CNN – US Politics

By Chris Lau, CNN (CNN) — The US military said early Monday it struck an alleged drug trafficking boat in the eastern Pacific, marking the first known strike in more than two months. “Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere executed a lethal kinetic strike on a low-profile vessel operating along established narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern

By Alison Main, Julia Benbrook, CNN (CNN) — Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and close adviser, recently met with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries to discuss ways the White House can collaborate with Democrats on key issues, a source familiar with the meeting told CNN on Sunday. The pair gathered privately in New York to

By Patrick Svitek, CNN Orangeburg, South Carolina (CNN) — Pete Buttigieg has been to this small but historic city in South Carolina’s Midlands at least twice before, as an underdog presidential candidate in 2020 and then as the better-known transportation secretary under President Joe Biden in 2023. Now a private citizen eying a second White

By Isabelle Chapman, Andrew Kaczynski, CNN (CNN) — Years before Natalie Harp became a key White House aide to President Donald Trump, she flooded her Twitter feed with posts demonstrating extraordinary devotion to him on January 6, 2021. A CNN review of Harp’s now-removed account on X, previously Twitter, found that Harp posted more than

By Aleena Fayaz, Michael Williams, CNN (CNN) — Spectators began pouring into the center of Washington, DC, on Saturday to catch the first day of the Freedom 250 Grand Prix, a two-day street racing event whose revving engines will echo amid the nearby US Capitol and the city’s neoclassic national museums. The portion of 3rd

By Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Friday defended his decision to temporarily pause tariffs on imported beef, despite criticism from some US cattle producers – and he didn’t indicate any plans to reverse course. “We want to get the beef prices down, so we’ll get them down a little bit, and

By Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — Log Cabin Republicans, a leading organization for gay conservatives, will no longer advocate for transgender people, a significant break within the LGBTQ movement as the GOP makes opposition to trans rights a political and policy priority. The influential group added support for transgender issues to its platform more than

By Marshall Cohen, CNN Washington (CNN) — The prediction site Polymarket referred dozens of accounts that showed signs of potential military insider trading to the Justice Department for investigation, a senior company official told CNN. The referrals, which have not been previously disclosed, pertained to accounts flagged by a watchdog group in a report published

By Devan Cole, Betsy Klein, John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court has temporarily allowed President Donald Trump to continue working on a massive new ballroom at the White House, freezing a court ruling that would have required construction to stop at midnight Friday. Friday afternoon’s order doesn’t address the legality of the project,

By Gabe Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin stood before the cameras last month and announced what he cast as a bombshell. “We’ve identified 250,000 noncitizens registered to vote in just four states,” Mullin told reporters. The Department of Homeland Security said it reached that figure by comparing public voter rolls in

By Kaanita Iyer, Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s close aide Natalie Harp expressed her utmost loyalty to him in at least two letters addressed to the president, which were published by The Daily Beast on Thursday amid increased scrutiny of the close aide’s relationship to Trump. “I want things to always be

By Aleena Fayaz, CNN (CNN) — Monaco, Las Vegas, Detroit, and Miami have boasted high-speed street races — and soon, Washington, DC will too. Race cars will push speeds up to 180 miles per hour this weekend as the nation’s capital joins other iconic cities hosting street circuits, where public roads are converted into a

By Patrick Svitek, Dianne Gallagher, CNN (CNN) — Fresh off the losses of three candidates he endorsed in Republican primaries, President Donald Trump faces a much higher-profile test of his political power in South Carolina. Trump is set to hold a rally Friday night in Myrtle Beach with Sen. Darline Graham, whom he endorsed for

By Katie Doran, CNN (CNN) — Democratic state Sen. Aisha Wahab will win the special election runoff to finish former Rep. Eric Swalwell’s term in California’s 14th District, CNN’s Decision Desk projects. In recent weeks, the Bay Area race to replace the former congressman, who resigned amid sexual assault allegations, became another test of Democratic

By Haley Britzky, Pamela Brown, CNN (CNN) — The US Navy is working to rename an aircraft carrier under construction that was set to honor a Black sailor hailed for his heroic actions during the attack on Pearl Harbor, three sources familiar with internal discussions told CNN. During President Donald Trump’s first term, the Navy

CNN By Kevin Liptak, Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — First, Michael Cohen was Donald Trump’s personal lawyer and self-described “pit bull.” Then he became a bitter foe, exposing what he called “dirty deeds” and earning him the level “rat” by a president scorned. Now, after burying the hatchet, Cohen has become something else: a radio