Politics

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court declined Monday to decide whether a New York law that requires residents to have “good moral character” to carry a handgun is constitutional, leaving in place most of the state’s ban on carrying weapons in “sensitive places,” such as schools, parks and theaters. The decision is

By Marshall Cohen, CNN Washington (CNN) — Two former top federal labor protection officials were reinstated to their posts Monday by the full DC Circuit Court of Appeals – at least for now – amid a lengthy legal dispute over President Donald Trump’s ability to fire leaders from independent government agencies. In a 7-4 decision,

By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN Washington (CNN) — CNN will host a live town hall on Thursday with four members of the US House who represent battleground districts, the network announced Monday. The town hall, which will be moderated by CNN’s Jake Tapper and Kaitlan Collins from Washington, DC, is slated to air at 9

By Katie Bo Lillis, Natasha Bertrand and Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The CIA is reviewing its authorities to use lethal force against drug cartels in Mexico and beyond as the Trump administration moves to make taking on the cartels a major priority for the intelligence agency, according to a US official and three people

By Alison Main, CNN (CNN) — GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna said Sunday that she has reached an agreement with Speaker Mike Johnson in their standoff over allowing proxy voting for new parents, which had paralyzed the House last week. Luna wrote on X that she and Johnson have agreed to formalize a centuries-old procedure

CNN By Manu Raju and Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — Republicans are growing anxious about an emerging Texas primary engulfing one of their longest-serving senators, fearful that a hugely expensive intraparty feud will have major ramifications across the map in next year’s midterms. And they want President Donald Trump to stop it. Behind the scenes,

By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — Top Trump administration officials are offering mixed messaging on the possibility of negotiations on the president’s newly announced tariffs, framing the move as a necessary economic reset and downplaying severe market volatility and uncertainty. President Donald Trump has long cast himself as a dealmaker — and has left the

By Alayna Treene, Lou Robinson, Mark Oliver, Renée Rigdon and Rebecca Wright, CNN (CNN) — The offices in the West Wing have always been prime real estate for the most influential people in the White House. That proximity to power is perhaps even more significant in President Donald Trump’s second term, as chief of staff

By Shania Shelton, CNN (CNN) — CNN will host a town hall with independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday, the network announced Sunday. The town hall will be moderated by CNN’s Anderson Cooper, which will air at 9 p.m. ET on April 9 in Washington, DC. During the town hall, Sanders will answer questions

By Edward Wu, CNN (CNN) — Democrats continued a trend of strong overperformance in off-cycle elections on Tuesday, making double-digit gains on the margin over their 2024 showing in both Florida congressional districts and statewide in Wisconsin. That trend has emerged at least in part because Democrats’ base is increasingly more likely to vote in

By Manu Raju and Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — Republicans are growing anxious about an emerging Texas primary engulfing one of their longest-serving senators, fearful that a hugely expensive intraparty feud will have major ramifications across the map in next year’s midterms. And they want President Donald Trump to stop it. Behind the scenes, Senate

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — Military families who are deployed far from their homes will see their process for voting become more complex, risking their possible disenfranchisement, with President Donald Trump’s efforts to make certain election policies more stringent. Trump’s new executive order — which aims to boost proof-of-citizenship requirements and to pressure states

By Evan Perez, Paula Reid and Katie Bo Lillis, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department has placed on administrative leave a government immigration lawyer who in court this week expressed frustration at not being able to answer key questions from a judge over a mistaken deportation case, according to two people familiar with the matter.

By Jake Tapper, CNN (CNN) — Speaking at a charity gala dinner Thursday night in Los Angeles, former second gentleman Doug Emhoff condemned the decision by his law firm to preemptively come to an arrangement with the Trump administration to avoid an executive order targeting the firm, sources tell CNN. Emhoff is a partner at

By Alayna Treene and Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump arranged for far-right activist Laura Loomer to join him in the Oval Office this week for an extraordinary meeting that preceded a shake-up of his national security leadership, two sources familiar with their meeting told CNN. Their sit-down came after Loomer reached Trump

By Jessica Dean and Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — Some Ukrainians living legally in the US under a Biden-era humanitarian parole program received a notice this week from the Department of Homeland Security telling them to leave the country — a message that prompted panic and later turned out to be erroneous. “It is time

