division is expected to accept a second offer to federal workers that allows them to resign from their positions and be paid through September, according to a source familiar with the situation. The division employs roughly 340

By Betsy Klein and Haley Talbot, CNN (CNN) — The US House of Representatives on Monday passed the “Take It Down” Act, which aims to protect Americans from deepfake and revenge pornography. Lawmakers voted 409-2 to pass the bill – which boosts protections for victims of non-consensual sharing of sexual images, including content generated by

By Jennifer Hansler and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — The United States proposed sending up to 500 Venezuelan migrants with alleged ties to the Tren de Aragua gang to El Salvador as the two governments sought to reach an agreement on the use of the Central American nation’s notorious mega prison, according to emails seen

By Paula Reid and Casey Gannon, CNN (CNN) — Republican Maine state lawmaker Laurel Libby is asking the US Supreme Court to ensure her votes are counted in the next legislative session of the Maine House after she was censured for expressing opposition to transgender athletes competing in girls sports, according to a copy of

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Federal prosecutors have filed charges against the man accused of stealing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s purse, including thousands of dollars she had in cash, earlier this month at The Capital Burger restaurant in Washington, DC. The man, Mario Bustamante Leiva, has been charged with wire fraud, aggravated identity

By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — A 59% majority of the public now says President Donald Trump’s policies have worsened economic conditions in the country, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, up from 51% in March and on par with the worst numbers Joe Biden saw during his presidency. Americans remain broadly

By Haley Britzky, Natasha Bertrand and Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — A US Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet has been lost at sea after it fell overboard from the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier while it was being towed on board, the Navy said in a statement on Monday. A US official said

By Manu Raju, Haley Talbot, Morgan Rimmer and Ted Barrett, CNN (CNN) — Speaker Mike Johnson on Monday said the coming days will be critical in the House as committees begin to draft the contents of President Donald Trump’s sweeping legislative agenda. “We’ve been working on it for over a year, and now is game

By Kit Maher, Betsy Klein and Michael Williams, CNN (CNN) — Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg was a central figure in the first major self-inflicted crisis of Trump’s second term, when the prominent journalist was inadvertently added to a Signal chat where Cabinet officials discussed military strikes in Yemen. Weeks later, Trump sat for an interview

By Manu Raju and Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — Rep. Gerry Connolly, a veteran Virginia Democrat and ranking member on the House Oversight Committee, announced on Monday he will not seek reelection and will soon step down from his leadership position on the powerful panel. Connolly said his esophageal cancer – a diagnosis he shared

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, Arlette Saenz and Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — The good news, say Democratic leaders and top party strategists wrapping their heads around what Donald Trump’s next 45 months will mean, is that there is no shortage of actual impacts to talk about – and that’s before the market turmoil has had the

By John King, CNN Tucson, Arizona (CNN) — The Special Eats Café is a work in progress: new gas pipes just installed, the walls ready for a fresh coat of paint, and the kitchen racks stacked with pots and pans for the work ahead. It is a crucial next chapter for Tamara Varga and her

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN Manchester, New Hampshire (CNN) — “The reckoning,” Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker told a room full of revved up Democrats in New Hampshire on Sunday night, “is here.” Appearing in the first presidential primary state ahead of what’s expected to be a major 2028 Democratic nomination cycle, Pritzker railed against the “Looney

By Eva McKend, CNN (CNN) — Former Vice President Kamala Harris will make a rare public appearance this week in California, addressing an annual gathering of one of the nation’s largest networks of Democratic women elected officials just one day after President Donald Trump marks his first 100 days in office, CNN has learned. Her

By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — Inside the soaring nave of St. Peter’s Basilica on Saturday, the quiet hush of world leaders paying respects to the late Pope Francis was briefly interrupted by a flurry of activity in a secluded corner near the entrance doors. Men in black robes rushed over with red-cushioned chairs. A

By Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — A peer of the Wisconsin judge who the FBI arrested for allegedly helping an undocumented immigrant avoid federal immigration enforcement said her arrest is meant to intimidate the judiciary by the Trump administration. “I think they’re trying to send a message to chill the judiciary,” Wisconsin Appellate Judge Pedro

