National Politics

By Jeremy Herb, Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump were seated on the stage of the cavernous Washington Hilton ballroom just after 8:30 p.m. ET Saturday evening, playfully engaging with the evening’s entertainer, mentalist Oz Pearlman. Just outside, a man sprinted through a security checkpoint with a shotgun

By Wolf Blitzer, Todd Symons, Logan Schiciano, CNN (CNN) — CNN’s Wolf Blitzer was just a few feet away from a gunman when shots were fired outside the main ballroom at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner. Blizter had just left the men’s restroom on an upper floor outside the ballroom at the Washington Hilton when

CNN By Wolf Blitzer, Todd Symons, Logan Schiciano, CNN (CNN) — CNN’s Wolf Blitzer was just a few feet away from a gunman when shots were fired outside the main ballroom at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner. Blitzer had just left the men’s restroom on an upper floor outside the ballroom at the Washington Hilton

CNN By Kaanita Iyer, Alayna Treene, Kevin Liptak, Kristen Holmes, Riane Lumer, John Miller, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump was swiftly escorted off the stage by Secret Service after possible shots were fired at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington, DC, on Saturday. Vice President JD Vance and several members of Trump’s Cabinet

By Aleena Fayaz, CNN (CNN) — Family and friends of Virginia Giuffre, one of the best known accusers of Jeffrey Epstein, gathered on the National Mall in Washington on Saturday to celebrate her life and legacy on the one-year anniversary of her death and in the wake of the Justice Department’s release of millions of

By Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — The US has agreed to allow the Venezuelan government to fund the defense of ousted President Nicolás Maduro, ending a legal standoff that has clouded the case for weeks. Federal prosecutors and attorneys for the Maduros informed the judge overseeing the case in a joint letter filed late Friday

By Jeremy Herb, Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — As undersecretary of the Navy, Hung Cao, a retired Navy captain and former Republican Senate candidate in Virginia, was supposed to have a broad portfolio as the service’s No. 2 civilian, which included personnel issues and safeguarding the Navy’s “warfighter ethos.” But in reality, Cao was often

By Aleena Fayaz, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Friday questioned the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS and Treasury Department over the leak of his tax returns, ordering a hearing to determine whether the president can sue federal agencies that he oversees. Florida District Judge Kathleen M. Williams

By Michael Williams, Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — After US troops captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in January, the image of him handcuffed and blindfolded while wearing a Nike tracksuit wasn’t the only thing that went viral. The Internet was soon buzzing over an anonymous trader on Polymarket, the prediction market, who netted hundreds of

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department announced Friday it is continuing to clear the way for expediting federal death-penalty cases, including by expanding the manners of execution to include death by firing squad. Under President Joe Biden, the Justice Department reversed much of the work done under President Donald Trump’s first administration

By Jennifer Hansler, Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration has frozen $344 million in cryptocurrency it says was linked to Iran as the United States ratchets up pressure on Tehran. The move, first reported by CNN, comes as shaky diplomatic efforts to reach a deal to end the war continue to stall and

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — A divided federal appeals court on Friday rejected President Donald Trump’s effort to unilaterally bar migrants who cross the US-Mexico border from seeking asylum, teeing up a likely showdown over the policy at the Supreme Court. The 2-1 decision is a major defeat for a signature component of Trump’s

By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s claims about prescription drug prices make no mathematical sense. But his team – including Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. this week – keeps straining to defend them. Since last year, Trump has asserted that he has cut or will cut prescription drug prices by numbers like “500%,” “600%,”

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — Big businesses are lining up at the Supreme Court as the justices hear the final arguments of the term, pressing the conservative majority to shield industries from multimillion-dollar jury verdicts, limit the marketing of generic drugs and neuter the government’s ability to issue fines. Verizon, Monsanto and Cisco Systems

By Arit John, CNN (CNN) — If Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro has his way, the Democratic path to winning back the US House will run through his state. Shapiro has committed to helping Democrats flip four Republican-held seats. He’s endorsed in three of the districts, including one where his chosen candidate is locked in a

By Alejandra Jaramillo, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Thursday brushed off remarks by Prince Harry asking the US for more action to end the war in Ukraine, saying the British royal does not speak for the United Kingdom. “I know one thing, Prince Harry is not speaking for the UK, that’s for sure.

By Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are pushing to cut red tape around the Congressional mechanisms to hold those in their own ranks accountable for wrongdoing as a series of scandals rock Capitol Hill. But even those with the best intentions are realizing that the road to reforming

CNN By Hannah Rabinowitz, Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — A US special forces soldier involved in the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was arrested and charged for allegedly betting on that operation, netting him $400,000 in profits. According to an indictment unsealed Thursday, Master Sgt. Gannon Ken Van Dyke opened an account in late