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By Natasha Bertrand, Katie Bo Lillis and Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Another F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet from the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier has been lost in the Red Sea, the second jet lost from the carrier in just over a week, five people familiar with the matter told CNN. It is

By Kaitlan Collins, Samantha Waldenberg and David Goldman, CNN (CNN) — Two top Trump officials are scheduled to meet later this week with Chinese representatives on trade and economic matters, their agencies announced Tuesday evening, a nascent sign of a thaw in the trade war sparked by President Donald Trump’s massive tariffs. Treasury Secretary Scott

By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — It wasn’t the most contentious meeting the Oval Office has ever seen. Nor was it the warmest. Instead, the highly anticipated meeting Tuesday between President Donald Trump and his new Canadian counterpart Mark Carney fell somewhere in the middle: neither openly hostile nor outwardly chummy, evincing very little neighborliness,

CNN By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — It wasn’t the most contentious meeting the Oval Office has ever seen. Nor was it the warmest. Instead, the highly anticipated meeting Tuesday between President Donald Trump and his new Canadian counterpart Mark Carney fell somewhere in the middle: neither openly hostile nor outwardly chummy, evincing very little

CNN By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — It wasn’t the most contentious meeting the Oval Office has ever seen. Nor was it the warmest. Instead, the highly anticipated meeting Tuesday between President Donald Trump and his new Canadian counterpart Mark Carney fell somewhere in the middle: neither openly hostile nor outwardly chummy, evincing very little

CNN By Manu Raju and Alison Main, CNN (CNN) — Sen. John Fetterman roundly dismissed allegations that he’s unfit to serve in the Senate, attacking a recent report detailing claims of erratic behavior as a “hit piece” and vowing to serve out his term. In an exclusive sit-down interview with CNN in his Senate office,

By Manu Raju and Alison Main, CNN (CNN) — Sen. John Fetterman roundly dismissed allegations that he’s unfit to serve in the Senate, attacking a recent report detailing claims of erratic behavior as a “hit piece” and vowing to serve out his term. In an exclusive sit-down interview with CNN in his Senate office, the

By Devan Cole, CNN Baltimore (CNN) — A federal judge refused on Tuesday to wipe away her order that the Trump administration “facilitate” the return of a 20-year-old Venezuelan asylum seeker deported to El Salvador but agreed to put the directive on hold so the government can appeal it. The decision by US District Judge

By Katelyn Polantz and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — Two more federal judges on Tuesday blocked the Trump administration’s use of deportations under the Alien Enemies Act, saying the wartime power shouldn’t be used. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein said the administration is indefinitely blocked from removing migrants from the Southern District of New York under

By Natasha Bertrand and Kylie Atwood, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that the US would “stop the bombings” against the Iran-backed Houthi rebel group in Yemen, after the Houthis told the US that “they don’t want to fight anymore.” “We will honor that, and we will stop the bombings,” Trump said from

By Katie Bo Lillis, CNN (CNN) — The US intelligence community believes that the Venezuelan government is “probably” not directing the gang Tren de Aragua’s movements and operations inside the United States, according to a declassified assessment released on Monday that undercuts the Trump administration’s key argument for invoking the Alien Enemies Act to speed

By Annie Grayer, Paula Reid and Manu Raju, CNN (CNN) — The odds that President Donald Trump’s controversial nominee to serve as US attorney for Washington, DC, reaches confirmation are rapidly diminishing as he faces public pushback from key Republicans on Capitol Hill. North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis, a GOP swing vote, informed the White

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Johnstown, Pennsylvania (CNN) — The centerpiece of Donald Trump’s hardline attempts to deport undocumented immigrants using a wartime power has been met with resistance by federal courts, including among judges Trump himself has appointed. The latest, on Monday, was district Judge Stephanie Haines, presiding over a federal court in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.

By Kevin Liptak, Kristen Holmes and Paula Newton, CNN (CNN) — When President Donald Trump welcomes his new Canadian counterpart to the White House on Tuesday, among the questions looming over their Oval Office encounter will be whether Trump will agree to attend a major summit Prime Minister Mark Carney is hosting next month in