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CNN By Priscilla Alvarez and Rosa Flores, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration launched an immigration enforcement blitz nationwide Sunday that included multiple federal agencies and resulted in the arrest of nearly 1,000 people, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The apprehensions are part of an effort to amass a larger enforcement apparatus by pulling

By Aaron Pellish, Alejandra Jaramillo, Stefano Pozzebon, Priscilla Alvarez and Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — Colombia has walked back from the brink of a damaging trade war with the United States, reaching an agreement on accepting deported migrants being returned on military planes, after a flurry of threats from President Donald Trump that included steep

By Priscilla Alvarez and Rosa Flores, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration launched an immigration enforcement blitz nationwide Sunday that included multiple federal agencies and resulted in the arrest of nearly 1,000 people, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The apprehensions are part of an effort to amass a larger enforcement apparatus by pulling in

By John King, CNN (CNN) — There are two areas of bipartisan agreement about President Donald Trump’s early days back in the White House: voters say he is moving quickly to keep promises and he is far more active and visible than his predecessor. There is, though, a giant divide over whether that is fantastic

By Annette Choi, Alex Leeds Matthews and Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — On his first day in office, President Donald Trump granted sweeping clemency to all of the nearly 1,600 people charged in the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. Trump pardoned or commuted the sentences of everyone convicted of January 6-related crimes,

By Kevin Liptak and Jeff Zeleny, CNN Washington (CNN) — It was as if he’d never left. The Oval Office that President Donald Trump begrudgingly departed four years ago was reassembled in almost identical fashion over the course of a few hours Monday, right down to the cream wool rug with the olive branch border,

By Donie O’Sullivan and Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — As President Donald Trump this week sought to rewrite the history of his supporters’ attack on the US Capitol, a database detailing the vast array of criminal charges and successful convictions of January 6 rioters was removed from the Department of Justice’s website. The searchable database

By Betsy Klein and Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump indicated Saturday that he had spoken with the king of Jordan about potentially building housing and moving more than 1 million Palestinians from Gaza to neighboring countries, a remarkable proposal from a sitting US president. Trump said he asked Jordan’s Abdullah II, a

By Alejandra Jaramillo, Kevin Liptak and Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump took a victory lap in Las Vegas on Saturday, basking both in his presidential victory in Nevada last year and the rapid-pace action of his first week in office. The advertised theme of Trump’s address to supporters was his pledge to

By Katie Bo Lillis, CNN (CNN) — The CIA now assesses the virus that causes Covid-19 more likely originated from an accidental lab leak in China, rather than occurring naturally, according to a statement from the agency Saturday, just days after Director John Ratcliffe took the reins. The agency has for years said it did

CNN By Kevin Liptak and Jeff Zeleny, CNN Washington (CNN) — It was as if he’d never left. The Oval Office that President Donald Trump begrudgingly departed four years ago was reassembled in almost identical fashion over the course of a few hours Monday, right down to the cream wool rug with the olive branch

CNN By Clare Foran, Morgan Rimmer, Annie Grayer and Shania Shelton, CNN (CNN) — The Senate voted on Saturday morning to confirm Kristi Noem as President Donald Trump’s Homeland Security secretary, installing a longtime Trump ally at the helm of an agency poised to play a central role in the president’s promised immigration crackdown. The

CNN By Manu Raju, Alayna Treene, Morgan Rimmer and Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump fired the inspectors general from more than a dozen federal agencies in a Friday night purge, according to a Trump administration official, paving the way for him to install his own picks for the independent watchdog roles. Agency

By Manu Raju, Alayna Treene, Morgan Rimmer and Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump fired the inspectors general from more than a dozen federal agencies in a Friday night purge, according to a Trump administration official, paving the way for him to install his own picks for the independent watchdog roles. Agency inspectors

By Clare Foran, Morgan Rimmer, Annie Grayer and Shania Shelton, CNN (CNN) — The Senate voted on Saturday morning to confirm Kristi Noem as President Donald Trump’s Homeland Security secretary, installing a longtime Trump ally at the helm of an agency poised to play a central role in the president’s promised immigration crackdown. The vote

