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By Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — FBI Director Kash Patel walked into his new office on the seventh floor of the bureau’s headquarters last week and…

By Steve Contorno and Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump is already exerting his influence over the 2026 midterm elections,…

By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — The Pentagon plans to kick out currently serving transgender service members who don’t meet specific…

CNN By Morgan Rimmer, CNN (CNN) — House Speaker Mike Johnson vowed Wednesday that Republicans will not make cuts to Medicaid, Medicare or…

By Morgan Rimmer, CNN (CNN) — House Speaker Mike Johnson vowed Wednesday that Republicans will not make cuts to Medicaid, Medicare or Social…

By John Fritze and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — Chief Justice John Roberts on Wednesday paused a court-imposed midnight deadline that would have…

By Devan Cole and Joan Biskupic, CNN (CNN) — Two of President Donald Trump’s nominees for senior Justice Department positions – including…

By Kevin Liptak and Jeff Zeleny, CNN (CNN) — If anyone was still in doubt where the power lies in President Donald Trump’s new…

By Sarah Ferris, Lauren Fox and Manu Raju, CNN (CNN) — Senate Republicans are signaling they’re ready to take a buzzsaw to the House’s…

CNN By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Donald Trump made numerous false claims in remarks at the first Cabinet meeting of his new…

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Donald Trump made numerous false claims in remarks at the first Cabinet meeting of his new…

CNN By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration moved forward Wednesday with its plans to conduct large-scale layoffs across agencies,…

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration moved forward Wednesday with its plans to conduct large-scale layoffs across agencies, the…

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court appeared virtually certain to side with an Ohio woman who lost a “reverse discrimination”…

By Priscilla Alvarez and Alayna Treene, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Trump administration is preparing to invoke a sweeping wartime authority to…

By Annette Choi, Danya Gainor and Kate Carroll, CNN (CNN) — Thousands of federal workers have been laid off or issued immediate termination…

CNN By Sarah Ferris, Lauren Fox and Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — Speaker Mike Johnson pulled off a stunning turnaround Tuesday night to rescue a…

By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump is set to convene his first Cabinet meeting on Wednesday – a gathering of agency leaders…

By Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration’s new point man for dealings with the Department of Homeland Security…

By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said Tuesday that more than 100 intelligence officers…

By Michael Williams and Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said on Tuesday the US would sell a “gold card” to…

By Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — Elon Musk’s presence at President Donald Trump’s first Cabinet meeting on Wednesday will solidify his power…

By Katelyn Polantz and Samantha Waldenberg, CNN (CNN) — The White House is suspending the active security clearances of lawyers from the large…

By Sarah Ferris, Lauren Fox and Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — Speaker Mike Johnson pulled off a stunning turnaround Tuesday night to rescue a…

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — The acting head of the Internal Revenue Service plans to retire Friday, the agency announced Tuesday, after…

By Kaitlan Collins and Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — Amy Gleason is the acting administrator of the US DOGE Service, the agency that houses the…

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — Three different federal judges delivered legal setbacks and slap downs to President Donald Trump in the span of an…

By Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — Several House Republicans pleaded with leadership Tuesday for guidance on how to respond to the deluge of…

By Devan Cole, John Fritze and Brynn Gingras, CNN (CNN) — A fractured Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered a new trial for Oklahoma death row…

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration may soon be forced to answer central questions about its Department of Government…

CNN By Alejandra Jaramillo, Piper Hudspeth Blackburn and Brian Stelter, CNN (CNN) — Dan Bongino, a former Secret Service agent turned…

By Tami Luhby, Rene Marsh, Ella Nilsen and Sunlen Serfaty, CNN (CNN) — Federal workers spent Monday trying to figure out how – or even…

CNN By Kevin Liptak, CNN Washington (CNN) — French President Emmanuel Macron tried Monday to inject a dose of reality into President Donald…

By Devan Cole and Hadas Gold, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge declined on Monday to temporarily restore the Associated Press’ access to some of…

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — North Korean hackers have stolen $1.5 billion in cryptocurrency in a single heist, making it the largest crypto…

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — Clint Hill, the Secret Service agent who ran into the line of fire to shield President John F. Kennedy and…

By Kevin Liptak, CNN Washington (CNN) — French President Emmanuel Macron tried Monday to inject a dose of reality into President Donald…

By David Wright, CNN (CNN) — Vivek Ramaswamy announced Monday evening that he is running for governor of Ohio in 2026, capping a rapid-fire…

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The United States joined Russia to vote against a UN General Assembly resolution condemning Russia’s war…

By Haley Britzky and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration has halted efforts to place migrants in tent structures built at…

CNN By John King, CNN Milliken, Colorado (CNN) — Take a ride with David Hayes around his Colorado ranch and you learn right away he is a…

By John King, CNN Milliken, Colorado (CNN) — Take a ride with David Hayes around his Colorado ranch and you learn right away he is a feisty,…

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court opted against hearing arguments in a pair of appeals Monday seeking to wipe out protest buffer…

By Sarah Ferris, CNN Washington (CNN) — On the eve of their first major vote to advance President Donald Trump’s agenda, key House…

By Alejandra Jaramillo, Piper Hudspeth Blackburn and Brian Stelter, CNN (CNN) — Dan Bongino, a former Secret Service agent turned right-wing…

By Katie Bo Lillis, Phil Mattingly, Natasha Bertrand and Zachary Cohen, CNN Washington (CNN) — The CIA is conducting a formal review to assess…

By Kevin Liptak, Tami Luhby and Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — A rift appeared to open Sunday between some of President Donald Trump’s agency…

By Donie O’Sullivan and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN (CNN) — A political conference in Washington, DC, that bills itself as the…

By Betsy Klein, MJ Lee and Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — Approximately 2,000 employees at the US Agency for International Development will be…