By Betsy Klein, Jamie Gangel and Josh Campbell, CNN (CNN) — Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is expected to take aim at the Department of Homeland Security in the coming days, seeking potentially major cuts to personnel across its agencies, including the US Secret Service, multiple sources tell CNN. DHS is bracing for what

By Arit John, CNN (CNN) — A trio of election results this week have Republicans confronting a new reality: not only are they facing political headwinds as the party in power but simultaneously grappling with a dramatic reversal in the partisan preferences of the country’s most reliable voters. For years, Republicans were seen as the

By Sarah Ferris and Haley Talbot, CNN (CNN) — Senate GOP leaders took a key step toward advancing President Donald Trump’s multi-trillion-dollar agenda in Congress — simultaneously setting off an intraparty war over how to pay for it. Republicans in Washington are moving urgently to deliver the White House a political win on taxes and

CNN By Robert Ilich, David Goldman and Samantha Waldenberg, CNN (CNN) — The tariff-induced market mayhem isn’t over just yet. US stock futures plunged Sunday evening after two sessions of sell-offs that wiped away over $5.4 trillion in market value. Stocks were set to open sharply lower Monday, putting the S&P 500 on the precipice

CNN By Jeremy Herb, Jeff Zeleny, Kayla Tausche and Phil Mattingly, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s sweeping new tariffs are facing blowback from all corners – a market sell-off, foreign retaliation, anger from corporate America and skepticism from the Federal Reserve chairman and some allies in Congress. So far, the president is defiant in

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration announced Friday that it is not moving forward with a Biden-era proposal that would have expanded coverage of costly anti-obesity drugs to more than 7 million Americans on Medicare or Medicaid. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services did not explain why it was not finalizing

By Jeremy Herb, Jeff Zeleny, Kayla Tausche and Phil Mattingly, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s sweeping new tariffs are facing blowback from all corners – a market sell-off, foreign retaliation, anger from corporate America and skepticism from the Federal Reserve chairman and some allies in Congress. So far, the president is defiant in the

By John Fritze, Tierney Sneed and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Friday allowed President Donald Trump to temporarily freeze millions of dollars in grants to states for addressing teacher shortages, the administration’s first win at the high court since reclaiming power in January. The decision was 5-4, with Chief Justice John

By Priscilla Alvarez and Emily R. Condon (CNN) — A federal judge on Friday ruled that the United States must bring back a man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador last month. Judge Paula Xinis of the US District Court in Maryland directed the federal government to return Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran

By Alex Marquardt, CNN Brussels (CNN) — US Secretary of State Marco Rubio revealed on Friday that he had met with an envoy for President Vladimir Putin this week and sent him back to Moscow with a message: the clock is ticking on when there needs to be a breakthrough in the peace talks to

By Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — The total cost of the US military’s operation against the Iran-backed Houthi militants in Yemen is nearing $1 billion in just under three weeks, even as the attacks have had limited impact on destroying the terror group’s capabilities, three people briefed on the campaign’s progress told CNN. The military

By Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — Republican Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas called out members of his party behind closed doors this week for parroting Russian disinformation and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s talking points, a source in the room told CNN. McCaul, a former House Foreign Affairs chairman and staunch Ukraine supporter, acknowledged during the

CNN By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — The Social Security Administration plans to slash its technology team roughly in half at a time when the agency’s complex and fragile computer systems are crashing more often. Top executives in the agency’s Office of the Chief Information Officer, known as OCIO, have been tasked with cutting 50%

By Marshall Cohen and Jeanne Sahadi, CNN (CNN) — As the April 15 tax filing deadline fast approaches, fewer Americans have filed their federal taxes, and more have requested extensions, at this point in the filing season compared to last year, according to the latest public data and private Internal Revenue Service numbers obtained by

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — The Social Security Administration plans to slash its technology team roughly in half at a time when the agency’s complex and fragile computer systems are crashing more often. Top executives in the agency’s Office of the Chief Information Officer, known as OCIO, have been tasked with cutting 50% of

By Priscilla Alvarez, Katelyn Polantz and Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration’s aggressive and fast-paced effort to advance its immigration agenda has exposed existing challenges with a dated system and raised concerns that authorities are flouting due process to ram deportations through. Since taking office, President Donald Trump and his team have taken

By Kaanita Iyer, Eva McKend and David Wright, CNN (CNN) — Former President Barack Obama and former Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday each delivered remarks on the state of the country under President Donald Trump’s second term and criticized the administration’s recent actions. Obama, who preceded Trump’s first term, sharply criticized Trump’s efforts to

