National Politics

By Kevin Liptak, Zachary Cohen, Katie Bo Lillis, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s central intelligence chief traveled to Moscow this week with a warning to Russia not to stage an attack in NATO territory, among other issues, according to two people familiar with the matter. CIA Director John Ratcliffe also used the trip, which

By Adam Cancryn, Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump has touted his one-of-a-kind midterm convention as the spectacle his party needs to reenergize voters and alter its political fortunes ahead of the midterms. But as the two-day extravaganza approaches, Republicans are privately questioning if it strikes the right tone amid the electorate’s tightening

By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — Former leaders of the National Archives — which preserves and protects the nation’s most important documents — are urging a federal appeals court to reject the Trump administration’s effort to ignore the Presidential Records Act, a decades old law that requires presidents save all official records from their

By Lauren Fox, CNN Cleveland (CNN) — The senior US senator from Ohio sat with his daughter on a wooden bench in the hallway of the Cuyahoga County courthouse Wednesday, awaiting their turn as a judge in the room next door considered other domestic relations cases, then waiting again as that same judge swiftly declared

By Ashley Killough, Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge declined on Wednesday to intervene in a politically sensitive extradition fight over an ICE agent who is currently detained in Texas but is facing state charges in Minnesota for allegedly shooting an immigrant in Minneapolis earlier this year. Texas hasn’t agreed to extradite the

By Davis Winkie, Zachary Cohen, Alejandra Jaramillo, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration sent the nuclear cooperation agreement it had signed with Saudi Arabia to Congress on Monday, an administration official and multiple congressional aides told CNN. The civil nuclear deal, which could allow for uranium enrichment on Saudi soil, will go into effect in

By Patrick Svitek, CNN (CNN) — A month after he became the Democratic nominee for Senate in Maine, Troy Jackson is ramping up his appeals to women and voters who care about abortion rights, looking to sharpen a contrast with Republican Sen. Susan Collins that has long been at the center of the race. The

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — US officials on Wednesday exposed a major alleged Chinese cyber-espionage campaign they say has compromised or attacked numerous federal agencies including NASA, the Federal Reserve, the departments of Justice and Energy and the US Senate. Hackers affiliated with the Chinese military and intelligence services allegedly used a Chinese tech

By Aleena Fayaz, Kaanita Iyer, Richa Sharma, CNN (CNN) — A man arrested with a guillotine in the bed of his pickup truck near the US Capitol told officers it was “the real deal,” according to an affidavit. Philan-Tam-Duy Le, 35, of Julian, California, was arrested Tuesday and charged with carrying a dangerous weapon, US

By Aleena Fayaz, CNN (CNN) — Two Dan Sullivans will be on the ballot in November for Alaska’s Senate seat, CNN’s Decision Desk projects, an outcome that could benefit Democratic former Rep. Mary Peltola’s bid to flip the seat. While incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan and Peltola were virtual locks to advance from last week’s all-party

By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump demonstrated his might with Republican primary voters Tuesday in South Carolina, as CNN’s Decision Desk projected that Darline Graham — the sister of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham and the president’s pick in the state’s special Senate primary runoff — will claim the GOP nomination. Now

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Three Secret Service officials, including the agency’s director of communications, have been placed on leave as an investigation into potential misconduct unfolds, a source familiar with the decision told CNN. The nature of the alleged misconduct was not immediately clear. All three officials, including comms chief Anthony Guglielmi, have

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — Communications that President Donald Trump has with advisers who don’t even work for his administration can be protected by executive privilege, the Justice Department said in a memo Monday evening that comes amid lawsuits and a possible Democratic takeover of Congress. The legal memo boldly formalizes an aggressive stance

By Devan Cole, Sunlen Serfaty, CNN (CNN) — The Kennedy Center may need to be demolished and replaced with an open-air performance space if its current building cannot undergo extensive renovations, lawyers for the venue said in court papers on Monday. Citing efforts by President Donald Trump to shutter the historic performance arts venue for

By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump keeps attacking Canada with fiction instead of fact. Throughout his on-again, off-again trade war with Canada, which has erupted again this week, Trump’s criticism of the US neighbor has been filled with lies – a remarkable variety of assertions that either wildly distort a kernel of

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration is moving to revoke visas from potentially hundreds of thousands of foreigners who have applied for or are seeking asylum in the United States. The planned action would go after people who came to the US on temporary visas for reasons like tourism or business and

By Whitney Wild, Rob Kuznia, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department is considering whether to charge an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent accused of shooting a Venezuelan immigrant in the leg this winter in Minneapolis, according to a source familiar with the deliberations and a DOJ spokeswoman. Federal charges would mark a significant move for

By Alayna Treene, Kevin Liptak, Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — CIA Director John Ratcliffe traveled to Moscow overnight Monday to meet with Russian officials, a US official familiar with his travel told CNN. The official declined to share the substance of the meetings or the topics discussed. The CIA declined to comment. The US asked