National Politics

By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN (CNN) — Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are decrying what they say is a lack of new records in the Jeffrey Epstein files that the Justice Department provided to the panel Friday. “Only 3% of the documents given to the Oversight Committee are new. The rest are already in the

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration might try to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda in the coming days, according to a notice sent by a Department of Homeland Security official to his lawyers on Friday. The notice, made public in a court filing in Abrego Garcia’s human smuggling criminal case in

By Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — At the center of the Justice Department’s reopened probe of John Bolton is whether President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, and more recently staunch critic, broke the law when he shared what Trump administration officials believe was classified information with people not authorized to have it. A 2020

CNN By Arlette Saenz, Eric Bradner, David Wright, CNN (CNN) — The Texas Senate on Saturday approved new congressional maps drawn to help Republicans win as many as five more House seats in next year’s midterm elections. The vote was the final legislative hurdle for the redistricting plan sought by President Donald Trump and Gov.

By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — Melania Trump hadn’t been spotted at the White House for more than a month. But as her husband prepared for a high-stakes Alaska summit with his Russian counterpart in pursuit of an end to the war in Ukraine, the first lady was practicing diplomacy. “Dear President Putin,” she wrote

By Casey Tolan, Holmes Lybrand, CNN Washington (CNN) — In the first week after the White House effectively seized control of Washington, DC’s police force and deployed federal agents and troops to the district, the city saw a moderate drop in reported crime — and a far larger surge in arrests of immigrants, a CNN

By Arlette Saenz, Eric Bradner, David Wright, CNN (CNN) — The Texas Senate on Saturday approved new congressional maps drawn to help Republicans win as many as five more House seats in next year’s midterm elections. The vote was the final legislative hurdle for the redistricting plan sought by President Donald Trump and Gov. Greg

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor, has rocketed past his rivals in fundraising, bringing in a little more than $1 million in recent weeks, according to new campaign reports filed Friday. Mamdani’s haul far exceeds the $425,000 raised by the city’s embattled incumbent Mayor Eric

By Isabelle Khurshudyan, CNN (CNN) — Robert Hill called in sick to work when he heard about what was happening in his Bethesda, Maryland. Every major cable news network was broadcasting from a house just a few streets away, but Hill had to see it for himself. When he got to the street where President

By Devan Cole, Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge in Baltimore has halted certain provisions of an Affordable Care Act regulation that the Trump administration is set to implement on Monday and could lead to as many as 1.8 million Americans losing their health insurance. The decision issued Friday by US District Judge

By Kristen Holmes, Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — Controversy over the handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files had dogged the Trump administration for weeks. So as Congress went on their typical August recess, President Donald Trump’s team began discussing ways they could finally get ahead of the story. They debated in particular whether to release

By Associated Press (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired a general whose agency’s initial intelligence assessment of damage to Iranian nuclear sites from US strikes angered President Donald Trump, according to two people familiar with the decision and a White House official. Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse will no longer serve as head of

CNN By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — Kilmar Abrego Garcia was released from criminal custody in Tennessee on Friday, the latest development in a dramatic legal saga surrounding the wrongly deported Maryland father of three. This marks the first time he has not been imprisoned since the Trump administration deported him to a notorious mega-prison

By Aditi Sangal, Ted Barrett, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said Friday that he supports the Justice Department sending Jeffrey Epstein files to the House Oversight Committee. “Innocent people shouldn’t be hurt. But I’m in support of keeping it totally open. I couldn’t care less. You got a lot of people that it could

By Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said Friday he will give Russian President Vladimir Putin “a couple of weeks,” further extending his deadline for potential consequences against Moscow after urging the Russian leader to meet with his Ukrainian counterpart in hopes of ending the war. Asked by CNN’s Alayna Treene if there’s

By Adam Cancryn, Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said Friday that Chicago will be the next city that his administration targets for a federal crackdown on crime and suggested a longer and more intense campaign in the nation’s capital. “We’ll straighten that one out, probably next, that will be our next one

By David Wright, CNN (CNN) — The Republican National Committee elected Florida State Sen. Joe Gruters as its new chair Friday, confirming President Donald Trump’s pick to replace outgoing chairman Michael Whatley, who is running for US Senate in North Carolina. “Thank you all so much, now the party’s in great hands moving forward –