By Sean Lyngaas, Katie Bo Lillis and Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration has fired the director and deputy director of the National Security Agency, the United States’ powerful cyber intelligence bureau, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the situation, members of the Senate and House intelligence committees and two former

By Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna signaled Thursday night that she and Speaker Mike Johnson may have found a way to end their standoff over the issue of remote voting for new parents in Congress. After several hours in which Luna, Johnson and President Donald Trump exchanged phone calls, Luna

CNN By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — Top Russian negotiator Kirill Dmitriev said Thursday he did not raise sanctions relief in his meetings with the Trump administration in Washington, DC, but he said ​the punitive measures could be lifted to allow more US business with Russia. “At this point, we are not asking for any

By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — As President Donald Trump departed the White House on Thursday afternoon — his first time in public since announcing sweeping new tariffs that have jolted global markets and sparked recession fears — he likened the duties he imposed this week to a successful medical procedure. “I think it’s going

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — Top Russian negotiator Kirill Dmitriev said Thursday he did not raise sanctions relief in his meetings with the Trump administration in Washington, DC, but he said ​the punitive measures could be lifted to allow more US business with Russia. “At this point, we are not asking for any sanction

By Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — The acting Inspector General of the Defense Department will review Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s use of Signal in a group chat with other key national security officials to discuss military strikes against the Houthis in Yemen last month, the IG’s office announced on Thursday. In a letter to

By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN (CNN) — Former Vice President Mike Pence is this year’s recipient of the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for “putting his life and career on the line” in overseeing the certification of the 2020 presidential election results, the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation announced Thursday. “Despite our political differences,

By Shania Shelton, CNN (CNN) — Prosecutors have dropped a charge against a man who Republican Rep. Nancy Mace claimed “physically accosted” her in December, according to recent court filings. In December, police charged James McIntyre of Illinois with one misdemeanor charge of simple assault. He pleaded not guilty and was released at the time

By Natasha Bertrand, Alex Marquardt, Haley Britzky and Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is not expected to attend next week’s meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group in Brussels, marking the first time since the group’s founding three years ago that a senior Pentagon official will not be there

By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — The US Naval Academy has returned photos and memorabilia of Jewish women after they were “mistakenly removed” from a display to apparently comply with diversity, equity, and inclusion directives from the Pentagon. A Navy spokesperson told CNN that “photos and items of distinguished leaders and graduates were mistakenly removed

By Katie Bo Lillis, Alayna Treene, Kylie Atwood and Kaitlan Collins, CNN (CNN) — The White House has fired multiple administration officials, including at least four National Security Council staffers, three sources familiar with the move told CNN. The firings came after Laura Loomer, the far-right activist who once claimed 9/11 was an inside job,

By Devan Cole and Tierney Sneed, CNN Washington (CNN) — US District Judge James Boasberg said Thursday that he is looking at whether “probable cause” exists to hold Trump administration officials in contempt for violating his orders halting the use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members. The comments from Boasberg

By Dan Berman, CNN (CNN) — A wide majority of Americans –– 70% –– oppose impeaching federal judges who are slowing down President Donald Trump’s agenda as the idea continues to gain traction among Republicans in Congress, according to a poll released Thursday morning. In addition, 83% say the president must obey US Supreme Court

By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump made a series of false claims about tariffs and trade – most of which he has made before – in the Wednesday speech in which he announced a sweeping set of global tariffs. Here is a fact check of some of Trump’s remarks. Canada’s dairy tariffs

By Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday picked Stanley Woodward, a lawyer for multiple Trump aides over the years and for defendants accused of crimes in the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, to be the No. 3 official at the Justice Department. Woodward most recently has served as

By Veronica Stracqualursi and Ted Barrett, CNN (CNN) — As Democratic Sen. Cory Booker neared Strom Thurmond’s record for the longest speech in Senate history Tuesday night, the typically sparsely filled viewing galleries above the Senate floor grew packed. Democratic Senate staffers and members of the public drawn in by the feat, like the many

By Lauren Fox, CNN (CNN) — Senate Republicans unveiled their new budget blueprint Wednesday afternoon, paving the way for the Senate and House to finally inch closer to advancing President Donald Trump’s immigration and tax agenda. The blueprint is just the first step in a long and arduous process expected to take months, but if

By Jeremy Herb, Fredreka Schouten, Steve Contorno, Sarah Ferris, Annie Grayer and Jeff Zeleny, CNN (CNN) — Tuesday’s decisive victory for the Democratic-backed candidate in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race offered a warning for Republicans that Elon Musk’s unfavorability with voters may outweigh the millions he’s pledged to spend for Republicans in next year’s midterms.

