National Politics

By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday was littered with numerous false claims, many of which have been debunked before. Trump was inaccurate about a wide variety of subjects. They included inflation in the US, climate policies both in the US and abroad, immigration,

By Gabe Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration has launched an internal investigation into FEMA employees who signed a public letter to Congress warning that the administration’s overhaul of the disaster relief agency is undermining emergency response and endangering the public. As part of the probe, the agency has ordered the employees — who

By Betsy Klein, CNN New York (CNN) — First lady Melania Trump hosted world leaders’ spouses on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, announcing the launch of a new coalition on children’s well-being and artificial intelligence safety that she said she hoped they would join. For one of her counterparts, Trump’s

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Days after announcing it was ending the government’s annual food insecurity report, the US Department of Agriculture placed about a dozen researchers, supervisors and administrators on paid administrative leave on Monday. The employees, who include top officials with the USDA’s Economic Research Service, which produces the longstanding report, were

CNN By Randi Kaye, CNN Fort Pierce, Florida (CNN) — Ryan Routh, the 59-year-old accused of attempting to kill Donald Trump as the former and future president played a round of golf on his Florida course last year – the second attempt on Trump’s life during his second campaign – has been found guilty on

CNN By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — It was perhaps an ominous sign when the first thing President Donald Trump said in his United Nations General Assembly speech Tuesday was that his teleprompter was broken. “I feel very happy to be up here with you nevertheless,” he said, sounding less than happy. “That way you

By Kevin Liptak, Adam Cancryn, Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Ukraine could restore its borders from before Russia’s invasion and that he believes NATO member countries should shoot down Russian aircraft if they enter their airspace, escalating his rhetoric against the Kremlin as its war in Ukraine drags on.

By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — It was perhaps an ominous sign when the first thing President Donald Trump said in his United Nations General Assembly speech Tuesday was that his teleprompter was broken. “I feel very happy to be up here with you nevertheless,” he said, sounding less than happy. “That way you speak

By Paula Reid, Hannah Rabinowitz, Evan Perez, Casey Gannon, CNN (CNN) — Attorney General Pam Bondi’s chief of staff, Chad Mizelle, is leaving the Justice Department, the attorney general and her deputy confirmed in statements provided to CNN on Tuesday. Bondi said Mizelle served the department “with professionalism, sound judgement, and dedication” and “played a

By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump keeps making a mathematically impossible promise. At event after event this month and last, Trump has declared that the “most favored nation” policy he unveiled in an executive order in May is going to reduce the price of prescription drugs by 1,000% or more. Trump said

By Morgan Rimmer, CNN (CNN) — Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy, a Louisiana doctor who chairs the Senate health committee, is calling on the Department of Health and Human Services to release any evidence tying acetaminophen use during pregnancy to autism, noting that “the preponderance of evidence shows that this is not the case.” “I understand

By Gloria Pazmino, Arit John, Mark Morales, CNN New York (CNN) — During a recent canvassing call for New Yorkers with Caribbean ties, one of the city’s most prominent Black leaders tried to dispel rumors about Zohran Mamdani, the 33-year-old democratic socialist and Democratic nominee for mayor. “I just want to make clear nobody around

By Tami Luhby, Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump is no stranger to federal government shutdowns, having presided over a record-long impasse in his first term. But with another shutdown looming in a week, the Trump administration has yet to make public federal agencies’ contingency plans for how they’ll handle the shuttering of

By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — When President Donald Trump brought his trademark braggadocio to the United Nations’ rostrum in his first term, he was met with an unfamiliar-for-him response from the delegates: mocking laughter. Seven years later, few could imagine the scene repeating itself. Once the object of skepticism and open derision by his

CNN, POOL, SEE PREFONTS By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — When President Donald Trump brought his trademark braggadocio to the United Nations’ rostrum in his first term, he was met with an unfamiliar-for-him response from the delegates: mocking laughter. Seven years later, few could imagine the scene repeating itself. Once the object of skepticism and

By Molly English, CNN (CNN) — Democrat Adelita Grijalva has won a special election in Arizona’s 7th Congressional District, which will deliver the decisive signature to the push for a vote to release the Jeffrey Epstein case files. The race was held to determine who would fill the seat vacated by the late Democratic Rep. Raul Grijalva, who

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — As the Trump administration faces backlash over officials’ decisions to target speech with which it disagrees, federal judges have already left a lengthy trail of rulings lambasting the government for trampling over the First Amendment rights of elite law firms, news organizations, unions and others. The rulings underscore how