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — Looking right at Donald Trump on Friday afternoon in the Oval Office, Gov. Kathy Hochul tried a different…

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — Elon Musk has repeatedly misled the public about federal spending while playing a leading role in…

By Lauren Fox, CNN (CNN) — Shortly after Donald Trump blindsided senators and endorsed the House’s plan to advance the president’s agenda…

By Natasha Bertrand, Haley Britzky, Oren Liebermann and Katie Bo Lillis, CNN (CNN) — The retired Air Force general announced as the next…

By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — After a four-week absence from Washington, first lady Melania Trump returned to the White House on Saturday for an…

By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump keeps lying not only about the 2020 election he lost but the 2024 election he won. In a…

By Shania Shelton, Tami Luhby, Josh Campbell, Eva McKend and Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — In President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s latest move…

By Jennifer Hansler and Shania Shelton, CNN (CNN) — The United States has proposed its own United Nations resolution marking the third…

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Last week, Leland Dudek, a mid-level career employee at the Social Security Administration, posted on LinkedIn that…

By Steve Contorno, CNN Oxon Hill, Maryland (CNN) — The public detente between President Donald Trump and Big Tech titans, forged in the wake of…

By Steve Contorno and Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — Over the past 10 days, Vice President JD Vance put Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on…

By Majlie de Puy Kamp, CNN (CNN) — Less than three years before Elon Musk tapped him to take part in a sweeping overhaul of the US government,…

By Oren Liebermann and Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — In an unprecedented purge of the military’s senior leadership Friday night, President…

By Tierney Sneed and Emily R. Condon, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from carrying out certain…

CNN By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Friday dashed President Donald Trump’s plan to immediately fire the head of an…

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Friday dashed President Donald Trump’s plan to immediately fire the head of an independent…

By Lauren del Valle, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge has vacated the upcoming trial date for New York City Mayor Eric Adams, but declined to…

By Annie Grayer and Haley Talbot, CNN (CNN) — GOP Rep. Cory Mills of Florida is under investigation by the Metropolitan Police Department of…

By Katie Bo Lillis, CNN (CNN) — The CIA late last week moved to fire more than a dozen officers for working on diversity issues, in what…

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — A group of Holocaust victims may not sue Hungary in American courts to recover property stolen during World War II…

By Natasha Bertrand and Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — The Pentagon announced Friday it plans to ultimately fire five to eight percent of the…

By Eric Bradner, CNN Cedarburg, Wisconsin (CNN) — Ask voters in this politically divided Wisconsin suburb about President Donald Trump’s…

CNN Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump and Elon Musk look like they’re having a blast in Washington,…

By Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — A developing Trump administration plan for deep staff cuts and drastic changes at the Federal Emergency Management…

By Shania Shelton, CNN (CNN) — A Republican congressman from Georgia faced some tough criticism and occasional boos from constituents Thursday…

By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — An executive order issued by President Donald Trump this week that seems to give him huge power to interpret the…

By Hannah Rabinowitz and Whitney Wild, CNN (CNN) — The US Marshals Service has deputized members of Elon Musk’s private security detail,…

By Clare Foran, Morgan Rimmer and Ted Barrett, CNN (CNN) — Senate Republicans took a major step to advance President Donald Trump’s sweeping…

By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — A diplomatic back-and-forth is underway among Group of Seven members over a joint statement marking the third…

By Matt Stiles, CNN (CNN) — The US Senate on Thursday voted to approve Kash Patel as FBI director in a mostly party-line vote, clearing the way…

By Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — The US Navy has relieved the commander of an aircraft carrier that collided with a mercantile vessel in the…

By Gloria Pazmino and Mark Morales, CNN (CNN) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Thursday she will not use her executive powers to remove…

By Clare Foran and Morgan Rimmer, CNN (CNN) — The Senate voted on Thursday to confirm Kash Patel as FBI director, installing a staunch loyalist…

By Natasha Bertrand and Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth could soon move to fire more than half a dozen generals…

CNN By Jennifer Agiesta, CNN (CNN) — At the one-month mark of Donald Trump’s second term as president, his approval rating in a new CNN poll…

By Fredreka Schouten and Arlette Saenz, CNN (CNN) — Wisconsin’s Supreme Court election this spring will decide just one seat, but the contest…

CNN By Zachary Cohen, Ella Nilsen, Rene Marsh and Sunlen Serfaty, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration and Elon Musk have insisted that they…

By Zachary Cohen, Ella Nilsen, Rene Marsh and Sunlen Serfaty, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration and Elon Musk have insisted that they are…

By Jennifer Agiesta, CNN (CNN) — At the one-month mark of Donald Trump’s second term as president, his approval rating in a new CNN poll…

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Donald Trump moved at a blistering pace in his first month back in the White House. He lied…

CNN By Kevin Liptak, Jeff Zeleny and Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — As the long-fraught relationship between President Donald Trump and his…

By Kevin Liptak, Jeff Zeleny and Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — As the long-fraught relationship between President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian…

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — An appeals court will not allow the Trump administration to end birthright citizenship for certain children of…

By Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the military to prepare plans to make drastic budget cuts over the…

CNN By Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the military to prepare plans to make drastic budget cuts over…

By Sarah Ferris and Lauren Fox, CNN Washington (CNN) — Senate Republicans announced Wednesday they are muscling ahead with their preferred…

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s executive order grasping far greater control over independent federal agencies embraces…

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Donald Trump is on a lying spree about Ukraine. In remarks to reporters on Tuesday and in a…

By Natasha Bertrand and Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — Some defense officials responsible for drafting lists of civilian Pentagon employees to be…

By Lauren del Valle and Kara Scannell, CNN New York (CNN) — Wednesday’s much anticipated hearing on the Justice Department’s motion to…