Politics

By Alison Main, Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Sunday that the State Department suspended visitor visas for Gazans because it received “evidence” that some organizations facilitating the visas to the US “have strong links to terrorist groups like Hamas,” without providing further details. The State Department announced in a

By Camila DeChalus, CNN (CNN) — In southeast Washington, DC, children stood in line Friday to receive new backpacks filled with school supplies, while community organizers passed out free hot dogs and hamburgers to teenagers to celebrate the last few days of summer before. But just a few blocks away, the sight of National Guard

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court’s landmark opinion on same-sex marriage isn’t the only high-profile precedent the justices will have an opportunity to tinker with – or entirely scrap – when the court reconvenes this fall. From a 1935 opinion that has complicated President Donald Trump’s effort to consolidate power to a

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — Gavin Newsom knows the popular image of him is of a smooth talker with slicked-back hair, the wealthy liberal who co-owns a vineyard. He knows, regarding the presidential ambitions he’s hardly hiding, that the biggest question he would face out of the gate is whether he could sell Americans

By Kit Maher, Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — The last time Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was inside the Oval Office, he was berated by his US hosts, denied a planned luncheon and abruptly asked to leave the West Wing. “He can come back when he is ready for peace,” President Donald Trump said after the

By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — The morning after news broke that Texas House Democrats planned to return to the state, effectively ending their efforts to block Republicans from redrawing the state’s congressional maps, Attorney General Ken Paxton took a victory lap. The firebrand conservative ally of President Donald Trump had used his office to

By Shania Shelton, Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — The Republican governors of West Virginia, South Carolina, Ohio, Mississippi, Louisiana and Tennessee announced they will send National Guard troops to Washington, DC, in an escalation of President Donald Trump’s efforts to federally take over law enforcement in the city. Louisiana’s governor Jeff Landry said Monday he

By Molly English, Arlette Saenz, CNN (CNN) — California Democrats on Friday released their redistricting proposal, aiming to produce up to five additional Democratic seats in the US House in response to Texas Republicans’ mid-decade redrawing of lines at the behest of President Donald Trump. The release comes ahead of the California legislature meeting Monday,

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By Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — The US military is deploying more than 4,000 Marines and sailors to the waters around Latin America and the Caribbean as part of a ramped-up effort to combat drug cartels, two US defense officials told CNN — a dramatic show of force that will give the president a broad

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — A divided federal appeals court is allowing President Donald Trump to downsize the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau at this time, siding with the administration on its plans to reshape government agencies and its employees. Groups that represent CFPB employees or use the agency to protect consumers from predatory banking

By Arlette Saenz, CNN (CNN) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Friday called a second special session to push through a redrawing of congressional maps to secure up to five more Republican seats in the US House. Unlike the first special session, the new 30-day session may end with the GOP-friendly maps being passed. Texas

By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — The Pentagon clarified on Thursday that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth thinks women should have the right to vote, despite his sharing of CNN reporting which featured religious leaders he supports saying they would back the repealing of the 19th Amendment. “Of course, the secretary thinks that women should

By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump claimed Monday that he knew why Russian troops weren’t able to enter Kyiv in the days after they invaded Ukraine in 2022. Russia’s tanks, Trump said, got destroyed by missiles “because the tanks got stuck in the mud.” “You know, they would’ve been in Kyiv in