Politics

By Kristen Holmes, Zachary Cohen, Katie Bo Lillis, CNN (CNN) — The large-scale cuts that President Donald Trump’s acting director of national intelligence had been considering imposing at his own office started on Monday, a source familiar with the matter told CNN. “The deep state firings have begun,” the source said, declining to give details

By Katherine Koretski, CNN (CNN) — New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Monday defended his remarks last week sharply denouncing the American Israel Public Affairs Committee after prominent Jewish leaders accused him of antisemitism. “When I am speaking about AIPAC, I’m speaking about an organization that has been supportive of the status quo, that

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration violated federal privacy protections when it overhauled a citizen data program so that it could be used more aggressively to purge voter rolls, a federal judge said Monday. The ruling from US District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan is a major setback for President Donald Trump’s effort to

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Monday blocked the Justice Department from forcing Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and other officials to turn over records in its probe of Democratic resistance to the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, calling the move a retaliatory effort to “harass political opponents.” In a 30-page ruling, district

By John Fritze, Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — As the justices of the Supreme Court prepared to meet behind closed doors on February 27, they had before them an explosive case involving President Donald Trump, who is seeking to overturn a federal jury’s finding that he sexually abused and defamed magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll.

By Gabe Cohen, Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration is threatening to withhold tens of millions of dollars in federal homeland security funds from states unless they adopt a sweeping set of election changes, according to multiple sources and internal documents obtained by CNN. The move is part of President Donald Trump’s campaign

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Monday sided with New York prosecutors and declined to invalidate the conviction of a man who confessed to killing 6-year-old Etan Patz in 1979, reversing a lower court decision that likely would have required a new trial. Patz disappeared on the morning of May 25,

By David Wright, Patrick Svitek, CNN (CNN) — An influential conservative nonprofit covertly funded a series of super PACs with names suggesting liberal provenance as the groups injected hundreds of thousands of dollars into key nominating Democratic contests across the country. A new round of Federal Election Commission filings Saturday confirmed national Democrats’ suspicions that

By Zachary B. Wolf, David Goldman, Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — With an agreement signed and further talks set to commence, the US war with Iran is at a halt, at least for now, and President Donald Trump is telling Americans they have won. “’YOU’RE WELCOME!” Trump wrote on Thursday in a post on his

By Alison Main, CNN (CNN) — Sen. Brian Schatz, who many believe will take over the No. 2 role in the Democratic caucus next year, has a warning for President Donald Trump: He could be dealing with a very different Washington if Democrats achieve the electoral gains they’re hoping for this fall. “The quality of

By Kaanita Iyer, Aleena Fayaz, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump claimed Saturday, without providing evidence, that vandals damaged the algae-plagued Reflecting Pool on the National Mall and that the water will need to be drained for repairs. Trump said police arrested “many additional people” for the vandalism, though one told CNN he was merely

By Arit John, David Wright, CNN (CNN) — On the night of the Democratic primary to be the next mayor of Washington, DC, Janeese Lewis George pushed back on those who doubted the movement that had formed behind her. Despite speculation that she was primarily drawing support from wealthier, White residents and DC transplants, election

By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump was about to sit down for dinner at Versailles on Wednesday when he surprised both his host, French President Emmanuel Macron, and some of his own aides with a demand: he wanted to sign his agreement with Iran then and there. Trump’s top diplomat had received

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — Democratic-led states are racing to safeguard November’s midterm elections against potential interference from the Trump administration and its allies, passing new laws that restrict the presence of law enforcement at polling places or seek to thwart the federal government’s efforts to obtain sensitive election material. Five states – California,