Politics

By John King, CNN Kellerton, Iowa (CNN) — Shanen Ebersole is smiling, keeping an eye on her cows as they graze. Calving season is soon, so election season will have to wait. “We’ll walk them the mile and a half home in a month or so,” Ebersole tells a visitor. “Then they will calve in

By Lauren Fox, Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — Speaker Mike Johnson is actively working to unite his conference behind another Republican-only policy bill ahead of the midterms, with members clamoring for more wins and eager not waste what they fear could be the waning days of their majority. Despite facing one of the smallest House

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — In the end, the Supreme Court’s blockbuster case on whether President Donald Trump may temporarily fire members of the Federal Reserve may come down to a single, 26-word sentence. After repeatedly allowing Trump to remove leaders of other independent agencies, the conservative court seemed to draw a line around

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — A number of forces on the left questioned Josh Shapiro’s ties to Israel during Kamala Harris’ rushed running mate selection process in 2024. In his new memoir out next week, the Pennsylvania governor says the former vice president and her vetting team were among them. So much so, Shapiro

By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — Members of President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace,” the committee that will oversee the reconstruction of Gaza, will receive a permanent seat if they pay $1 billion, according to a US official. All funds raised will go toward rebuilding Gaza, the official said, adding that “there will not

By Alejandra Jaramillo, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said he plans to sign an executive order aimed at preventing any football games from competing with the annual Army-Navy matchup, seeking to preserve what he described as one of the country’s most cherished sporting traditions. The announcement Saturday night signaled an unusually direct effort by

By Jennifer Agiesta, Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — The Democratic Party has a deeply motivated base and a clear advantage on the generic congressional ballot ahead of this fall’s midterms despite dismal impressions of its current leaders in Congress, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS. Democratic registered voters are far more motivated

By Tom Foreman, CNN (CNN) — On a breezy autumn morning beneath skittering clouds, the demolition crew strikes quicker than almost anyone expected. Working at the behest of President Donald J. Trump, who has long fashioned himself the builder-in-chief, they take only days to reduce the 123-year-old East Wing of the White House to rubble.

By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — Few Americans are satisfied with the amount of evidence released in the Jeffrey Epstein case, a CNN poll conducted by SSRS finds, with most saying they believe the government is intentionally holding back information. The poll was conducted a little less than a month after the December 19 deadline

By Aleena Fayaz, CNN (CNN) — The US on Saturday announced it conducted a lethal strike in Syria on an al Qaeda affiliate leader it says had direct ties to an ISIS attacker who killed three Americans in early December. “The death of a terrorist operative linked to the deaths of three Americans demonstrates our

By Haley Britzky, Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Pentagon has ordered the military command that processes new recruits to hold off on initial training for people who are HIV-positive and recently joined the military, CNN has learned, saying that a decision on reinstating a Defense Department ban on their enlistment is “expected in the

By Betsy Klein, Alejandra Jaramillo, Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump has leaned into his presidential clemency powers much more aggressively in his second term –in fact, he’s pardoned one woman twice. Trump granted a slew of pardons on Friday, including one for Adriana Camberos, who was convicted for a second time after

By Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — Minneapolis has seen tense demonstrations against the Trump administration’s deployment of federal agents to the city for an immigration crackdown, raising questions about what these officers can do on the ground and how President Donald Trump can respond. As protests escalated following the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Renee Good

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — The anti-abortion movement is testing new strategies to force a legal confrontation over so-called shield laws in Democratic-led states that protect abortion providers in those states from prosecution. The escalation in tactics is driven by the reality that the number of US abortions has only increased since the Supreme

By Evan Perez, Hannah Rabinowitz, Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — After pushback from both gun rights and gun control groups, the Trump administration has quietly abandoned its plan to merge the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives into the Drug Enforcement Administration, according to people briefed on the matter. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche

By Kaitlan Collins, Hannah Rabinowitz, Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department is investigating Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey over possible obstruction of federal law enforcement, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. A person familiar with the matter told CNN that grand jury subpoenas had been issued for both