Politics

By Brian Stelter and Jamie Gangel, CNN (CNN) — David Gergen, who served as a presidential adviser to four presidents of both parties and educated generations of Americans about leadership and civic engagement, has died. He was 83. Gergen was the founding director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School and

By Annie Grayer and Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — Suspected Chinese hackers have broken into the email accounts of attorneys and advisers at a powerful Washington, DC, law firm in an apparent intelligence-gathering operation, the firm, Wiley Rein, told clients this week in a memo reviewed by CNN. The hackers responsible have been known to

CNN By Kristen Holmes, Kaitlan Collins, Hannah Rabinowitz and Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino has told people he is considering resigning amid a major clash between the FBI and Justice Department over the continued fallout from the release of the Jeffrey Epstein memo, sources familiar with the matter told CNN.

By Kristen Holmes, Kaitlan Collins, Hannah Rabinowitz and Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino has told people he is considering resigning amid a major clash between the FBI and Justice Department over the continued fallout from the release of the Jeffrey Epstein memo, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. This

By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — A federal appeals court determined that former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin “indisputably” had the authority to cancel plea agreements made last year with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two other defendants accused of plotting the 9/11 terror attack. The decision overturns a ruling by a military judge last year that

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The State Department began firing more than 1,300 people on Friday as part of a dramatic overhaul of the agency, according to a State Department official. The firings will affect 1,107 civil service and 246 foreign service officers in Washington, DC, an internal notice seen by CNN said. It

CNN By Devan Cole and John Fritze, CNN Concord, New Hampshire (CNN) — A federal judge agreed Thursday to issue a new nationwide block against President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship. The ruling from US District Judge Joseph Laplante is significant because the Supreme Court last month curbed the power of

By Samantha Waldenberg, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump told NBC on Thursday he struck a deal with NATO for the US to send weapons to Ukraine through the alliance, and that NATO will pay for those weapons “a hundred percent.” “We’re sending weapons to NATO, and NATO is paying for those weapons, a hundred

By Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — Vice President JD Vance is hitting the road on Wednesday to tout President Donald Trump’s agenda bill in the key battleground state of Pennsylvania, according to an official in Vance’s office. The vice president will travel to West Pittston in Luzerne County, where he will hold a rally-style event

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The State Department will begin firing personnel “soon” as Secretary of State Marco Rubio implements his dramatic overhaul of the agency, according to an email from a top State Department official to staff Thursday evening. “Soon, the Department will be communicating to individuals affected by the reduction in force,”

By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — The wife of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Thursday she is filing for divorce “on biblical grounds,” ending their 38-year marriage as he seeks to unseat Sen. John Cornyn in next year’s Republican Senate primary. Angela Paxton, a state senator, wrote in a social media post that her

By Adam Cancryn and Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump is traveling to central Texas on Friday to survey the aftermath of a catastrophic flood that has killed more than 100 people and put his administration on the sudden defensive over its emergency response efforts. The flooding, which overwhelmed whole neighborhoods in a

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the Supreme Court’s most junior member and a member of its liberal wing, told an audience in Indianapolis on Thursday that she was concerned about the state of American democracy. After speaking about the book she published last year, Jackson was asked during a “lightning

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — An American who was wrongfully detained in Iran joined with the State Department to warn US citizens not to travel to the country “under any circumstances,” and urged those planning to go to “cancel your trip.” Emad Shargi was among five Americans freed in September 2023 as part of

CNN By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Former Vice President Mike Pence says he thinks isolationists “may have lost some of their footing” in President Donald Trump’s administration, as he praised Trump’s tougher talk toward Russia’s Vladimir Putin and his decision to bomb Iranian nuclear facilities. Pence, since his split with Trump after the 2020