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By Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — Magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll asked a judge to release more than $5 million to her one day after the Supreme Court rejected President Donald Trump’s effort to challenge a jury’s finding that he sexually abused and defamed her. Carroll’s lawyers asked the trial judge to expedite the briefing

By Adam Cancryn, Jeremy Herb, Casey Tolan, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump collected billions of dollars through an array of cryptocurrency holdings, royalty payments and property investments last year, according to his latest annual financial disclosure released on Tuesday. The 2025 report, which totals 927 pages, provides the most extensive look so far at

By Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — Vice President JD Vance said that he believes Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will be the leading Democratic candidate for president 2028. “I think it’s got to be AOC. I know that’s probably conventional wisdom,” Vance said during an interview on “The Michael Knowles Show” released Tuesday. When the host argued

CNN By John Fritze, Devan Cole, Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld state bans on transgender students playing on girls sports teams, delivering another blockbuster setback to trans youth and their families in a decision that is likely to sustain similar laws in about half of the nation. In a

CNN By John Fritze, Devan Cole, Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld state bans on transgender students playing on girls sports teams, delivering another blockbuster setback to trans youth and their families in a decision that is likely to sustain similar laws in about half of the nation. In a

By John Fritze, Devan Cole, Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld state bans on transgender students playing on girls sports teams, delivering another blockbuster setback to trans youth and their families in a decision that is likely to sustain similar laws in about half of the nation. In a 6-3

By Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — The House overwhelmingly passed a resolution to force the disclosure of records on confidential sexual harassment settlements on behalf of members Congress. GOP Rep. Thomas Massie forced the vote, saying that he believes documents and information already turned over to lawmakers was not sufficient. The measure was approved with

By John Fritze, Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The conservative Supreme Court dealt a significant blow to President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda Tuesday, ruling that his administration could not use an executive order to end birthright citizenship for hundreds of thousands of babies born on US soil every year. Though not unexpected, the decision is

By Sarah Ferris, Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — Speaker Mike Johnson has once again lost a battle against hardline conservatives for control of his own House floor — and he has no clear way out. A small group of GOP hardliners, led by firebrand Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, effectively seized the floor from

By Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — A longtime aide to Bill Clinton walked back a prior claim that the former president visited Jeffrey Epstein’s island, according to GOP Rep. Nancy Mace, who questioned him, and two sources familiar with closed-door testimony on Capitol Hill. Doug Band, the former Clinton aide, is the 17th person to

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an effort by President Donald Trump to fire a top official at the Library of Congress for now, a move that will allow her to remain in her post while her case is reviewed by lower courts in light of the court’s blockbuster

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court announced Tuesday that it will decide whether cities and states may ban people from owning AR-15 rifles and similar semi-automatic weapons, taking up a major Second Amendment dispute that it had previously declined to address. One of the appeals involving certain semi-automatic rifles came from two

CNN By Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — Republican Rep. Tom Kean of New Jersey said Tuesday that he experienced severe depression that required a long-term stay in the hospital, keeping him away from Washington more than 100 days. Kean announced his previously undisclosed health condition in highly anticipated floor remarks, acknowledging it was “not an

CNN By Joan Biskupic, CNN Chief Supreme Court Analyst (CNN) — When President Donald Trump used his black Sharpie on his first day back in office to sign an executive order in January 2025 limiting birthright citizenship, he said, “This is a big one.” It was an audacious gambit. And in the most essential way, it

By John Fritze, Isabelle D’Antonio, Dan Berman (CNN) – The Supreme Court on Tuesday knocked down Donald Trump’s effort to end birthright citizenship as it has been understood for more than a century, invalidating an executive order that was a key part of the president’s agenda even though it was legally dubious from the start.

By John Fritze and Devan Cole (CNN) – The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that states may bar transgender students from playing on girls sports teams, delivering the latest in a series of legal defeats to trans Americans amid a political backlash in conservative states that has accelerated at a dramatic pace in recent years.

By Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — Republican Rep. Tom Kean of New Jersey said Tuesday that he experienced severe depression that required a long-term stay in the hospital, keeping him away from Washington more than 100 days. Kean announced his previously undisclosed health condition in highly anticipated floor remarks, acknowledging it was “not an easy

By Fredreka Schouten, John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — In erasing limits on how much political parties can coordinate with federal candidates, the US Supreme Court on Tuesday handed Republicans a major political victory just ahead of this fall’s midterm elections. The 6-3 decision by the high court rolled back a longstanding restriction on the use

By Eric Bradner, David Wright, CNN (CNN) — Democratic socialists struck another blow against the Democratic establishment on Tuesday in Colorado, where CNN’s Decision Desk projects that 29-year-old Melat Kiros will defeat incumbent Rep. Diana DeGette, who was first elected before Kiros was born, in a primary. Kiros was the third progressive challenger to defeat

By Kristen Holmes, Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — After an occasionally rocky start in his new post, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin won an internal debate when President Donald Trump announced he was nominating Lance Schroyer, a former Oklahoma state trooper, to lead Immigration and Customs Enforcement, five sources familiar with the dynamic told CNN.

By Donald Judd, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump Monday evening posted what appeared to be an AI-generated image of a large, golden eagle affixed to the Truman Balcony of the White House. “A Golden Gift to the White House for its 250th Birthday Year!” Trump wrote on Truth Social, alongside the image of the

CNN By Joan Biskupic, CNN Chief Supreme Court Analyst (CNN) — For more than 40 years, since his service as a young Reagan administration lawyer, Chief Justice John Roberts has pressed for an exceptionally powerful US president, one who could fire the heads of independent agencies at any time. In one memo to the White House

By Joan Biskupic, CNN Chief Supreme Court Analyst (CNN) — For more than 40 years, since his service as a young Reagan administration lawyer, Chief Justice John Roberts has pressed for an exceptionally powerful US president, one who could fire the heads of independent agencies at any time. In one memo to the White House counsel

By Nina Giraldo, Sarah Ferris, CNN Westfield, New Jersey (CNN) — One day before Republican Rep. Tom Kean Jr. returned to Capitol Hill for the first time in months, the long-missing congressman sat on the steps of his tidy Tudor-style home in North Jersey, sifting through mail beside his wife. Kean, wearing a gray polo,

By Morgan Rimmer, CNN (CNN) — A spokesperson for Sen. Ruben Gallego said Monday that President Donald Trump is “targeting” the Arizona Democrat with a Justice Department investigation into his campaign finances. Reacting to a report of the inquiry in Axios, the spokesperson accused the Justice Department of having been “weaponized” and said the administration

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — Justice Sonia Sotomayor received more than $4,000 in concert tickets from a Puerto Rican record label that counts Bad Bunny among its clients, according to a financial disclosure report made public Monday. Sotomayor, a member of the court’s liberal wing, disclosed receiving $4,333 in concert tickets from Rimas Entertainment

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court’s ruling letting more than a dozen states keep their post-election grace periods for mail ballots is a defeat for President Donald Trump and Republicans ahead of the midterms, but the GOP can still capture significant victories in major election-related cases coming further down the pipeline. On

By Adam Cancryn, Kristen Holmes, Ellis Kim, Morgan Rimmer, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Monday remained undecided over whether he’d sign a bipartisan housing bill, saying shortly after the House speaker sent it to the White House that it was “so unimportant” compared with his efforts to secure a controversial overhaul of federal

CNN By John Fritze, Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump a significant win Monday by allowing him to remove the leaders of once-independent federal agencies at will, toppling a 1935 precedent in the process that could reorder the way the government functions. At the same time, the court made

By John Fritze, Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump a significant win Monday by allowing him to remove the leaders of once-independent federal agencies at will, toppling a 1935 precedent in the process that could reorder the way the government functions. At the same time, the court made it

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the use of a “geofence warrant” to capture location data from cell phones in search of a robbery suspect constituted a search for Fourth Amendment purposes, a decision that means officers will have to obtain a warrant to access such data in

By Aileen Graef, CNN (CNN) — The New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq will be opened from the Oval Office next week to mark the launch of Trump Accounts, White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett said Monday. “We’re having a big opening bell ceremony next week where Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange

CNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN SpaceX arrived on Wall Street this month amid high expectations, and it has so far delivered. But for many investors, the real bet is on CEO Elon Musk — and that his next act will be as lucrative as his last. Here’s what else you need to know to get

