Politics

By Adam Cancryn, CNN (CNN) — White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt offered a forceful defense of border czar Tom Homan in the wake of reports that he accepted a bag of cash from undercover FBI agents, insisting on Monday that he “did absolutely nothing wrong.” “The president stands by Tom Homan 100% because he

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — Lindsey Halligan, a White House aide and a fierce ally of President Donald Trump, has taken over as the top federal prosecutor in Virginia’s eastern district, according to a person familiar with the change. Halligan assumed the office days after her predecessor, Erik Siebert, was pushed out of the

CNN By Isabelle D’Antonio, CNN (CNN) — Tom Homan, now the president’s border czar, was recorded last year accepting a bag with $50,000 in cash by undercover FBI agents in an investigation the Trump Justice Department later closed, The New York Times reported Saturday. The September 2024 payment arose from a probe that was not

By David Wright, Eva McKend, CNN (CNN) — Exactly two months after President Donald Trump signed his policy megabill in a July 4 celebration at the White House, a Virginia health care company blamed the law for the closure of three rural clinics serving communities along the Blue Ridge Mountains. The closures, Augusta Medical Group

By Randi Kaye, CNN Fort Pierce, Florida (CNN) — The man accused of attempting to kill Donald Trump at a Florida golf course last year has rested his case and will not testify in his own defense. Ryan Routh, 59, representing himself, called three witnesses, including two friends a and former Marine sniper who test-fired

By David Wright, CNN (CNN) — Democrat Mikie Sherrill and Republican Jack Ciattarelli clashed Sunday over their responses to political violence and solutions to the rising cost of living in the first general election debate of New Jersey’s 2025 gubernatorial race. President Donald Trump’s second-term agenda loomed large in a state he lost last year

CNN By Jeremy Herb, Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and a host of top administration officials vowed Sunday that the mission of slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk would only grow stronger in the wake of his assassination. At a memorial service in Glendale, Arizona, attended by tens of

CNN By Jeremy Herb, Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and a host of top administration officials vowed Sunday that the mission of slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk would only grow stronger in the wake of his assassination. At a memorial service in Glendale, Arizona, attended by tens of

By Jeremy Herb, Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and a host of top administration officials vowed Sunday that the mission of slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk would only grow stronger in the wake of his assassination. At a memorial service in Glendale, Arizona, attended by tens of thousands

By Kylie Atwood, Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — When President Donald Trump delivers the first address of his second term to the annual gathering of global leaders at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, he will be at odds with more than half of the member nations, including key allies, over the war in

By Aileen Graef, CNN (CNN) — Rep. Don Bacon is leaving Congress next year — and offering some of the sharpest criticism to date of President Donald Trump of anyone in his party. Bacon, a Republican who has represented a Nebraska swing district for the past eight years, says the GOP has departed from the

By Kristen Holmes, Kevin Liptak, CNN Phoenix, Arizona (CNN) — Charlie Kirk’s funeral here Sunday will punctuate a watershed moment for the grassroots conservative movement he founded as a teenager and was working to advance earlier this month when a gunman shot and killed him. For Kirk’s supporters, the days since the assassination have been

By Isabelle D’Antonio, CNN (CNN) — Tom Homan, now the president’s border czar, was recorded last year accepting a bag with $50,000 in cash by undercover FBI agents in an investigation the Trump Justice Department later closed, The New York Times reported Saturday. The September 2024 payment arose from a probe that was not targeting

By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump increased pressure on Attorney General Pam Bondi to bring criminal charges against several political foes, calling her out by name Saturday as he noted he had reviewed statements critical over what he says is a lack of action in the investigations. Just over an hour later,

CNN By Eric Bradner, Andrew Seger, Nicky Robertson, Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — Farmers across the country are issuing increasingly urgent warnings that they’ll face grim consequences if they don’t get help selling this year’s bumper crop that many have begun harvesting. Trade deals many had hoped would quickly emerge after President Donald Trump slapped

By Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s press office could be investigated for a social media post that some Republicans perceived as a threat to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem amid a heightened threat environment for political figures. “Kristi Noem is going to have a bad day today. You’re welcome, America,”

By Camila DeChalus, CNN (CNN) — Democrats on Capitol Hill are raising alarm over large banners with President Donald Trump’s face that can be seen on three federal buildings, claiming they carry authoritarian undertones in the wake of a report from California Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff. “When I saw the banners hanging from federal office

By Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — Still locked out of power in Washington, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and his party are seizing on a fresh battle with President Donald Trump: a high-stakes gamble over this month’s government funding deadline. With a shutdown on the line, Schumer and other top Democrats in Congress are vowing

By Eric Bradner, Andrew Seger, Nicky Robertson, Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — Farmers across the country are issuing increasingly urgent warnings that they’ll face grim consequences if they don’t get help selling this year’s bumper crop that many have begun harvesting. Trade deals many had hoped would quickly emerge after President Donald Trump slapped tariffs

By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — Fake photos. False claims. Wild conspiracy theories. The public murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Utah, captured in gruesome footage that spread around the world, has set off an avalanche of misinformation. Bogus assertions have been spread on social media by Americans across the political divide and by