National Politics

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — Senate Democrats are urging New York legal authorities to investigate whether acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove engaged in professional misconduct by engaging in a supposed quid-pro-quo to drop corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams. The complaint, sent to the Attorney Grievance Committee in New York,

By Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The chairwoman of a critical agency that reviews federal employee firings can stay on the job, a judge ruled Tuesday, formally reversing President Donald Trump’s “unlawful” decision to fire her. District Judge Rudolph Contreras handed a major victory to Cathy Harris, chair of the Merit Systems Protection Board, an

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — As his 25% tariffs on imported Canadian products took effect on Tuesday, President Donald Trump repeated one of his many false claims about Canada – wrongly saying, again, that Canada prohibits US banks from operating there. “Canada doesn’t allow American Banks to do business in Canada, but their

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The conservative Supreme Court aligned with liberal San Francisco on Tuesday, ruling that federal environmental regulators overstepped their authority by attempting to impose vague limits on how much raw sewage the California city may pump into the Pacific Ocean. Conservative Justice Samuel Alito wrote the opinion for a 5-4

By Betsy Klein, CNN Washington (CNN) — A teenage girl bullied with AI-generated deepfakes, the family of the firefighter killed during the Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and the mother and sister of slain student Laken Riley are among those headed to the US Capitol Tuesday evening where President Donald Trump is set to deliver

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — When the Trump administration abruptly terminated ten thousand foreign assistance contracts and grants last week, it ended funding for programs around the world – including those that had been granted waivers by the State Department to continue their lifesaving work. Millions of people may be affected by the cancelation

By Morgan Rimmer, Ali Main and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN (CNN) — Newly elected Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan will deliver her party’s response to President Donald Trump’s joint address to Congress on Tuesday, as Democrats work to define the party’s future following tough losses last fall. Slotkin’s remarks will be Democrats’ opening volley as

By Sunlen Serfaty, Tami Luhby, Ella Nilsen and Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — Millions of federal workers were ordered to return to offices across the country in recent weeks, marking an end to Covid-era rules allowing more flexibility to work from home. Many have come back to workplaces that weren’t ready for them. In one

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — A majority of the Supreme Court appeared prepared Tuesday to shut down a lawsuit from the Mexican government alleging American gun manufacturers should be held responsible for cartel violence on the Southwest border. The justices debated the high-profile case in their quiet, ornate courtroom as relations between Washington and

By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night will act as an extension – and explanation – of the rapid change he’s unleashed in just 44 days of his new term. He will face his biggest audience yet as he pushes for congressional Republicans,

By Gabe Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The Metropolitan Police Department has reinstated two Washington, DC, officers weeks after President Donald Trump pardoned them for their role in the death of 20-year-old Karon Hylton-Brown in 2020, a case that drew protests on the heels of the murder of George Floyd. Both officers were reinstated by DC’s

CNN, FOX, POOL, SEE PREFONTS By Kevin Liptak, Samantha Waldenberg and Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump is ordering a pause on shipments of US military aid to Ukraine after his heated Oval Office argument with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky last week, a White House official told CNN Monday. The halt in aid,

CNN By Kevin Liptak, Samantha Waldenberg and Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump is ordering a pause on shipments of US military aid to Ukraine after his heated Oval Office argument with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky last week, a White House official told CNN Monday. The halt in aid, which came after Trump

By Clare Foran, Danya Gainor and Ted Barrett, CNN (CNN) — Senate Democrats on Monday blocked a GOP-led bill that would ban transgender athletes from women’s and girls’ sports at federally funded schools and educational institutions. The bill’s failure to advance highlights the limits of Republicans’ narrow margins in Congress, despite control of both chambers.

By Josh Campbell and Shimon Prokupecz, CNN (CNN) — The top special agent overseeing the FBI’s largest field office has been forced to retire, according to an email he sent to colleagues and obtained by CNN. “Late Friday, I was informed that I needed to put my retirement papers in today, which I just did,”