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court will review the legality of mass voters purges in the final weeks before an election, as part of a larger case the justices are taking up examining the methods Arizona uses to keep non-citizens off the voter rolls. The dispute will not be resolved before the midterms,

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court Monday declined to take up an appeal from President Donald Trump over a $5 million verdict and finding that he sexually abused and defamed E. Jean Carroll, a decision that means the president will now have to pay the magazine columnist. Carroll sued Trump in 2019 for

By Andrew Kaczynski, CNN (CNN) — Darializa Avila Chevalier, the Democratic congressional nominee endorsed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who ousted longtime Rep. Adriano Espaillat in Tuesday’s primary, maintained a since-deleted Twitter account with repeated sympathetic references to communism, Marxist ideology and Soviet figures, including Vladimir Lenin. Avila Chevalier, a sociology PhD student

By Dana Bash, CNN (CNN) — For the first time in 40 years, retiring Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California will not be returning to Congress in January. CNN has learned where she will direct her legendary energy — at the University of California, Berkeley, which is creating the Nancy Pelosi Institute. The institute, dedicated

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — John Yoo — a well-known and, in some legal and political circles, infamous conservative lawyer — will assist a Justice Department investigation that has theorized a yearslong conspiracy against President Donald Trump and is looking at several former high-ranking federal officials. Yoo, now a law professor at the University

By Camila DeChalus, Isabelle D’Antonio, CNN (CNN) — Comedian and Trump critic Bill Maher on Sunday received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Washington institution that is entangled in a legal battle over President Donald Trump’s effort to overhaul it. The center — which Trump

By Sunlen Serfaty, CNN (CNN) — The $1.7 million “ozone nanobubbler” being used in an effort to make the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool water crystal clear has a unique ability to shoot 500 million microscopic bubbles into every teaspoon of water. The injected oxygen is supposed to oxidize — or, unscientifically speaking, smash through —

By Arit John, CNN (CNN) — Almost immediately after scoring a series of upset victories in New York last week, members of the rising progressive movement started looking ahead to their next target: Colorado’s 1st Congressional District. Melat Kiros, a 29-year-old democratic socialist and lawyer, is challenging 15-term Rep. Diana DeGette for the solidly blue

By Arlette Saenz, CNN Hanover, Maryland (CNN) — As he rallied Maryland Democrats at a state party fundraiser Saturday night, former President Joe Biden decried the actions of the man who succeeded him in the White House, painting him as vain and corrupt. “It’s not just his vanity projects, tearing down the East Wing of

By Casey Gannon, Julia Benbrook, Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump announced Saturday that he will nominate former Oklahoma state trooper Lance Schroyer as director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, putting a little-known candidate in line to lead an agency that has spurred controversy amid the administration’s ramped-up deportation efforts. The Department of

Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A man with the same name and Republican party affiliation as Alaska US Sen. Dan Sullivan is eligible to challenge the senator in the August primary, a judge ruled Friday, the latest turn in a drama surrounding the broader fight over control of the US Senate. Superior Court Judge

By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — US Rep. Julia Letlow will win the Republican nomination for Senate in Louisiana, CNN’s Decision Desk projects, defeating state Treasurer John Fleming in a runoff in which she made her endorsement from President Donald Trump a centerpiece of her pitch. Letlow’s victory all but ensures another Trump ally will

By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — When Next250 organizers began planning for America’s 250th birthday, they envisioned bringing together communities in a polarized country to celebrate democracy. But then Donald Trump returned to office as the 47th president. Now, the left-leaning group has reframed its commemoration in response to Trump’s takeover of the country’s

By Adam Cancryn, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Friday seized on the electoral success of several democratic socialist candidates to ramp up his attacks on the Democratic Party, claiming it was being taken over by “godless Communists” who pose an existential threat to the nation. The heated rhetoric marked the latest bid by

By Donald Judd, Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump unveiled a new rendering of a special commemorative US passport bearing his likeness Friday, debuting a limited-edition passport to mark America’s 250th anniversary this year. “The U.S.A.’s New Passport, which says, ‘Welcome, but be good!’” Trump posted on Truth Social. He included a sample

By Associated Press (AP) — Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was the target of an anonymous report that police determined was false and that he says forced him to spend a night away from his four-year-old twins. Buttigieg wrote in a Substack post that a Michigan State Police officer told him they found nothing to

