By Gloria Pazmino, CNN New York (CNN) — Months before winning New York City’s Democratic primary for mayor, Zohran Mamdani sat inside a Pakistani restaurant in Queens with around two dozen off-duty police officers. The officers were familiar with the 33-year-old assemblyman’s past calls to defund America’s largest police force and social media posts in
Continue Reading By Dan Berman, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Friday blocked a Trump administration effort that aims to speed deportations of migrants detained in the interior of the United States, slamming it as a violation of due process. Unlike migrants detained at or near the border, who have previously been subject to expedited removal,
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By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Days after filing a whistleblower complaint claiming that the Department of Government Efficiency put Americans’ Social Security data at risk, the agency’s chief data officer “involuntarily” resigned. Charles Borges, who served in the post at the Social Security Administration since late January, wrote in his resignation letter that agency
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By Gabe Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has fired two dozen Federal Emergency Management Agency IT employees, including top leaders, for allegedly neglecting security protocols and compromising sensitive data. A DHS press release Friday claims a routine cybersecurity review uncovered major vulnerabilities that allowed a “threat actor” to breach FEMA’s network.
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By Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — Two weeks after his high-stakes summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, President Donald Trump is growing increasingly frustrated with the lack of tangible progress he’s made to end the war in Ukraine and is contemplating how involved he should be personally in brokering a meeting between Kremlin and Ukrainian
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By Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe on Friday announced a special session to draw new congressional maps – becoming the latest governor of a Republican-run state to accede to President Donald Trump’ s demands to undertake mid-decade redistricting. Kehoe ordered lawmakers to return to the state capitol next week to take
Continue Reading By Adam Cancryn, CNN (CNN) — In the weeks before they moved to oust Dr. Susan Monarez as head of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, top US Department of Health and Human Services officials repeatedly pressed her in meetings to commit to signing off on potential new vaccine restrictions, two people familiar
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By Arlette Saenz, CNN (CNN) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Friday signed a Republican-friendly redistricting bill approved by the state legislature, finalizing a new congressional map pushed by President Donald Trump ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. “Today, I signed the One Big Beautiful Map into law,” the governor wrote on X. “This map
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By Devan Cole, Bryan Mena, CNN (CNN) — An emergency court hearing over President Donald Trump’s attempt to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook ended with no immediate ruling from the judge overseeing the high-stakes legal battle. US District Judge Jia Cobb spent more than two hours Friday morning hearing arguments over Cook’s request to
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By Jeff Zeleny, Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Iowa Republican Sen. Joni Ernst has decided not to seek reelection to a third term, two people familiar with the decision say, and is poised to make an announcement next week. Ernst, 55, has been wrestling with the decision for months, but began telling friends in recent
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By Arlette Saenz, Phil Mattingly, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump has notified Congress he is moving to cancel $4.9 billion in congressionally approved foreign aid using a rare “pocket rescission,” drawing criticism from Democrats and at least one top Republican senator who questioned the legality of the move. The Office of Management and Budget’s
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By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The United States is denying a visa to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas for next month’s UN General Assembly – a significant and controversial move ahead of the global summit where multiple countries are expected to recognize a Palestinian state. The State Department announced Friday it is “denying and
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By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration is moving to repatriate hundreds of Guatemalan children in government custody who arrived in the United States alone, according to multiple sources familiar with the planning who described the scope of the effort as unprecedented. It’s the latest in a series of moves since President Donald
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By Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump met with Smithsonian Institution Secretary Lonnie Bunch III for lunch at the White House on Thursday. “The White House lunch meeting was productive and cordial,” a White House official told CNN. The meeting, which was first reported by The New York Times, comes as Trump has
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CNN By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump revoked Kamala Harris’ Secret Service protection on Thursday, according to a copy of a letter reviewed by CNN. Former presidents receive Secret Service protection for life. Harris, as a former vice president, received six months of protection after leaving office, according to federal law. That
Continue Reading By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump revoked Kamala Harris’ Secret Service protection on Thursday, according to a copy of a letter reviewed by CNN. Former presidents receive Secret Service protection for life. Harris, as a former vice president, received six months of protection after leaving office, according to federal law. That period
Continue Reading By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump keeps saying the same false things over and over. Trump’s lying has always been notable for its audacity – his willingness to make obviously untrue claims that can be very quickly debunked. But it has also been distinguished by its repetitiveness – his unwillingness to stop
Continue Reading By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — As Social Security Commissioner Frank Bisignano tells it, callers only had to wait an average of 8 minutes to speak to an agent on the phone in July. “We had a bold goal of single-digit wait time on the calls when they were at 40 minutes,” he said in
Continue Reading By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — A federal appeals court on Thursday declined to review a challenge to the Trump administration’s decision to freeze billions of dollars in foreign aid, but it also allowed the nonprofits who are fighting that effort to continue their case in a lower court. At issue is billions of dollars
Continue Reading By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge in New York on Thursday rejected an effort from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to dismiss a lawsuit from 9/11 terror attack survivors and victims’ families alleging that the country assisted the hijackers in the lead up to the deadliest attack on US soil in
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