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By Holmes Lybrand, Evan Perez, Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — The FBI opened preliminary investigations targeting anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement protesters in Southern California, a former FBI intelligence official alleged in a whistleblower complaint, adding that she believed the move violated the law and agency policy. The investigations were opened in early 2025 in the

By Lauren Chadwick, CNN (CNN) — Officials in California denounced comments made by President Donald Trump as “dangerous” on Monday after he appeared to suggest Iran could “take out” Los Angeles or San Diego – major cities in a state he has often criticized. Speaking at a rally in Grand Island, Nebraska, ahead of the

By Patrick Svitek, CNN (CNN) — A group of potential 2028 Democratic presidential candidates is heading to Denver days after the midterms to discuss the party’s future, in one of the party’s first major gatherings following the election. Attendees will include former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and former US Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel, as

By Kylie Atwood, Davis Winkie, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration has discussed beginning reciprocal nuclear site visits with China and plans to continue pushing for that possibility during in-person meetings in the coming months, according to sources familiar with the matter. The discussions, which have been informal and preliminary, come amid mounting US concerns

By Hannah Rabinowitz, Holmes Lybrand, Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — Lawyers for CNN, MS NOW and Politico said Monday that the White House had offered no new evidence to support its repeated claims that the news outlets’ reporting has endangered national security. The argument, made in a court filing late Monday, is the companies’ final

By Brad Lendon, Mary Kay Mallonee, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump has approved the use of a firing squad for the execution of Nidal Hasan, who was convicted of killing 13 people and wounding dozens of others in the 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood in Texas. It would be the US Army’s first

By John Fritze, CNN The Supreme Court appeared conflicted Monday about how it will resolve a lawsuit from a Colorado city that is attempting to hold two fossil fuel companies responsible for the impacts of climate change, though several conservative justices said they were concerned about the possibility of letting states wade into an area

By Alejandra Jaramillo, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said Monday he will no longer use taxpayer money to fund a series of promotional television ads, announcing that he will instead pay for them with funds raised for MAGA, Inc., the pro-Trump super PAC. “The Radical Left is upset with the fact that I am

By Alejandra Jaramillo, Kaitlan Collins, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Monday used an anti-transgender slur to attack Democratic South Carolina Senate nominee Dr. Annie Andrews, as he tries to push his handpicked GOP candidate, Sen. Darline Graham, over the finish line in the midterm election. “Annie ‘Trannie’ Andrews is running against our wonderful

By Jeff Zeleny, CNN Grand Island, Nebraska (CNN) — The midterm elections were just two days away the last time a sitting president visited Grand Island, the fourth-largest city in the middle of one of the nation’s most reliably Republican states. It was November 5, 2006, and George W. Bush was barnstorming red cities in

By Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — Former White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will join Fox News as an on-air contributor next month, weeks after stepping down from her prior role to spend more time focusing on her family. Fox News said in a statement that Leavitt “will provide political analysis and commentary” across Fox

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a First Amendment appeal from two middle school students who were ordered to remove sweatshirts emblazoned with the words “Let’s Go Brandon,” steering clear of a case that could have clarified the power schools have to police potentially offensive speech

By Michael Williams, CNN (CNN) — The campaign arm working to elect House Democrats released a political advertisement on Monday featuring the family of Virginia Giuffre, who was the first victim of Jeffrey Epstein to go public with allegations of abuse. The advertisement was released in support of Democratic candidate Jessica Killin, who is facing

By Brett H. McGurk, CNN (CNN) — Secure rooms in the US Capitol are cavernous compared to the White House Situation Room. They are designed for full committees or larger gatherings, not intimate discussions. On Nov. 20, 2024, Jake Sullivan and I had gone to one of those rooms to brief our successors two weeks

By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The United States moved all of its long-range bombers stationed in the United Kingdom back to their American home bases on Sunday after an unspecified new threat, officials said. It comes days after the British government arrested a number of individuals in connection with an alleged

By Annie Grayer, Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — Ahead of the November midterm elections, top Democrats are planning for doomsday scenarios for how President Donald Trump and his administration could intervene in the voting process and laying the groundwork for a forceful response. In closed-door meetings, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has convened Democratic senators,