Politics

CNN By Jeremy Herb, Hannah Rabinowitz and Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s political retribution tour began this week with firings of his perceived enemies inside the federal government, the targeting of former intelligence and national security officials and a directive to investigate actions by the Biden administration. Trump and his team wasted

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN Washington (CNN) — Federal immigration authorities will be permitted to arrest people and carry out enforcement actions in and near places such as churches and schools, marking a departure from long-standing policy to avoid so-called sensitive areas. Acting Homeland Security Secretary Benjamine Huffman announced the end of two directives in a

By Lauren Fox, CNN Washington (CNN) — Republican senators struggled to defend Donald Trump’s decision to commute and pardon hundreds of January 6 protesters, including those who were charged and convicted of crimes against police officers, just hours after the president entered office Monday. Sen. Thom Tillis, a Republican from North Carolina, who has warned

CNN By Lauren Fox, CNN Washington (CNN) — Republican senators struggled to defend Donald Trump’s decision to commute and pardon hundreds of January 6 protesters, including those who were charged and convicted of crimes against police officers, just hours after the president entered office Monday. Sen. Thom Tillis, a Republican from North Carolina, who has

By Kaitlan Collins, CNN Washington (CNN) — Within hours of taking office, President Donald Trump terminated the Secret Service detail that was assigned to his former national security adviser John Bolton, Bolton confirmed to CNN on Tuesday. Bolton, who left the Trump White House in November 2019, has required ongoing US Secret Service protection because

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN Washington (CNN) — The US-Mexico border is effectively closed off to migrants seeking asylum in the United States within hours of President Donald Trump taking office, an extraordinary departure from previous protocols that has left many concerned migrants in limbo. It’s a rare combination of two policies — one from former

CNN By Devan Cole, Kara Scannell, Priscilla Alvarez and Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — Two dozen Democratic-led states and cities are challenging President Donald Trump’s bid to end birthright citizenship in court, a major constitutional challenge to one of the White House’s signature policies. The lawsuits allege that a Trump executive order signed Monday violates

By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump has missed his deadline for ending the war in Ukraine. Of course, no one truly believed Trump would be able end the grinding, three-year conflict in 24 hours, as he implausibly promised repeatedly as a candidate. Even his new special envoy to Ukraine has asked for

By Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — The commandant of the US Coast Guard has been removed from her position over “leadership deficiencies” and “operational failures,” a Department of Homeland Security official confirmed to CNN on Tuesday. In a list of reasons “supporting her immediate removal,” the official cited Adm. Linda Fagan’s “failure to address border

By Paula Reid and Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s two co-defendants in the classified documents case, his employees Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira, are not expected to receive presidential pardons as discussions continue about possibly ending the prosecution, according to multiple people familiar with the case and the Trump administration’s approach

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — Judge Aileen Cannon on Tuesday extended the hold she has placed blocking the Justice Department from sharing special counsel Jack Smith’s report on his investigation into President Donald Trump’s mishandling of classified documents with members of Congress. Her order took some jabs at the prosecutors representing to the position

By John Fritze and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday revived a challenge by a death row inmate in Oklahoma who claims prosecutors “sex-shamed” her during her trial, referring to her as a “slut puppy” and holding up her thong for the jury. Brenda Andrew, the only woman on death row

CNN By Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — With the stroke of a pen on Monday, President Donald Trump completely upended the Justice Department’s four-year effort to arrest, prosecute and punish the people who attacked the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. It was the largest criminal probe in American history, those who heeded Trump’s call

By Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — With the stroke of a pen on Monday, President Donald Trump completely upended the Justice Department’s four-year effort to arrest, prosecute and punish the people who attacked the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. It was the largest criminal probe in American history, those who heeded Trump’s call in

By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump announced Monday he is withdrawing the US from the World Health Organization, in a significant move that drew criticism from public health experts on his first day back in the White House. Trump has long been critical of the United Nations’ health agency, and his administration

By Alex Marquardt, CNN (CNN) — In the very last hours of President Joe Biden’s time in office, a prisoner exchange years in the making was finally struck: the Taliban agreed to swap two Americans being held in Afghanistan for one Taliban member serving a life sentence in a US prison. But there was an