National Politics

By John King, CNN Brownsville, Texas (CNN) — Daisy Alcazar is a one-issue voter this midterm year: stopping Donald Trump. “I don’t think we are going to survive if we don’t speak up this election,” Alcazar said. “We are on fire. We are being burned down to the floor. Our businesses. Our economy.” Alcazar and

By Martin Goillandeau, Alexandra Skores, CNN (CNN) — The Department of Homeland Security on Sunday walked back its decision to suspend the Transportation Security Administration’s PreCheck program, after initially sparking confusion for travelers when it said it was temporarily halting the popular service. TSA “will evaluate on a case-by-case basis and adjust operations” according to

By Riane Lumer, Aleena Fayaz, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said Saturday that he is sending a hospital boat to Greenland, the Danish territory he has sought to acquire, even as the Arctic island says it doesn’t want it. “Working with the fantastic Governor of Louisiana, Jeff Landry, we are going to send a

By Arit John, CNN Emmaus, Pennsylvania (CNN) — Dana Eldridge and Paul Miller opened their first day care center in 2005 after nearly a decade of running a popular martial arts school and summer camp. Over the next 15 years, they opened four more locations and expanded from school-aged children to including infants and toddlers.

By Eric Bradner, CNN Magnolia, Texas (CNN) — Ken Paxton may be the political equivalent of Teflon. He’s survived under a cloud of controversy all 12 years he has served as the state’s attorney general. Republicans in the state House impeached him before the Senate declined to remove him from office, authorities investigated him for

By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — Two new pieces of economic data, one released Thursday and one released Friday, blew another hole in President Donald Trump’s triumphant narrative about the effects of his tariffs. The figures released early Thursday showed Trump had wildly overstated the impact of the tariffs on the trade deficit. The figures

By Joan Biskupic, CNN Chief Supreme Court Analyst (CNN) — Chief Justice John Roberts brought the drama Friday as he ascended the courtroom bench to declare — at long last — President Donald Trump’s tariffs unlawful. For 10 gripping minutes, he methodically laid out the case against Trump’s signature economic initiative, one that has yielded billions

By Zachary Cohen, Kylie Atwood, CNN (CNN) — US intelligence agencies believe that China is developing a new generation of nuclear weapons and has conducted at least one covert explosive test in recent years as part of a broader push to completely transform its nuclear arsenal into the world’s most technologically advanced, according to multiple

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — Just hours after the federal judges in the Eastern District of Virginia appointed a new interim US attorney to replace Trump loyalist Lindsey Halligan, the administration said he is fired. The judges on Friday unanimously appointed James Hundley, a Virginia defense attorney with more than three decades of experience,

By Aleena Fayaz, CNN (CNN) — The US military conducted a strike against another alleged drug-trafficking boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Friday, killing three people, according to US Southern Command. “On Feb. 20, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — CIA Director John Ratcliffe has ordered the retraction or “substantive revision” of 19 of the agency’s intelligence products after a review determined they failed to meet standards for analytic tradecraft and political independence, the Central Intelligence Agency said on Friday. The spy agency released unredacted versions of three of

By Adam Cancryn, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s months of preparation for a Supreme Court ruling on his sweeping tariff powers did little to contain his rage when the verdict finally came. “I’m ashamed of certain members of the court, absolutely ashamed for not having the courage to do what’s right for the country,”

By Holmes Lybrand, Jamie Gangel, CNN (CNN) — New Secret Service protective detail agents are about to get a wardrobe upgrade, courtesy of taxpayers. The Secret Service will soon offer each agent who graduates from protective detail training two tailored suits, according to sources familiar with the matter and a public contract solicitation. The initiative

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge ripped into the Justice Department on Friday for failing to inform him of the applicability of a law intended to protect journalists from government searches and seizures when it asked him for permission to raid a Washington Post reporter’s home earlier this year. “How could you

By Emily R. Condon, CNN (CNN) — Protesters calling for the release of political prisoners in Azerbaijan told CNN they were attacked by security guards protecting the country’s President Ilham Aliyev in Washington, DC on Thursday following President Donald Trumps’s inaugural Board of Peace meeting. Footage circulated on social media shows protesters being thrown to

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — A ransomware attack has forced one of Mississippi’s largest health care systems to close clinics across the state on Friday, raising larger concerns about the cybersecurity of medical facilities across the country. The closure affects all 35 of the University of Mississippi Medical Center’s health clinics, which provide a

By John Fritze, Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s sweeping emergency tariffs on Friday, a significant decision that could redirect the course of the administration’s economic and foreign policy agenda. The 6-3 decision, which included both conservative and liberal justices in the majority, had the potential to reset

By Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — The estate of Jeffrey Epstein agreed on Thursday to pay up to $35 million to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by survivors of the late convicted sex offender. The complaint, which was first filed in 2024, alleges that Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn, co-executors of Epstein’s estate, “facilitated” Epstein’s

By Avery Schmitz, Annette Choi, CNN (CNN) — The US military has assembled a massive collection of weapons systems in the Middle East amid diplomatic negotiations between the US and Iran, flooding ships and aircraft to nearby waters and the constellation of US bases in the region. Military planners have told President Donald Trump they