National Politics

By Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — The Afghan man who allegedly shot two National Guard members in Washington, DC, last week went from being a US partner in Afghanistan to spending the last few years in Washington state with his family, where, according to reports and sources who spoke to CNN, he had a hard

By Eva McKend, CNN Churchville, Virginia (CNN) — As the final hues of autumn linger in the Blue Ridge Mountains, the 200-person community of Churchville, Virginia, is grappling with the loss of its health clinic. Gone are the days of seniors walking down the road from their house to see the town doctor. Augusta Medical

By Katelyn Polantz, Kristen Holmes, Holmes Lybrand, Evan Perez, Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — As Lindsey Halligan was driving back to the Washington, DC, area Monday, Trump’s handpicked US attorney to run the Alexandria, Virginia, office was trying to figure out whether she still had a job. Attorney General Pam Bondi called her directly, but

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Food stamp recipients are now receiving their November benefits, but a growing swath of enrollees may soon lose their vital food assistance completely. At the same time as the government shutdown disrupted the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, states began implementing an expansion of the program’s work requirements

By Kaanita Iyer, Adam Cancryn, Amanda Sealy, CNN (CNN) — A senior Food and Drug Administration official on Friday said the agency will change its vaccine approval process, alleging that Covid-19 vaccination resulted in the deaths of 10 children. In an internal memo obtained by CNN, Dr. Vinay Prasad — the FDA’s chief medical and

By Kristen Holmes, Alejandra Jaramillo, Stefano Pozzebon, CNN Palm Beach, Florida (CNN) — The United States continued its pressure campaign against Venezuela on Saturday as President Donald Trump issued a broad directive on social media, warning airlines, pilots and criminal networks to avoid Venezuelan airspace. “Please consider the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela to be

By Arit John, CNN (CNN) — Aftyn Behn, the Democratic nominee for next week’s special election in a heavily Republican Tennessee congressional district, has made affordability concerns a centerpiece of her campaign messaging – mirroring the playbook of the party’s victorious candidates for governor in Virginia and New Jersey earlier this month. Tuesday’s contest is

By Sarah Ferris, Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — House Speaker Mike Johnson already had one of the toughest jobs in Washington: controlling an unruly GOP conference, with its razor-thin majority on the line next November. Now, with tensions sharply rising inside the Capitol over party infighting and a new focus on partisan floor attacks, it’s

By Brian Todd, Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Washington (CNN) — Fasil Regassa wipes away tears when he talks about Sarah Beckstrom, the 20-year-old National Guard member who was shot Wednesday just a few feet away from his store. “I cried when I heard she died,” Regassa told CNN. For nine years, Regassa and his wife, immigrants

By Alejandra Jaramillo, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said Friday he intends to grant a “full and complete pardon” to former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, a move that would erase a major US drug-trafficking conviction for a onetime US ally who is currently serving a 45-year federal prison sentence. “I will be granting

By Alejandra Jaramillo, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Friday continued his effort to delegitimize actions taken during Joe Biden’s presidency, claiming in a social media post that he is “cancelling all executive orders, and anything else that was not directly signed” by his predecessor. Trump’s declaration, made in a post on Truth Social,

By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump is doubling down on the aggressive anti-immigration policies that helped deliver him a second term, launching an interagency federal investigation into the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, DC, while also directing his administration to take steps to stem migration into the US. In

By Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — The US military carried out a follow–up strike on a suspected drug vessel operating in the Caribbean on September 2 after an initial attack did not kill everyone on board, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. That September strike was the first in what became a regular series

By David Wright, CNN (CNN) — Just before her victory this fall, New Jersey Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill jabbed at nearby Virginia, which also had a governor’s race, over its booming data center market. “Right now, we need to produce power here in our state … because Virginia has a million data centers which are sucking

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump has pledged to use the “influence of the presidency to bring an immediate halt” to the two-year-old war in Sudan that the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees estimates has displaced nearly 12 million people. It’s a significant development for a crisis that has shown little

CNN By Alejandra Jaramillo, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump suggested Thursday that the United States is preparing to take new action against alleged drug trafficking networks in Venezuela, telling service members during a Thanksgiving call that efforts for strikes on land will be starting “very soon.” “In recent weeks, you’ve been working to deter

By Alejandra Jaramillo, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump suggested Thursday that the United States is preparing to take new action against alleged drug trafficking networks in Venezuela, telling service members during a Thanksgiving call that efforts for strikes on land will be starting “very soon.” “In recent weeks, you’ve been working to deter Venezuelan

By Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — The US will reexamine all green cards issued to people from 19 countries “of concern” at President Donald Trump’s direction, as the Trump administration intensifies its immigration crackdown following the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, DC. “At the direction of @POTUS, I have directed a full

CNN By Casey Tolan, Karina Tsui, CNN (CNN) — Bruna Ferreira came to the US from Brazil as a child, and by all accounts, lived a life like any American: playing on the high school tennis team, getting married and divorced, building a small business and helping raise her son. When she was taken into