Democrats confront their powerlessness as Trump flexes authority
By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — Amid Democrats’ shock and bickering over how much to respond to President Donald Trump is a deeper…
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By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — Amid Democrats’ shock and bickering over how much to respond to President Donald Trump is a deeper…
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By Betsy Klein, Samantha Waldenberg, Jennifer Hansler and Mariya Knight, CNN (CNN) — Top Trump administration officials are set to meet with…
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By Zachary B. Wolf, CNN Washington (CNN) — When we asked you, readers of CNN.com and the What Matters newsletter, for your questions about the…
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By Tierney Sneed and Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — “I don’t know.” That’s the answer that Justice Department attorneys, when asked basic…
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By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — In less than a month in office the Trump administration has simultaneously dismantled foreign aid programs that…
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By Eric Bradner and Lauren Fox, CNN (CNN) — Sen. Mitch McConnell was a generational force for the Republican Party — using procedural tactics…
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By Jamie Gangel, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration is forcing out senior leadership at the National Archives and Records Administration in a…
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By Priscilla Alvarez and Gabe Cohen, CNN (CNN) — One week into the Trump administration, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem issued a…
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By Kara Scannell, Evan Perez, Hannah Rabinowitz and Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — The morning after the mass resignation of prosecutors sparked a…
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CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of Jon Huntsman, former Utah Governor and 2012 Republican presidential candidate.…
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CNN By Andrew Torgan and Daniel Wine, CNN (CNN) — Could a hit TV show with a catchy theme transform an entire industry? “The Love Boat,”…
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By Hannah Rabinowitz, Kara Scannell and Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — A federal prosecutor assigned to the corruption case against New York City…
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By Hannah Rabinowitz, Evan Perez and Paula Reid, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration has gutted the federal government’s ability to fight…
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By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — The swift succession of dignitaries visiting President Donald Trump in the Oval Office over the past two weeks…
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By Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — After accruing immense governmental power over the past month, tech billionaire Elon Musk got his biggest boost…
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By Tami Luhby, Rene Marsh, Matt Egan and Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration broadened its effort to terminate thousands of…
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By Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — Vice President JD Vance warned on Thursday that the United States could hit Russia with economic and military…
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By Pamela Brown, CNN (CNN) — At least one member of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency team visited the Internal Revenue Service…
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By Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — Danielle Sassoon, who resigned from her position as Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor, oversaw all…
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CNN By Hannah Rabinowitz, Kara Scannell and Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — A federal prosecutor assigned to the corruption case against New York City…
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By CNN staff (CNN) — The acting US attorney for the Southern District of New York, Danielle Sassoon, resigned from her position in a letter to…
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By Zachary Cohen, Jeremy Herb and Alex Marquardt, CNN (CNN) — US intelligence agencies recently warned both the Biden and Trump administrations…
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By Daniel Dale and Natasha Bertrand, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Donald Trump and ally Elon Musk are misleadingly depicting a Pentagon…
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By Kara Scannell, Evan Perez, Hannah Rabinowitz and Jeremy Herb, CNN New York (CNN) — Three senior Justice Department officials in New York and…
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By Katelyn Polantz and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge has extended the pause on the Trump administration’s dismantling of USAID for…
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By Clare Foran, Morgan Rimmer and Ted Barrett, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Senate voted on Thursday to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Health and…
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By David Wright, CNN (CNN) — Minnesota’s Democratic Sen. Tina Smith announced Thursday that she will not seek reelection in 2026, a decision…
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By Matt Stiles, CNN (CNN) — The US Senate on Thursday voted to approve Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the secretary of the Department of Health and…
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CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of Democratic US Senator and 2020 presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren. Personal…
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CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of US Attorney General Pam Bondi. Personal Birth date: November 17, 1965 Birth place:…
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By Priscilla Alvarez and Haley Britzky, CNN Washington (CNN) — Officials at the Department of Homeland Security and the Defense Department are…
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By Jeremy Herb, Ella Nilsen, Rene Marsh and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — Federal agencies across Washington are finding ways to keep funding…
