National Politics

By Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration in recent weeks has pressured current and former US law enforcement officials to help corral support for a milestone cryptocurrency law that critics say could be exploited by narcotraffickers, terrorists, and other criminal groups, according to multiple people briefed on the matter. The pressure comes as

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The US State Department will now offer passports featuring President Donald Trump’s image on the inside cover at special events across the United States. The commemorative passports, which show a stone-faced Trump leaning over the Resolute Desk above his signature on the inside cover, were first announced in the

By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Former Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes dropped his bid for governor on Thursday, scrambling the race to replace Gov. Tony Evers less than two weeks from the Democratic primary. In a video posted to social media, Barnes said that it’s “very clear who our nominee is going to be.”

By Tierney Sneed, Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — The woman facing the first-ever case in the Alien Terrorist Removal Court is challenging the constitutionality of the deportation tribunal, setting up a major test of the Trump administration’s decision to activate the court, which had never been used in its 30-year history. Lawyers for Nazira Haji

By Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — Acting Director of National Intelligence Bill Pulte will not immediately leave his office after his more permanent replacement, Jay Clayton, is sworn in, according to a source familiar with the matter. Instead, the two men’s tenures at the top of the office will overlap for at least two weeks.

By Jennifer Agiesta, Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — Less than 100 days before the midterms, voters are agitating for wholesale change in Congress and looking to the Democratic Party in hopes of making that happen. Democrats lead Republicans on the generic ballot by 8 points among registered voters, according to a new CNN poll conducted

By Edward Wu, CNN (CNN) — About a third of Democrats and Democratic-leaning adults identify as democratic socialists, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS. They’re some of the party’s staunchest supporters, but many are also raring for a party overhaul at a time when democratic socialists are seeing new momentum at the

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration is testing a secretive, never-before-used deportation court for alleged alien terrorists with a case concerning the Afghan mother of a convicted terrorist, with the Justice Department accusing the Texas-based woman of having ISIS sympathies. The Alien Terrorist Removal Court will have its first ever hearing Thursday

By Betsy Klein, Kristen Holmes, Pete Muntean, CNN (CNN) — It’s been many years since President Donald Trump flew commercial. But on Wednesday, he unveiled major renovations to a key Washington-area airport — his latest effort to shape infrastructure around the nation’s capital. Trump oversaw proposals for a massive, $22.5 billion project at Dulles International

By Em Steck, MJ Lee, Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — Kathy Ruemmler, the former Obama White House Counsel, told a House panel that she believed that descriptions of abuse by one of Jeffrey Epstein’s most prominent victims, Virginia Roberts Giuffre “lacked inherent credibility” – drawing a fierce rebuke from Giuffre’s family, who accused the lawyer

By Aaron Blake, CNN (CNN) — By now in American politics, we’ve become accustomed to high-profile figures pleading the Fifth to avoid answering questions they believe could be used to incriminate them. That includes President Donald Trump doing it more than 400 times in a civil case in 2022. But when it comes to Dr.

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Federal officials, apparently acting without a warrant, tracked former FBI Director James Comey from North Carolina to Virginia after he posted photos of seashells spelling out “86 47” last year, Comey’s attorneys allege. Newly released federal court filings also outline how President Donald Trump was following the investigation into

By Ellis Kim, Manu Raju, Hannah Rabinowitz, Alison Main, Morgan Rimmer, CNN (CNN) — Senate GOP leaders were forced to postpone a vote to advance Todd Blanche’s nomination to be President Donald Trump’s attorney general late Wednesday, with a key GOP senator refusing to yield in a weeks-long battle with the administration over its controversial

By Sunlen Serfaty, CNN (CNN) — Preservationists are seeking to stop patches of an iconic Washington building from being painted as soon as on Thursday, warning that the move – billed as a test for President Donald Trump’s larger plan to turn the whole structure white – will cause irreparable damage to the landmark. In

By Adam Cancryn, Sarah Owermohle, CNN (CNN) — Dr. Anthony Fauci spent decades nurturing his reputation as the government’s most recognizable, most accessible and often most voluble authority on the nation’s public health crises. But on Wednesday, under intense scrutiny and the ever-present threat of prosecution, Fauci spent a congressional hearing that spanned well over

By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — A record-high 73% of US adults say that President Donald Trump hasn’t paid enough attention to the country’s most important problems, a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS finds, with just 27% saying he’s had the right priorities. That comes amid increasingly bleak views of the Iran war, stagnating

By Rhyannon Bartlett-Imadegawa, Jennifer Agiesta, CNN (CNN) — As funeral honors continue for the late Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, who died earlier this month at the age of 71, the national conversation around aging political figures has only intensified. Sen. Mitch McConnell, 84, has been sidelined from Hill votes since a June fall landed him

By Davis Winkie, Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The US military’s weapons stockpiles, including its inventory of crucial air defense missiles, remain severely depleted following a major flare up of the war with Iran in recent weeks, according to three sources familiar with recent Pentagon data and a new report by outside analysts. A substantive