By Kevin Liptak, Jeff Zeleny and Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — On his 100th day in office, President Donald Trump crowed to a rally of supporters about a dawning “golden age” for the American economy, made possible by his new tariffs. On his 101st, he warned in a different setting that children may have to
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By Brian Todd, CNN (CNN) — Affordable housing advocates and congressional Democrats are warning that more foreclosures may occur as the Department of Veterans Affairs phases out a mortgage rescue program for financially strapped veterans this week. Beginning Thursday, the VA will no longer accept enrollees to the Veterans Affairs Servicing Purchase Program, or VASP,
Continue ReadingBy Annette Choi, CNN (CNN) — Twenty-seven states have passed bans on gender-affirming health care for transgender children and teenagers, according to a CNN analysis of data from the Movement Advancement Project, a nonprofit think tank that advocates for LGBTQ rights. An estimated 40% of transgender youth ages 13 to 17 live in these states,
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By Priscilla Alvarez and Kylie Atwood, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration has discussed with Libya and Rwanda the possibility of sending migrants who have criminal records and are in the United States to those two countries, according to multiple sources familiar with the talks. The proposals mark a dramatic escalation in the administration’s push
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By Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — The agency charged with policing federal campaign finance laws is losing its enforcement and policy-making powers with the resignation of a Republican commissioner. Allen Dickerson’s departure Wednesday — combined with President Donald Trump’s February firing of long-serving Democratic Commissioner Ellen Weintraub — leaves the Federal Election Commission with just
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By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Wednesday seemed open to backing the creation of a Catholic charter school in Oklahoma, a decision that would expand the availability of taxpayer money for religious education in school systems across the nation. During more than two hours of at times feisty arguments
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By Priscilla Alvarez, Katelyn Polantz, Paula Reid and Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele have been directly in touch about the detention of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whom the US mistakenly deported to El Salvador’s notorious megaprison, according to multiple sources familiar with the previously undisclosed
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By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — An American detained in Belarus has been freed, Special Envoy for Hostage Response Adam Boehler and a second US official told CNN on Wednesday. Youras Ziankovich was arrested in Moscow in 2021 and then was brought to Belarus’s capital Minsk, where he was accused of being part of a
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By Evan Perez, CNN Senior Justice Correspondent (CNN) — The Federal Bureau of Investigation has reassigned several agents who were photographed kneeling with demonstrators during a 2020 protest in the wake of police killing of George Floyd, people briefed on the matter told CNN. The reassignments, viewed as demotions by many inside the FBI, come
Continue ReadingBy Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — A rising share of Americans say that President Donald Trump’s deportation policies have gone too far, a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS finds. Just over half, 52%, say Trump has gone too far in deporting undocumented immigrants, up from 45% in February. A similar 52% now say that
Continue ReadingBy Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN Manchester, New Hampshire (CNN) — JB Pritzker greeted Rep. Maggie Goodlander with a joke. Answering his own question about how the New Hampshire congresswoman’s first few months in office have been, the Illinois governor laughed: “Awful, right?” But the conversation immediately became a mini-huddle about the debates they’ve each been having
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Fox and Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — As top Republicans give themselves just two months to pass President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax and spending cuts package, some GOP lawmakers are worrying it’s not enough time to resolve their biggest intraparty fights. Under fierce pressure from the White House, GOP officials are attempting to
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By Kevin Liptak and Jeff Zeleny, CNN Warren, Michigan (CNN) — On the 100th day, he rallied. Crossing the symbolic barrier between the first 100 days of his presidency and the 1,361 that remain, Trump basked in adulation from a supportive crowd and declared that he had just completed the “the most successful first 100
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump has lied for more than four years that he won the 2020 election he lost to Joe Biden. At a rally in Michigan on Tuesday to mark his first 100 days back in office, Trump added a related lie – wrongly asserting that he served as
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By Shimon Prokupecz and Rachel Clarke, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration ordered international students to be effectively designated as criminals without checking if the information was true, court records reviewed by CNN show, along with new information that was revealed by a government official at a court hearing Tuesday. Thousands of visa holders had
Continue ReadingBy Arlette Saenz, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration dismissed former second gentleman Doug Emhoff and other Biden-era appointees from the board that oversees the US Holocaust Memorial Museum on Tuesday, sources familiar with the matter said. “I was informed of my removal from the United States Holocaust Memorial Council,” Emhoff, who is Jewish, said
Continue ReadingBy Donald Judd, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump offered rare praise for a Democrat Tuesday, saying as he arrived at Selfridge Air National Guard Base that Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer “has done a very good job” — a marked shift from the previous frosty relationship between the two. “She came to see me —
Continue ReadingBy Annie Grayer, Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, CNN (CNN) — Ed Martin, President Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as US attorney for Washington, DC, did not recall some of his most controversial past statements in response to a series of questions put to him by members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, reviewed by CNN.
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By Manu Raju, Veronica Stracqualursi and Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — House Republicans have thwarted Democratic efforts to probe Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s controversial use of Signal, using their power to stop the minority party from forcing a vote that could embarrass the Trump administration. GOP leaders tucked a provision into a rule approved Tuesday
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By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration was forced to reveal new information Tuesday about its ham-handed and legally dubious operation to cancel the immigration records of thousands of international students that a federal judge described as a blatant due process violation that “concerned” and “troubled” her. A Department of Homeland Security official
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