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By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — Even though most Americans don’t like some of the Supreme Court’s highest-profile recent decisions, a new poll…
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CNN By Rene Marsh and Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Scores of firings have begun at federal agencies, with terminations of probationary employees…
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By Rene Marsh and Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Scores of firings have begun at federal agencies, with terminations of probationary employees…
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CNN By Jake Tapper, Pamela Brown, Piper Hudspeth Blackburn and Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — The newly constituted board of the Kennedy Center for…
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By Paula Reid, Tami Luhby and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge in Boston on Wednesday allowed the Trump administration to move forward…
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By Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — US Agency for International Development employees this week recounted the panic they experienced in the days after…
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By Sarah Ferris, Manu Raju and Ali Main, CNN Washington (CNN) — Speaker Mike Johnson’s budget plan is in trouble as multiple GOP hardliners…
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Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — The Mack truck Elon Musk and President Donald Trump are driving through the government as we know it…
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By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Donald Trump keeps making false claims about not only the 2020 election he lost but the 2024…
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By Jake Tapper, Pamela Brown, Piper Hudspeth Blackburn and Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — The newly constituted board of the Kennedy Center for the…
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CNN By Morgan Rimmer and Katie Bo Lillis, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Senate voted Wednesday to confirm former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard as…
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CNN By Kaitlan Collins and Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said negotiations to end the Ukraine war will start…
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By Kaitlan Collins and Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said negotiations to end the Ukraine war will start “immediately”…
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By Morgan Rimmer and Katie Bo Lillis, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Senate voted Wednesday to confirm former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard as…
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By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — The next stage of the Trump administration’s efforts to slash the federal workforce is underway. Agency leaders…
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By Katelyn Polantz and Manu Raju, CNN (CNN) — Eight inspectors general whom Donald Trump fired from their federal agency watchdog posts are…
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By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — Elon Musk acknowledged Tuesday that there might not have been a federal plan to spend $50 million on…
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CNN Analysis by Clare Sebastian, CNN (CNN) — Wednesday’s meeting at the NATO headquarters in Brussels was, on paper, about coordinating…
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By Natasha Bertrand, Clare Sebastian and Haley Britzky, CNN Brussels (CNN) — US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said on Wednesday that the…
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By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said Tuesday that she has faith federal court orders will be honored in the…
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By Devan Cole and John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — Recent court orders slowing down or indefinitely blocking President Donald Trump’s policy blitz…
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CNN By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s purge at independent agencies is putting a target on a nearly 100-year-old Supreme…
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By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s purge at independent agencies is putting a target on a nearly 100-year-old Supreme Court…
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CNN By Jennifer Hansler, Anna Chernova and Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — Accused Russian money launderer Alexander Vinnik is being released from US…
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CNN By Kit Maher, Jennifer Hansler and Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — Marc Fogel, an American teacher detained for more than three years…
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CNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — An American teacher who was wrongfully detained in Russia is back on US soil after the White House secured…
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CNN By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump made no attempt Tuesday to soften his proposal to relocate Palestinians in Gaza and…
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By Kevin Liptak, Jeff Zeleny and Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Elon Musk, the world’s richest man who is now leading a sweeping effort to reshape…
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By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The inspector general of the US Agency for International Development was fired on Tuesday, a day after his…
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By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee is alleging that Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s…
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By Sarah Ferris, CNN Washington (CNN) — As Rep. Nancy Mace prepared to speak, she took out a Bible and — as if she were in a courtroom,…
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CNN By Annie Grayer, CNN Washington (CNN) — Congressional Republicans are publicly projecting that they’re in lockstep with the way President…
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By Priscilla Alvarez and Gloria Pazmino, CNN (CNN) — The Department of Homeland Security announced Tuesday that it fired four Federal Emergency…
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By Zachary Wolf, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump has barreled into his second term. Elon Musk has been given power to try to remake the US…
