Politics

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — FBI Director Kash Patel sparred with a lawmaker briefly during a Tuesday afternoon hearing at the Senate Appropriations Committee when asked about media reports alleging he drinks to excess. In his opening statement, Sen. Chris Van Hollen, a Maryland Democrat, raised concerns about Patel’s leadership, noting reports of his

By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump was at it again. On Monday night, Trump embarked on one of his periodic late-night social media posting sprees. As usual, his dozens of posts and reposts were littered with debunked conspiracy theories and other wildly inaccurate claims – many of them about past presidential elections

CNN By Kaitlan Collins, Ben Tinker, Adam Cancryn, Sarah Owermohle, CNN (CNN) — Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary is leaving the Trump administration, according to three people familiar with the situation, after President Donald Trump signed off on a plan to fire him last week. The FDA chief had come under intense and

By Michael Williams, Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump has made clear on social media and in interviews that he thinks Immigration and Customs Enforcement needs a rebrand — more specifically, a new name: National Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or NICE. Whether that change will move forward, in the form of an executive

By Kaitlan Collins, Ben Tinker, Adam Cancryn, Sarah Owermohle, CNN (CNN) — Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary is leaving the Trump administration, according to three people familiar with the situation, after President Donald Trump signed off on a plan to fire him last week. The FDA chief had come under intense and sustained

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Two years after a container ship rammed into and collapsed Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, the Justice Department has announced criminal charges against two companies and the ship’s technical superintendent. The crash killed six highway workers and cut off traffic to one of the US’ largest shipping ports, officials

By Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — A Republican congresswoman from Virginia is defending herself amid calls for her to resign after she agreed with a radio host’s remark referring to House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ “cotton-picking hands.” The comment was made during Rep. Jen Kiggans’ appearance on “Richmond’s Morning News” on Monday to talk about

By Jeff Zeleny, CNN (CNN) — Nebraska takes its turn on the primary calendar Tuesday as voters settle a divisive Democratic congressional primary in a race that is poised to become one of the nation’s most competitive contests this fall that could help determine control of Congress. It’s been a decade since Nebraska sent a

By Ethan Cohen, CNN (CNN) — “Good” or “someone we can trust” are words you’d expect to find candidates using to describe themselves. But on the website of Cindy Burbank, a Democrat running for Senate in Nebraska, they don’t describe her. They refer to another candidate running to defeat Republican Sen. Pete Ricketts: independent Dan

By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — It’s President Donald Trump’s economy – and most Americans aren’t happy with it. A new CNN poll conducted by SSRS finds that 77% – including a majority of Republicans – say that Trump’s policies have increased the cost of living in their own community. Roughly two-thirds of Americans say

By Jennifer Agiesta, Annette Choi, Ariel Edwards-Levy, Edward Wu, David Goldman, CNN (CNN) — “It’s more expensive to exist.” “You’re just staying afloat instead of getting ahead.” “It should not be like this.” Those responses to a new CNN poll sum up Americans’ feelings about the economy: They just feel stuck. CNN’s poll, conducted by

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — Several veterans’ benefits programs, payments for 9/11 families, a ban on TikTok on government devices, and changes Congress made to how presidential elections are certified in light of the January 6 Capitol attack are all in jeopardy with a case challenging how the Democratic-led US House relied on proxy

By Hannah Rabinowitz, Kaitlan Collins, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump personally pushed the Justice Department to issue subpoenas to reporters covering the war in Iran in an effort to flush out their sources, according to officials familiar with the matter. He delivered the message on a sticky note — the word “Treason” in Sharpie

By Lauren Fox, Manu Raju, Sarah Ferris, Ellis Kim, CNN (CNN) — Key Senate Republicans are signaling a willingness to support up to $1 billion in security upgrades for President Donald Trump’s ballroom renovation project, despite Democratic attacks, as the White House ramps up its lobbying push. But the vote could put some of the

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Monday cleared the way for Alabama to revert to a congressional map with one majority-Black district in a sudden ruling that drew a dissent from the court’s three liberal justices. Alabama officials had rushed up to the court late Friday asking it to