Politics

By Adam Cancryn, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump is preparing to make health care a central focus of his midterm sales pitch, despite weak polling and misgivings among some of his own advisers about elevating an issue that’s long proved disastrous for the Republican Party. The approach developed by Trump and his senior aides

By Sunlen Serfaty, CNN (CNN) — The Commission of Fine Arts, an independent federal agency that advises the president and Congress on design plans for monuments, memorials, coins and federal buildings, is usually made up of experts in architecture, art and urban and landscape design. But when the commission meets on Thursday to evaluate President

By Jennifer Hansler, Kylie Atwood, CNN (CNN) — When President Donald Trump convenes the inaugural meeting of his Board of Peace on Thursday, he is expected to run it like one of his Cabinet meetings, a US official told CNN. Instead of his Cabinet officials, however, he will be joined by representatives from countries like

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — The 18-year-old accused of running up to the US Capitol with a loaded shotgun on Tuesday told officers he wanted to talk to a member of Congress, according to the criminal complaint filed against him. The man from Georgia, Carter Camacho, made his initial appearance in federal court Wednesday

By Gabe Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration has ordered the Federal Emergency Management Agency to suspend the deployment of hundreds of aid workers to disaster-torn areas around the US while the Department of Homeland Security is shut down, according to sources and internal messages obtained by CNN. The new edict comes even though

By Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — As Florida prepares to rename the Palm Beach International Airport after President Donald Trump, a recent trademark filing has some state lawmakers wondering if the Trump family is looking to profit. The bill to rename the south Florida hub after Trump has now passed the Legislature and now awaits

By Arlette Saenz, CNN (CNN) — In Texas, a pair of US Senate primaries set for next month have emerged as an early gauge of where the energy is in both political parties and sparked a sharp debate over what it will take to win the reliably Republican state in November. With early voting now

By Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — New Mexico’s House of Representatives has approved creating a bipartisan special committee to investigate the ranch that the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein owned in the state. The measure, which passed Monday, directs the committee, called the Truth Commission, to look into the “allegations of criminal activity” on the

By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — After passing notes for three-and-a-half hours Tuesday, Iranian and American negotiators departed their indirect talks in Geneva with an agreement to keep talking. What they’re talking about, exactly, remains an open question. It’s unclear if the two sides are focused just on Iran’s nuclear program or other issues like

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — An 18-year-old in a tactical vest who charged the US Capitol with a loaded shotgun Tuesday was quickly arrested, US Capitol Police said. Police identified the man as Carter Camacho of Smyrna, Georgia, and said he acted alone. They are working to determine a motive. Capitol Police Chief Michael

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court said Tuesday that it will start using software to assist in justices’ decisions to recuse themselves from cases that present a potential conflict of interest. A brief press release issued by the court described an electronic matching process already used by some lower courts to compare

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — Officials in Fulton County, Georgia, accused the Justice Department of making “serious” omissions in the application the FBI filed to obtain a search warrant for 2020 election ballots last month. The local officials, who are seeking the return of the election materials, wrote in a court filing Tuesday that

By Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — The US military struck three alleged drug-trafficking vessels in the eastern Pacific and Caribbean on Monday night, killing all 11 people on board, US Southern Command said Tuesday. “Intelligence confirmed the vessels were transiting along known narco-trafficking routes and were engaged in narco-trafficking operations,” Southern Command said in a