By Curt Devine and Daniel A. Medina, CNN (CNN) — Just as former presidents, foreign dignitaries and industry leaders traveled to Washington this week for the presidential inauguration, so too did another group that occupies a unique place in President Donald Trump’s orbit: his company’s international business partners. Several heads of foreign companies that have

By Haley Britzky, Natasha Bertrand and Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has said that he and President Donald Trump want to “bring the warrior culture back to the Department of Defense.” “He, like me, wants a Pentagon laser focused on warfighting, meritocracy, standards, and readiness. That’s it,” he said during his

CNN By Andrew Torgan and Daniel Wine, CNN (CNN) — The richest man on the planet has a new enemy: the humble penny. Elon Musk’s fledgling Department of Government Efficiency wants to eliminate the 1 cent coin, which costs more than 3 cents to produce. Advocates say simply rounding up (or down) to the nearest

By Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s termination of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s security detail was just one of the ways in which he’s used his first week in office to carry out the political retribution he vowed to unleash if voters returned him to the White House. With actions big and small, Trump

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration on Friday abruptly halted services for refugees in the United States, including Afghans, according to a memo obtained by CNN, stunning agencies that provide critical support to recent arrivals. It’s a sweeping move that prompted a scramble as refugee advocates tried to interpret the order. The

By Morgan Rimmer, Ted Barrett and Manu Raju, CNN (CNN) — The Senate narrowly voted to confirm embattled Pete Hegseth as secretary of the Department of Defense, in a major win for President Donald Trump and his new administration. Vice President JD Vance cast the 51-50 tie-breaking vote after former GOP Leader Mitch McConnell and

By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — Federal agencies have been told to move to terminate “to the maximum extent allowed by law, all federal diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility and ‘environmental justice’ offices and positions” within 60 days, according to a US Office of Personnel Management memo dated Friday. Agencies have until January 31

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The State Department has suspended processing passport applications seeking the gender marker of “X” and will only process and issue passports for people identifying as male or female, according to a department spokesperson. The move aligns with an executive order signed by President Donald Trump on Monday that says

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The US State Department has frozen nearly all foreign assistance worldwide, effective immediately, days after President Donald Trump issued a sweeping executive order Monday to put a hold on such aid for 90 days. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sent a cable, seen by CNN, to all US diplomatic

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — Several members of the Oath Keepers, a far-right extremist group, cannot enter Washington, DC, or the grounds of the US Capitol without first receiving court permission, a federal judge said Friday, days after President Donald Trump commuted their prison sentences. The brief order from US District Judge Amit Mehta

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide whether states may reject religious charter schools from receiving public funding, agreeing to hear arguments in an appeal out of Oklahoma involving the first such school in the nation. St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School applied last year to take part

CNN By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — Until hours before California Gov. Gavin Newsom greeted President Donald Trump with a bro-hug on the Los Angeles tarmac Friday, his advisers had spent the week monitoring new White House advance staffers’ social media accounts, hoping for clues for where Trump was going to talk about the wildfire

By Kaitlan Collins, CNN (CNN) — Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp criticized President Donald Trump’s decision to pardon virtually every convicted rioter at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, including those who beat up members of law enforcement. Without mentioning him by name, Kemp condemned Trump’s broad pardons while also taking a swipe at

By Katelyn Polantz and Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — High-profile January 6 rioter Guy Reffitt showed up in Washington, DC, on Wednesday to celebrate with his wife and supporters who’d been hoping for his release from federal detention for months. But he should not have been walking free — even after President Donald Trump on

By Curt Merrill and Amy O’Kruk, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s second term is off and running with a cascade of executive actions signed in his first few weeks and more promised in the weeks to come. Trump has vowed to enact a sweeping agenda and reshape the federal government, saying in his inaugural

CNN By Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s termination of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s security detail was just one of the ways in which he’s used his first week in office to carry out the political retribution he vowed to unleash if voters returned him to the White House. With actions big and small,

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — Until hours before California Gov. Gavin Newsom greeted President Donald Trump with a bro-hug on the Los Angeles tarmac Friday, his advisers had spent the week monitoring new White House advance staffers’ social media accounts, hoping for clues for where Trump was going to talk about the wildfire damage.

