Politics

By Annie Grayer, Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — The former US attorney who negotiated a controversial 2008 plea deal with Jeffrey Epstein defended that agreement in a closed-door interview with House investigators last month, according to a transcript of the interview released by lawmakers. Alex Acosta, the former US attorney from the Southern District of

By Samantha Waldenberg, Kaanita Iyer, Fadel Allassan, CNN (CNN) — Disgraced former Rep. George Santos, who had been serving a seven-year term for the fraud charges that got him ousted from Congress, was released from prison on Friday night after President Donald Trump commuted his sentence, his lawyer tells CNN. Trump first announced the commutation

By Donald Judd, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s frustrations with Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro spilled into public view during a White House meeting with Ukraine’s leader Friday, which saw Trump trade military strikes in the Caribbean for an f-bomb in the Cabinet Room. Pressed on reporting from The New York Times that Venezuela had

By Jeremy Herb, Katelyn Polantz, Kristen Holmes, Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — By the time FBI Director Kash Patel took office in February, the investigation into whether John Bolton mishandled classified information had been in the works for roughly three years. President Donald Trump had long been calling for Bolton – and other perceived political

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Friday urged the Supreme Court to allow him to deploy the National Guard in Chicago, putting the explosive legal fight over his ability to use those troops on American soil before the justices for the first time. The filing sets up a showdown over presidential

By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump made multiple false claims to the press during a Friday meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House – including a long-debunked claim about the war in Ukraine. The Russian invasion of Ukraine Trump repeated his previous fake history about Russia’s full-scale invasion of

By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump uses a lot of inaccurate numbers. Sometimes, like on Thursday, he uses a bunch of them in rapid succession. At a White House event at which he announced sharply reduced prices for some common fertility drugs through a new direct-to-consumer platform, Trump: Again falsely claimed he

By Kylie Atwood, Natasha Bertrand, Zachary Cohen, Katie Bo Lillis, CNN (CNN) — The US military is holding two survivors on a Navy ship after the US carried out a Thursday strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean, according to three US officials. The strike, which President Donald Trump confirmed Friday, was the

By Alayna Treene, Zachary Cohen, Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump did not take the possibility of the US sending long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine off the table during his call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, sources familiar with their conversation told CNN. But Trump is also not expected to commit to

By Tami Luhby, René Marsh, CNN (CNN) — One essential Social Security employee didn’t foresee her surgery being upended by the federal government shutdown when she scheduled it for early October. But the longtime manager decided to postpone the procedure, which would have required her to take two weeks off to recover, fearing that she

By Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — Republican Rep. Dave Taylor said Thursday that his office was targeted as part of an elaborate “ruse” after an American flag reportedly altered to include a swastika was found in his Washington, DC, office earlier this week and that similar flags have been found in other Republican offices. “Numerous

CNN By Sarah Owermohle, Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Thursday announced an agreement to sell common fertility drugs at steeply reduced prices on TrumpRx, a direct-to-consumer drug platform the White House plans to launch in January 2026. Under the plan, cost to patients for three in vitro fertilization (IVF) drugs made

CNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN President Donald Trump announced a deal to offer common fertility drugs at steep discounts through TrumpRx, a direct-to-consumer drug platform set to launch in January 2026. The initiative is part of a broader effort to expand access to in vitro fertilization (IVF) and reduce its cost, though key details about

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, Gloria Pazmino, CNN New York (CNN) — Zohran Mamdani was pushed to provide specifics about his plans if he’s elected mayor of New York City in the campaign’s first fall debate, hammered by his two older rivals who painted him as unprepared and accused him of selling the city’s residents a fantasy.

By Natasha Bertrand, Kylie Atwood, CNN (CNN) — The US carried out a strike on a boat in the Caribbean on Thursday that did not kill everyone on board, two US officials told CNN. There are believed to be survivors among the crew, but their status is unclear. The US military has carried out at