Politics

By Marshall Cohen, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency can now access sensitive Treasury Department systems that control trillions of dollars of payments and contain private information for millions of Americans, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. US District Judge Jeannette Vargas said in her ruling that she was clearing the

CNN By Kylie Atwood, Kristen Holmes, Kevin Liptak and Matthew Chance, CNN (CNN) — When President Donald Trump spoke last week by telephone with Vladimir Putin, the Russian leader committed to drafting and sending what he described as a “memorandum of peace” in the coming days laying out Russian requirements for a ceasefire with Ukraine,

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department filed a lawsuit Tuesday against North Carolina election officials targeting the registration records of potentially hundreds of thousands of registered voters in the state. The new lawsuit alleges the North Carolina State Board of Elections violated the Help America Vote Act by failing to collect and

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Tuesday struck down an executive order signed by President Donald Trump earlier this year targeting the elite law firm WilmerHale, becoming the latest jurist to permanently block enforcement of an order they concluded is unconstitutional. The ruling from US District Judge Richard Leon, an appointee

By Kevin Liptak and Kaitlan Collins, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump has signed full pardons for imprisoned reality show couple Todd and Julie Chrisley, who were sentenced to lengthy prison terms in 2022 for a conspiracy to defraud banks out of more than $30 million, according to a White House official. In addition to

CNN By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump may have pardoned Todd and Julie Chrisley, but there were two other people who were instrumental in making it happen. The reality show couple, who were convicted in 2022 of defraud and tax crimes, learned on Tuesday that they would be receiving full pardons

By David Wright, CNN (CNN) — Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville announced Tuesday he is running for governor of Alabama in 2026, as the former college football coach and staunch President Donald Trump ally eyes a new role outside Washington after a single term in office. “A few years ago I decided to give back to

By John Fritze, Angélica Franganillo Díaz and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to make it easier for his administration to deport people to South Sudan and other countries that are not their homeland, the latest in a series of controversial immigration policies the administration has put

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The US State Department has instructed US embassies and consulates around the world to pause new student visa appointments as it moves to expand “social media screening and vetting” to all applicants for student visas, according to a diplomatic cable seen by CNN. It’s the latest move from the

By Samantha Waldenberg and Stephanie Elam, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to withhold federal funding from California over a transgender athlete’s participation in an upcoming sporting event — the latest example of the president trying to use funding as leverage to enact his agenda. “Please be hereby advised that large scale

By Katelyn Polantz, Priscilla Alvarez and Lauren Chadwick, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge, in his latest finding that immigrant detainees the US intended to send to South Sudan aren’t being given due process, told the Trump administration he believes it is manufacturing chaos and trying to evade court orders. The latest written order from

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court declined Tuesday to halt a land transfer in Arizona that Western Apache people say will destroy a scared site in order to mine for copper. The decision leaves in place a lower court ruling that allowed the transfer by the federal government to go forward. Two

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear an appeal from a Massachusetts middle school student who was forced to remove a T-shirt that claimed “there are only two genders.” Two conservative justices — Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas — dissented from the decision to not hear the case.

By Shania Shelton, CNN (CNN) — FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino said the agency will further investigate several unsolved incidents, including the discovery of cocaine at the White House, the DC pipe bombs case and the Supreme Court Dobbs decision leak. “Shortly after swearing in, the Director and I evaluated a number of cases of

By Kylie Atwood, Kristen Holmes, Kevin Liptak and Matthew Chance, CNN (CNN) — When President Donald Trump spoke last week by telephone with Vladimir Putin, the Russian leader committed to drafting and sending what he described as a “memorandum of peace” in the coming days laying out Russian requirements for a ceasefire with Ukraine, according

By John Fritze, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Supreme Court is turning to the final weeks of a busy term that started off with blockbuster appeals over transgender rights and TikTok but that has increasingly become wrapped up in the policies and politics of President Donald Trump. With more than half of its argued cases

By Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump announced he is granting a “full and unconditional pardon” to a former Virginia sheriff, Scott Jenkins, who was convicted of conspiracy, honest services fraud and bribery. “This Sheriff is a victim of an overzealous Biden Department of Justice, and doesn’t deserve to spend a single day