By Gabe Cohen and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — Homeland Security officials are discussing using FEMA funds, intended to provide housing and other aid to migrants, for immigration enforcement, according to multiple sources familiar with the discussions. The so-called Shelter and Services Program was the target of Republican attacks during the 2024 presidential campaign and

By Morgan Rimmer and Haley Talbot, CNN (CNN) — Four Senate Republicans joined with Democrats on Wednesday to deliver a rare bipartisan rebuke to President Donald Trump over trade policy. The Senate adopted a resolution by a vote of 51 to 48 aimed at blocking the Trump administration’s proposed tariffs on Canadian imports. The four

By Kayla Tausche and Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — Advisers to President Donald Trump are expected Wednesday to present the president with options for a deal to invest in TikTok that involves a number of well-heeled venture capital, private equity funds and tech companies, multiple sources familiar with the discussions say, as the White House

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — A California man is planning to plead guilty two years after he was charged in an alleged plot to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, his lawyers said Wednesday. Attorneys for Nicholas Roske, who was 26 when he was arrested, said in a letter to a judge that their

By Alex Marquardt, CNN (CNN) — In the two months since Donald Trump became president, the Taliban has ratcheted up its efforts to ingratiate itself with the Trump administration, appearing to sense an opening to re-establish official ties and a presence in the US, according to people familiar with the American conversations with the group,

By John Fritze and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday backed a series of decisions by the US Food and Drug Administration to deny market access for flavored vaping products in a rare win for government regulators that may limit access to those products across the nation. Though a partial win

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court sided with a former commercial truck driver Wednesday who was fired after failing a drug test he said was caused by a “CBD-rich medicine” in a decision that could make it easier to sue companies under organized crime laws. Douglas Horn sued the manufacturers of a

By Lauren del Valle and Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — The judge overseeing the corruption case against Eric Adams has dismissed the charges against the New York City mayor, and in a split with the Trump Justice Department, ordered that the charges cannot be brought again. Judge Dale Ho said his hands were essentially tied

By Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, CNN (CNN) — When Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden faced intense scrutiny for their handling of classified material, top officials now serving in Trump’s Justice Department and FBI demanded criminal probes and severe penalties. Yet today, those same figures – including Attorney General Pam Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel,

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — Several key conservatives on the Supreme Court left open the possibility on Wednesday that they could side with Planned Parenthood in a dispute with South Carolina over its decision to yank that organization’s Medicaid funding because it provides abortions. Though the case technically doesn’t deal with abortion – federal

By MJ Lee and Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — Edesia, a Rhode Island-based company that makes “Plumpy’Nut” — packets of specially fortified and highly caloric peanut butter paste that saves the lives of severely malnourished babies and children — recently laid off 10% of its staff and even briefly paused production altogether for more than

CNN By Jade Walker, CNN (CNN) — More than 100 hours after a powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake hit Myanmar, search teams rescued a survivor from the rubble in Naypyidaw. As the tired and disheveled man was extricated from the broken slabs of concrete, he and the rescuers received a round of applause. Here’s what else you

By Tami Luhby and Gabe Cohen, CNN (CNN) — At least six federal agencies are once again giving their employees the option to resign but be paid through the end of September, according to internal emails obtained by CNN and agency spokespeople. The employees don’t have long to make a decision either. Depending on the

By Eric Bradner, Fredreka Schouten, Steve Contorno and Arit John, CNN (CNN) — Wisconsin voters on Tuesday delivered Democrats their biggest jolt since President Donald Trump returned to power, handing liberals a state Supreme Court majority and defying Elon Musk’s record-shattering effort to bolster a conservative Trump acolyte. Liberal Susan Crawford defeated conservative Brad Schimel,

By Arlette Saenz and Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — Democratic-backed candidate Susan Crawford has won Wisconsin’s Supreme Court race, maintaining the liberal majority on the court in a key battleground state less than three months into President Donald Trump’s second term. Crawford, a liberal circuit court judge in Dane County, will beat the conservative candidate

