Politics

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The State Department has “most certainly been denying visas” to people “celebrating” the murder of Charlie Kirk, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said. The top US diplomat’s comments come amid broader threats by the Trump administration to punish alleged “hate speech” after the killing of the president’s ally

By Associated Press Minneapolis (AP) — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said Tuesday he will seek a third term in 2026, hoping to beat the odds to become the longest-serving governor in a state where voters have usually said two terms were plenty. In a campaign video posted on YouTube, Walz said he’s running because his

By David Wright, CNN (CNN) — Geoff Duncan, the former Republican lieutenant governor of Georgia, announced Tuesday he will run for governor in 2026 as a Democrat, cementing a high-profile party switch and entering a key midterm contest. In a video announcing his campaign, Duncan says that “Georgia Republicans threw me out of their party,”

By Molly English, CNN (CNN) — Democrat Xp Lee will win a special election to fill the vacant seat of the late Democratic state Rep. Melissa Hortman, according to a call from the Associated Press, just over three months after she and her husband were fatally shot in what Gov. Tim Walz at the time

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — After months of slow burning controversies around his agency, from the handling of the investigation into Charlie Kirk’s murder to the bungled release of Epstein files, FBI Director Kash Patel will face Senate and House lawmakers at two highly anticipated hearings. Lawmakers are expected to push Patel, a Donald

By Jennifer Hansler, Stefano Pozzebon, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration said Monday that Colombia had “failed demonstrably” in its obligations to fight drug trafficking but the US will continue to provide funding to the country. Although the decision to “decertify” Colombia but continue assistance avoids what experts said was the worst-case scenario of cutting

By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — As multiple service members are facing investigation or suspension for posts on social media critical of Charlie Kirk, experts told CNN there are legal roadblocks to the military actually taking significant action against them. A slew of accounts on X began posting screenshots of social media posts made by

By Kevin Liptak, Adam Cancryn, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said Monday he’d consider naming far-left anti-fascism group Antifa as domestic terrorists, previewing a plan to crack down on what he’s cast as a widespread network of left-wing radicals inciting violence. “It’s something I would do, yeah,” he said when asked whether he would

By Arit John, CNN (CNN) — Arnold Schwarzenegger, the action star and former Republican governor of California, urged voters in the state to oppose Proposition 50, a ballot initiative backed by Democrats that would allow the party to temporarily redraw the state’s congressional maps. “I hate to get political here, but this is not political.

By Associated Press Accra, Ghana (AP) — The government of Ghana said Monday that 14 West Africans deported to the country from the US have been sent to their home countries, places where lawyers representing some of the men say they face a risk of persecution or torture. News of the West Africans’ deportation to

By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — The US military killed three people in another deadly strike on a vessel in international waters around South America allegedly “transporting illegal narcotics” from Venezuela, President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post on Monday. “This morning, on my Orders, US Military Forces conducted a SECOND Kinetic Strike

By Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — The US Air Force has begun modifying a Boeing 747 that was donated to the US by Qatar over the summer, an Air Force spokesperson said on Monday. The plane will be used for “executive airlift support,” the spokesperson said. President Donald Trump has said he wants to use

By Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — Maurene Comey, a federal prosecutor involved in the Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and Sean Combs cases, has sued the Trump administration over her firing this summer, levying another legal challenge to the Justice Department’s treatment of career officials. Comey, the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, alleges in

By Natasha Bertrand, Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The Pentagon’s internal watchdog has completed a monthslong review of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s use of Signal to discuss sensitive military operations and has submitted its findings to Hegseth for review, two people familiar with the matter told CNN. Hegseth will now have the opportunity to

CNN By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — When President Donald Trump arrives at Windsor Castle in a royal carriage Wednesday, heralded by three separate military bands and escorted by riders on horseback, his host — King Charles III — will in some ways be repaying a nearly 37-year-old favor. In 1988, the then-Prince of Wales

By Arlette Saenz, Alison Main, Ted Barrett, CNN (CNN) — The White House has requested an additional $58 million in security funding for the executive and judicial branches following the assassination of Charlie Kirk, a Republican congressional aide said. The funding request is being “actively processed” in the context of a stopgap funding bill, the