By Kaitlan Collins, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump has terminated Dr. Anthony Fauci’s security detail that was being provided and paid for by the National Institutes of Health, a source familiar with the situation tells CNN. It was pulled on Thursday night. Given he continues to face ongoing threats due to his public-facing role

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the US Department of Veterans Affairs. Facts There were 26.59 million veterans in the United States in 2024, according to the US Census Bureau’s 2024 American Community Survey one-year estimate. More than nine million veterans are served each year by the Department of Veterans Affairs

CNN By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Friday is visiting North Carolina — a state he said “has been abandoned by the Democrats” as it rebuilds from Hurricane Helene’s flooding — with questions about disaster relief taking center stage in his first days back in office. Trump will then travel to

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — Jen Baddour volunteered as a poll greeter on University of North Carolina’s Chapel Hill campus during November’s election, where a bell was rung at the polling site for anyone voting for the first time. She told young voters there, “Listen, you’re not going to see or hear the fireworks

By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump suggested he might eliminate the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Friday during a trip to tour damage from Hurricane Helene flooding in North Carolina, a state he’s said “has been abandoned by the Democrats.” Trump’s comments came as he’s also traveling to California, where wildfires have

CNN By Alayna Treene, Kaitlan Collins and Jamie Gangel, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump has revoked the security detail for his former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who had received ongoing protection due to threats from Iran after taking a hardline policy toward the country during Trump’s first administration, three sources familiar with the

By Omar Jimenez and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — One day after the Trump administration injected fresh uncertainty into the fate of Justice Department agreements aimed at reforming local police departments with histories of misconduct and abuse, city leaders in in Minneapolis and Louisville pledged to follow through with agreed-upon reforms no matter what. “It’s

By Manu Raju, Pamela Brown and Kaanita Iyer, CNN Washington (CNN) — Pete Hegseth, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Pentagon, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that he paid $50,000 as part of a confidentiality agreement to a woman who alleged he sexually assaulted her, according to documents obtained by CNN. In a

By Alayna Treene, Kaitlan Collins and Jamie Gangel, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump has revoked the security detail for his former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who had received ongoing protection due to threats from Iran after taking a hardline policy toward the country during Trump’s first administration, three sources familiar with the move

By Daniel Dale, Bryan Mena and Tami Luhby, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Donald Trump repeated false claims about the US trade relationship with Canada and Europe in virtual Thursday remarks to the World Economic Forum in Davos. He also delivered a smattering of other misstatements and exaggerations about trade, tariffs and economic policy. Here

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel to Central America for his first trip as the top US diplomat. Rubio is expected to depart late next week for Panama, Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic, State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said. The trip comes as President

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump released meme coins just days before he took the oath of office. A splashy pre-inaugural party was held at a property his company owns. And a Saudi-backed golf tournament is headed to a Trump club this spring. Trump’s latest money-making moves

By Annie Grayer, CNN Washington (CNN) — When reporters asked Mike Johnson to respond to President Donald Trump’s pardons for more than 1,000 people charged in the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, the House speaker had a ready answer. “We’re not looking backwards. We’re looking forward,” he said Wednesday morning. Barely three

By Joan Biskupic, CNN Chief Supreme Court Analyst (CNN) — In the few days since he returned to the White House, President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive orders and mass pardons have shattered political and legal norms. But one order is in a category of its own. His decree proposing to end the constitutional promise of

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Donald Trump littered a Wednesday interview on Fox News with many of the same false claims he made earlier in his first three days back in the White House. Speaking with Fox News host and ardent supporter Sean Hannity in the Oval Office, Trump delivered familiar inaccurate

