Politics

By Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge said two high-level Justice Department employees may have violated her order limiting public opinions about the prosecution of accused killer Luigi Mangione by reposting President Donald Trump’s statements about the case on X. Judge Margaret Garnett ordered the Justice Department to respond by the end of

By Adam Cancryn, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration is expected to name cancer researcher Dr. Anthony Letai as the new head of its National Cancer Institute, two people familiar with the matter told CNN. The expected appointment, reported first by CNN, would put Letai at the helm of a sprawling operation within the National

By Alejandra Jaramillo, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump has introduced a “Presidential Walk of Fame” along a noticeable walkway outside the West Wing of the White House. “The Presidential Walk of Fame has arrived on the West Wing Colonnade,” special assistant to the president and communications adviser Margo Martin wrote in a post on

By Morgan Rimmer, Arlette Saenz, Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Wednesday he is open to discussing enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies – a priority of Democrats’ – but insisted that those negotiations cannot be tied to a stopgap government funding bill. “This is a program that needs reform, but

By Kaitlan Collins, Hannah Rabinowitz, Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — A top Justice Department official has retracted a letter he sent to an FBI agent who responded to the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre that suggested the agent was being investigated in relation to a defamation lawsuit against Alex Jones. In a letter to William

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — Federal investigators seized multiple documents labeled “secret,” “confidential,” and “classified,” including some about weapons of mass destruction, during the late August search of the office of President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton, according to newly released court records that are part of an investigation into whether

By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — The Pentagon is terminating a decades-old advisory group that offered recommendations on how to support women serving in the military, including past suggestions that women needed properly fitting body armor and appropriate health care. Pentagon Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson said in a post on X on Tuesday that Defense

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — A team of suspected Chinese hackers has infiltrated US software developers and law firms in a sophisticated campaign to collect intelligence that could help Beijing in its ongoing trade fight with Washington, cybersecurity firm Mandiant said Wednesday. The hackers have been rampant in recent weeks, hitting the cloud-computing firms

By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s abrupt shift on the war in Ukraine this week came amid fresh frustration at Russian President Vladimir Putin, and was intended to apply more pressure on Moscow to come to the negotiating table, according to US officials. By publicly declaring Ukraine could regain all its territory

By Joan Biskupic, CNN Chief Supreme Court Analyst (CNN) — Chief Justice John Roberts’ 20 years on the Supreme Court have been punctuated by a series of vivid episodes, from his confirmation hearings as he vowed merely to call “balls and strikes,” to his dramatic switched vote to preserve the Affordable Care Act, to his weeks

By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — The group in charge of nationwide planning for the United States’ 250th birthday celebrations has fired its Trump administration-appointed executive director for “breaches of authority and trust,” a spokesperson said Tuesday. The nonpartisan US Semiquincentennial Commission said in a statement that Ari Abergel, who was put in place

By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday was littered with numerous false claims, many of which have been debunked before. Trump was inaccurate about a wide variety of subjects. They included inflation in the US, climate policies both in the US and abroad, immigration,

By Gabe Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration has launched an internal investigation into FEMA employees who signed a public letter to Congress warning that the administration’s overhaul of the disaster relief agency is undermining emergency response and endangering the public. As part of the probe, the agency has ordered the employees — who

By Betsy Klein, CNN New York (CNN) — First lady Melania Trump hosted world leaders’ spouses on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, announcing the launch of a new coalition on children’s well-being and artificial intelligence safety that she said she hoped they would join. For one of her counterparts, Trump’s

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Days after announcing it was ending the government’s annual food insecurity report, the US Department of Agriculture placed about a dozen researchers, supervisors and administrators on paid administrative leave on Monday. The employees, who include top officials with the USDA’s Economic Research Service, which produces the longstanding report, were