National Politics

By Kevin Liptak, Priscilla Alvarez, Jeff Zeleny, Alayna Treene, Kayla Tausche and Phil Mattingly, CNN (CNN) — At noon Monday, a new Donald Trump era begins. A stack of actions designed to reshape government policy will be awaiting the new president’s signature as soon as he is sworn in — a dramatic show of force

By Alayna Treene and Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump has privately told his advisers he wants to visit China after being sworn in to office, three sources familiar with the talks told CNN, as the president-elect seeks to facilitate an open dialogue with Beijing while also pursuing hardline stance on the country. Trump

By Aaron Pellish, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump said mass deportations will begin “very quickly” after taking office, one of a number of plans he discussed in a phone interview with NBC News on Saturday. As Trump prepares to be sworn in Monday, the president-elect also told “Meet the Press” moderator Kristen Welker that

By Arit John, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump has not yet taken office, but prominent Democrats have already started weighing in on one of the party’s most pressing strategic questions: is there room to work with the new administration? It depends on who you ask. In the days leading up to Trump’s second inauguration, some

By Sarah Ferris, CNN Washington (CNN) — GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna repeatedly tried to convince Speaker Mike Johnson that he — as a pro-family champion — should back her push to allow new mothers to vote remotely for six weeks while they are recovering from birth. He refused. Then, she turned to Democrats. The

By Jeff Zeleny, Kevin Liptak and Arlette Saenz, CNN Washington (CNN) — As President Joe Biden was making one final lap around town this week, delivering farewell speeches to his diplomatic corps, military leaders and the nation at large, his appearances belied a grim reality: This is not how he’d hoped his half-century career in

By Joan Biskupic, CNN Chief Supreme Court Analyst (CNN) — When the Supreme Court justices first shared an inaugural stage with Donald Trump, they heard the new president deliver a 16-minute declaration against the country and vow, “This American carnage stops right here and stops right now.” Afterward, when they returned to a chamber on the

By Devan Cole, Priscilla Alvarez and Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — A federal appeals court on Friday dealt the immigration program known as DACA a legal setback, keeping the program alive but teeing up a showdown at the Supreme Court. In a unanimous ruling, a three-judge panel of the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals

By Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — A former CIA analyst pleaded guilty to leaking classified documents about Israel’s preparations to attack Iran late-last year, according to the Department of Justice. Asif William Rahman had been employed by the CIA since 2016 and held a top secret security clearance with access to sensitive compartmented information, some

CNN By Kate Sullivan, Alayna Treene, Kaitlan Collins and Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration will be moved indoors, he announced Friday, due to dangerously cold temperatures projected in the nation’s capital. “I have ordered the Inauguration Address, in addition to prayers and other speeches, to be delivered in the United States

By Katelyn Polantz and Emily R. Condon, CNN (CNN) — On the last day of federal court before Donald Trump takes office, the judge who presided over the president-elect’s now-dismissed criminal January 6, 2021, case told a defendant who admitted to disorderly conduct that day that he may be the last US Capitol rioter she’ll

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — Judge Aileen Cannon suggested Friday she was not inclined to allow the Justice Department to share special counsel Jack Smith’s report on the classified documents case with Congress – at least for now. “At the end of the day, what’s the urgency of doing this right now?” Cannon asked

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration on Friday made one final push to expose what officials say is a rampant Chinese cyber-espionage campaign by identifying a company and a person allegedly behind a pair of damaging hacks aimed at senior US officials. The goal is to “impose real costs” on hackers who

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — As congressional Republicans struggle to keep deficits in check while extending their sweeping 2017 tax cuts, the Congressional Budget Office provided a dour forecast. Even if those tax breaks are allowed to lapse at year’s end, the federal budget deficit will still climb to $2.7 trillion in a decade,

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court agreed Friday to review whether schools may read LGBTQ+ books to elementary school students without giving parents the ability to opt their children out on religious grounds. The lawsuit over a Maryland school district’s policy landed at the Supreme Court amid raging culture war fights about

By John Fritze, Devan Cole and Clare Duffy, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court’s remarkably speedy decision Friday to allow a controversial ban on TikTok to take hold will have a dramatic impact on the tens of millions of Americans who visit the app every day and broad political implications for President-elect Donald Trump. But

By Gregory Krieg, Daniel Strauss and David Wright, CNN (CNN) — Ohio Republican Gov. Mike DeWine on Friday named state Lt. Gov. Jon Husted to fill the US Senate seat recently vacated by Vice President-elect JD Vance. The governor referenced his close relationship with Husted as a factor in his decision. “I came to the

CNN By John Fritze, Tierney Sneed, Devan Cole, Pamela Brown, Clare Duffy, Kit Maher, Evan Perez and Brian Stelter, CNN (CNN) — TikTok on Friday said that it would turn off more than 170 million Americans’ access to the super popular video app on Sunday, unless President Joe Biden’s administration acts urgently to assure the