Politics

By Betsy Klein, CNN Miami (CNN) — President Donald Trump traded the Oval Office for The Octagon on Saturday night. The president arrived to raucous applause at the Kaseya Center in Miami, participating in the “walkout” traditionally reserved for athletes as he became the first sitting president to attend a UFC event. Trump, who walked

By Gabe Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The Department of Homeland Security has administered lie detector tests to about 50 staffers in recent weeks, including FEMA’s acting administrator and roughly a dozen officials at the disaster relief agency, as part of an intensifying effort to root out what the department alleges are leaks of national security

By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — Recent Pentagon policies are having direct impacts on students at Defense Department schools around the globe and leaving students and their parents concerned they’re being disadvantaged by attending the schools, multiple students and parents told CNN. Many of the changes stem from President Donald Trump’s executive order banning programs

By Sarah Owermohle, CNN (CNN) — Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. this week made his strongest endorsement yet of the measles vaccine amid an ongoing outbreak that has killed three and infected more than 600 people across the US. But his recent push for people to get vaccinated for measles stands

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — A federal appeals court will allow the Trump administration to further shrink the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau but not dismantle it entirely. The Friday evening order from the US DC Circuit Court of Appeals is a partial win for President Donald Trump, who campaigned on abolishing the bureau, which

By Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump sent a memorandum to four federal department heads Friday night instructing them to allow the military to use and take jurisdiction of federal land along the US-Mexico border. The memo, sent to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth

By Natasha Bertrand and Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — The US Army’s base in El Paso, Texas — Fort Bliss — has been chosen as a site to detain and house potentially thousands of migrants, and contracts have already been signed to start the construction of migrant facilities on the base, three defense officials told

By Jeff Zeleny, Samantha Waldenberg and Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — A painting of an iconic scene of President Donald Trump surviving an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania last summer now hangs in the Grand Foyer of the White House, after an official portrait of former President Barack Obama was moved from the location. The White

By Devan Cole and Emily R. Condon, CNN (CNN) — Less than a day after the Supreme Court said the Trump administration had to “facilitate” the return of a man mistakenly deported to El Salvador, the case appeared headed for even murkier waters. During a tense hearing before US District Judge Paula Xinis on Friday

By Rene Marsh, CNN (CNN) — The Department of Homeland Security requested the Social Security Administration to enter more than 6,000 names of immigrants into its database used to track dead people, according to a DHS official with knowledge of the decision. The move will effectively financially starve the immigrants, cutting off their ability to

By Alex Marquardt, Abbas Al Lawati and Kylie Atwood, CNN (CNN) — Delegations from Iran and the United States will meet again next week after wrapping up “constructive” nuclear talks that included the first direct contact between a Trump administration and an Iranian official, according to Iran’s state news agency. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi

By David Wright, CNN (CNN) — Democratic Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet announced Friday that he is running for governor in 2026 as the one-time presidential candidate looks to succeed term-limited Gov. Jared Polis. “Colorado, I’m running for Governor. From expanding the Child Tax Credit to securing $7B for Colorado’s infrastructure, we’ve made real progress together.

By Shania Shelton, CNN (CNN) — The US announced it removed the commander of the Pituffik Space Base in Greenland on Thursday because of a “loss of confidence in her ability to lead,” after Vice President JD Vance’s controversial visit to the semiautonomous island last month. “Actions to undermine the chain of command or to

By Kevin Liptak, Jeff Zeleny and Phil Mattingly, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump is happy to talk about the financial markets when they’re rising, as they were on Wednesday, but when markets were falling Thursday in the aftermath of his remarkable turnabout on tariffs, he punted to the closest adviser around. This time, Treasury

By Joan Biskupic, CNN Chief Supreme Court Analyst (CNN) — The vast Trump litigation, sure to define the Supreme Court over the next four years, has already exposed Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s resistance. She speaks up, wields her pen as a dagger, and doesn’t care if she goes it alone. In a case this week, she

By Eric Bradner, Arit John and Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — Four House members from competitive districts — two Republicans and two Democrats — offered a preview of congressional budget battles and the midterm election season to come in a Thursday night CNN town hall. Republicans Mike Lawler of New York and Ryan Mackenzie of

CNN By Eric Bradner, Arit John and Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — Four House members from competitive districts — two Republicans and two Democrats — offered a preview of congressional budget battles and the midterm election season to come in a Thursday night CNN town hall. Republicans Mike Lawler of New York and Ryan Mackenzie

CNN By Eric Bradner, Arit John and Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — Four House members from competitive districts — two Republicans and two Democrats — offered a preview of congressional budget battles and the midterm election season to come in a Thursday night CNN town hall. Republicans Mike Lawler of New York and Ryan Mackenzie

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department will review its case against a former FBI informant who was convicted of lying about the Biden family’s ties to Ukraine, prosecutors said in a court filing Thursday. Alexander Smirnov was sentenced to six years in prison for falsely telling FBI agents in 2020 that President

CNN Jade Walker, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s 25% tariffs on all cars shipped to the US are expected to raise car prices by thousands of dollars. If people can’t afford to pay more, will they opt to take the bus or train instead? Doing so could reportedly save Americans more than $13,000 a