By Gabe Cohen, CNN (CNN) — An outside contractor installed in the Department of Homeland Security by then-Secretary Kristi Noem and her adviser Corey Lewandowski, gained outsized influence over the Federal Emergency Management Agency over the past year, with a major hand in steering the disaster agency’s spending and day-to-day operations, according to sources who
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By Brian Todd, Nicky Robertson, CNN (CNN) — Vietnam veteran Jayson Carter is preparing for his worst-case scenario — having to live out of his car. Carter, a 78-year-old who served in the Air Force, is homeless and staying in a facility for veterans in Memphis, Tennessee. He’s one of more than two dozen veterans
Continue ReadingBy Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN San Antonio (CNN) — The veteran who arrived a few minutes late to the matcha shop down the street from Fort Sam Houston hovered behind Ruben Gallego, trying to figure out where to sit. Gallego stopped talking and turned around. With an edge in his voice that he tried to cover
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By Fredreka Schouten, CNN Alpharetta, Georgia (CNN) — Brad Raffensperger generally avoids the explosive topic that made him famous. As the state’s top election official, Raffensperger refused Donald Trump’s demand to “find” the votes needed to overturn the president’s 2020 loss in the Peach State. Now, as a candidate for the Republican nomination for Georgia
Continue ReadingBy John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — Justice Brett Kavanaugh sounded like a fired-up prosecutor last year as he shot off a withering series of nuts-and-bolts questions about how President Donald Trump would carry out his plan to rewrite of the way birthright citizenship has been understood in the United States for more than a century.
Continue ReadingBy Steve Contorno, Jeff Simon, CNN Grapevine, Texas (CNN) — A decade ago, Jessica Luebbers could not have imagined supporting Marco Rubio for president. His acrimonious race to stop Donald Trump’s march to the White House in 2016 left a bitter taste in her mouth. But as she and hundreds of other Trump supporters gathered
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By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — When President Donald Trump says “nobody” knew or expected something, that often means lots of people knew or expected it. Trump made wildly inaccurate “nobody” claims about multiple subjects during his first presidency. Perhaps most famously, he declared in 2017, while trying and failing to pass a replacement for
Continue ReadingBy Adam Cancryn, Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s conflicting signals over the future of the war in Iran have spurred deepening frustration among GOP lawmakers and allies who fear the administration still lacks a clear endgame after four weeks of fighting. Trump over the last several days has simultaneously expressed a desire
Continue ReadingBy Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — As the US sends large numbers of troops to the Middle East, preparing for a possible ground incursion, Iran’s willingness to inspire lone-wolf attacks, lead cyber hacks, and conduct assassination operations abroad is likely to increase, terrorism experts and US law enforcement officials told CNN. In the early days
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By Eric Bradner, Steve Contorno, CNN Grapevine, Texas (CNN) — The Conservative Political Action Conference’s annual gathering in Texas — like most of its meetings over the last decade — was largely a pro-President Donald Trump pep rally. But several moments over CPAC’s first two days made clear that there are also rifts on the
Continue ReadingBy Katherine Koretski, CNN New York (CNN) — The New York City Council approved legislation Thursday that would require police to publish plans to establish buffer zones at schools and houses of worship during protests. The move places Mayor Zohran Mamdani in the middle of another political fight. He declined Friday to say whether he
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By Tami Luhby, Kaitlan Collins, CNN (CNN) — With Congress’ debate over Department of Homeland Security funding now likely to extend for at least several more days, President Donald Trump on Friday issued a promised executive action that Transportation Security Administration employees be paid immediately. “I hereby direct the Secretary of Homeland Security, in coordination
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By Sarah Ferris, Veronica Stracqualursi, Ellis Kim, Annie Grayer, Lauren Fox, CNN (CNN) — In a remarkable 24 hours in Washington, House Republicans snubbed a bipartisan funding deal cut by their own Senate GOP counterparts and instead approved an entirely different plan — prolonging the Department of Homeland Security shutdown. Then, they left town. Now,
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By Evan Perez, Sean Lyngaas, Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Hackers connected to the Iranian government accessed FBI Director Kash Patel’s personal email and posted materials — including photos and documents — taken from his account, a person familiar with the breach confirmed to CNN. The hackers have published a series of photos of Patel
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By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — A US Secret Service special agent on former first lady Jill Biden’s security detail accidentally shot himself in the leg at the Philadelphia International Airport Friday morning, an agency official said. “On Friday morning just after 8:30, an on-duty U.S. Secret Service Special Agent suffered a non-life-threatening injury following
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CNN By Ted Barrett, Morgan Rimmer, CNN (CNN) — The Senate unanimously moved to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security, except for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and part of Customs and Border Protection, in a rare overnight session. The agreement would fund other parts of the department, such as the Transportation Security Administration
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By Tierney Sneed, Jason Morris, CNN (CNN) — A lawyer for Fulton County warned a federal judge Friday that if he did not scrutinize the criminal search warrant the Justice Department used to obtain 2020 Atlanta-area election records, it could embolden the Trump administration to seize ballots in the midst of an election in the
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By Steve Contorno, Jeff Simon, CNN Grapevine, Texas (CNN) — As the daughter of an American oil field worker living in Iran in the 1970s, Blake Zummo watched as the streets around her regularly descended into violence in the years before the Iranian revolution. Now 62 and residing in Texas, she rejects arguments — including
Continue Reading CNN, POOL, HOUSE TV, KOLD, KYW, HOUSTON AIRPORTS By Ted Barrett, Morgan Rimmer, CNN (CNN) — The Senate unanimously moved to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security, except for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and part of Customs and Border Protection, in a rare overnight session. The agreement would fund other parts of the
Continue Reading By Ted Barrett, Morgan Rimmer, CNN (CNN) — The Senate unanimously moved to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security, except for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and part of Customs and Border Protection, in a rare overnight session. The agreement would fund other DHS components, such as the Transportation Security Administration and US Coast
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