By Marshall Cohen, CNN Washington (CNN) — A new lawsuit filed Tuesday accuses tech billionaire Elon Musk and his super PAC of failing to pay canvassers who helped his pro-Trump political operation in 2024. During the final stretch of the 2024 campaign, Musk and his political group, America PAC, offered $100 to registered voters in

CNN By Jade Walker, CNN (CNN) — More than 100 hours after a powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake hit Myanmar, search teams rescued a survivor from the rubble in Naypyidaw. As the tired and disheveled man was extricated from the broken slabs of concrete, he and the rescuers received a round of applause. Here’s what else you

By Kit Maher, Katelyn Polantz and Jeff Zeleny, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced a deal with the law firm that employs former second gentleman Doug Emhoff, which the president said includes the firm, Willkie Farr & Gallagher, agreeing to provide at least $100 million in pro bono legal services throughout his

By Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — Republicans have held onto two seats in their narrow House majority as former Florida state Sen. Randy Fine won the special election for an open US House seat in Florida’s 6th Congressional District and Republican Jimmy Patronis won Florida’s 1st Congressional District. Fine will replace national security adviser Mike

CNN By Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday abruptly halted all work in the House after suffering a major defeat over his push to block remote voting in Congress for new parents. Nine of his own GOP members — led by new mom, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna — rebelled against his

By Alex Marquardt, Jennifer Hansler and Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — Senior Russian negotiator Kirill Dmitriev has arrived in Washington and is expected to meet top Trump official Steve Witkoff on Wednesday for talks on strengthening relations between the two countries as they seek to end the war in Ukraine, according to two sources familiar

By Michael Williams, CNN Dallas (CNN) — The Trump administration’s escalating efforts to suppress and retaliate against public dissent present a difficult question for noncitizens living in the United States who want to protest the president’s policies. Is it worth becoming a target? Activists and protest organizers say that’s a calculation that millions of people

By Haley Britzky and Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan “Razin” Caine, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, denied on Tuesday that he had ever worn a Make America Great Again hat, despite comments by the president saying otherwise. “Now, let

CNN By Priscilla Alvarez and Michael Williams, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration conceded in a court filing Monday that it mistakenly deported a Maryland father to El Salvador “because of an administrative error” and argued it could not return him because he’s now in Salvadoran custody. The filing stems from a lawsuit over the

By Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday abruptly halted all work in the House after suffering a major defeat over his push to block remote voting in Congress for new parents. Nine of his own GOP members — led by new mom, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna — rebelled against his leadership

By Kara Scannell, Lauren del Valle and Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — Attorney General Pam Bondi said Tuesday the Justice Department will seek the death penalty for accused CEO killer Luigi Mangione. Bondi said she will direct the interim US attorney for the Southern District of New York, Matthew Podolsky, to seek the death penalty

By Emily R. Condon and Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — Fewer than half of employees of the federal judiciary believe court workers are willing to report instances of workplace misconduct, according to results of a long-awaited survey conducted by the judicial branch. The judges who spearheaded the review said, in a press call shortly after

By Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump as a candidate vowed to decriminalize marijuana and make it easier for weed companies to obtain bank accounts and for universities to research the drug. Now, commercials carrying reminders of Trump’s promises will air on televisions where the president spends most of his time. American Rights

By Fredreka Schouten, Arlette Saenz and Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — Tuesday’s election to fill a Supreme Court seat in Wisconsin has emerged as the country’s first major political battle since President Donald Trump returned to the White House. It offers both an early test of the president’s popularity in a state he narrowly flipped

By Joan Biskupic, CNN Chief Supreme Court Analyst (CNN) — As Trump administration lawyers have intensified their appeals to the Supreme Court, they’re relying on recurring tropes. “Only this Court can end the interbranch power grab,” the lawyers wrote as they urged the justices to reverse a California judge’s order requiring the reinstatement of probationary federal

By Priscilla Alvarez and Michael Williams, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration conceded in a court filing Monday that it mistakenly deported a Maryland father to El Salvador “because of an administrative error” and argued it could not return him because he’s now in Salvadoran custody. The filing stems from a lawsuit over the removal

CNN By Morgan Rimmer, Ted Barrett, Manu Raju and Clare Foran, CNN (CNN) — Sen. Cory Booker is holding the Senate floor into Tuesday afternoon, as the New Jersey Democrat continues his marathon speech protesting actions taken by President Donald Trump’s administration. The Democratic senator vowed Monday evening that he would keep going as long