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The highly unusual exchange between Justice Samuel Alito and Justice Sonia Sotomayor over a dissent read from the bench was based on a “misunderstanding” by the conservative justice, the Supreme Court said Friday. “Justice Alito was notified in advance by Justice Sotomayor’s chambers that she would be reading a

By Kevin Liptak, Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The US military conducted strikes on Friday against Iranian military targets around the Strait of Hormuz in response to Tehran’s Thursday attack against a commercial vessel near the key waterway, according to US Central Command. “US aircraft struck Iranian missile and drone storage locations and coastal radar

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday proposed a national tax on billionaires that he says is the first part of an “economic reset for America” agenda, which aides explicitly say is part of his considering to launch a presidential campaign. “The system America’s founders built was designed to prevent

By Michael Williams, Priscilla Alvarez, Catherine E. Shoichet, Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Until Thursday morning, hundreds of thousands of Haitians were legally living and working in the United States, along with thousands of Syrians. Now, their work permits are set to expire and their deportation protections will be terminated, throwing them in legal limbo.

By Katelyn Polantz, Holmes Lybrand, Arpita Dasika, CNN (CNN) — As several criminal investigations into President Donald Trump’s foes continue to flail, federal prosecutors are now ushering one of his biggest critics to a conviction. Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton pleaded guilty Friday to a charge of unlawfully retaining sensitive national security information

By Gabe Cohen, Andrew Kaczynski, CNN (CNN) — A top FEMA official who had drawn scrutiny for bizarre past remarks — including claiming he teleported to a Waffle House — has been pushed out of the agency, four sources tell CNN. White House officials appointed Gregg Phillips in December to lead FEMA’s Office of Response

By David Wright, CNN (CNN) — Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro told CNN’s Dana Bash in an interview Thursday that he had “profound differences” with one of the candidates endorsed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani in Tuesday’s primary elections, underscoring Democratic Party fractures heading into the midterms. Shapiro was asked about Darializa Avila Chevalier,

By Abigail Roederhsheimer, Isabelle Khurshudyan, Sunlen Serfaty, CNN (CNN) — Several months before blue strips started floating to the surface of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, a company involved in its last renovation more than 15 years ago was approached with an opportunity to do this remodel as well. But the company said no. Specifically,

By Sean Lyngaas, Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Bad cybersecurity practices from Secret Service agents have left their phones vulnerable to hacking and risked the lives of senior US officials they are charged with protecting, according to a new inspector general report. Foreign “adversaries” — a term that can encompass spies and terrorists — “could

By John Fritze, Devan Cole, Priscilla Alvarez, Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court’s conservative majority delivered President Donald Trump a pair of significant affirmations of his immigration policy Thursday, paving the way for the administration to effectively remove more than 1 million people from the US and keep many others from entering in

By Sarah Ferris, Alison Main, Lauren Fox, Ellis Kim, CNN (CNN) — A nasty feud over President Donald Trump’s elections overhaul push has further crippled an already-dysfunctional Congress, leaving Republicans unable to move on critical elements of their agenda. Weeks of tumult fueled by Trump’s demands for the bill forced Speaker Mike Johnson to send

By Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — The National Park Service will drain and repair the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after July Fourth celebrations, the agency’s deputy director for operations said in a court filing Wednesday. “The National Park Service plans to begin draining the reflecting pool following the Independence Day celebration to conduct repairs, including

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration has identified more than 500 unaccompanied migrant children in US government custody to be potentially removed from the country, according to Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden. The move marks the latest escalation of the Trump administration’s effort to focus on migrant children who arrived at the US

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a Hawaii law that banned guns on private property open to the public where the owner hadn’t explicitly condoned the carrying of firearms. In the ruling, the conservative majority said the law – passed after a blockbuster 2022 ruling from the high

By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — A pair of senators have introduced bipartisan legislation that would allow US service members to sue the military over sexual assault in what would be a significant development in the fight against sexual misconduct in the armed forces. The Military Sexual Trauma Accountability Act, co-sponsored by Democratic Sen. Jeanne

By John Fritze, Sarah Owermohle, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Thursday sided against a Missouri man who claimed that the herbicide Roundup caused his cancer. The majority of the court backed an argument from the product’s manufacturer that the lawsuit should have been barred because the federal government does not require a cancer warning

