National Politics

By Eric Bradner, CNN Indianapolis (CNN) — Vice President JD Vance met Thursday with Gov. Mike Braun and state legislative leaders as the White House ramps up pressure on Republican-led states to redraw their congressional maps. But Indiana’s GOP leaders didn’t commit to giving President Donald Trump’s administration what it wants: a mid-decade effort to

CNN By Kristen Holmes, Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration is making plans to increase the federal law enforcement presence in Washington, DC, Thursday and Friday following an assault on a well-known former Department of Government Efficiency staffer over the weekend, three sources familiar with the plan told CNN. Officers from ICE, FBI,

By Molly English, Dianne Gallagher, CNN Myrtle Beach, South Carolina (CNN) — Republican Rep. Nancy Mace, fresh off an announced bid for South Carolina’s governor’s mansion, jockeyed for an endorsement from President Donald Trump and sought to tie herself closely to him in a public meeting with a friendly crowd Wednesday. While members of her

By Kristen Holmes, Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration is making plans to increase the federal law enforcement presence in Washington, DC, Thursday and Friday following an assault on a well-known former Department of Government Efficiency staffer over the weekend, three sources familiar with the plan told CNN. Officers from ICE, FBI, National

By Brian Todd, Tami Luhby, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Department of Veterans Affairs is terminating collective bargaining agreements with several key government unions representing its employees. In an announcement Wednesday, the VA said the move is in response to an executive order President Donald Trump signed in March that nixed collective bargaining rights for

By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — A 22-year-old US Army soldier in Texas was arrested Wednesday and charged with attempting to send sensitive information about US battle tanks to Russia, the Justice Department said in a news release. Federal prosecutors allege that Taylor Adam Lee, who is an active-duty service member stationed at Fort

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — Federal prosecutors secured an indictment Wednesday detailing nearly 10 charges connected with the killings of Israeli Embassy staff members Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim earlier this year. The indictment against Elias Rodriguez includes counts of premeditated murder and hate crimes resulting in death. It also includes legal findings that

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration is planning to quickly ask the Supreme Court to review the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship. Justice Department attorneys informed a federal judge in Seattle of the plans on Wednesday as part of a court-ordered update on where things

By Kristen Holmes, Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — A dinner planned for Wednesday night at Vice President JD Vance’s residence was seen as an opportunity for Trump administration officials to realign amid the ongoing Jeffrey Epstein scandal, according to four people familiar with the situation. That included a potential chance for Attorney General Pam Bondi

By Annie Grayer, Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN (CNN) — An ex-girlfriend of GOP Rep. Cory Mills is accusing the Florida congressman of having threatened to release sexually explicit images and videos of her after their relationship ended, according to a police report obtained by CNN. Lindsey Langston, a Florida Republican Party committee member and 2024 winner

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — Stanford University’s student-run newspaper sued the Trump administration on Wednesday over its decision to use part of a federal immigration law to target and deport pro-Palestinian activists, arguing the government’s effort has impermissibly chilled students’ First Amendment rights. The lawsuit, filed at a federal court in California, represents the

By Arlette Saenz, Steve Contorno, CNN St. Charles, Illinois (CNN) — A delegation of Texas House Democrats had to evacuate their hotel in Illinois Wednesday morning due to a potential bomb threat, according to multiple lawmakers and local police. St. Charles Police in a statement says the department “responded to a potential bomb threat at

By David Wright, CNN (CNN) — Texas Democrat Beto O’Rourke said Wednesday that he is raising funds for Democratic members of the state legislature who left Texas to stall a GOP redistricting push. “We’ve got to have their backs,” O’Rourke said in an interview on CNN’s “The Situation Room” on Wednesday, praising “tens of thousands”

By Ethan Cohen, Renée Rigdon, CNN (CNN) — Texas Republicans are on the verge of enacting a congressional map which so efficiently distributes GOP voters that last year, President Donald Trump would’ve won all of the 30 districts where the party hopes to win by at least ten percentage points. In drawing the map, Republicans

By John King, CNN Tucson, Arizona (CNN) — Opening a new restaurant is always a risk, but this one even more so: It’s a scorching summer in the Arizona desert, meat prices are up and the economy is unpredictable. “I’m a little nervous,” owner Ray Flores tells a visitor to his new project on Tucson’s

By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Both Texas Republicans and Democrats are ratcheting up their rhetoric over proposed US House maps that could give the GOP five more seats. But the action in Austin is stalled for now. Most Democrats who left the state to stop the redistricting effort are showing no signs they will

WUSA, TRUTH SOCIAL, @REALDONALDTRUMP, CSPAN, POOL, CNN, Truth Social/@RealDonaldTrump By Rashard Rose, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday reignited his threat for the federal government to “run” Washington, DC, after a former Department of Government Efficiency employee was assaulted in an attempted carjacking. “I have to say that somebody from DOGE was very

By Rashard Rose, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday reignited his threat for the federal government to “run” Washington, DC, after a former Department of Government Efficiency employee was assaulted in an attempted carjacking. “I have to say that somebody from DOGE was very badly hurt … A young man who was beat