By Haley Talbot and Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, who left the House Freedom Caucus over its opposition to her push for remote voting for new parents, accused some members of the conservative group of holding Speaker Mike Johnson “hostage” over the matter and acting “disingenuous.” “The speaker is being

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — Democratic groups and non-partisan organizations separately sued Monday over an executive order targeting election procedures signed last week by President Donald Trump, kicking off a court fight over Trump’s attempt to unilaterally revamp how elections are run. “The Order is an attack on the constitutionally mandated checks and balances

By Morgan Rimmer, Manu Raju, Clare Foran and Ted Barrett, CNN (CNN) — Democratic Sen. Cory Booker mounted a historic protest on the Senate floor across two days, warning against the harms he said President Donald Trump’s administration is inflicting on the American public. The New Jersey Democrat spoke for 25 hours and 5 minutes,

By Rene Marsh and Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — As many as 50 senior IT professionals at the Internal Revenue Service, including some of the agency’s top cybersecurity experts, were placed on administrative leave Friday as the Trump administration finalizes controversial plans to share taxpayer data with federal immigration authorities, according to three sources familiar

By Jeff Zeleny and Kevin Liptak, CNN Washington (CNN) — When Donald Trump selected Mike Waltz to serve as national security adviser, the choice was widely seen as win-win: A combat veteran with four Bronze Stars would bring his judgment to the White House and his deep-red Florida House district was safe in Republican hands.

By Jeff Winter, CNN (CNN) — The leading Democrat on the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee vowed to fix the system for approving benefits to the families of veterans who die by suicide after a CNN investigation revealed how the VA had rejected hundreds of applications from widows and other relatives. “Denying benefits to veteran families

By Haley Britzky and Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — The bodies of three of the four US soldiers who were reported missing after their vehicle was submerged in a bog in Lithuania last week have been recovered, the Army announced on Monday. The vehicle has also been recovered. “The Soldiers we have lost in this

By Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — When House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan sat with President Donald Trump at the NCAA wrestling championship in Philadelphia earlier this month, it was only a matter of time before they discussed the party’s brewing effort to impeach federal judges seen as blocking the president’s agenda. Trump and Elon Musk

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court signaled Monday it is poised to side with Catholic Charities in a dispute over whether religiously affiliated groups are entitled to an exemption from certain state taxes, a decision that could expand the types of groups that would receive a break under the First Amendment. After

CNN By Jade Walker, CNN (CNN) — The White House Correspondents’ Association has canceled plans to have comedian Amber Ruffin headline its annual fundraising dinner. The board’s decision was announced after White House deputy chief of staff Taylor Budowich took issue with comments she made on a podcast. Yet when the selection was announced in

By Alejandra Jaramillo, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Sunday did not dismiss the idea of pursuing a third term in the White House, despite the 22nd Amendment of the Constitution prohibiting it, claiming that “there are methods” to achieving this and emphasizing that he was “not joking.” “A lot of people want me

CNN By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump is barreling toward a self-imposed April 2 deadline for sweeping tariffs and is threatening additional ones on foreign adversaries this weekend even as he’s expressed openness to making deals. Trump has cast April 2 as “Liberation Day,” promising reciprocal tariffs on an unspecified number of

By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump is barreling toward a self-imposed April 2 deadline for sweeping tariffs and is threatening additional ones on foreign adversaries this weekend even as he’s expressed openness to making deals. Trump has cast April 2 as “Liberation Day,” promising reciprocal tariffs on an unspecified number of countries,

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has blitzed its way through federal agencies over the last two months, spawning dozens of lawsuits in its effort to shrink the federal government. As judges take a closer look at how DOGE is operating, and what authority it exercises across the federal

By Manu Raju and Alison Main, CNN (CNN) — Jon Ossoff, the nation’s most endangered Senate Democrat, sees a path for reelection in a state President Donald Trump won in 2024 and at a time when Democrats are suffering rock-bottom approval ratings. He plans to go all out against Trump. “I have never seen opposition

By Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — In a buoyant address to supporters moments after taking the oath of office in January, President Donald Trump ribbed House Speaker Mike Johnson over the number of Republican lawmakers he had tapped for administration posts — vacancies that only tightened the GOP’s already slender majority. “He didn’t mind,” Trump