Politics

By Kevin Liptak, Jennifer Hansler, Zachary Cohen, Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — In President Donald Trump’s telling, he was an hour away from ordering new strikes on Iran when he abruptly announced on social media Monday that he would allow more time for diplomacy. “They’re loaded to the brim,” he said Tuesday of his armada

By Patrick Svitek, Kristen Holmes, Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — It seemed like the end of the road for Ken Paxton. The Texas attorney general had underperformed expectations in the state’s March 3 Republican primary for Senate, narrowly trailing long-endangered incumbent Sen. John Cornyn. Trump was on the verge of endorsing Cornyn, promising to make

CNN By Tierney Sneed and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — The Internal Revenue Service can’t bring claims against President Donald Trump, his family or businesses for past tax issues, according to additional terms added Tuesday to the settlement the Justice Department reached with Trump to resolve his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS. The additional

By Tierney Sneed and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — The Internal Revenue Service can’t bring claims against President Donald Trump, his family or businesses for past tax issues, according to additional terms added Tuesday to the settlement the Justice Department reached with Trump to resolve his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS. The additional terms,

By Hannah Rabinowitz, Tierney Sneed, Holmes Lybrand, Devan Cole, Paula Reid, CNN (CNN) — Todd Blanche vociferously defended the Justice Department’s newly established anti-weaponization fund as not limited to President Donald Trump’s allies in the acting attorney general’s first appearance before Congress since assuming his position. Though the arrangement is “unusual,” Blanche conceded Tuesday, anyone

By Patrick Svitek, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday endorsed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in his primary challenge to Sen. John Cornyn, dealing a massive blow to the incumbent with major implications in the fight for the Senate majority. Cornyn has spent over a year courting Trump’s support, while Paxton has run

By Logan Schiciano, CNN (CNN) — The Defense Department’s internal watchdog has said it is evaluating US Southern Command’s operations that have included strikes on alleged drug-trafficking boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean. It comes as the strikes, which have targeted nearly 60 vessels and killed over 190 people since they began last

By David Wright, CNN (CNN) — Conservative Justices Sarah Warren and Charlie Bethel will win reelection to the Georgia Supreme Court, handing Democrats a pair of defeats in their attempt to claw out of an 8-1 minority. No incumbent justice on the court had lost reelection in over a century going into Tuesday. But the

By Jeff Zeleny, CNN Hebron, Kentucky (CNN) — The race against Rep. Thomas Massie has overshadowed the campaign for Ed Gallrein, the farmer and former Navy SEAL recruited to run against him. Yet Massie and Gallrein are the actual choices facing Republican voters Tuesday in a Kentucky primary, despite President Donald Trump looming large over

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson offered a blistering critique Monday of the Supreme Court’s handling of a recent high-profile redistricting case, asserting that the court needed to be “really, really careful” in the churn of an election year to avoid appearing political and suggesting it had failed to do so

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration is proposing increasing the refugee admissions ceiling for fiscal year 2026 to 17,500 for White South Africans, according to an emergency determination sent to Congress and obtained by CNN. Last year, the administration restricted the number of refugees allowed to enter the country annually to 7,500,

By Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Colorado Gov. Jared Polis justified his decision to release election denier Tina Peters from prison with a series of false and misleading claims, inaccurately distancing her case from efforts to undermine the 2020 election. The former Mesa County clerk is set to be freed from state prison in two

By Tierney Sneed, Devan Cole, CNN The unprecedented lawsuit President Donald Trump brought against the Internal Revenue Service over the unauthorized disclosure of his tax returns years ago has led to an unprecedented arrangement that will make nearly $1.8 billion in taxpayer funds available to allies of the president who say they were unfairly investigated

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — Nancy Pelosi is officially wading into the race to replace her in Congress, endorsing San Francisco supervisor Connie Chan after weeks of more subtly expressing her support. “Connie understands San Francisco — our values, our diversity, our communities, and our responsibility to lead with both compassion and strength. She’s

By Jeff Zeleny, David Wright, CNN Hebron, Kentucky (CNN) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made a rare wartime visit to the campaign trail on Monday, imploring Republicans in Kentucky to defeat GOP Rep. Thomas Massie and send President Donald Trump “reinforcements” who pledge to support his agenda. Rallying alongside Ed Gallrein, Massie’s Republican challenger, on