National Politics

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge said Tuesday that the Trump administration must keep funds flowing to the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, rebuffing its latest gambit to shut down the regulatory agency that has long been a target of conservatives. US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who previously halted President Donald

By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — Roughly two dozen ISIS operatives have been killed or captured in Syria by US and partner forces since US airstrikes earlier this month, which were carried out in response to the killing of two American service members. “Nearly 25” operatives were killed or captured between December 20 and 29,

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge declined Tuesday to make an immediate decision about whether the suspected 2021 Washington, DC, pipe bomber, Brian Cole Jr., will be held in jail as he awaits trial. “I’m sensitive to the urgency of the issue and I do intend to get a ruling out expeditiously,”

CNN By Gloria Pazmino, CNN (CNN) — New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s inauguration will feature Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, the two most prominent leaders of the Democratic Party’s progressive movement. Mamdani, who will be publicly sworn in at a City Hall inauguration ceremony on New Year’s Day, will be introduced

By Gloria Pazmino, CNN (CNN) — New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s inauguration will feature Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, the two most prominent leaders of the Democratic Party’s progressive movement. Mamdani, who will be publicly sworn in at a City Hall inauguration ceremony on New Year’s Day, will be introduced by

By Gloria Pazmino, CNN New York (CNN) — Zohran Mamdani becomes New York City’s mayor on Thursday with an ambitious agenda that drove a national conversation about affordability but will require billions in public funding and the backing of politicians who have expressed reservations. The 34-year-old democratic socialist has just a few weeks before the

By Brianna Keilar, CNN (CNN) — Back in 2017, when my husband was still in the Army, we learned he was unexpectedly deploying right as we were going to start trying to get pregnant. Military families get accustomed to this pattern: You plan and the United States Armed Forces makes you go back to the

By Piper HudspethBlackburn, CNN (CNN) — The Kennedy Center has been hit with a string of abrupt cancelations in the wake of its board of trustees’ adding President Donald Trump’s name to the landmark performing arts institution. Just days before they were set to perform twice on New Year’s Eve, the jazz group the Cookers

CNN By Natasha Bertrand, Zachary Cohen, Jim Sciutto, CNN (CNN) — The CIA carried out a drone strike earlier this month on a port facility on the coast of Venezuela, sources familiar with the matter told CNN, marking the first known US attack on a target inside that country. The drone strike, the details of

By Adam Cancryn, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s Monday meeting in Florida with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu generated plenty of warm words — but no clear progress in their peace plan for Gaza. The leaders held a private lunch at Mar-a-Lago aimed at working out a series of issues in the Middle East,

CNN By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — The US military conducted a strike against an alleged drug-trafficking vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Monday, killing two people, according to US Southern Command. “On Dec. 29, at the direction of @SecWar Pete Hegseth, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on

By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — The US military conducted a strike against an alleged drug-trafficking vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Monday, killing two people, according to US Southern Command. “On Dec. 29, at the direction of @SecWar Pete Hegseth, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a

By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — In the year 1998, Bill Clinton was facing impeachment proceedings, “Titanic” was cleaning up at the Oscars and most households still had landline phones. Gallup and USA Today called up 1,055 Americans on those landlines and asked them for their best predictions about a year in the distant future:

By Kevin Liptak, CNN West Palm Beach, Florida (CNN) — Repeatedly this year, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has flown to the United States to praise President Donald Trump as Israel’s greatest champion — and to quietly press him on taking more aggressive action against Israel’s enemies. On Monday, when Netanyahu meets Trump at his estate

By Joan Biskupic, CNN Chief Supreme Court Analyst (CNN) — Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has a remarkable record of transforming his old dissenting opinions into the new majority view and setting the direction of the law in America. Yet the more he wins, the testier he gets. His most obvious coup came with his 2022

By Kevin Liptak, CNN West Palm Beach, Florida (CNN) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky traded freezing, missile-tormented Kyiv on Sunday for the frescoed dining room at Mar-a-Lago, where he hoped to gain President Donald Trump’s sign-off on a revised 20-point peace plan to end the war in his country. Emerging after more than three hours

By Kevin Liptak, CNN West Palm Beach, Florida (CNN) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Florida Sunday, the day after his frozen capital Kyiv came under assault from Russian missiles and drones, a deadly reminder from the war’s aggressor that its attacks will continue even amid accelerated peace talks. The 1 p.m. ET Mar-a-Lago