National Politics

By Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — The House Oversight Committee has deepened its probe into the federal government’s investigation of the late, disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, issuing a subpoena to his estate for an array of documents. The GOP-led committee issued the subpoena to Epstein’s estate Monday, demanding a slew of documents that include the

By Gabe Cohen, CNN (CNN) — More than 180 current and former Federal Emergency Management Agency employees – most signing anonymously – sent a sharply worded letter to Congress on Monday, warning that the Trump administration’s sweeping overhaul is gutting the disaster relief agency’s authority and capabilities, undoing two decades of progress since the failures

By Zachary Cohen, Haley Britzky, Donald Judd, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday tasking his secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, with establishing “specialized units” in the National Guard that will be “specifically trained and equipped to deal with public order issues” — the clearest sign yet he intends to expand

By Devan Cole, Alison Main, Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge said Monday that she will order officials to keep Kilmar Abrego Garcia in the United States while she weighs a new legal challenge from him over the Trump administration’s plans to quickly deport him to Uganda. US District Judge Paula Xinis said

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — In Donald Trump’s long-running feud with federal judges, the president has found some support in an unlikely place: the nation’s highest court. A growing sense of frustration with some lower courts — articulated in terms that at times sound similar to Trump’s own rhetoric — has crept into a

By Zachary Cohen, Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — US National Guard members deployed to Washington, DC, started carrying their sidearms on Sunday, a spokesperson for the Joint Task Force carrying out the mission told CNN. This follows a directive by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week that authorized members of the National Guard, who were

By Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — Official White House social media posts these days can more closely resemble troll-ish meme accounts than a sober dissemination of information from the United States’ highest political office. President Donald Trump’s White House likes it that way. Accounts associated with the administration have touted Trump’s landmark policy law using

By Hannah Rabinowitz, Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration has been planning for weeks to send the National Guard to Chicago, two officials told CNN, as President Donald Trump looks to expand his anti-crime agenda and crackdown on immigration in major cities across the United States. It is not yet clear how many

By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN (CNN) — Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are decrying what they say is a lack of new records in the Jeffrey Epstein files that the Justice Department provided to the panel Friday. “Only 3% of the documents given to the Oversight Committee are new. The rest are already in the

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration might try to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda in the coming days, according to a notice sent by a Department of Homeland Security official to his lawyers on Friday. The notice, made public in a court filing in Abrego Garcia’s human smuggling criminal case in

By Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — At the center of the Justice Department’s reopened probe of John Bolton is whether President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, and more recently staunch critic, broke the law when he shared what Trump administration officials believe was classified information with people not authorized to have it. A 2020

CNN By Arlette Saenz, Eric Bradner, David Wright, CNN (CNN) — The Texas Senate on Saturday approved new congressional maps drawn to help Republicans win as many as five more House seats in next year’s midterm elections. The vote was the final legislative hurdle for the redistricting plan sought by President Donald Trump and Gov.

By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — Melania Trump hadn’t been spotted at the White House for more than a month. But as her husband prepared for a high-stakes Alaska summit with his Russian counterpart in pursuit of an end to the war in Ukraine, the first lady was practicing diplomacy. “Dear President Putin,” she wrote

By Casey Tolan, Holmes Lybrand, CNN Washington (CNN) — In the first week after the White House effectively seized control of Washington, DC’s police force and deployed federal agents and troops to the district, the city saw a moderate drop in reported crime — and a far larger surge in arrests of immigrants, a CNN

By Arlette Saenz, Eric Bradner, David Wright, CNN (CNN) — The Texas Senate on Saturday approved new congressional maps drawn to help Republicans win as many as five more House seats in next year’s midterm elections. The vote was the final legislative hurdle for the redistricting plan sought by President Donald Trump and Gov. Greg

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor, has rocketed past his rivals in fundraising, bringing in a little more than $1 million in recent weeks, according to new campaign reports filed Friday. Mamdani’s haul far exceeds the $425,000 raised by the city’s embattled incumbent Mayor Eric

By Isabelle Khurshudyan, CNN (CNN) — Robert Hill called in sick to work when he heard about what was happening in his Bethesda, Maryland. Every major cable news network was broadcasting from a house just a few streets away, but Hill had to see it for himself. When he got to the street where President