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Thursday froze major parts of an executive order by President Donald Trump aimed at cracking down on mail voting, blocking the administration from taking further steps to implement it as it would affect two-dozen states that challenged the directives in court. US District Judge Indira

CNN By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, Julia Benbrook, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration’s 16-day-long Great American State Fair has begun, offering visitors to the National Mall in Washington, DC, the chance to visit pavilions showcasing every US state and territory. President Donald Trump first teased the project, a modern World’s Fair, on the campaign trail

By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, Julia Benbrook, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration’s 16-day-long Great American State Fair is offering visitors to the National Mall in Washington, DC the chance to visit pavilions showcasing every US state and territory. President Donald Trump first teased the project, a modern World’s Fair, on the campaign trail in 2023.

By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — More than three-quarters of Americans think the country’s founders would be disappointed with the US today, according to a Gallup poll released this week – one of several new surveys spotlighting the public’s complicated feelings about the nation’s legacy as it approaches its 250th anniversary. Just 19% of Americans

By Morgan Rimmer, CNN (CNN) — One day after adopting a resolution aimed at removing US military forces from the conflict with Iran, the Senate walked back its rebuke of President Donald Trump’s handling of the war, rejecting an attempt to advance a similar war powers measure. Wednesday’s late-night vote came after Trump expressed frustration

By Davis Winkie, Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — A worsening flu outbreak among recruits attending basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, began earlier this month while an Air Force request to reinstate a mandatory flu shot requirement axed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wound its way through the Pentagon bureaucracy, according to

By Sarah Ferris, Manu Raju, Morgan Rimmer, Lauren Fox, Adam Cancryn, CNN (CNN) — In the month since President Donald Trump put a decisive end to Sen. Bill Cassidy’s congressional career, the Louisiana senator has become one of the president’s sharpest critics in the halls of the US Capitol. But as they stood face to

By Haley Britzky, Zachary Cohen, Davis Winkie, CNN (CNN) — A highly respected four-star Army general is stepping down from his post commanding soldiers in Europe and is slated to retire as he has thus far not been nominated for a new job consistent with his rank by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, multiple sources told

By Jason Morris, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department has announced charges in a “sophisticated” criminal operation that it says used high-powered drones to deliver weapons, drugs, cell phones and escape tools into prisons in east coast states. US Attorney William Keyes in the middle district of Georgia, along with the Federal Bureau of Prisons

By Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — Live Nation’s chief executive spoke with President Donald Trump less than a month before the ticketing and events giant reached a surprise antitrust settlement with the Justice Department that consumer advocate groups have largely panned. The highly-unusual conversation between Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino and the president was disclosed

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — A federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected demands by the Justice Department that Michigan turn over non-public information in their voter registration files, in the biggest setback yet to the Trump administration’s attempt to obtain and audit unredacted voter rolls from states across the country. The 6th US Circuit

By Sarah Ferris, Ellis Kim, Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — Top Democrats insist that they’re unfazed by the party’s forming a “Zohran Mamdani wing,” after the New York City mayor’s stunningly successful primary night. But there is growing angst among many sitting congressional Democrats after Mamdani allies won three primaries, including defeats of incumbent Reps.

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Do the legal protections for members of Congress hold even if they’re charged with assaulting a federal officer? That’s the question three federal judges considered Wednesday for nearly two hours in the case against Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver. One of the first questions asked by the panel of judges

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from obtaining sensitive medical records from healthcare institutions in New York City that provided gender identity care to minors in recent years. The ruling from US District Judge Katherine Polk Failla is a significant blow to the administration’s ongoing nationwide

By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump has created a murky mess of unproven claims and provably false claims about the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Trump began asserting over the weekend, without providing evidence, that the visible problems with the reflecting pool were caused by “Vandals” rather than the recent rapid repair project he had claimed would immediately make

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — The US attorney’s office in Chicago is in a five-alarm fire after problems with recent grand jury presentations resulted in three dropped criminal cases. The recently discovered problems have prompted Andrew Boutros, the Trump-appointed and judge-endorsed US Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, to do his own review

By Lauren Fox, Adam Cancryn, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump may be the head of the Republican Party, but when it comes to the Senate, Majority Leader John Thune is still in charge. Trump, who will attend lunch with Senate Republicans at the US Capitol on Wednesday, is growing tired of hearing “no” from

