Politics

By Annie Grayer, CNN Washington (CNN) — When reporters asked Mike Johnson to respond to President Donald Trump’s pardons for more than 1,000 people charged in the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, the House speaker had a ready answer. “We’re not looking backwards. We’re looking forward,” he said Wednesday morning. Barely three

By Joan Biskupic, CNN Chief Supreme Court Analyst (CNN) — In the few days since he returned to the White House, President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive orders and mass pardons have shattered political and legal norms. But one order is in a category of its own. His decree proposing to end the constitutional promise of

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Donald Trump littered a Wednesday interview on Fox News with many of the same false claims he made earlier in his first three days back in the White House. Speaking with Fox News host and ardent supporter Sean Hannity in the Oval Office, Trump delivered familiar inaccurate

By Michael Williams, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump wouldn’t rule out investigating former President Joe Biden in a Fox News interview aired Wednesday. Speaking with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, Trump also repeatedly criticized California Gov. Gavin Newsom, put possible conditions on funds for wildfire-ravaged California and swore to punish cities that don’t cooperate with

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. – the vaccine skeptic President Donald Trump has nominated to serve as Health and Human Services secretary – plans to retain his financial interest in some litigation brought by Wisner Baum, a law firm whose specialties include pursuing pharmaceutical drug injury cases. Ethics records released

By Lauren Fox, Manu Raju and Pamela Brown, CNN Washington (CNN) — Pete Hegseth’s ex-wife recently gave a new statement to the FBI about the defense nominee’s alcohol use, according to two sources familiar with the matter, an issue that has become a source of controversy during his confirmation process. Senate Armed Services Chairman Roger

By Evan Perez and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration is putting a halt to agreements that require reforms of police departments where the Justice Department found a pattern of misconduct, according to a memo issued Wednesday. “The new administration may wish to reconsider settlements and consent decrees negotiated and approved by the

By Gabe Cohen, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump has issued a “full and unconditional pardon” to Washington, DC, police lieutenant Andrew Zabavsky and officer Terence Sutton for their roles in the death of 20-year-old Karon Hylton-Brown, a case that drew protests on the heels of the murder of George Floyd. Prosecutors argued that in

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump is targeting federal employees who focus on diversity, equity and inclusion and career policy staffers as he follows through on campaign promises to exert more control over the federal bureaucracy. The moves, just days into his new administration, go after programs he’s long attacked and civil

By Katelyn Polantz and Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The federal judges in Washington, DC, who handled hundreds of cases from January 6, 2021, are pushing back against President Donald Trump’s mass clemency for convicted rioters, rebuking the newly pardoned as “poor losers” and memorializing the “blood, feces, and terror” from the US Capitol attack.

CNN By Katelyn Polantz and Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The federal judges in Washington, DC, who handled hundreds of cases from January 6, 2021, are pushing back against President Donald Trump’s mass clemency for convicted rioters, rebuking the newly pardoned as “poor losers” and memorializing the “blood, feces, and terror” from the US Capitol

CNN By Chris Isidore, CNN New York (CNN) — President Donald Trump this week rescinded a nearly 60-year-old executive order that prohibited government contractors from discriminating in their hiring, firing, promotion or pay practices. Replacing it is a new requirement that those employers certify that they do not have what he termed “illegal” diversity, equity,

By Clare Foran, Haley Talbot and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — The House voted on Wednesday to pass a GOP-led bill to require detention of undocumented migrants charged with certain crimes, handing an early legislative win to President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans, who chose to bring up the measure as their first bill of

By Sarah Ferris and Lauren Fox, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Donald Trump is already testing the limits of Hill Democrats who have vowed to be less antagonistic the second time around. Privately, Democrats have largely agreed it’s time to end the capital-R resistance to the newly sworn in president. Then on Trump’s first 24

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Trump administration has moved with lightning speed to roll out the president’s immigration agenda, effectively closing off the US southern border to asylum seekers, severely limiting who’s eligible to enter the United States and laying the groundwork to swiftly deport migrants already in the country. Within hours

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court spent nearly 80 minutes Wednesday debating a traffic stop outside Houston that turned deadly in just five seconds. In a decision that could determine whether courts may consider the circumstances leading up to the use of deadly force, a majority of the justices signaled they will