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By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — For months, former New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez has praised President Donald Trump. The Democrat has explicitly echoed Trump’s criticism of the president’s own criminal prosecutions, which Trump likes to describe, without evidence, as the political weaponization of the justice system. Now Menendez is reporting to federal prison, beginning

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — Two American family-owned toy companies urged the Supreme Court on Tuesday to step into the legal fray over President Donald Trump’s tariffs, asking the justices to quickly resolve the issue of whether the administration overstepped its authority by unilaterally launching a global trade war. Trump has imposed, paused, hiked

By David Wright and Arlette Saenz, CNN (CNN) — Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee on Tuesday deleted a series of inflammatory social media posts from over the weekend in which he reacted to the shooting deaths of Minnesota state representatives, prompting a confrontation with the state’s Democratic US senator. Lee provoked controversy when he made

CNN By David Wright, Arlette Saenz and Molly English, CNN (CNN) — Republican Sen. Mike Lee on Tuesday deleted a series of inflammatory social media posts from over the weekend on the deadly attacks in Minnesota, prompting a confrontation with one of the state’s Democratic US senators. Lee provoked controversy when he made a series

CNN By Alayna Treene, Kevin Liptak, Kaitlan Collins, Kylie Atwood and Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump is growing increasingly warm to using US military assets to strike Iranian nuclear facilities and souring on the idea of a diplomatic solution to end Tehran’s escalating conflict with Israel, two officials familiar with the ongoing