Politics

By Michael Williams, CNN (CNN) — The head of the White House budget office on Wednesday defended the Trump administration’s push to enact sweeping cuts to federal funding, even as some Republican senators voiced concerns and raised questions about the breadth of them. In opening remarks in front of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Office of

By Kevin Liptak, CNN Noordwijk, Netherlands (CNN) — President Donald Trump and his top national security officials spent much of their day in the Netherlands working to rebut an early intelligence report that assessed weekend US strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities did not destroy the core components of the country’s nuclear program and likely only

By Isabel Rosales, CNN Nashville, Tennessee (CNN) — Kilmar Abrego Garcia will remain in federal custody, at least for a few more days, amid questions over what would happen if the Salvadoran migrant facing human smuggling charges is released and subsequently detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. US Magistrate Judge Barbara Holmes said Wednesday in

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN New York (CNN) — New Yorkers aren’t the only ones trying to wrap their heads around Zohran Mamdani. Democratic Party operatives and elected officials around the country are both flabbergasted and inspired by the 33-year-old democratic socialist’s stunning success in Tuesday’s mayoral primary. In text chains and private conversations, they are

CNN By Paula Reid, Casey Gannon and Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, Emil Bove, was pushed to repeatedly deny several accusations of corruption – one made by a whistleblower at the Justice Department – during his confirmation hearing Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee. “I am not anybody’s henchman,”

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department has charged a man accused of throwing Molotov cocktails at a group of people demonstrating in Boulder, Colorado, in support of Israeli hostages with committing hate crimes. The indictment comes days after a federal judge in the state said the department could proceed with hate crimes

By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — The US Navy and Air Force are expected to announce the establishment of two additional military zones along the US southern border this week, three US officials told CNN. The zones, which are known as National Defense Areas, will be attached to Joint Base San Antonio, Texas, and Marine

By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump made false claims about the war in Ukraine, US inflation, and the past fight against the ISIS terror group during his Wednesday news conference at the NATO summit in the Netherlands. Trump also repeated his unproven assertion that the US’ weekend military strikes on Iranian nuclear

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN New York (CNN) — The moment Andrew Cuomo said he had called Zohran Mamdani to concede the race, Kal Penn stopped mid-sentence. The actor and activist is also a family friend who has known Mamdani since he was 14, and he was speechless. The crowd at Mamdani’s Election Night party wasn’t.

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration is planning to dismiss asylum claims for potentially hundreds of thousands of migrants in the United States and then make them immediately deportable as part of the president’s sweeping immigration crackdown, according to two sources familiar with the matter. It marks the latest in a series

By David Wright, CNN (CNN) — One of Zohran Mamdani’s rivals during a New York City mayoral primary debate, trying to paint him as too inexperienced for the job of mayor, dismissed his rise in the polls with a quip. “I regret not running for mayor in 2021,” said the rival, state Sen. Jessica Ramos.

By Paula Reid, Casey Gannon and Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, Emil Bove, was pushed to repeatedly deny several accusations of corruption – one made by a whistleblower at the Justice Department – during his confirmation hearing Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee. “I am not anybody’s henchman,” Bove

By Kevin Liptak, CNN Noordwijk, Netherlands (CNN) — NATO leaders convening Wednesday in the Netherlands delivered President Donald Trump a major win by boosting their defense spending targets. But comments he made while flying to the conference were raising fresh concerns about his commitment to the alliance’s core principal of collective defense. The split dynamic

WABC, CNN By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Zohran Mamdani delivered a political earthquake Tuesday in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary, riding progressive demands for change in a city facing an affordability crisis to the brink of a stunning victory. Democratic voters rejected a scandal-plagued icon of the party’s past, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Zohran Mamdani delivered a political earthquake Tuesday in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary, riding progressive demands for change in a city facing an affordability crisis to the brink of a stunning victory. Democratic voters rejected a scandal-plagued icon of the party’s past, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Instead, they

By Manu Raju, Sarah Ferris and Lauren Fox, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump and Republican leaders are betting that key GOP holdouts will buckle under enormous pressure to pass his sweeping agenda within days – even as a number are warning they’re prepared to sink the multi-trillion-dollar measure without major changes. But tensions are

By Tami Luhby and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Tuesday indefinitely blocked President Donald Trump’s effort to terminate the collective bargaining rights for more than a million federal employees. Judge James Donato of the US District Court in San Francisco granted the preliminary injunction requested by a coalition of unions whose

CNN By Arit John, Edward-Isaac Dovere and Gloria Pazmino, CNN New York (CNN) — Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old state assemblyman and democratic socialist, moved Tuesday to the brink of a stunning win in the Democratic primary for New York City mayor, with his top challenger, Andrew Cuomo, conceding the race. CNN projects Mamdani’s initial support

By Arit John, Edward-Isaac Dovere and Gloria Pazmino, CNN New York (CNN) — Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old state assemblyman and democratic socialist, moved Tuesday to the brink of a stunning win in the Democratic primary for New York City mayor, with his top challenger, Andrew Cuomo, conceding the race. CNN projects Mamdani’s initial support will

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump announced his appointments to an advisory council inside the Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday, with a list that includes a right-wing news commentator, former lawmakers, Trump’s former attorney Rudy Giuliani and a top former campaign adviser. The announcement by Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi