Politics

By Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has ordered the secretary of the Navy to rename the oiler ship USNS Harvey Milk, according to a defense official. The ship, which was launched in 2021 and named after the gay rights activist and Navy veteran, who was made to resign from the

By Katelyn Polantz and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Trump administration to continue providing gender-affirming medication for transgender inmates in federal prisons, dealing the latest blow to a multipronged effort by the president to pull back federal support for transgender health care. “All parties seem to agree that

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — A Wisconsin man who investigators believe framed an undocumented migrant with threatening to kill President Donald Trump in order to have the immigrant deported has now been charged in the matter. According to state prosecutors, that man, Demetric Scott, admitted to framing the migrant, Ramon Morales-Reyes, whom Scott allegedly

By Alayna Treene and Josh Campbell, CNN (CNN) — Laura Loomer, the far-right activist who once posted a video claiming 9/11 was an “inside job,” was back at the White House complex Tuesday morning, where she met privately with Vice President JD Vance, three sources familiar with the meeting tell CNN. The sources would not

By Kylie Atwood, CNN (CNN) — A US consulting firm has canceled its contract with the controversial US and Israel-backed aid organization set up to distribute food and humanitarian supplies as famine conditions worsen in war-ravaged Gaza, a spokesperson for Boston Consulting Group told CNN. “Unapproved follow-on work relating to Gaza lacked buy-in from multilateral

By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — When President Donald Trump’s new official portrait was unveiled Monday, it lacked two elements his predecessors had featured in their photographs dating back more than 50 years: a happy expression and an American flag in the background. The picture, which replaced an earlier portrait released around Trump’s inauguration in

By Kristen Holmes and John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump has privately complained that the Supreme Court justices he appointed have not sufficiently stood behind his agenda, according to multiple sources familiar with the conversations. But he has directed particular ire at Justice Amy Coney Barrett, his most recent appointee, one of the

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN New York (CNN) — In New York, Andrew Cuomo’s comeback after resigning in disgrace could end up taking less than four years – with a scandal-plagued incumbent mayor, a disorganized left wing and a feeling that the city is on the brink paving the way. It’s the latest saga in the

By Gabe Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Staff at the Federal Emergency Management Agency were caught off-guard and left bewildered when the disaster relief agency’s new acting head David Richardson told personnel that he was previously unaware the United States has a hurricane season, which started Sunday. Richardson made the comments during a briefing Monday morning,

By Morgan Rimmer, Alison Main, Lauren Fox, Manu Raju and Ted Barrett, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump spoke with several GOP senators on Monday, including ones who have raised concerns about his domestic policy bill, as the chamber gears up to make changes to the legislation and congressional leaders aim to put the package

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Monday paused the Department of Homeland Security’s effort to end the collective bargaining agreement covering tens of thousands of transportation security officers at airports. It’s the latest loss in court for the Trump administration’s drive to reshape the federal workforce. US Senior District Judge Marsha

By Kylie Atwood, Frederik Pleitgen and Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — A senior Iranian official told CNN the new nuclear deal proposal presented to Tehran in recent days is “incoherent and disjointed,” as sources familiar with the progress of the talks said the momentum behind negotiations to secure a new deal appears to be collapsing.

By Katelyn Polantz and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — A Defense Department official told others in the Trump administration that a $12 million biological threat research grant at Harvard shouldn’t be terminated because of national security risks, according to the school’s latest court filing. The disclosure is part of a trove of internal Trump administration

By Michael Williams, CNN (CNN) — The Department of Homeland Security removed a list of hundreds of so-called sanctuary jurisdictions that it published on its website Thursday following questions about its accuracy and pointed criticism from a major group representing law enforcement. DHS had described it as “comprehensive list of sanctuary jurisdictions including cities, counties,