Politics

By Jennifer Hansler, Kylie Atwood and Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — The US State Department on Thursday formally told Congress it intends to make sweeping changes to focus on the Trump administration’s priorities, including reducing immigration to the US and promoting the administration’s worldview, with less emphasis on protecting and promoting human rights across the

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The blockbuster federal court ruling that halts President Donald Trump from imposing some of his most sweeping tariffs rests in part on a legal theory that conservative groups repeatedly used at the Supreme Court to block former President Joe Biden’s agenda. A push by the majority-conservative Supreme Court to

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Thursday limited the scope of environmental reviews of major infrastructure projects in a decision that could speed up approvals of highways, airports and pipelines. The decision is the latest setback for environmentalists at the conservative Supreme Court, which has in recent years shut down regulations intended

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The US State Department is reviewing all Harvard University-affiliated visa holders, not just students, three senior State Department officials told CNN Wednesday. The move is a notable escalation of the Trump administration’s feud with the Ivy League university. The administration previously moved to revoke Harvard’s ability to enroll international

By Kaanita Iyer and Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — Tech billionaire Elon Musk, who was granted special government employee status to lead the Department of Government Efficiency, said Wednesday evening that his time in the Trump administration has come “to an end.” During his time helming DOGE, Musk oversaw major cuts to the federal

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — US immigration officials are “working” on flying back a Guatemalan migrant who says he was wrongly deported to Mexico, according to new court filings, in what appears to mark the first time the Trump administration has made plans to bring back a migrant after a judge ordered the administration

By Jennifer Hansler, Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, Nectar Gan and Yong Xiong, CNN (CNN) — The United States will “aggressively revoke visas for Chinese students,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Wednesday in a major escalation of tensions with Beijing, and another blow to American higher education institutions. The plan was met with strong opposition from

By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — It’s been a long two weeks. Since at least the end of April, President Donald Trump has been telling reporters he will decide what to do in Ukraine in two weeks, using the timeframe over and over to suggest he is close to a final assessment on how to

By Kylie Atwood, Alayna Treene and Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump believes his administration is “very close to a solution” on an Iran nuclear agreement and he has personally warned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to disrupt the talks, he said on Wednesday. Trump cautioned his close ally last week that

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration has thrown the lives of the university’s 7,000 international students into distress and disarray, with some afraid of attending commencement this week, Harvard’s director of immigration services spelled out in a new court filing ahead of a major federal court hearing Thursday in Boston. Some US

By Paula Reid and Casey Gannon, CNN (CNN) — After failing to secure confirmation as the top US attorney in Washington, DC, Ed Martin is now actively serving in multiple new roles inside the Justice Department that give him even more power to punish President Donald Trump’s adversaries and reward his supporters. After the Senate

By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN (CNN) — A Jewish congressman on Wednesday shared his personal fears of political violence, as he reflected on last week’s fatal shooting of two Israeli Embassy staffers and called on those protesting the war in Gaza to do so peacefully. Democratic Rep. Greg Landsman shared Wednesday that the killing of “two

By Kristen Holmes, Kaitlan Collins, Kevin Liptak, Paula Reid and Jeff Zeleny, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump used his pardon power to grant clemency to a wave of individuals this week who had been convicted of crimes that range from public corruption, guns and even maritime-related offenses, according to multiple officials. The pardons are

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump has nominated Emil Bove, one of his former personal attorneys and now a top Justice Department official, to be a federal appeals court judge. Trump announced Bove’s nomination to the US Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit in a social media post Wednesday, saying that

By Sarah Ferris and Lauren Fox, CNN (CNN) — Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday signaled that House Republicans are “eager and ready” to formalize the White House’s so-called DOGE cuts as soon as President Donald Trump’s team makes the official request to Congress. “The House is eager and ready to act on DOGE’s findings so

CNN By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn and Shania Shelton, CNN (CNN) — Elon Musk raised concerns about President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax and spending cuts package, saying in a video released Tuesday that he believes it would raise the US budget deficit and undercut efforts by the Department of Government Efficiency. “I was disappointed to see