Alison Main, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Sen. Cory Booker are holding a sit-in on the steps of the US Capitol — the latest move by Democrats to stand up to President Donald Trump as they face pressure from constituents. The Democratic lawmakers started their demonstration just before sunrise

CNN By Jennifer Agiesta and Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump won back the Oval Office and took charge of the government amid the strongest poll numbers of his political career, but as the 100-day mark of his presidency approaches, Americans’ views of what he’s done so far have turned deeply negative, a new

By Sarah Ferris and Lauren Fox, CNN (CNN) — Speaker Mike Johnson’s agenda has been repeatedly seized by a group of GOP hardliners who have used the party’s razor-thin margin in the House to score their own political wins. Now, Republicans from the party’s center are prepared to try the same. As Congress returns Monday

By Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — A year after his presidential ambitions collapsed, Gov. Ron DeSantis and his wife Casey can no longer lay claim to the future of the Republican Party. And in Florida, even their present is in jeopardy. Once firmly in his corner, many Sunshine State Republicans have lately turned on DeSantis,

By Jennifer Agiesta and Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump won back the Oval Office and took charge of the government amid the strongest poll numbers of his political career, but as the 100-day mark of his presidency approaches, Americans’ views of what he’s done so far have turned deeply negative, a new CNN

By Josh Campbell and John Miller, CNN (CNN) — Two arrests have been made in the theft of the theft of a high-end Gucci bag belonging to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem. The primary suspect was arrested in Washington, DC, and is in custody, according to the US Secret Service. USSS said in a Sunday evening

By Casey Gannon and Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — FBI Director Kash Patel posted a photo on X Friday night of the Wisconsin judge who was arrested for allegedly obstructing immigration agents while she was handcuffed, being escorted to a vehicle by officials. The photo of Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan does not show

By Shania Shelton, Alex Marquardt, Kylie Atwood and Leila Gharagozlou, CNN (CNN) — Leaders from the United States and Iran painted a positive but cautious picture of talks between the nations over Iran’s nuclear program Saturday, after the third phase of the discussions wrapped up in Oman. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and US Middle

By Jeremy Herb, Eric Bradner and Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has been Donald Trump’s battering ram during the president’s first 100 days, slashing the federal government and trying to bend its remnants to Trump’s will. Driven by a band of 20-something coders and computer experts burrowing into agencies

By Annette Choi and Danya Gainor, CNN (CNN) — Nearly 100 days. Wide-ranging and chaotic firings across at least 30 agencies. At least 121,000 federal workers have been laid off or targeted for layoffs in the three months since President Donald Trump’s second term began, according to a CNN analysis of official statements, internal memos

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — The American Federation of Government Employees is planning to lay off more than half its staff, as the largest federal employees’ union reels from President Donald Trump’s move to end collective bargaining rights for many federal workers. AFGE, which has filed an array of lawsuits against the Trump administration,

WDJT, CNN By Casey Gannon and Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — FBI Director Kash Patel posted a photo on X Friday night of the Wisconsin judge who was arrested for allegedly obstructing immigration agents while she was handcuffed, being escorted to a vehicle by officials. The photo of Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan does

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The arrest of a Wisconsin state judge for allegedly helping an undocumented immigrant avoid arrest has opened a new front in the Trump administration’s aggressive attempt to carry out a historic deportation campaign. The decision by the Justice Department to charge Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan for obstruction

By Michael Williams, CNN (CNN) — The Wisconsin judge who was arrested by the FBI on Friday and accused of interfering in the arrest of an undocumented immigrant has a decadeslong history of advocating for the poor and vulnerable. Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan faces two charges for obstruction and concealing the individual

By Kristin Chapman, CNN (CNN) — Georgia Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff told a voter in Georgia on Friday that he “strongly” agrees that President Donald Trump needs to be impeached. “There is no doubt that this president’s conduct has already exceeded any prior standard for impeachment by the United States House of Representatives,” Ossoff told

By Katelyn Polantz and Jake Tapper, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department will again allow federal investigators to pursue communications from media outlets in the course of government leak investigations, rescinding a Biden-era policy, according to a memo from Attorney General Pam Bondi obtained by CNN. The memo comes at a time of fresh hostility

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — He wasn’t joking. When President Donald Trump was reminded in an interview with Time magazine this week that he had said he would end the Russian war on Ukraine on “day one,” he claimed he hadn’t been speaking literally or seriously. “Well, I said that figuratively, and I

