Politics

By Shania Shelton and Morgan Rimmer, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Senate voted Tuesday night to confirm Pam Bondi as attorney general, making the tenacious litigator the latest official to help fill out President Donald Trump’s administration. The vote was 54-46. The vote was mostly along party lines though Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania

By Phil Mattingly, CNN (CNN) — The Treasury Department said Elon Musk aides detailed to the agency have “read-only” access to its sensitive $5 trillion US payments system and that no payments have been suspended or rejected as part of an ongoing review. The information, provided in a letter to lawmakers from a Treasury official,

By Alex Marquardt, Lauren Kent and Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — US Agency for International Development staff around the world will be placed on administrative leave Friday and ordered to return to the US, according to a directive issued Tuesday night. As of 11:59 p.m. ET Friday, “all USAID direct hire personnel will be placed

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Proud Boys lost control of their trademarked name on Monday after a judge in Washington, DC, ruled that it be handed over to a Black church that was attacked by members of the far-right group four years ago. The decision from Judge Tanya M. Jones Bosier is meant

By Alayna Treene and Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration is planning widespread layoffs among the federal workforce soon, leaving employees who don’t accept its deferred resignation offer at risk of losing their jobs, two Trump administration officials told CNN. The layoffs, which are being referred to internally as sweeping “Reductions in Force,”

By Sarah Ferris, CNN Washington (CNN) — Conservative backlash has brought Speaker Mike Johnson’s budget plans to a halt, offering an early sign of the struggle Republicans will face as they try to muscle President Donald Trump’s agenda through a narrowly divided Congress. House GOP leaders are struggling to coalesce behind a budget blueprint that

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — On Monday, President Donald Trump put a month-long pause on his planned tariffs on Canadian imports. Earlier in the day, though, he added two new items to his long list of inaccurate complaints about Canada. In a post on social media and then in comments to reporters in

By Priscilla Alvarez, Natasha Bertrand and Haley Britzky, CNN Washington (CNN) — As tents went up in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to hold migrants, attorneys at the Department of Homeland Security and Pentagon were still trying to determine whether it was legal to take the unprecedented step of flying migrants from the US southern border to

By Shania Shelton, CNN (CNN) — The FBI on Tuesday released “seeking information posters” for two Iranian intelligence officers who they believe were involved in the disappearance of former FBI agent Robert Levinson. The US has previously identified and sanctioned Mohammad Baseri and Ahmad Khazai in the disappearance and presumed death of Levinson, and Tuesday’s

By Josh Campbell, Evan Perez, Hannah Rabinowitz and Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — FBI officials have complied with demands to provide the Justice Department with details of thousands of employees who worked on investigations related to the January 6, 2021, US Capitol riot, according to people familiar with the situation. The demand has caused consternation

By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday said the United States “will take over” the Gaza Strip — possibly with the help of American troops — while the Palestinians who live there should leave, a stunning proposal that would dramatically reorient the Middle East and subject a population of more than

By Sean Lyngaas, Jennifer Hansler and Lauren Kent, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration’s freeze of foreign aid and dismantling of the agency that oversees it is putting at risk thousands of jobs in the US and abroad, industry sources told CNN. The fallout is already being felt at kitchen tables around the country with

By Hadas Gold, Tierney Sneed, Phil Mattingly, Katelyn Polantz and Rene Marsh, CNN Washington (CNN) — Elon Musk and his allies have spent the last two weeks barreling full speed into multiple government agencies, causing confusion and chaos and raising questions about whether an unelected businessman can wield this kind of authority, seemingly running roughshod

By Annie Grayer and Lauren Fox, CNN Washington (CNN) — Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, a former physician who has spent his career touting the safety of vaccines, will likely determine whether Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic, becomes the country’s next Health and Human Services secretary. Cassidy, a former gastroenterologist with a

By Andrew Kaczynski, Jennifer Hansler and Em Steck, CNN (CNN) — Darren Beattie, a former Donald Trump speechwriter who was fired in 2018 after CNN revealed he spoke at a conference attended by White nationalists, has been elevated to a top job at the State Department, multiple sources familiar with the move told CNN. Beattie