By Michael Williams, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump wouldn’t rule out investigating former President Joe Biden in a Fox News interview aired Wednesday. Speaking with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, Trump also repeatedly criticized California Gov. Gavin Newsom, put possible conditions on funds for wildfire-ravaged California and swore to punish cities that don’t cooperate with

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. – the vaccine skeptic President Donald Trump has nominated to serve as Health and Human Services secretary – plans to retain his financial interest in some litigation brought by Wisner Baum, a law firm whose specialties include pursuing pharmaceutical drug injury cases. Ethics records released

By Lauren Fox, Manu Raju and Pamela Brown, CNN Washington (CNN) — Pete Hegseth’s ex-wife recently gave a new statement to the FBI about the defense nominee’s alcohol use, according to two sources familiar with the matter, an issue that has become a source of controversy during his confirmation process. Senate Armed Services Chairman Roger

By Evan Perez and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration is putting a halt to agreements that require reforms of police departments where the Justice Department found a pattern of misconduct, according to a memo issued Wednesday. “The new administration may wish to reconsider settlements and consent decrees negotiated and approved by the

By Gabe Cohen, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump has issued a “full and unconditional pardon” to Washington, DC, police lieutenant Andrew Zabavsky and officer Terence Sutton for their roles in the death of 20-year-old Karon Hylton-Brown, a case that drew protests on the heels of the murder of George Floyd. Prosecutors argued that in

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump is targeting federal employees who focus on diversity, equity and inclusion and career policy staffers as he follows through on campaign promises to exert more control over the federal bureaucracy. The moves, just days into his new administration, go after programs he’s long attacked and civil

CNN By Katelyn Polantz and Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The federal judges in Washington, DC, who handled hundreds of cases from January 6, 2021, are pushing back against President Donald Trump’s mass clemency for convicted rioters, rebuking the newly pardoned as “poor losers” and memorializing the “blood, feces, and terror” from the US Capitol

By Katelyn Polantz and Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The federal judges in Washington, DC, who handled hundreds of cases from January 6, 2021, are pushing back against President Donald Trump’s mass clemency for convicted rioters, rebuking the newly pardoned as “poor losers” and memorializing the “blood, feces, and terror” from the US Capitol attack.

CNN By Chris Isidore, CNN New York (CNN) — President Donald Trump this week rescinded a nearly 60-year-old executive order that prohibited government contractors from discriminating in their hiring, firing, promotion or pay practices. Replacing it is a new requirement that those employers certify that they do not have what he termed “illegal” diversity, equity,

By Clare Foran, Haley Talbot and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — The House voted on Wednesday to pass a GOP-led bill to require detention of undocumented migrants charged with certain crimes, handing an early legislative win to President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans, who chose to bring up the measure as their first bill of

By Sarah Ferris and Lauren Fox, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Donald Trump is already testing the limits of Hill Democrats who have vowed to be less antagonistic the second time around. Privately, Democrats have largely agreed it’s time to end the capital-R resistance to the newly sworn in president. Then on Trump’s first 24

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Trump administration has moved with lightning speed to roll out the president’s immigration agenda, effectively closing off the US southern border to asylum seekers, severely limiting who’s eligible to enter the United States and laying the groundwork to swiftly deport migrants already in the country. Within hours

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court spent nearly 80 minutes Wednesday debating a traffic stop outside Houston that turned deadly in just five seconds. In a decision that could determine whether courts may consider the circumstances leading up to the use of deadly force, a majority of the justices signaled they will

By Natasha Bertrand, Priscilla Alvarez, Haley Britzky, Oren Liebermann and Katie Bo Lillis, CNN (CNN) — Thousands of additional active duty US troops are being ordered to the southern US border with Mexico, just two days after President Donald Trump mandated that the US military step up its presence there, according to officials familiar with