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CNN By Katelyn Polantz, Tierney Sneed and Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — Among dozens of court cases challenging President Donald Trump’s policies,…
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By Katelyn Polantz, Tierney Sneed and Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — Among dozens of court cases challenging President Donald Trump’s policies, one…
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By Kit Maher, Jennifer Hansler and Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — Marc Fogel, an American teacher detained for more than three years in…
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By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Trump administration to restore certain public health webpages and…
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By Kara Scannell, CNN New York (CNN) — Conservative firebrand Steve Bannon pleaded guilty to defrauding donors in a fundraising effort to build…
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By Veronica Stracqualursi and Jamie Gangel, CNN Washington (CNN) — The FBI has discovered about 2,400 new records related to the assassination…
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By Katelyn Polantz and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration’s effort to cut back on federal funding for the National…
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By Hannah Rabinowitz, Evan Perez, Paula Reid and Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — On January 6, 2021, Emil Bove sat in lower Manhattan, watching on…
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By Annie Grayer, CNN Washington (CNN) — Congressional Republicans are publicly projecting that they’re in lockstep with the way President…
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By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump made no attempt Tuesday to soften his proposal to relocate Palestinians in Gaza and…
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By Kasie Hunt, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Trump White House is demanding that government workers hunt for words like “immigrant” and…
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By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is bringing the name Bragg back to one of the Army’s largest…
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CNN By Michael Williams, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Monday pardoned former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who was sent to prison on…
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CNN By Joan Biskupic, CNN Chief Supreme Court Analyst (CNN) — Vice President JD Vance, Elon Musk and others in the Trump administration are…
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By Paula Reid and Gloria Pazmino, CNN (CNN) — The Department of Justice is moving to drop the federal corruption case against New York City…
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By Michael Williams, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Monday pardoned former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who was sent to prison on…
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By Alejandra Jaramillo, Chris Isidore and David Goldman, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Monday imposed a 25% tariff on all steel and…
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By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said Monday he is naming Ric Grenell, a longtime confidant already serving in multiple…
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CNN By Hannah Rabinowitz, Evan Perez, Paula Reid and Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — On January 6, 2021, Emil Bove sat in lower Manhattan,…
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By Joan Biskupic, CNN Chief Supreme Court Analyst (CNN) — Vice President JD Vance, Elon Musk and others in the Trump administration are openly…
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By Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump removed the head of the Office of Government Ethics from his post, the agency said…
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By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration’s dismantling of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and its…
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By Devan Cole and Tami Luhby, CNN Boston (CNN) — A federal judge has for now extended a pause on the deadline set by the Trump administration…
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By Lauren Fox and Sarah Ferris, CNN Washington (CNN) — As GOP hardliners spent the weekend pushing party leaders to cut deeper into Medicaid in…
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By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans may no longer be pushing to wholly repeal Obamacare, but big…
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By Kevin Liptak and Donald Judd, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Monday urged Israel to cancel its ceasefire deal with Hamas and “let…
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CNN By Avery Schmitz, Katie Bo Lillis, Priscilla Alvarez and Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — The US military has significantly increased its…
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By Joan Biskupic, CNN Chief Supreme Court Analyst (CNN) — President Donald Trump named three justices in his first term, establishing a…
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By Avery Schmitz, Katie Bo Lillis, Priscilla Alvarez and Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — The US military has significantly increased its…
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By Jeff Zeleny, Alayna Treene and Kevin Liptak, CNN Washington (CNN) — Nearly every day since President Donald Trump entered office three weeks…
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By Betsy Klein and Irene Nasser, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Sunday doubled down on his plans for the US to redevelop Gaza, saying…
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By Aileen Graef and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN (CNN) — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Sunday acknowledged that Elon Musk’s…
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CNN By Aileen Graef and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN (CNN) — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Sunday acknowledged that Elon Musk’s…
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CNN By Aileen Graef and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN (CNN) — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Sunday acknowledged that Elon Musk’s…
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