National Politics

By Tami Luhby, Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump is no stranger to federal government shutdowns, having presided over a record-long impasse in his first term. But with another shutdown looming in a week, the Trump administration has yet to make public federal agencies’ contingency plans for how they’ll handle the shuttering of

By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — When President Donald Trump brought his trademark braggadocio to the United Nations’ rostrum in his first term, he was met with an unfamiliar-for-him response from the delegates: mocking laughter. Seven years later, few could imagine the scene repeating itself. Once the object of skepticism and open derision by his

CNN, POOL, SEE PREFONTS By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — When President Donald Trump brought his trademark braggadocio to the United Nations’ rostrum in his first term, he was met with an unfamiliar-for-him response from the delegates: mocking laughter. Seven years later, few could imagine the scene repeating itself. Once the object of skepticism and

By Molly English, CNN (CNN) — Democrat Adelita Grijalva has won a special election in Arizona’s 7th Congressional District, which will deliver the decisive signature to the push for a vote to release the Jeffrey Epstein case files. The race was held to determine who would fill the seat vacated by the late Democratic Rep. Raul Grijalva, who

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — As the Trump administration faces backlash over officials’ decisions to target speech with which it disagrees, federal judges have already left a lengthy trail of rulings lambasting the government for trampling over the First Amendment rights of elite law firms, news organizations, unions and others. The rulings underscore how

By David Wright, CNN (CNN) — In her first television interview about her new campaign memoir, Kamala Harris was pressed on what she meant when she wrote that it was reckless to let former President Joe Biden seek reelection. “I realized that I have – and had – a certain responsibility that I should have

By Annie Grayer, Ted Barrett, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump is expected to meet with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries later this week as lawmakers stare down a government funding deadline, according to three sources familiar with the plans. It will take place Thursday, one of the sources

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration is blocking Iranian diplomats from accessing the “wholesale club stores” like Costco and purchasing luxury goods while in the United States, State Department spokesperson Tommy Pigott said Monday. Iranian officials visiting New York for the annual UN General Assembly are also restricted “to the areas strictly

By David Wright, CNN (CNN) — A collection of elected Republicans and prominent conservatives are stepping in to serve as featured guests on the national college tour that slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk was embarked on before his assassination at an event in Utah earlier this month. The list of prominent speakers includes Virginia Gov.

By Alejandra Jaramillo, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump signed an order Monday designating the anti-fascism movement Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization and directing federal agencies to take action against it. The order accuses Antifa of organizing political violence — including riots, attacks on law enforcement and doxing — with the goal of overthrowing

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear a rush appeal that will decide whether President Donald Trump acted lawfully as he has wrested control of independent federal agencies by firing the board members who led them. By granting the case involving the Federal Trade Commission, the high court said

By Adam Cancryn, CNN (CNN) — White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt offered a forceful defense of border czar Tom Homan in the wake of reports that he accepted a bag of cash from undercover FBI agents, insisting on Monday that he “did absolutely nothing wrong.” “The president stands by Tom Homan 100% because he

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — Lindsey Halligan, a White House aide and a fierce ally of President Donald Trump, has taken over as the top federal prosecutor in Virginia’s eastern district, according to a person familiar with the change. Halligan assumed the office days after her predecessor, Erik Siebert, was pushed out of the

CNN By Isabelle D’Antonio, CNN (CNN) — Tom Homan, now the president’s border czar, was recorded last year accepting a bag with $50,000 in cash by undercover FBI agents in an investigation the Trump Justice Department later closed, The New York Times reported Saturday. The September 2024 payment arose from a probe that was not

By David Wright, Eva McKend, CNN (CNN) — Exactly two months after President Donald Trump signed his policy megabill in a July 4 celebration at the White House, a Virginia health care company blamed the law for the closure of three rural clinics serving communities along the Blue Ridge Mountains. The closures, Augusta Medical Group

By Randi Kaye, CNN Fort Pierce, Florida (CNN) — The man accused of attempting to kill Donald Trump at a Florida golf course last year has rested his case and will not testify in his own defense. Ryan Routh, 59, representing himself, called three witnesses, including two friends a and former Marine sniper who test-fired

By David Wright, CNN (CNN) — Democrat Mikie Sherrill and Republican Jack Ciattarelli clashed Sunday over their responses to political violence and solutions to the rising cost of living in the first general election debate of New Jersey’s 2025 gubernatorial race. President Donald Trump’s second-term agenda loomed large in a state he lost last year

CNN By Jeremy Herb, Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and a host of top administration officials vowed Sunday that the mission of slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk would only grow stronger in the wake of his assassination. At a memorial service in Glendale, Arizona, attended by tens of