Politics

By Kevin Liptak, Jeff Zeleny and Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — The last time President Donald Trump climbed the rostrum in the House chamber to deliver an address to Congress, he arrived freshly impeached, a mysterious new virus was beginning to spread and Democrats had just begun the process of nominating his challenger. Five years

By Hannah Rabinowitz and Paula Reid, CNN (CNN) — Attorney General Pam Bondi appeared on Fox News last week to tease a major event: The Justice Department would release long-awaited documents related to accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. But as reporters waited inside the department and members of public watched for the tranche of documents

By Alayna Treene, Natasha Bertrand and Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — Top Trump Cabinet secretaries and national security officials are holding meetings this week to discuss the administration’s next steps on Ukraine – including the prospect of suspending military aid – following the spectacular collapse of Friday’s Oval Office meeting between President Donald Trump and

By Way Mullery, Marco Chacon and Annette Choi, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump will address a joint session of the 119th Congress on Tuesday for the first time in his second term. House Speaker Mike Johnson formally invited Trump in late January to speak, asking the president to share his “America First vision for

By Priscilla Alvarez and Renée Rigdon, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump campaigned on a promise to deport millions of undocumented immigrants residing in the United States, but so far, the pace of deportations has held steady compared to last year, according to a CNN analysis of deportation flight data. The data, provided by Thomas

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN Washington (CNN) — A top official at the US Agency for International Development was put on leave after issuing a scathing memo blaming Trump political appointees for the US government’s inability to conduct lifesaving humanitarian work. The official warned the Trump appointees’ moves will “no doubt result in preventable death, destabilization,

By MJ Lee, CNN Washington (CNN) — The CEO of a plant in Georgia that makes a special peanut butter paste for severely malnourished children around the world told CNN Sunday that his company’s contracts with the US Agency for International Development that had been abruptly canceled last week were all reinstated late Sunday night.

By Rene Marsh, CNN (CNN) — The once-obscure Office of Personnel Management, essentially the human resources department of the federal government, is now ground zero for Elon Musk and President Donald Trump’s efforts to slash bureaucracy and deconstruct vast portions of the administrative state. Current and former OPM employees describe an agency that’s been taken

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — It will be smiles and handshakes when President Donald Trump bumps into several members of the Supreme Court on the House floor Tuesday evening before he delivers his first address to Congress of his second term. But there have been subtle signs that the justices, in private, have been

By Jim Sciutto and Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — The US has suspended operations and planning for offensive cyber operations against Russia, a senior US official told CNN. The suspension is “a major blow,” the official said, especially since planning for such operations takes time and research to carry out. The concern, the official said,

By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — First lady Melania Trump is expected to speak publicly Monday, for the first time since her husband returned to office, highlighting her support for a bill aimed at protecting Americans from deepfake and revenge pornography. Trump will hold a roundtable discussion Monday on Capitol Hill, according to the office

CNN By Betsy Klein, Alison Main and Aileen Graef, CNN (CNN) — The White House is making clear it views President Donald Trump’s Friday Oval Office showdown with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as an overwhelming win that underscores Trump’s “America first” leadership, dispatching top officials and allies to amplify Trump’s handling of the situation even

By Betsy Klein, Alison Main and Aileen Graef, CNN (CNN) — The White House is making clear it views President Donald Trump’s Friday Oval Office showdown with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as an overwhelming win that underscores Trump’s “America first” leadership, dispatching top officials and allies to amplify Trump’s handling of the situation even as

By Arlette Saenz, CNN (CNN) — When he steps onto the dais in the House chamber on Tuesday night, President Donald Trump will have another major platform to relay his second term priorities. For Democrats, the moment will present a fresh test of whether they can effectively counter Trump’s primetime programming. Democratic leadership chose a

By Jennifer Agiesta, CNN (CNN) — The American public’s view of Donald Trump’s presidency and the direction he’s leading the country is more negative than positive just ahead of his first formal address to Congress since returning to office, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS. The survey finds that across three basic

By Kit Maher and Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — Campaigning in Pennsylvania last September, JD Vance seemed to strike at an unlikely political foe: the besieged president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, who’d spent most of the previous two years being hailed by Western leaders as a hero. “You know what I wish Zelensky would do

By Kristin Chapman, CNN (CNN) — Former US Rep. Mia Love, the first Black woman elected to Congress as a Republican, faces an increasingly grave prognosis as her condition has worsened while fighting an aggressive form of brain cancer, according to her daughter. Posting to her mother’s X account Saturday, Love’s daughter, Abigale Love, said

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge ruled Saturday that the head of a government watchdog agency whom President Donald Trump is attempting to fire is entitled to remain in the post, setting up a dispute that will almost certainly be decided by the Supreme Court. The ruling from US District Judge Amy

By Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, CNN (CNN) — Dan Bongino, the incoming deputy director of the FBI, suggested on his popular podcast in January that the agency he is now about to help lead was complicit in planting pipe bombs around Washington ahead of the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021. “I believe the