Politics

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge is planning to have Trump administration officials testify in early October about the government’s efforts to re-deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia and is prohibiting his removal from the US for several more weeks. US District Judge Paula Xinis on Wednesday set an evidentiary hearing for October 6.

By Ethan Cohen, Jeff Zeleny, CNN (CNN) — Iowa Democrats secured a consequential victory in a special election on Tuesday, CNN projects, breaking the Republican supermajority in the state Senate by flipping a seat in a district President Donald Trump carried last year. Democrat Catelin Drey defeated her Republican opponent, Christopher Prosch, in a special

By Arit John, CNN Minneapolis (CNN) — The debates roiling the Democratic Party, from the war in Gaza to how to discuss crime, were on full display during the Democratic National Committee’s summer meeting this week. Unable to resolve those disputes, some gathered here tried to shift the narrative. The ability to debate, discuss and

By Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — A man has been charged with felony assault for allegedly spitting on two South Carolina Army National Guard soldiers who were deployed to Washington, DC, as part of President Donald Trump’s anti-crime agenda in the nation’s capital. An officer with Amtrak Police on Friday afternoon observed Scott Pichon riding

By Gloria Pazmino, CNN (CNN) — New York City Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani met with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Tuesday, the campaign told CNN. The meeting comes as the Brooklyn Democrat continues to hold back his endorsement of Mamdani, who clinched the Democratic nomination in June in part by winning a significant

By Gabe Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The Federal Emergency Management Agency on Tuesday placed several employees on administrative leave effective immediately, just one day after they signed an open letter warning Congress that the Trump administration’s sweeping overhaul of the agency could lead to catastrophic failures in disaster response. Titled “Katrina Declaration,” the letter accuses

CNN By Donald Judd, CNN (CNN) — Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s deploying the National Guard to Democratic-led cities across the country is not politically motivated, telling CNN’s Kaitlan Collins in an interview the Republican president is “not targeting anything.” “I completely concur with the president when he says if

By Donald Judd, CNN (CNN) — Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s deploying the National Guard to Democratic-led cities across the country is not politically motivated, telling CNN’s Kaitlan Collins in an interview the Republican president is “not targeting anything.” “I completely concur with the president when he says if …

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court to step into an ongoing fight over billions of dollars in foreign aid that it says a lower court will force it to spend unless the justices intervene. The emergency appeal, which asks the high court to weigh in by

By Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — For weeks, Bill Pulte has been one of the loudest voices inside the Trump administration calling for Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to resign. Now Pulte — a wealthy businessman turned Federal Housing Finance Agency Director, whose official remit seemingly has little connection to the Federal Reserve — has

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Department of Government Efficiency employees at the Social Security Administration put the records of more than 300 million Americans at risk by creating a copy of the data in a vulnerable cloud computing server, the agency’s chief data officer said in a whistleblower complaint filed Tuesday. The copy of

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — A federal watchdog investigation into former special counsel Jack Smith’s two prosecutions against President Donald Trump is based on “imaginary and unfounded” accusations, attorneys for Smith said in a letter obtained by CNN. The letter dated Monday from Smith’s lawyers is the first time the former special counsel has

By Katelyn Polantz, Maureen Chowdhury, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said that his administration will seek the death penalty in all murder cases in Washington, DC, a move that could run into significant obstacles with city juries. “Anybody murders something in the capital, capital punishment. Capital, capital punishment. If somebody kills somebody in the

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — The US attorney’s office in Washington, DC, that’s run by Donald Trump-appointee Jeanine Pirro has struggled to secure a grand jury’s approval of at least one indictment in federal court this month, in an indication of possible issues arising with the office’s crackdown on crime. In one case this

By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump called for Harvard University to pay a sweeping $500 million settlement to restore its federal funding, saying the elite university has been “very bad.” “We want nothing less than $500 million from Harvard. Don’t negotiate, Linda,” Trump said to Education Secretary Linda McMahon during a Cabinet

By Arit John, CNN Minneapolis (CNN) — A Democratic National Committee panel on Tuesday failed to advance dueling resolutions on the party’s stance on Israel’s war in Gaza, after one proposal was voted down and a second was withdrawn. The DNC’s resolutions panel considered two measures Tuesday morning at the committee’s summer meeting in Minneapolis:

By Devan Cole, Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Tuesday threw out an aggressive, unusual lawsuit the Trump administration brought earlier this year against all 15 federal judges in Maryland, rejecting a bid by the Justice Department to limit court power in fast-moving immigration cases. The opinion on Tuesday framed the lawsuit