Politics

By Arlette Saenz, CNN (CNN) — Former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama are addressing rumors about a divorce head-on in an episode of her podcast released Wednesday. “She took me back!” Barack Obama said on the “IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson” podcast. “It was touch and go for a while.”

By Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump hosted congressional leaders and families affected by the fentanyl epidemic on Wednesday for a signing ceremony on bipartisan legislation that will strengthen prison sentences for fentanyl traffickers. The Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act, which recently passed both the Senate and the House with bipartisan

CNN By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — Roughly 6 in 10 Americans say they oppose the GOP domestic policy bill that President Donald Trump recently signed into law, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS. In the wake of his most sweeping legislative achievement since returning to office, Trump’s rating for handling the

By Phil Mattingly, CNN (CNN) — Elizabeth Warren has seen this movie before. As a Harvard professor, Warren rang the alarm bell in the lead up to the 2008 financial crisis. Now a veteran senator, she is ringing that bell again. Where President Donald Trump’s sees his tariffs, tax cuts and sweeping deregulatory effort as

By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — Roughly 6 in 10 Americans say they oppose the GOP domestic policy bill that President Donald Trump recently signed into law, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS. In the wake of his most sweeping legislative achievement since returning to office, Trump’s rating for handling the budget

By Morgan Rimmer and Ted Barrett, CNN (CNN) — The Senate worked overnight into the early hours of Thursday morning as it weighed whether to claw back $9 billion in federal funds already congressionally approved for foreign aid and public broadcasting programs as a deadline to act on the White House priority looms. A “vote-a-rama”

By CNN Staff (CNN) — Adelita Grijalva will win Tuesday’s special Democratic primary in Arizona’s 7th congressional district, CNN projects. Grijalva, a former county supervisor, is the daughter of the late Democratic Rep. Raul Grijalva, who represented the district for two decades before his death in March. She’ll be favored to win the Sept. 23

CNN By Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump pitched a key group of Texas Republicans Tuesday on his strategy for his party to hold onto power in the midterms: Redrawing those members’ districts to allow for even more GOP seats. In a call with the House GOP’s Texas delegation, Trump told members the

By Arlette Saenz, CNN (CNN) — Democrats in Congress want to force votes to release the full Jeffrey Epstein files. The party’s candidates are bringing up the Epstein case in campaign speeches. And at least one potential 2028 contender is fundraising off the furor. Some Democrats once decried the promotion of conspiracy theories about Epstein,

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Federal investigators normally tasked with uncovering narcotic and financial crimes were told to prioritize the arrest of a university student with no criminal record, and not tell her that her visa was revoked, a Homeland Security Investigation agent testified Tuesday, a marked shift for the agency under President Donald

CNN By Shania Shelton, CNN (CNN) — The Department of Education began sending notices to employees that it plans to resume shrinking the department after the Supreme Court said on Monday that President Donald Trump could carry out mass layoffs. A lower court ruling had indefinitely paused the president’s plans, though the Supreme Court’s decision

By Hannah Rabinowitz, Donald Judd, Paula Reid and Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — Some of President Donald Trump’s most loyal allies in Congress aren’t satisfied by his decision to not release additional files from the Jeffrey Epstein case, and it’s threatening to deepen the MAGA divide he now faces from his base. Privately, Trump’s White

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — Former national security adviser Mike Waltz defended his use of the messaging app Signal during a Tuesday confirmation hearing where lawmakers largely avoided the topic. The “Signalgate” scandal, in which top Trump administration officials discussed sensitive details of a US military strike in a chat to which Waltz had

By Shania Shelton, CNN (CNN) — The Department of Education began sending notices to employees that it plans to resume shrinking the department after the Supreme Court said on Monday that President Donald Trump could carry out mass layoffs. A lower court ruling had indefinitely paused the president’s plans, though the Supreme Court’s decision puts

By Arit John, CNN (CNN) — The next test of who Democratic voters want to see leading the party will take place Tuesday in southwest Arizona, where three leading candidates are offering competing visions in the primary to fill the late Rep. Raul Grijalva’s seat. The candidates have all painted themselves as fighters focused on

By Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump pitched a key group of Texas Republicans Tuesday on his strategy for his party to hold onto power in the midterms: Redrawing those members’ districts to allow for even more GOP seats. In a call with the House GOP’s Texas delegation, Trump told members the White

By Jennifer Agiesta, CNN (CNN) — Half of Americans say they are dissatisfied with the amount of information the federal government has released about the Jeffrey Epstein case, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS in the days after the Justice Department released a memo saying there is no evidence the convicted sex

By Kevin Liptak, Kylie Atwood, Kristen Holmes and Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — As President Donald Trump hardens his position toward Moscow and seeks new ways to bring its war in Ukraine to an end, he says he isn’t looking to deliver Kyiv longer-range missiles that could strike targets deeper into Russia. “No, we’re not

By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn and Jamie Gangel, CNN (CNN) — More than 75 former federal and state judges on Tuesday called on the Senate Judiciary Committee to reject the nomination of Emil Bove, President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, to a prestigious appeals court judgeship. “Mr. Bove’s egregious record of mistreating law enforcement officers, abusing