Politics

By Eva McKend, CNN (CNN) — This fall’s gubernatorial race in Virginia will make history no matter who wins: Either Democrat Abigail Spanberger or Republican Winsome Earle-Sears will become the state’s first elected female governor. For now, that seems to be an afterthought. Spanberger and Earle-Sears, who are each unopposed in Tuesday’s primaries ahead of

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans are promising that their sweeping tax and spending cuts package will usher in an era of historic economic growth. “This is going to be jet fuel,” House Speaker Mike Johnson said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” earlier this month. “The reason we call

By Katie Bo Lillis and Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — When Israel launched its series of strikes against Iran last week, it also issued a number of dire warnings about the country’s nuclear program, suggesting Iran was fast approaching a point of no return in its quest to obtain nuclear weapons and that the strikes

By Sarah Ferris, Aileen Graef and Morgan Rimmer, CNN (CNN) — Top Senate Republicans are running into some resistance from several key senators about the details of President Donald Trump’s “big beautiful bill,” potentially complicating plans to deliver that package by their own July 4 deadline. Hours after unveiling central tenets of the Senate GOP’s

By Tami Luhby, Ella Nilsen, Manu Raju and Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — The GOP-led Senate Finance Committee on Monday released its proposal for President Donald Trump’s agenda bill that calls for enacting sweeping cuts to Medicaid and preventing a multi-trillion dollar tax hike on Americans. The committee would maintain many of the provisions contained

CNN By Kevin Liptak and Kristen Holmes, CNN Calgary, Alberta (CNN) — President Donald Trump signaled Monday that the ongoing conflict between Israel and Iran was intensifying rapidly, announcing he would return to Washington a day early from the Group of 7 summit in Canada to monitor developments after issuing an ominous warning to Iranians

By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — While visiting Canada on Monday for a Group of 7 summit, President Donald Trump repeated one of his many false claims about Canada – again wrongly blaming former Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for getting Russia booted out of the group formerly known as the Group of 8. Speaking

By Katelyn Polantz and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN Washington (CNN) — The American Bar Association sued the Trump administration Monday, saying the president’s aggressive crackdown on large law firms aligned against him has chilled lawyers’ ability to litigate cases, especially pro bono legal work on hot-button issues like immigration. The lawsuit, filed in Washington, DC, by

By Marshall Cohen, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Office of Special Counsel has for nearly 50 years been the US government’s one-stop shop for whistleblowers and alleged ethics violations, a federal watchdog created after Watergate with the lofty mandate “to end government and political corruption.” Now it appears to be facing its biggest test yet,

By Kevin Liptak and Kristen Holmes, CNN Calgary, Alberta (CNN) — President Donald Trump signaled Monday that the ongoing conflict between Israel and Iran was intensifying rapidly, announcing he would return to Washington a day early from the Group of 7 summit in Canada to monitor developments after issuing an ominous warning to Iranians to

By Arit John, CNN (CNN) — Two union leaders and longtime Democratic National Committee members have resigned from the national party, marking the latest internal dispute of chairman Ken Martin’s tenure. The departures of American Federation of Teachers leader Randi Weingarten and Lee Saunders, the president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a copyright suit against pop star Ed Sheeran filed by a company that alleged his smash single “Thinking Out Loud” copied the classic Marvin Gaye song “Let’s Get It On.” Sheeran has been fighting – and successfully defending against – different

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to take up a First Amendment appeal from a faith-based nonprofit that runs five “crisis pregnancy centers” in New Jersey and that is fighting a subpoena from the state’s Democratic attorney general. First Choice Women’s Resource Centers had urged the conservative court to throw

By Kevin Liptak, CNN Calgary, Alberta (CNN) — It’s a tableau no world leader — except perhaps President Donald Trump — wants to repeat. Convening in the Canadian Rockies for this week’s Group of 7 summit, presidents and prime ministers are hoping to avoid the acrimony that pervaded the last time this country played host