Politics

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — Just days before the United States launched a major military operation in Iran, FBI Director Kash Patel fired a dozen agents and staff members from a counterintelligence unit tasked with monitoring threats from Iran, according to two sources familiar with the matter. They were ousted for a simple reason:

By Kathryn Squyres, CNN (CNN) — Troy Nehls decided he wouldn’t seek a fourth term to the US House after spending extra time at home in Texas during last year’s government shutdown. He walked next door to the home of his identical twin brother, Trever Nehls, to tell him the news. Then he asked if

By Ethan Cohen, CNN (CNN) — We’ll start to see the first votes from the crucial Texas primaries at 8 p.m. ET, when polls close in most of the state. However, the western edge of Texas, including El Paso, is in a different time zone, so polls there don’t close until 9 p.m. ET. CNN

By Jeremy Herb, Zachary Cohen, Natasha Bertrand, Jennifer Hansler, Kylie Atwood, CNN (CNN) — In the weeks leading up to President Donald Trump’s decision to strike Iran and in the frenetic days since, the president and his administration have offered several evolving explanations — at times exaggerated or at odds with US intelligence — to

CNN By Annie Grayer, MJ Lee, Aaron Blake, Emily Condon, Dugald McConnell, CNN (CNN) — The House Oversight Committee on Monday released video of the closed-door depositions of Bill and Hillary Clinton that occurred last week as part of the panel’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. The former president and secretary of state each faced roughly

CNN By Annie Grayer, MJ Lee, Aaron Blake, Emily Condon, Dugald McConnell, CNN (CNN) — The House Oversight Committee on Monday released video of the closed-door depositions of Bill and Hillary Clinton that occurred last week as part of the panel’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. The former president and secretary of state each faced roughly

By Alejandra Jaramillo, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said Monday he will attend this year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner, a notable reversal after boycotting the annual event traditionally attended by presidents. “The White House Correspondents Association has asked me, very nicely, to be the Honoree at this year’s Dinner, a long and storied tradition

CNN By Jake Tapper, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump told CNN in a nine-minute phone interview Monday morning that the US military is “knocking the crap” out of Iran – but the “big wave” is yet to come. “We’re knocking the crap out of them,” Trump told CNN’s Jake Tapper. “I think it’s going

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Monday blocked a California education policy that restricts teachers from informing parents about a student’s gender expression, pausing an approach the state says is intended to protect trans minors from rejection and abuse at home. The emergency case raised fundamental questions about whether parents have

By Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — GOP Rep. Nancy Mace is under investigation by the House Ethics Committee for allegedly attempting to profit off of a congressional program intended to defray housing costs for lawmakers’ Washington, DC, residences — a claim she has denied. According to a newly published report from the Office of Congressional

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The US Supreme Court on Monday approved an emergency appeal from a Republican congresswoman in New York who asked the justices to block a state court ruling that ordered her Staten Island-based district to be redrawn ahead of the midterm election. The high court’s three liberal justices dissented from

By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — The first US service members to die in the conflict between the US and Iran were killed by a direct Iranian strike on a makeshift operations center at a civilian port in Kuwait on Sunday morning local time, a source familiar with the situation told CNN. The death toll

By Annie Grayer, MJ Lee, Aaron Blake, Emily Condon, Dugald McConnell, CNN (CNN) — The House Oversight Committee on Monday released video of the closed-door depositions of Bill and Hillary Clinton that occurred last week as part of the panel’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. The former president and secretary of state each faced roughly 4

By Adam Cancryn, CNN (CNN) — A new rash on the right side of President Donald Trump’s neck is the result of a cream that he’s using as a “preventative skin treatment,” his personal physician told CNN on Monday. “President Trump is using a very common cream on the right side of his neck, which

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration has decided to drop its prolonged court fights against four law firms with ties to Democrats, after it had sought and failed to cut out the firms’ access to the federal government as part of an apparent retribution campaign by President Donald Trump. Despite Trump’s dislike

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court appeared likely Monday to curb the government’s ability to disarm a frequent marijuana user, though several of the justices were also wary of completely undermining a 1968 law that was intended to ensure that Americans addicted to drugs don’t have access to firearms. Over the course