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By Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — Democratic Sen. Ruben Gallego will soon offer a resolution to block the Pentagon from offering military funeral honors for Ashli Babbitt, the Air Force veteran and pro-Donald Trump rioter who was shot and killed after breaching a sensitive area of the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, according to

By Clare Foran, Annette Choi, Ethan Cohen, CNN Washington (CNN) — Amid a quickly shifting House lineup, Speaker Mike Johnson has a bit more room to maneuver in his historically narrow majority. Johnson can now lose three Republican defections on party-line votes and still pass legislation. The partisan breakdown stands at 218 Republicans, 212 Democrats,

By Adam Cancryn, CNN (CNN) — Dr. Susan Monarez, the former head of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, will testify to Congress following her abrupt ouster last month amid a clash with US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over vaccine policy. The Senate’s health committee announced Tuesday that

By Donald Judd, Kristen Holmes, Samantha Waldenberg, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump dined at Joe’s Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab in Washington, DC, Tuesday evening, his first foray to an outside eatery in the district since taking office in January. Trump has eschewed the capital’s restaurant scene since returning to Washington, choosing instead

By Veronica Stracqualursi, Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — House Republicans are gearing up to consider more than a dozen bills that would further limit Washington, DC’s self-governance, impose tougher punishments and roll back criminal justice reforms in the wake of President Donald Trump’s federal crime crackdown. The House Oversight Committee will take up the bills

CNN By John Fritze, Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to hear arguments over President Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs, taking up a fast-moving appeal that deals with the centerpiece of the administration’s economic agenda. In the meantime, the tariffs will remain in place while the court hears the case. Trump is pressing

By John Fritze, Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to hear arguments over President Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs, taking up a fast-moving appeal that deals with the centerpiece of the administration’s economic agenda. In the meantime, the tariffs will remain in place while the court hears the case. Trump is pressing the

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — Two Supreme Court justices – a conservative and the court’s senior liberal – appeared to shut down talk of a third term for President Donald Trump in separate appearances this week, with both suggesting that the two-term language included in the 22nd Amendment is clear. The 22nd Amendment was

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Americans’ median household income rose less than 3%, or about $2,150, during the Biden administration, according to Census Bureau data released Tuesday. Former President Joe Biden had to contend with the aftermath of the economic upheaval wrought by the Covid-19 pandemic and a period of soaring inflation. Median household

By Kaitlan Collins, Zachary Cohen, Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard directed the National Security Agency in recent months to recall a classified report about Venezuela – despite agency staff affirming it was accurate and complied with all NSA policies – in a move that has raised major questions inside

By Michael Williams, Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — Two key figures in the Iran-Contra affair quietly married last month, nearly 40 years after the scandal rocked US politics and President Ronald Reagan’s administration. Oliver North married his former secretary, Fawn Hall, on August 27 in Virginia, according to a copy of the marriage certificate

By Hannah Rabinowitz, Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — A Michigan state judge on Tuesday dismissed charges against the fake electors who signed certificates falsely claiming President Donald Trump won Michigan in the 2020 election, saying that the state failed to prove the 15 men and women were knowingly trying to break the law. The group

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — The US attorney’s office in Washington, DC, that’s run by Donald Trump-appointee Jeanine Pirro has struggled to secure a grand jury’s approval of at least one indictment in federal court this month, in an indication of possible issues arising with the office’s crackdown on crime. In one case this

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — The Missouri House voted Tuesday to approve a new congressional map that seeks to eliminate a Democratic-controlled US House seat, as Republicans around the country scramble to boost their chances of retaining control of Congress after next year’s midterm elections. The 90-65 vote puts Missouri a step closer to