Politics

By Eric Bradner, Arit John, Arlette Saenz, Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — Texas Republicans now face a clear path to redraw the state’s congressional maps after state House Democrats ended their 15-day walkout and returned to the Capitol on Monday. In California, meanwhile, Democrats on Monday began to advance a series of proposals that would

CNN, KVUE, KEYE, KCRA, TEXAS HOUSE OF REP, TEXAS SENATE, WBBM, TEXAS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES By Eric Bradner, Arit John, Arlette Saenz, Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — Texas Republicans now face a clear path to redraw the state’s congressional maps after state House Democrats ended their 15-day walkout and returned to the Capitol on Monday.

By Ethan Schenker, CNN (CNN) — As hundreds of federal law enforcement officers and National Guard troops descend on Washington as part of President Donald Trump’s public display of force against crime in the nation’s capital, the president and his allies have increasingly directed their ire toward the city’s juvenile crime laws. More than two

By Arlette Saenz, CNN (CNN) — Democratic Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier has now spent over 24 hours on the Texas House floor in protest after refusing a Republican demand to be placed under the watch of the state Department of Public Safety. When Texas House Democrats returned to the Capitol in Austin on Monday,

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — In what appears to be a first for the FBI, Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel announced Monday that Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey will serve as co-deputy director of the agency after a rift arose last month with Deputy Director Dan Bongino. Bailey will serve

By Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — A federal court appointed Jay Clayton, President Donald Trump’s choice for US attorney for the Southern District of New York, to serve in that position as his interim term was set to expire, making him the president’s first significant US attorney appointment that has gone unchallenged. Judges in SDNY

By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump made some false claims to the press while meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House on Monday, including a long-debunked claim that the US has given Ukraine more than $300 billion in wartime aid. “I guess the number is well over $300 billion,”

By Jennifer Hansler, Kylie Atwood, CNN (CNN) — The State Department has revoked more than 6,000 student visas this year, a State Department official said Monday, as the Trump administration continues its crackdown on some international students it says have broken the law. The visas were revoked because people had stayed after their visas expired

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — Twenty states and Washington, DC, sued the Trump administration on Monday, alleging that it is improperly withholding hundreds of millions of dollars meant to help victims of crimes in order to force states into cooperating with federal immigration enforcement efforts. The states, all of which have Democratic attorneys general,

By Ted Barrett, CNN (CNN) — House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer said in a statement on Monday that the Justice Department will start turning over records related to Jeffrey Epstein on Friday. This comes after the committee subpoenaed the Justice Department for the records and set a deadline of August 19. “Officials with the

By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump made a series of false claims about elections in a Monday social media post in which he pledged to “lead a movement to get rid of MAIL-IN BALLOTS” and voting machines – including an inaccurate assertion that states have to run elections in the manner the

By Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — In the first Trump administration, then-Rep. Adam Schiff led the House’s investigations into Donald Trump, first as the top Democrat on the intelligence committee’s probe into Russian election interference and then as the lead investigator of the withholding of Ukraine aid that led to the president’s first impeachment. When

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