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from terminating the collective bargaining rights for a sizeable share of the federal workforce. The preliminary injunction issued by US District Court Judge Paul Friedman in the District of Columbia also found that a key section of President Donald Trump’s

By Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump sat for a wide-ranging interview with TIME on April 22, touching on tariffs, peace efforts between Ukraine and Russia, the Iran nuclear deal, wanting Canada to become a US state and more. The sitdown included Trump saying he would sign a ban on members of Congress

By Brynn Gingras and Shania Shelton, CNN (CNN) — Disgraced former Rep. George Santos was sentenced Friday to 87 months in prison for aggravated identity theft and wire fraud charges stemming from fraudulent activity during his 2022 midterm campaign. The judge ruled he must surrender by July 25. Santos was sobbing in the courtroom on

By Tierney Sneed, Gloria Pazmino and Kristin Chapman, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration is backing down from a multi-state legal fight over sweeping actions taken by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement that potentially terminated the immigration status of thousands of international students studying in the United States. The dramatic shift was announced in court

By Priscilla Alvarez, Sunlen Serfaty, Marshall Cohen and Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Staffers from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency are building a master database to speed-up immigration enforcement and deportations by combining sensitive data from across the federal government, multiple sources familiar with the plans tell CNN. The goal is to create a

By Hannah Rabinowitz, Michael Williams and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — A Milwaukee County Circuit judge was arrested by the FBI Friday and charged in federal court for allegedly helping an undocumented immigrant avoid arrest. Judge Hannah Dugan is facing two charges for obstruction and concealing the individual from arrest. She made an initial appearance

By Gabe Cohen and Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Trump emergency management officials are discussing reforms that would make it much harder for communities to qualify for federal disaster assistance, honoring President Donald Trump’s executive order to shift more responsibility for disaster response and recovery to states rather than the federal government. A memo from

CNN By Kevin Liptak, Alayna Treene and Jeff Zeleny, CNN (CNN) — Five days before his 100th day in office – and 93 days since his own deadline passed for resolving the conflict in Ukraine – President Donald Trump is frustrated his efforts to broker a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine have so far

By Natasha Bertrand, Haley Britzky and Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — In the month since the US launched a major military campaign targeting the Houthi rebel group in Yemen, the militants have successfully shot down at least seven multi-million-dollar American drones, hindering the US’ ability to move into “phase two” of the operation, multiple US

By Maria Moctezuma, Sylvie Kirsch and Julianna Bragg, CNN (CNN) — As lawmakers hold town halls in their home states during the current congressional recess period, members from both parties continue to face tough questions and criticism that Congress is not doing enough to counter the Trump administration. Republican Rep. Ashley Hinson faced critical questions

By Kevin Liptak, Alayna Treene and Jeff Zeleny, CNN (CNN) — Five days before his 100th day in office – and 93 days since his own deadline passed for resolving the conflict in Ukraine – President Donald Trump is frustrated his efforts to broker a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine have so far fallen

By Jennifer Hansler, Alex Marquardt and Kylie Atwood, CNN (CNN) — Some US allies are highly alarmed by the framework the Trump administration is pushing to end the Ukraine war and Europeans are bracing for the outcome of another round of high-level talks between the US and Russia, multiple diplomatic sources told CNN. The administration’s

By Casey Tolan, Isabelle Chapman, Bob Ortega and Matt Egan, CNN (CNN) — As Harvard squares up for a bruising legal fight with the White House over billions in frozen federal grants, the university’s fortunes could depend on its Rolodex of ultra-wealthy alumni. But some of the top donors who have given Harvard the most

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge has halted parts of an executive order signed by President Donald Trump that sought to boost requirements that Americans show documents proving their citizenship when registering to vote. Senior District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly blocked a Trump directive in the order that the requirement be added to

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump signed a memorandum Thursday targeting ActBlue, the Democratic Party’s main fundraising platform – taking aim at one of the key pillars of the financial infrastructure for Democratic candidates. A fact sheet about the memo said it directs Attorney General Pam Bondi to launch an investigation into

By Hannah Rabinowitz and Danny Freeman, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department terminated hundreds of grants this week, effectively slashing the budgets for organizations across the country that assist crime victims and fight both gun violence and opioid abuse. The cancellations, which claimed that the more than 350 already-distributed grants “no longer effectuates the program

