Politics

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — The agency charged with policing federal campaign finance laws is losing its enforcement and policy-making powers with the resignation of a Republican commissioner. Allen Dickerson’s departure Wednesday — combined with President Donald Trump’s February firing of long-serving Democratic Commissioner Ellen Weintraub — leaves the Federal Election Commission with just

By Priscilla Alvarez, Katelyn Polantz, Paula Reid and Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele have been directly in touch about the detention of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whom the US mistakenly deported to El Salvador’s notorious megaprison, according to multiple sources familiar with the previously undisclosed

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — An American detained in Belarus has been freed, Special Envoy for Hostage Response Adam Boehler and a second US official told CNN on Wednesday. Youras Ziankovich was arrested in Moscow in 2021 and then was brought to Belarus’s capital Minsk, where he was accused of being part of a

By Evan Perez, CNN Senior Justice Correspondent (CNN) — The Federal Bureau of Investigation has reassigned several agents who were photographed kneeling with demonstrators during a 2020 protest in the wake of police killing of George Floyd, people briefed on the matter told CNN. The reassignments, viewed as demotions by many inside the FBI, come

By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — A rising share of Americans say that President Donald Trump’s deportation policies have gone too far, a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS finds. Just over half, 52%, say Trump has gone too far in deporting undocumented immigrants, up from 45% in February. A similar 52% now say that

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN Manchester, New Hampshire (CNN) — JB Pritzker greeted Rep. Maggie Goodlander with a joke. Answering his own question about how the New Hampshire congresswoman’s first few months in office have been, the Illinois governor laughed: “Awful, right?” But the conversation immediately became a mini-huddle about the debates they’ve each been having

By Lauren Fox and Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — As top Republicans give themselves just two months to pass President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax and spending cuts package, some GOP lawmakers are worrying it’s not enough time to resolve their biggest intraparty fights. Under fierce pressure from the White House, GOP officials are attempting to

By Kevin Liptak and Jeff Zeleny, CNN Warren, Michigan (CNN) — On the 100th day, he rallied. Crossing the symbolic barrier between the first 100 days of his presidency and the 1,361 that remain, Trump basked in adulation from a supportive crowd and declared that he had just completed the “the most successful first 100

By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump has lied for more than four years that he won the 2020 election he lost to Joe Biden. At a rally in Michigan on Tuesday to mark his first 100 days back in office, Trump added a related lie – wrongly asserting that he served as

By Shimon Prokupecz and Rachel Clarke, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration ordered international students to be effectively designated as criminals without checking if the information was true, court records reviewed by CNN show, along with new information that was revealed by a government official at a court hearing Tuesday. Thousands of visa holders had

By Arlette Saenz, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration dismissed former second gentleman Doug Emhoff and other Biden-era appointees from the board that oversees the US Holocaust Memorial Museum on Tuesday, sources familiar with the matter said. “I was informed of my removal from the United States Holocaust Memorial Council,” Emhoff, who is Jewish, said

By Donald Judd, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump offered rare praise for a Democrat Tuesday, saying as he arrived at Selfridge Air National Guard Base that Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer “has done a very good job” — a marked shift from the previous frosty relationship between the two. “She came to see me —

By Annie Grayer, Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, CNN (CNN) — Ed Martin, President Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as US attorney for Washington, DC, did not recall some of his most controversial past statements in response to a series of questions put to him by members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, reviewed by CNN.

By Manu Raju, Veronica Stracqualursi and Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — House Republicans have thwarted Democratic efforts to probe Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s controversial use of Signal, using their power to stop the minority party from forcing a vote that could embarrass the Trump administration. GOP leaders tucked a provision into a rule approved Tuesday

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration was forced to reveal new information Tuesday about its ham-handed and legally dubious operation to cancel the immigration records of thousands of international students that a federal judge described as a blatant due process violation that “concerned” and “troubled” her. A Department of Homeland Security official