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN New York (CNN) — Outside Rep. Adriano Espaillat’s primary night party, four men on the sidewalk were dressed in full neon sequins, trying to get the party started. Inside, the bar had barely opened. Espaillat spent 20 years trying to get to Washington and another 10 years in Congress. He arrived

By Eric Bradner, Aaron Blake, CNN (CNN) — New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani saw a clean sweep Tuesday, with House candidates backed by the democratic socialist mayor winning three congressional primaries — ousting two incumbent Democrats in the process. Mamdani’s show of force were the latest preview of the ideological battles to come, as

By Katie Bo Lillis, Zachary Cohen, Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — Acting Director of National Intelligence Bill Pulte has fired six political appointees put in place by former Director Tulsi Gabbard and removed dozens of career intelligence officials from their roles, according to four sources familiar with the moves. The 45 career officials were on

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge in California on Tuesday issued a nationwide block against the Trump administration’s policy of making arrests at immigration courts, putting an end to a practice that garnered national attention. Last year, Immigration and Customs Enforcement began detaining migrants in courthouse hallways across the country, sometimes moments

By Annie Grayer, Aleena Fayaz, CNN (CNN) — Billionaire Bill Gates testified that he never interacted with victims of Jeffrey Epstein but acknowledged that he may have been in their presence, according to a transcript of his closed-door interview with the House Oversight Committee released Tuesday. The Microsoft co-founder maintained in the voluntary interview, which

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court has already reached an inauspicious milestone as it races to finish its most divisive pending cases in the coming days: It has handed down more 6-3 decisions along ideological lines than it did for the entire term that ended last year. As it navigates a charged

CNN By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court hit an inauspicious milestone Tuesday as it raced to finish its most divisive pending cases by the end of the month: It has already handed down more 6-3 decisions along ideological lines than it did for the entire term that ended last year. As it

By Morgan Rimmer, CNN (CNN) — The Senate adopted a resolution on Tuesday directing the president to remove military forces from the conflict with Iran, a significant rebuke to Donald Trump and a strong message that the war lacks support in Congress. Democrats have repeatedly forced votes to limit Trump’s war powers in both the

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — In the Trump administration’s latest effort to crack down on fraud, the Justice Department on Tuesday unveiled charges against 455 people for their alleged participation in healthcare fraud and opioid abuse schemes. The defendants, who included 90 doctors and other healthcare professionals, were involved in $6.5 billion worth of

By Tierney Sneed, Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — A federal appeals court handed President Donald Trump a significant win in his mass deportation efforts with a ruling Tuesday reviving his administration’s move to speed up deportations of undocumented immigrants in the United States. The ruling from the US DC Circuit Court of Appeals allows the

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Monday blocked the Trump administration from allowing five states to ban the purchase of sugary drinks and candy with food stamps. The decision is a major setback for Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “Make America Healthy Again” movement, known as MAHA,

By John Fritze and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that a devout Rastafarian who attempted to sue prison officials for holding him down and cutting his dreadlocks could not proceed with his case, a decision that will make it harder for believers of other faiths to enforce federal religious

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed Exxon Mobil to sue state-owned oil companies in Cuba over the confiscation of property that occurred after Fidel Castro’s regime seized power nearly seven decades ago, letting the lawsuit proceed at a time when President Donald Trump has taken an aggressive stance toward

By Aaron Blake, Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — New York’s primaries on Tuesday will test just how influential Mayor Zohran Mamdani is with voters six months into his tenure and offer a preview of the ideological battles to come as Democrats look ahead to the 2028 presidential primary. The democratic socialist’s decision to endorse candidates

By Zachary Cohen, Katie Bo Lillis, CNN (CNN) — A US fighter jet pilot rescued by special forces after being shot down over Iran in April described a shocking sight before ejecting from his aircraft: multiple Iranian drones hovering in the air, moving as one, in a formation that resembled a jellyfish, according to four

By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — New images obtained by CNN show the Kennedy Center signage with President Donald Trump’s name removed, confirming a sworn court declaration from the arts center’s executive director Matt Floca that the president’s name is no longer affixed to the building. The images, first reported by the Washington Post, were