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s decision to issue an executive order Monday delaying enforcement of the federal ban on TikTok has deepened a murky legal landscape in the US for the popular social media app and its technology partners. While the order from the president effectively allowed the app to remain

By Priscilla Alvarez and Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — Refugees who were slated to travel to the United States after a years-long and often cumbersome process have had their flights canceled, according to a State Department memo to resettlement partners obtained by CNN. The memo comes on the heels of President Donald Trump’s executive order

By Betsy Klein, CNN Washington (CNN) — First lady Melania Trump is returning to the East Wing bolstered by lessons from four years in an unelected job she has privately acknowledged was a whirlwind of responsibilities of which she was largely unaware. This time, she says, will be different. President Donald Trump and his team

By Donald Judd and Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — Employees in any federal diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility offices will be placed on paid administrative leave “effective immediately,” according to a post from White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt. Slashing jobs in federal DEI positions is one move in a series of actions taken by

CNN By Alejandra Jaramillo, Aaron Pellish and Donald Judd, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he had granted a pardon to Ross William Ulbricht, the founder of the Silk Road dark web marketplace. Ulbricht, who was accused of creating the shadowy e-commerce site the Justice Department had described as “the most sophisticated

By Jeremy Herb, Lauren Fox and Manu Raju, CNN (CNN) — Pete Hegseth’s former sister-in-law gave an affidavit to the Senate Armed Services Committee accusing him of being “abusive” toward his second ex-wife, according to a copy of the affidavit obtained by CNN. The allegations against Hegseth, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be defense secretary,

By Alejandra Jaramillo, Aaron Pellish and Donald Judd, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he had granted a pardon to Ross William Ulbricht, the founder of the Silk Road dark web marketplace. Ulbricht, who was accused of creating the shadowy e-commerce site the Justice Department had described as “the most sophisticated and

By Hannah Rabinowitz, Evan Perez and Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — New leaders at the Justice Department, which has been a center of President Donald Trump’s ire, have moved quickly to reassign at least 20 career officials, effectively sidelining them from senior-level positions where they’ve worked for years, according to multiple sources briefed on the

By Jeremy Herb, Hannah Rabinowitz and Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s political retribution tour began this week with firings of his perceived enemies inside the federal government, the targeting of former intelligence and national security officials and a directive to investigate actions by the Biden administration. Trump and his team wasted little

CNN By Jeremy Herb, Hannah Rabinowitz and Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s political retribution tour began this week with firings of his perceived enemies inside the federal government, the targeting of former intelligence and national security officials and a directive to investigate actions by the Biden administration. Trump and his team wasted

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN Washington (CNN) — Federal immigration authorities will be permitted to arrest people and carry out enforcement actions in and near places such as churches and schools, marking a departure from long-standing policy to avoid so-called sensitive areas. Acting Homeland Security Secretary Benjamine Huffman announced the end of two directives in a

CNN By Lauren Fox, CNN Washington (CNN) — Republican senators struggled to defend Donald Trump’s decision to commute and pardon hundreds of January 6 protesters, including those who were charged and convicted of crimes against police officers, just hours after the president entered office Monday. Sen. Thom Tillis, a Republican from North Carolina, who has

By Lauren Fox, CNN Washington (CNN) — Republican senators struggled to defend Donald Trump’s decision to commute and pardon hundreds of January 6 protesters, including those who were charged and convicted of crimes against police officers, just hours after the president entered office Monday. Sen. Thom Tillis, a Republican from North Carolina, who has warned

By Kaitlan Collins, CNN Washington (CNN) — Within hours of taking office, President Donald Trump terminated the Secret Service detail that was assigned to his former national security adviser John Bolton, Bolton confirmed to CNN on Tuesday. Bolton, who left the Trump White House in November 2019, has required ongoing US Secret Service protection because

By Devan Cole, Kara Scannell, Priscilla Alvarez and Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — Two dozen Democratic-led states and cities are challenging President Donald Trump’s bid to end birthright citizenship in court, a major constitutional challenge to one of the White House’s signature policies. The lawsuits allege that a Trump executive order signed Monday violates the

