Politics

By Haley Britzky, Alexandra Skores, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — After an early Thursday morning landing near Washington, two White House officials posted social media farewells to the heavily modified Boeing 747-200, which has flown as Air Force One since 1990, as the first of three planes being modified for the role is set to

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth doubled down on the Trump administration’s combative posture towards NATO on Thursday, announcing a six-month review of US forces in Europe and lambasting Washington’s allies for limiting their involvement in the war in Iran. “This will be a real review. It will be designed

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN Chicago (CNN) — Former President Barack Obama on Thursday is getting what he wanted for so long: his words carved into stone, a monument to his presidency entering the Chicago skyline. Walking through his $850 million, multiuse presidential center the past few months, Obama went down the slide in the playground

CNN, POOL, OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL CENTER By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN Chicago (CNN) — Former President Barack Obama on Thursday is getting what he wanted for so long: his words carved into stone, a monument to his presidency entering the Chicago skyline. Walking through his $850 million, multiuse presidential center the past few months, Obama went down

By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — As Barack Obama opens his presidential center, he does so as by far the most popular living president. Obama is viewed positively by 57% of Americans, a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS finds, far surpassing the ratings for his two Oval Office successors. Only 34% of the public

By David Wright, CNN (CNN) — The divides between the Democratic old guard and a new class of progressive challenger were on sharp display on Tuesday night as a congressional candidate in New York’s 13th District apologized for past disparaging remarks about Kamala Harris. “To Vice President Kamala Harris, I sincerely apologize,” Darializa Avila Chevalier,

By Kevin Liptak, CNN Geneva, Switzerland (CNN) — For the first time in his two presidencies, Donald Trump attended a Group of 7 summit this week without blowing it up. Sure, he complained when the temperature of the meeting room was too warm. He joked, upon arriving an hour late to one session, that he

By Zachary B. Wolf, Abbas Al Lawati, Lou Robinson, Annette Choi, CNN (CNN) — The memorandum of understanding, MOU, between the US and Iran aims to expand on the ceasefire and get traffic flowing through the Strait of Hormuz. But at less than 800 words in English, the 14-point outline leaves a lot of details

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Justice Department’s internal watchdog office repeatedly refused in his confirmation hearing to use the word “attack” to describe the violence on January 6, 2021, that disrupted Congress’ election certification vote. “I don’t know if I would use the term ‘attack,’” Don Berthiaume,

By Arit John, CNN (CNN) — Pastors for Trump founder Jackson Lahmeyer on Wednesday announced he was ending his bid for Oklahoma’s 1st Congressional District, one day after he was projected to advance to a runoff for the Republican nomination in the wake of a texting scandal. “After prayerful consideration with my wife, Kendra, and

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — As federal courts have looked skeptically at President Donald Trump’s assertion that he can construct a massive new ballroom at the White House without approval from lawmakers, he’s increasingly pointed to alleged attempts to harm him as a reason why the project should continue apace. The latest iteration of

By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump has invoked the Defense Production Act to force defense companies to manufacture more weapons after the war with Iran depleted stockpiles In a document signed last week, the president says that he finds “that conditions exist which may pose a direct threat to the national defense

By Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — At President Donald Trump’s Miami hotel, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche recently tried to smooth things over with a conservative watchdog group whose anger at the Trump administration was building on multiple fronts. In the private speech delivered to Judicial Watch on April 20, Blanche attempted to showcase how

By Arit John, Maureen Chowdhury, Lauren Chadwick, Terence Burlij, CNN (CNN) — Janeese Lewis George will win the Democratic mayoral primary in Washington, DC, after her opponent conceded Thursday, CNN’s Decision Desk projects. Former DC Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie, who also worked as a trial attorney for the Department of Justice under former President Barack Obama,

By Ariel Edwards-Levy, Patrick Svitek, Katie Doran, CNN (CNN) — In the years before he ran for US Senate, James Talarico said there were six sexes, declared that “God is nonbinary” and deemed it “existential” for Americans to reduce their meat consumption to combat climate change. As Republicans have assailed him over those comments, calling