Politics

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Trump administration is looking at closing nearly 30 overseas embassies and consulates as it eyes significant changes to its diplomatic presence abroad, according to an internal State Department document obtained by CNN. The document also recommends reducing the footprint at the US diplomatic missions in Somalia and

By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — US envoy Steve Witkoff has said that moving forward, talks with Iran would be about verification of its nuclear program. “The conversation with the Iranians will be much about two critical points,” Witkoff told Fox News on Monday. The first is verification of uranium enrichment, “and ultimately verification on

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — Joe Biden has been hankering to do more. Many leading Democrats across the country — including some former top aides and close allies, who note they’re sad to say it — are desperate for the former president to stick to a quiet retirement. But Tuesday in Chicago, Biden waded

By Kayla Tausche and Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Internal Revenue Service workers are expecting to soon learn their employment fate, coinciding with Tuesday’s tax-filing deadline and their busiest week of the year. Two sources familiar with the matter said the agency will begin to announce individual decisions by the end of this week, spelling

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — A Maryland man’s efforts to return to the US after being mistakenly deported to El Salvador last month hit a major new roadblock on Monday when the country’s president vowed to keep the father of three locked in a notorious mega-prison. The comments from Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele mark

By Casey Tolan, Curt Devine and Majlie de Puy Kamp, CNN (CNN) — The man charged with setting fire to Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s residence Sunday was an auto mechanic who faced personal and financial turmoil in recent years – including allegations that he assaulted his wife and young children amid a suicide attempt. Cody

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — Stress and anxiety had been building for weeks in Monique Lockett, a 25-year veteran of the Social Security Administration, about the fate of her colleagues and the sensitive agency data she had vowed to protect, her sister Ksha told CNN. In February, amid sweeping changes to the federal workforce,

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — The Social Security Administration is set to implement on Monday new anti-fraud measures that have sparked widespread concern and confusion, heightened by the agency’s repeated changes to one of the new policies. Social Security will now conduct an anti-fraud check on all phone applications for benefits and flag claims

By Devan Cole and Jamie Gangel, CNN (CNN) — Five former prosecutors who worked on criminal cases stemming from the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol are urging the disciplinary office governing lawyers in Washington, DC, to open an investigation into President Donald Trump’s controversial pick to be the district’s top prosecutor. The

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration insisted Sunday that it is not required to work with officials in El Salvador to secure the return of a man mistakenly deported to the country, days after the Supreme Court endorsed a federal judge’s directive that US officials must “facilitate” bringing him back stateside. The

By Kevin Liptak, CNN West Palm Beach, Florida (CNN) — President Donald Trump is “fully fit” to perform the duties of the presidency, the White House physician said in a memorandum released Sunday following Trump’s yearly physical that cited his “frequent victories” in golf tournaments as evidence of his robust health. The note, which included

By Sarah Ferris and Manu Raju, CNN (CNN) — Speaker Mike Johnson has relied on one strategy so far in his chaotic GOP House: Survive and advance. The Louisiana Republican notched another unlikely victory last week, convincing his most recalcitrant conservatives to back a budget blueprint they detested — all without losing the votes of

By Betsy Klein, CNN Miami (CNN) — President Donald Trump traded the Oval Office for The Octagon on Saturday night. The president arrived to raucous applause at the Kaseya Center in Miami, participating in the “walkout” traditionally reserved for athletes as he became the first sitting president to attend a UFC event. Trump, who walked

CNN By Betsy Klein, CNN Miami (CNN) — President Donald Trump traded the Oval Office for The Octagon on Saturday night. The president arrived to raucous applause at the Kaseya Center in Miami, participating in the “walkout” traditionally reserved for athletes as he became the first sitting president to attend a UFC event. Trump, who

By Gabe Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The Department of Homeland Security has administered lie detector tests to about 50 staffers in recent weeks, including FEMA’s acting administrator and roughly a dozen officials at the disaster relief agency, as part of an intensifying effort to root out what the department alleges are leaks of national security

By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — Recent Pentagon policies are having direct impacts on students at Defense Department schools around the globe and leaving students and their parents concerned they’re being disadvantaged by attending the schools, multiple students and parents told CNN. Many of the changes stem from President Donald Trump’s executive order banning programs