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By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — The bodies of four American service members killed during the Iran war returned to the United States in flag-draped cases on Wednesday, their families and President Donald Trump looking on. As he threatens an escalation in the conflict, risking retaliation and further danger to the thousands of American troops

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — As the Secret Service prepares for a second take at this year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington, DC, on Friday, Director Sean Curran defended how his agency handled security at the first version of the dinner. “It did work,” Curran said at a press conference Wednesday. “The system

By Ellis Kim, Ted Barrett, Camila DeChalus, CNN (CNN) — The US House voted last week in strong bipartisan fashion to enact year-round Daylight Saving Time across the country. But it faces strong headwinds in the Senate, with one key Republican senator warning the bill won’t “see the light of day.” Here’s what we know

By Nicki Brown, Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — The criminal trial of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife is scheduled to begin on June 1, 2027, a federal judge said during a court hearing Wednesday. Federal prosecutors and the Maduros’ defense attorneys jointly proposed a June trial date though they noted the schedule

By Kevin Liptak, Davis Winkie, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump has approved a nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia that could lead to the kingdom enriching its own fuel for civilian reactors without adopting the “gold standard” of international oversight, according to two US officials and a source familiar with the matter. The Department of

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — Justice Amy Coney Barrett had a fast answer when she was asked during a recent Senate hearing if the Supreme Court had done anything to address the meteoric rise of prediction markets — and the ethical predicament they present for the judiciary. “That’s already covered,” Barrett said confidently during

By Patrick Svitek, CNN (CNN) — Troy Jackson is on the verge of replacing Graham Platner as the Democratic nominee for Senate in Maine after harnessing the enthusiasm of former Platner supporters who were galvanized by the oyster farmer’s insurgent campaign. There’s just one thing: Jackson is no political outsider. The former Maine Senate Democratic

By Katherine Koretski, CNN New York (CNN) — New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said in a new video Tuesday that he does not have the legal authority to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he were to come to New York City. “My administration has reviewed every avenue available under applicable law to

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — A federal appeals court in Washington, DC, has decided that public interest in recordings of Joe Biden speaking about his life in politics in 2016 and 2017 outweighs any legal claims he has made for privacy. The decision, from a 2-1 panel of DC US Circuit Court of Appeals

By Lauren Fox, CNN (CNN) — Speaker Mike Johnson doesn’t think members of Congress should be romantically involved with House staffers — even if the staffers don’t work for them. Johnson weighed in during a news conference Tuesday on what has been a hotly debated topic on Capitol Hill: Should members of Congress be allowed

By Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — About 6,600 non-citizens were accidentally added to New Jersey’s voter rolls and about 400 cast improper ballots in recent elections, the state’s governor announced Tuesday. Gov. Mikie Sherrill, a Democrat, said this stemmed from a “serious” software glitch at the state Motor Vehicle Commission that began in 2023, which

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — A federal appeals court in Washington, DC, on Tuesday rejected President Donald Trump adviser Peter Navarro’s attempt to overturn his contempt of Congress felony conviction. The unanimous opinion of three judges on the DC US Circuit Court of Appeals marks the latest failure of Trump advisers to unwind legal

By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — Five days after blaming China for “the largest compromise of election data in history,” President Donald Trump shrugged off Beijing’s actions and said the United States was doing the same thing. Trump said vaguely on Tuesday that the US would discuss the matter with Chinese officials. But he previewed

By Michael Rios, Avery Schmitz, Matt Stiles, CNN (CNN) — The US military has killed at least 221 people in strikes that have destroyed 67 vessels as part of a campaign that Washington says is aimed at curtailing the flow of drugs into the United States, according to official announcements and CNN’s analysis of search

By Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — The late GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham will be honored next week with funeral services spanning two days that will include a special ceremony at the US Capitol and a tribute from President Donald Trump. Sen. Darline Graham — the late South Carolina senator’s sister who was appointed to serve

By Sunlen Serfaty, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration is quietly moving to revise a decades-old rule governing historic preservation of buildings and landscapes that, if passed, would ease the path for constructing the president’s pet projects in Washington. The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, a little-known independent federal agency within the executive branch, is

By Steve Contorno, CNN Gilbert, Arizona (CNN) — Rep. Andy Biggs, the leading Republican candidate for Arizona governor, likes to tell supporters about the time he teamed up with the late Sen. John McCain to pass a law that helped American Indian tribes send alerts when children go missing. It’s a line in his stump