By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump has missed his deadline for ending the war in Ukraine. Of course, no one truly believed Trump would be able end the grinding, three-year conflict in 24 hours, as he implausibly promised repeatedly as a candidate. Even his new special envoy to Ukraine has asked for

By Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — The commandant of the US Coast Guard has been removed from her position over “leadership deficiencies” and “operational failures,” a Department of Homeland Security official confirmed to CNN on Tuesday. In a list of reasons “supporting her immediate removal,” the official cited Adm. Linda Fagan’s “failure to address border

By Paula Reid and Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s two co-defendants in the classified documents case, his employees Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira, are not expected to receive presidential pardons as discussions continue about possibly ending the prosecution, according to multiple people familiar with the case and the Trump administration’s approach

By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s executive order to suspend the US refugee program could leave at least 2,000 Afghans in limbo who had previously been approved to resettle in the US, a major Afghan advocacy organization is warning. “These people have been waiting long enough,” Shawn VanDiver, the founder and president

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — Judge Aileen Cannon on Tuesday extended the hold she has placed blocking the Justice Department from sharing special counsel Jack Smith’s report on his investigation into President Donald Trump’s mishandling of classified documents with members of Congress. Her order took some jabs at the prosecutors representing to the position

By John Fritze and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday revived a challenge by a death row inmate in Oklahoma who claims prosecutors “sex-shamed” her during her trial, referring to her as a “slut puppy” and holding up her thong for the jury. Brenda Andrew, the only woman on death row

CNN By Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — With the stroke of a pen on Monday, President Donald Trump completely upended the Justice Department’s four-year effort to arrest, prosecute and punish the people who attacked the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. It was the largest criminal probe in American history, those who heeded Trump’s call

By Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — With the stroke of a pen on Monday, President Donald Trump completely upended the Justice Department’s four-year effort to arrest, prosecute and punish the people who attacked the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. It was the largest criminal probe in American history, those who heeded Trump’s call in

By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump announced Monday he is withdrawing the US from the World Health Organization, in a significant move that drew criticism from public health experts on his first day back in the White House. Trump has long been critical of the United Nations’ health agency, and his administration

By Alex Marquardt, CNN (CNN) — In the very last hours of President Joe Biden’s time in office, a prisoner exchange years in the making was finally struck: the Taliban agreed to swap two Americans being held in Afghanistan for one Taliban member serving a life sentence in a US prison. But there was an

By Tami Luhby and Rene Marsh, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump wasted no time signing an executive order Monday that aims to give him more control over the federal workforce – whom he has long vilified as the “deep state.” The order, in a highly unusual move, seeks to wipe away a rule former

CNN By Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — With the stroke of a pen on Monday, President Donald Trump completely upended the Justice Department’s four-year effort to arrest, prosecute and punish the people who attacked the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. It was the largest criminal probe in American history, those who heeded Trump’s call

CNN By Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — With the stroke of a pen on Monday, President Donald Trump completely upended the Justice Department’s four-year effort to arrest, prosecute and punish the people who attacked the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. It was the largest criminal probe in American history, those who heeded Trump’s call

CNN By Marshall Cohen, Evan Perez, Paula Reid, Hannah Rabinowitz and Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Monday pardoned more than 1,000 people charged in the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, and commuted the sentences of leaders of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers. “These are the hostages,” Trump

By Katie Bo Lillis, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday revoking the security clearance of 51 former intelligence officials who signed a 2020 letter arguing that emails from a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden carried “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation” and that of his former national

CNN By Michael Williams, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Monday took the first steps to enact his sweeping agenda with a series of executive actions that are expected to kickstart his promised transformation of the federal government. On the first day of his second term, Trump took a moment during his first

By Michael Williams, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Donald Trump has taken the first steps toward enacting his sweeping agenda with a series of executive actions that are expected to kickstart his promised transformation of the federal government. The actions, signed by Trump in the first week of his administration, are the culmination of multiple