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By Alejandra Jaramillo, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump told CNN Hamas faces “complete obliteration” if the group refuses to cede power and control of Gaza, amid ongoing efforts to push forward his proposed ceasefire plan. “Complete Obliteration!” Trump told CNN’s Jake Tapper when asked via text message on Saturday what would happen if Hamas

By Kristen Holmes, Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — The FBI disciplined an agent after refusing to participate in plans for a surrender and arrest of former FBI director James Comey at the time of his indictment, according to a source familiar with the matter. Comey, a longtime critic of President Donald Trump, was indicted last

By Eva McKend, CNN (CNN) — Virginia’s Democratic candidate for attorney general Jay Jones is facing widespread criticism for text messages he sent in 2022 suggesting a colleague should be shot. In a private exchange between Jones and Republican Virginia Delegate Carrie Coyner, Jones griped about how the then Republican speaker of the House of

By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — When word reached the White House on Friday afternoon that Hamas had, after nearly five days, responded to President Donald Trump’s 20-point proposal to end the war in Gaza, officials were so quick to embrace the group’s statement they posted it in full on social media, at one point

By Brianna Keilar, CNN (CNN) — A few years ago, when my husband was still in the army, we went to a semi-regular parent and staff meeting at our kids’ school. It was the beginning of the school year, just after Blue Star Welcome Week, an annual event launched by the nonprofit Blue Star Families

By Gloria Pazmino, CNN New York (CNN) — The gathering was inside the Brooklyn home of a Jewish film director. The crowd, according to several people in attendance, was skeptical. Zohran Mamdani had arrived to greet approximately 60 people, at least half of them Modern Orthodox, who for the most part are more religiously observant

CNN By Abeer Salman, Oren Liebermann, Kevin Liptak, Jeremy Diamond, CNN (CNN) — Israel’s government and military are preparing for the first phase of US President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan, they said early Saturday after Hamas made a similar statement – marking a potential breakthrough after months of failed efforts to end the war.

By Adam Cancryn, Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump believed the government shutdown would deliver Republicans a swift and decisive political victory. But with the stalemate now likely to spill into a second week, that calculation is looking increasingly shaky. The opening stage of the high-profile funding fight has emboldened Democratic lawmakers and

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge says he believes the immigrant defendant Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whom the administration wrongly sent to El Salvador, may have been targeted with a criminal charge by the Justice Department this year out of vindictiveness. “The Government had a significant stake in retaliating against Abrego’s success” suing

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — The person who admitted to trying to kill Justice Brett Kavanaugh in the wake of the Supreme Court’s leaked decision overturning of Roe v. Wade was sentenced to just over 8 years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release – far less than the 30 years sought by

By Angélica Franganillo Díaz, John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Friday for a second time allowed President Donald Trump to strip temporary deportation protections from 300,000 Venezuelans, handing the administration another win in its effort to rapidly remove non-citizens from the United States. In a brief order, and over the dissent of

CNN By Abeer Salman, Oren Liebermann, Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — Hamas announced that it had agreed to “immediately” enter negotiations for the release of all hostages according to President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan — a potential breakthrough after months of failed efforts to end the war. Hamas stopped short of accepting the Trump

By Evan Perez, Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — Days after being fired, the top national security prosecutor in Virginia’s eastern district taped a letter outside his former office accusing top Justice Department officials of being “more concerned” with going after President Donald Trump’s perceived enemies than protecting the country’s security. The typed letter dated Friday

By Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — The US military carried out another strike on a boat operating in the Caribbean officials deemed to be a “narco-trafficking vessel” on Friday morning, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced in a social media post. The strike killed all four people who were on board, Hegseth said. The attack

By Kaitlan Collins, Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration is reversing cuts to counterterrorism funding for New York after the president intervened, a person familiar with what happened told CNN. “I am pleased to advise that I reversed the cuts made to Homeland Security and Counterterrorism for New York City and State. It

By Abeer Salman, Oren Liebermann, Kevin Liptak, Jeremy Diamond, CNN (CNN) — Israel’s government and military are preparing for the first phase of US President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan, they said early Saturday after Hamas made a similar statement – marking a potential breakthrough after months of failed efforts to end the war. Hamas

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The US Supreme Court agreed to wade into Cold War history Friday by granting an appeal from Exxon over the Cuban government’s confiscation of an oil refinery and other property Fidel Castro’s regime seized shortly after taking power. The court also said it would decide a case involving an