By Tierney Sneed, Kristin Chapman and Shania Shelton, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s efforts to crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion programs suffered a major legal blow Thursday as three separate judges – two of them appointed by the president – ruled against a Department of Education policy that threatened to withhold federal funding

By Arit John, CNN (CNN) — The Democratic National Committee is cracking down on gun control advocate and DNC vice chair David Hogg’s plans to spend millions primarying incumbents in safe seats that he deems “ineffective.” Under a proposal unveiled Thursday afternoon, national Democratic officials would be required to pledge neutrality in all primaries. During

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to let it begin enforcing a ban on transgender service members, escalating a fight over a controversial policy that has faced numerous legal setbacks in recent weeks. The emergency appeal thrusts the high court into another politically charged dispute over

By Natasha Bertrand, Haley Britzky and Jake Tapper, CNN (CNN) — Last month, after news broke that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was using Signal to discuss sensitive military operations in violation of Pentagon policy, one of his closest military aides made an unusual inquiry to the Defense Department’s chief information officer: Would they grant

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN Washington (CNN) — The value of President Donald Trump’s meme coin soared Wednesday after a website promoting it announced that some holders of the coin would receive an invitation to a private dinner with Trump – in a stark illustration of his family’s drive to profit off cryptocurrency while he serves

By Hanna Park and Shania Shelton, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge in Maryland has ordered the Trump administration to facilitate the return of a 20-year-old Venezuelan asylum seeker deported to El Salvador, ruling the removal violated a court settlement protecting some young migrants with pending asylum claims, according to an order issued Wednesday. The

CNN By John King, CNN Mississaugua, Ontario (CNN) — The workday at Lola Blooms begins by unpacking the morning delivery: a colorful mix of dahlias, hydrangeas, carnations, roses and more lifted from boxes and spread across the worktables. Until a few weeks ago, there were almost always flowers from the United States in the mix

By John King, CNN Mississaugua, Ontario (CNN) — The workday at Lola Blooms begins by unpacking the morning delivery: a colorful mix of dahlias, hydrangeas, carnations, roses and more lifted from boxes and spread across the worktables. Until a few weeks ago, there were almost always flowers from the United States in the mix as

By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration’s aggressive aim at Harvard University and other higher education institutions is being quietly spearheaded by a Justice Department-led task force under the leadership of former Fox News personality and civil rights lawyer Leo Terrell, in conjunction with top Trump official Stephen Miller and others. The administration

By Casey Gannon and Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday issued a memo of directives to Justice Department employees to enforce the Trump administration’s policies targeting gender-affirming care for minors, according to a copy of the memo obtained by CNN. The memo comes after President Donald Trump issued an executive

By Gabe Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The agency tasked with delivering billions of dollars in assistance to communities devastated by natural disasters is about to lose a huge portion of its workforce, including some of its most experienced and knowledgeable leaders who manage disaster response. With hurricane season just weeks away, about 20% of FEMA’s

By Kaanita Iyer and Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — A federal agency that focuses on fostering economic growth in developing countries is being effectively shut down as part of efforts by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to reduce federal spending, sources told CNN. On Tuesday, the agency’s employees were notified via email that “there

By Kayla Tausche, Kylie Atwood and Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — Two weeks after President Donald Trump paused plans for steep tariffs with promises that a flurry of negotiated deals would ensue, the relative quiet has been deafening – roiling markets and calling into question the endgame for the administration’s trade war. Since then, there’s

By Betsy Klein and Samantha Waldenberg, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump took aim at the college accreditation process with a new executive order Wednesday, his latest move to exact control over America’s higher education institutions. The order, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, targets the federal government’s process for deciding what colleges and

By Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — Elon Musk said two very interesting and contradictory things related to his government employment during a Tesla earnings call Tuesday. First, he suggested that he’s just about done focusing full time on his ad hoc role taking a chainsaw to elements of the federal government with the Department

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — Gas. Groceries. Eggs. Over the last week, President Donald Trump has lied about the price of all of them — using this repeated deception to try to minimize widespread concerns that his tariffs will fuel inflation. Here is a fact check. Gas Trump claimed last Thursday that gas