Politics

By John Fritze and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The conservative Supreme Court dealt a significant blow to transgender Americans on Wednesday, issuing a sweeping decision that may have implications beyond the medical care that was at center of one of the court’s highest-profile disputes this year. The 6-3 ruling, which landed at a moment

By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — While President Donald Trump weighs the single most consequential decision of his time in office so far — the possibility of US military intervention in Iran — he’s also completing a personal project years in the making. Trump on Wednesday morning oversaw the installation of a pair of flagpoles

By Gabe Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is tightening her grip on her department’s purse strings, ordering that every contract and grant over $100,000 must now cross her desk for approval, according to a memo exclusively obtained by CNN. The sweeping directive issued last week adds an extra layer of review

By Samantha Waldenberg, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump is nominating former Fox News host and interim US Attorney Jeanine Pirro to a full term as the top federal prosecutor in Washington, DC, according to a White House news release. Her nomination for a four-year term has been sent to the Senate, the release says.

By Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — As President Donald Trump prepared to leave the G7 summit a day early amid an escalating conflict between Israel and Iran, he dialed up his go-to national security confidant Sen. Lindsey Graham — who’s also one of the GOP’s most vocal war hawks. In that phone call, Graham said

By Morgan Rimmer, CNN (CNN) — The Senate passed first-of-its-kind bipartisan cryptocurrency legislation, called the GENIUS Act, after months of negotiations and weeks of back-and-forth between Democratic and Republican backers. The final tally was 68-30, with 18 Democrats voting yes, and two Republicans voting no. The bill now moves to the House for consideration. House

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was transported by ambulance on Tuesday to a hospital in Washington, DC, after an allergic reaction, the Department of Homeland Security said. “Secretary Noem had an allergic reaction today. She was transported to the hospital out of an abundance of caution. She is alert

By Katelyn Polantz, Hannah Rabinowitz and Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — House Democratic lawmakers released a report Tuesday alleging that President Donald Trump’s federal pardons and clemency grants could wipe away more than $1.3 billion in payments to victims and the federal government. Trump’s pardons have provoked ire of critics who accuse the president of

By Devan Cole and Molly Reinmann, CNN (CNN) — A federal appeals court on Tuesday spent more than an hour grappling with whether President Donald Trump unlawfully federalized thousands of members of California’s National Guard to beef up security in Los Angeles amid unrest over immigration enforcement. A three-judge panel of the 9th US Circuit

By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — For months, former New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez has praised President Donald Trump. The Democrat has explicitly echoed Trump’s criticism of the president’s own criminal prosecutions, which Trump likes to describe, without evidence, as the political weaponization of the justice system. Now Menendez is reporting to federal prison, beginning

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — Two American family-owned toy companies urged the Supreme Court on Tuesday to step into the legal fray over President Donald Trump’s tariffs, asking the justices to quickly resolve the issue of whether the administration overstepped its authority by unilaterally launching a global trade war. Trump has imposed, paused, hiked

CNN By David Wright, Arlette Saenz and Molly English, CNN (CNN) — Republican Sen. Mike Lee on Tuesday deleted a series of inflammatory social media posts from over the weekend on the deadly attacks in Minnesota, prompting a confrontation with one of the state’s Democratic US senators. Lee provoked controversy when he made a series

By David Wright and Arlette Saenz, CNN (CNN) — Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee on Tuesday deleted a series of inflammatory social media posts from over the weekend in which he reacted to the shooting deaths of Minnesota state representatives, prompting a confrontation with the state’s Democratic US senator. Lee provoked controversy when he made

CNN By Alayna Treene, Kevin Liptak, Kaitlan Collins, Kylie Atwood and Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump is growing increasingly warm to using US military assets to strike Iranian nuclear facilities and souring on the idea of a diplomatic solution to end Tehran’s escalating conflict with Israel, two officials familiar with the ongoing

By Kevin Liptak and Kristen Holmes, CNN Calgary (CNN) — It only took a few hours of summitry in the Canadian woods on Monday for President Donald Trump to decide he’d rather be elsewhere. Returning to Washington on an overnight flight, Trump attributed his decision to abruptly abandon the Group of 7 summit to operational

By Devan Cole and John Fritze, CNN Washington (CNN) — Three Supreme Court justices on Tuesday reported hefty earnings from books they’ve recently published, a glimpse into the lucrative world of authorship that provides members of the bench with additional income. Liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman to sit on the high