Politics

By Piper HudspethBlackburn, CNN (CNN) — The husband of a late staffer to Rep. Tony Gonzales called the congressman a “predator” on Wednesday, and said that the Texas Republican has “continued to lie to the American people” amid affair allegations. “You know, the guy’s a predator. You know, he’s continued to lie to the American

By Tierney Sneed, Sean Lyngaas, Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — A Donald Trump appointee at the Department of Homeland Security told state election officials from around the country Wednesday that federal immigration agents won’t be deployed to polling places during the 2026 midterms, according to multiple sources on the call. The comments, made by DHS

By Evan Perez, Hannah Rabinowitz, Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — FBI Director Kash Patel ordered the ouster of at least 10 employees involved in the investigation of President Donald Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate, four people briefed on the matter told CNN. The ousters are part of a wider internal

By Adam Cancryn, Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration is withholding more than $250 million in Medicaid funds from Minnesota, claiming widespread fraud as it escalates a pressure campaign on the state’s Democratic leadership. Vice President JD Vance announced the extraordinary move on Wednesday, blaming Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz for failing to adequately

By Associated Press (CNN) — The Trump administration’s latest policy of deporting immigrants to “third countries” to which they have no ties is unlawful and must be set aside, a federal judge ruled Wednesday in a case that already reached the nation’s highest court. US District Judge Brian E. Murphy in Massachusetts agreed to suspend

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — The morning after President Donald Trump declared a “war on fraud” during his State of the Union address, senior Justice Department prosecutor Colin McDonald told the Senate Judiciary Committee and said he would steadfastly follow the department’s tradition to focus only on the evidence. “I am a career federal

By Natasha Bertrand, Zachary Cohen, Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — As Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Dan Caine has been drafting military options for potentially striking Iran, a steady stream of top officials from the Army, Navy and Air Force have been quietly summoned directly to his office. Typically, sensitive military operations are debated

By Manu Raju, CNN (CNN) — The Department of Homeland Security may again suspend TSA PreCheck by prioritizing “standard” security lanes at the airport amid the partial government shutdown, Secretary Kristi Noem told CNN. It comes after the department walked back its decision over the weekend to pause TSA PreCheck, which allows travelers to get

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — A sprawling Chinese influence operation — accidentally revealed by a Chinese law enforcement official’s use of ChatGPT — focused on intimidating Chinese dissidents abroad, including by impersonating US immigration officials, according to a new report from ChatGPT-maker OpenAI. The Chinese law enforcement official used ChatGPT like a diary to

By Ariel Edwards-Levy, Jennifer Agiesta, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address drew largely positive marks from a heavily Republican audience, according to a CNN poll conducted by SSRS. But it didn’t fully convince significant shares of even that friendly audience that he’s focusing on the nation’s most important problems or

By Adam Cancryn, CNN (CNN) — For the first hour of President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday, Democrats in the House chamber largely stuck to their plan: Sit in stony, defiant silence. But once Trump began to level attacks on immigrants, that strategy went out the window. Democratic Reps. Ilhan Omar and

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump used his State of the Union address Tuesday to slam the Supreme Court’s decision against his sweeping emergency tariffs, repeatedly calling the ruling “unfortunate” even as he suggested his administration would quickly move past it. With four justices sitting mere feet away, their hands folded over

CNN By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump basked in the gold medal glory of the US Olympic men’s hockey team Tuesday, spending roughly six minutes of his State of the Union address celebrating their victory after meeting with the team in the Oval Office earlier in the day. His recognition of the

By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump basked in the gold medal glory of the US Olympic men’s hockey team Tuesday, spending roughly six minutes of his State of the Union address celebrating their victory after meeting with the team in the Oval Office earlier in the day. His recognition of the team

By Aaron Blake, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump delivered the first State of the Union address of his second term Tuesday night at the US Capitol. The speech came shortly after the Supreme Court struck down his signature global tariffs, as he considers a second round of potential military strikes on Iran and as

By CNN staff (CNN) — President Donald Trump made numerous false or misleading claims in his State of the Union address on Tuesday night. Many of them were long-debunked falsehoods familiar from his rallies, interviews and social media posts. These include various lies disparaging the fairness of US elections, his false claim that he ended

By Ellis Kim and Sarah Ferris (CNN) — Rep. Al Green was escorted out of the House chamber just minutes into President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday night for holding a sign reading “Black people aren’t apes!” “I wanted the president to see it, and he saw it, and I told

By Annette Choi, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s 2026 State of the Union address to the 119th Congress Tuesday was a long one. With his 1 hour and 47 minute speech, Trump beat his own record for the longest annual address to Congress on record since at least 1964 — which he set last