Politics

By Alison Main, Manu Raju and Nicky Robertson, CNN (CNN) — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene made clear she is at odds with the president and other Republicans who support an aggressive posture against Iran, acknowledging that there’s a “very big divide” in the party over the issue and that her position opposing foreign wars is

CNN By Alison Main, Manu Raju and Nicky Robertson, CNN (CNN) — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene made clear she is at odds with the president and other Republicans who support an aggressive posture against Iran, acknowledging that there’s a “very big divide” in the party over the issue and that her position opposing foreign wars

CNN By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s administration urged the Supreme Court on Tuesday to allow it to immediately deport a group of migrants currently being held on a US military base in Djibouti to South Sudan, saying the judge handling the case defied the high court. The unusual motion came hours

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the Supreme Court’s senior liberal, slammed the Trump administration’s handling of immigration matters in a fiery dissent Monday and accused her colleagues of “rewarding lawlessness” by backing its latest emergency appeal. Sotomayor’s scathing, 19-page dissent came in a case in which the court’s majority backed the

By Angélica Franganillo Díaz and John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Monday granted President Donald Trump’s emergency request to resume deporting migrants to countries other than their homeland, including places like South Sudan, with minimal notice. The decision is a significant win for the Trump administration, which had argued that a lower

By Eva McKend, CNN (CNN) — The videos of a California senator being taken down by federal agents or of a New York mayoral candidate dragged out of immigration court energize liberal voters who want their leaders doing more to confront President Donald Trump’s administration. But they’ve also highlighted the party’s divide since Trump returned

By Gloria Pazmino, CNN New York (CNN) — Zohran Mamdani could barely walk a few feet at a recent Juneteenth festival in Queens without a crowd of selfie-demanding admirers trying to stop him. Mamdani is a 33-year-old state assemblyman and democratic socialist who surged in the campaign for New York City mayor with a mix

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from the recording artist R. Kelly, who claimed prosecutors “stretched” the law in securing racketeering and sex trafficking convictions against him. Robert Sylvester Kelly is serving a 30-year sentence for those convictions. Kelly, a Grammy-winning R&B songwriter, was convicted

By Devan Cole and John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to take up the case of a Rastafarian man seeking to sue prison officials in Louisiana who cut off his dreadlocks while he was incarcerated. The case is the latest that involves religious rights to catch the high court’s attention, and

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — From digging into President Donald Trump’s battle with the courts to deciding whether people can be required to identify themselves before viewing porn online, the Supreme Court in the coming days will deliver its most dramatic decisions of the year. With most of its pending rulings complete, the justices

By Paula Reid, Evan Perez, Kylie Atwood, Devan Cole and Dan Berman, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s order to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities presents a new test of the Constitution and the extent of presidential powers to conduct war despite a lack of congressional approval. The administration is relying on the president’s authority under

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — A judge in Tennessee said the Justice Department hasn’t made a convincing case that Kilmar Abrego Garcia should be kept in pretrial detention, though the mistakenly deported man who was returned to the US is likely to remain in federal immigration custody regardless. Abrego Garcia is being held in

By Zachary Cohen and Katie Bo Lillis, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump declared that Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities were “completely and totally obliterated” following this weekend’s air strikes, but the US appears to have held back its most powerful bombs against one of the three facilities included in the operation, raising questions about whether

By Betsy Klein, Zachary Cohen and Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dan Caine approached a pair of lecterns in the Pentagon briefing room Sunday morning to detail the most significant military operation of President Donald Trump’s tenure in office. Hegseth spoke first, lavishing

By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s MAGA sphere of conservative media and influencers — many of whom had expressed skepticism before his decision to bomb Iranian nuclear facilities — is divided over the president’s dramatic move to strike. Many of its most prominent figures rallied around Trump. But others sharply criticized the

By Kevin Liptak, Jeremy Herb and Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — By the time President Donald Trump was milling about his golf club in New Jersey on Friday evening, the planes were about to be in the air. To onlookers at the club, Trump showed little anxiety about his decision to authorize airstrikes on three

CNN By Jade Walker, CNN (CNN) — From digging into President Donald Trump’s battle with the courts to deciding whether people can be required to identify themselves before viewing porn online, the Supreme Court in the coming days is set to deliver its most dramatic decisions of the year. Here’s what else you need to