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By Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s Justice Department is going to bat for an avowed election denier who’s in prison…

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Personal Birth date: July 9, 1932…

By Aileen Graef, CNN (CNN) — Senate Majority Leader John Thune expressed wariness Tuesday over some of President Donald Trump’s recent…

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of Bill Richardson, former governor of New Mexico. Personal Birth date: November 15,…

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — Senate Democrats are urging New York legal authorities to investigate whether acting Deputy Attorney General…

By Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The chairwoman of a critical agency that reviews federal employee firings can stay on the job, a judge ruled…

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — As his 25% tariffs on imported Canadian products took effect on Tuesday, President Donald Trump repeated…

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The conservative Supreme Court aligned with liberal San Francisco on Tuesday, ruling that federal environmental…

By Betsy Klein, CNN Washington (CNN) — A teenage girl bullied with AI-generated deepfakes, the family of the firefighter killed during the…

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — When the Trump administration abruptly terminated ten thousand foreign assistance contracts and grants last…

By Morgan Rimmer, Ali Main and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN (CNN) — Newly elected Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan will deliver her…

By Sunlen Serfaty, Tami Luhby, Ella Nilsen and Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — Millions of federal workers were ordered to return to offices across…

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — A majority of the Supreme Court appeared prepared Tuesday to shut down a lawsuit from the Mexican government…

By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night will act as an extension – and…

CNN, POOL, CBC NEWS By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night will act as…

By Gabe Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The Metropolitan Police Department has reinstated two Washington, DC, officers weeks after President Donald Trump…

CNN, FOX, POOL, SEE PREFONTS By Kevin Liptak, Samantha Waldenberg and Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump is ordering a pause…

CNN By Kevin Liptak, Samantha Waldenberg and Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump is ordering a pause on shipments of US…

By Kevin Liptak, Samantha Waldenberg and Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump is ordering a pause on shipments of US military…

By Clare Foran, Danya Gainor and Ted Barrett, CNN (CNN) — Senate Democrats on Monday blocked a GOP-led bill that would ban transgender athletes…

By Morgan Rimmer, CNN (CNN) — Linda McMahon, a major Republican donor and a former pro-wrestling executive, was confirmed Monday to serve as…

By Josh Campbell and Shimon Prokupecz, CNN (CNN) — The top special agent overseeing the FBI’s largest field office has been forced to retire,…

By Rene Marsh and Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — The Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency wants to charge at least one federal agency…

By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — Melania Trump used her first public remarks of her husband’s second term to lend her support to an effort to…

By Haley Britzky and Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — The US military is renaming a major Army base in Georgia from Fort Moore to Fort Benning,…

By Kevin Liptak, Jeff Zeleny and Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — The last time President Donald Trump climbed the rostrum in the House chamber to…

By Hannah Rabinowitz and Paula Reid, CNN (CNN) — Attorney General Pam Bondi appeared on Fox News last week to tease a major event: The Justice…

By Alayna Treene, Natasha Bertrand and Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — Top Trump Cabinet secretaries and national security officials are holding…

By Way Mullery, Marco Chacon and Annette Choi, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump will address a joint session of the 119th Congress on Tuesday…

By Priscilla Alvarez and Renée Rigdon, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump campaigned on a promise to deport millions of undocumented…

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN Washington (CNN) — A top official at the US Agency for International Development was put on leave after issuing a…

By MJ Lee, CNN Washington (CNN) — The CEO of a plant in Georgia that makes a special peanut butter paste for severely malnourished children…

By Rene Marsh, CNN (CNN) — The once-obscure Office of Personnel Management, essentially the human resources department of the federal…

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — It will be smiles and handshakes when President Donald Trump bumps into several members of the Supreme Court on the…

By Jim Sciutto and Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — The US has suspended operations and planning for offensive cyber operations against Russia, a…

By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — First lady Melania Trump is expected to speak publicly Monday, for the first time since her husband returned to…

CNN By Betsy Klein, Alison Main and Aileen Graef, CNN (CNN) — The White House is making clear it views President Donald Trump’s Friday Oval…

By Betsy Klein, Alison Main and Aileen Graef, CNN (CNN) — The White House is making clear it views President Donald Trump’s Friday Oval…

By Arlette Saenz, CNN (CNN) — When he steps onto the dais in the House chamber on Tuesday night, President Donald Trump will have another major…

By Jennifer Agiesta, CNN (CNN) — The American public’s view of Donald Trump’s presidency and the direction he’s leading the country is…

By Kit Maher and Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — Campaigning in Pennsylvania last September, JD Vance seemed to strike at an unlikely political foe:…

By Kristin Chapman, CNN (CNN) — Former US Rep. Mia Love, the first Black woman elected to Congress as a Republican, faces an increasingly grave…

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge ruled Saturday that the head of a government watchdog agency whom President Donald Trump is…

By Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, CNN (CNN) — Dan Bongino, the incoming deputy director of the FBI, suggested on his popular podcast in January…

By Kevin Liptak and Jeff Zeleny, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — White House chefs were at work in the West Wing on Friday laying out plates of…

By Tami Luhby, Rene Marsh and Nick Valencia, CNN (CNN) — Federal employees at multiple government agencies are once again being told to report…

By Kit Maher and Donald Judd, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Friday transported back to Florida with him boxes of documents that the FBI…

By Michael Williams, CNN (CNN) — US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky should apologize after his…

CNN By Michael Williams, CNN (CNN) — US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky should apologize after his…

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Calling its workforce “bloated,” the Social Security Administration announced Friday plans to slash about 7,000…

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — During a remarkably combative Oval Office meeting on Friday, both President Donald Trump and Vice…

CNN By Kit Maher and Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — Campaigning in Pennsylvania last September, JD Vance seemed to strike at an unlikely political…

CNN By Kevin Liptak, Jeff Zeleny, Kaitlan Collins and Kit Maher, CNN Washington (CNN) — A remarkable shouting match broke out in the Oval…

By Jamie Gangel, Casey Gannon, Hannah Rabinowitz and Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — At least eight senior federal prosecutors who worked on the…

CNN By Kevin Liptak and Jeff Zeleny, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — White House chefs were at work in the West Wing on Friday laying out plates of…

By Kevin Liptak, Jeff Zeleny, Kaitlan Collins and Kit Maher, CNN Washington (CNN) — A remarkable shouting match broke out in the Oval Office…

By Natasha Bertrand, Katie Bo Lillis and Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Foreign adversaries including Russia and China have recently directed their…

CNN By Marshall Cohen and Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Federal workers are rushing to a little-known and understaffed office to try to save their…

By Marshall Cohen and Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Federal workers are rushing to a little-known and understaffed office to try to save their jobs…

By Natasha Bertrand and Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Russia is eyeing talks with the Trump administration about re-establishing a significant…

By Lauren Fox, Manu Raju and Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — Republican leaders on Capitol Hill are struggling with a key question as they stare down…

By Ella Nilsen and Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration has its government-shrinking sights set on the National Oceanic and…

By Alex Marquardt and Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s claim that the potential “trillion-dollar deal” he is on the…

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge in San Francisco on Thursday found that the mass firings of probationary employees were likely…

By Veronica Stracqualursi and Morgan Rimmer, CNN (CNN) — Freshman US Sen. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan will deliver the Democratic response to…

By MJ Lee, CNN (CNN) — MANA Nutrition makes a special kind of peanut butter paste that many humanitarian aid workers are familiar with. It is…

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Harry Reid, former Senate majority leader and retired US senator from Nevada.…

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…

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

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

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…