Politics

By Christopher Lamb, Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will sit down with Pope Leo XIV on Thursday amid a historic period of tension between Washington and the Vatican. Rubio’s visit follows President Donald Trump’s extraordinary criticisms of the first American pope in the Catholic Church’s 2,000-year history, which came

By Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is facing questions from congressional investigators Wednesday about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein after revelations that his contact with the late convicted sex offender extended years beyond what he initially claimed. Lutnick is the highest-ranking Trump administration official prominently named in the Epstein files —

By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump keeps touting a poll that was discussed on CNN in March. On Tuesday, though, Trump wrongly described that poll in three different ways. Trump has repeatedly mentioned a March 18 television segment featuring CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten, who explained that an NBC News poll

By Nomaan Merchant, CNN (CNN) — Weeks before he opens his presidential library in Chicago, Barack Obama is expressing his hopes for what the building will achieve for his legacy. “I want them to put my presidency in context,” Obama told CBS’ Stephen Colbert in an interview taped at the library and aired on “The

WLS By Nomaan Merchant, CNN (CNN) — Weeks before he opens his presidential library in Chicago, Barack Obama is expressing his hopes for what the building will achieve for his legacy. “I want them to put my presidency in context,” Obama told CBS’ Stephen Colbert in an interview taped at the library and aired on

By Patrick Svitek, CNN (CNN) — Michigan Democrats on Tuesday won a special election for a state Senate seat in another party over-performance after the district was almost evenly divided in the last presidential election. Democratic firefighter Chedrick Greene defeated GOP lawyer Jason Tunney for a seat to determine whether Democrats would retain control of

By Patrick Svitek, Arit John, CNN (CNN) — The seven candidates for California governor moved aggressively during CNN’s primary debate Tuesday night to distinguish themselves with just under a month left in the race and some voters already receiving ballots. With increasing urgency to shake up a long-unsettled contest, many of the people on stage

By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump vowed revenge when the Republican supermajority in the Indiana state Senate embarrassed him in December, voting down Trump’s demands to redraw the state’s congressional maps to help the party win two more seats. In Tuesday’s primary, he got it. At least five of the seven Trump-endorsed

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Thirteen members of Washington, DC’s Metropolitan Police Department have been placed on administrative leave and face possible termination following an internal investigation into allegations that crime data was manipulated to make the city appear safer. President Donald Trump often pointed to reports of manipulated crime stats as one of

By Michael Williams, CNN Phoenix (CNN) — White House border czar Tom Homan on Tuesday brushed off critics within President Donald Trump’s base who say the administration is not deporting enough people, while vowing to “flood the zone” with immigration officers in jurisdictions which pass legislation limiting cooperation with federal enforcement. Speaking at the Border

By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — With concerns about Iran laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz, US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was asked Tuesday whether Iran might turn to dolphins to help confront the US Navy. He said that he could “confirm” that Iran didn’t have dolphins to deploy as part of operations

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department sued Denver on Tuesday, alleging that the city’s decades-old ban on semi-automatic weapons violates the Second Amendment. Enacted nearly 40 years ago, the Denver ordinance restricts firearms with magazines over 15 rounds, including any weapons that have been modified to do so. The civil lawsuit filed