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By Devan Cole, Tierney Sneed, Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — An Immigration and Customs Enforcement attorney detailed to Minnesota to help handle the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in the Twin Cities has been removed from her post after telling a judge that the job “sucks” because of the crushing workload and the government’s apparent inability

By Michael Williams, Jennifer Sherwood and Rebekah Riess Minneapolis (CNN) — White House border czar Tom Homan on Wednesday announced that the Department of Homeland Security would be withdrawing 700 personnel from Minneapolis “effective immediately.” Roughly 3,000 DHS personnel had been deployed to Minneapolis as part of Operation Metro Surge, the immigration crackdown that began

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department said it will seek the death penalty for the man accused of shooting two National Guard members, and killing one of them, near the White House in November. The man, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, pleaded not guilty to the nine charges against him — including first-degree murder —

By Randi Kaye, Holmes Lybrand, CNN Fort Pierce, Florida (CNN) — After plotting, stalking and lying in wait for the right moment to shoot and kill then-former President Donald Trump, the man who set up a sniper’s nest on the edge of Trump’s West Palm Beach golf course in Florida and was thwarted by a

By Sarah Ferris, Ted Barrett, Manu Raju, CNN (CNN) — For a fleeting moment in Washington, top Democrats believed last week they could reach a deal with the GOP to set new limits on President Donald Trump’s nationwide immigration enforcement after federal agents killed two US citizens in Minnesota. That hope is mostly gone inside

CNN By Devan Cole, Austin Culpepper, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge appears likely to side with Mark Kelly in the Democratic senator’s case alleging the Pentagon is violating his First Amendment rights through its effort to punish him over his urging of US service members to refuse illegal orders. During a high-stakes hearing in

By Donald Judd, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday claimed that “a state is an agent for the federal government in elections,” as he defended his call for Republicans to nationalize elections. “I want to see elections be honest — and if a state can’t run an election, I think the people behind

By Devan Cole, Austin Culpepper, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge appears likely to side with Mark Kelly in the Democratic senator’s case alleging the Pentagon is violating his First Amendment rights through its effort to punish him over his urging of US service members to refuse illegal orders. During a high-stakes hearing in Washington,

By Natasha Bertrand, Kevin Liptak, Jennifer Hansler, Kylie Atwood, CNN (CNN) — A US aircraft carrier shot down an Iranian drone that “aggressively approached” the ship in the Arabian Sea on Tuesday hours before two gunboats operated by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps approached a US-flagged tanker in the Strait of Hormuz and threatened to

By Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — Bill and Hillary Clinton will appear for depositions later this month in the House’s Jeffrey Epstein probe, putting an end to the contempt of Congress proceedings against them and setting up high-stakes interviews. After months of back and forth, House Oversight Chair James Comer finally got the Clintons to

CNN By Zachary B. Wolf, Michael Williams, Austin Culpepper, CNN (CNN) — The major headlines from the latest dump of files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein focus on President Donald Trump, former President Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Elon Musk and the former Prince Andrew, among others. And rightly so. Those names are sprinkled

By Zachary B. Wolf, Michael Williams, Austin Culpepper, CNN (CNN) — The major headlines from the latest dump of files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein focus on President Donald Trump, former President Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Elon Musk and the former Prince Andrew, among others. And rightly so. Those names are sprinkled throughout

CNN By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, Samantha Waldenberg, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump called on Republicans to “nationalize the voting” in an interview that aired Monday, as his administration pushes to overhaul election ground rules ahead of the pivotal midterm races this year. “The Republicans should say, we want to take over, we should take

By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, Samantha Waldenberg, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump called on Republicans to “nationalize the voting” in an interview that aired Monday, as his administration pushes to overhaul election ground rules ahead of the pivotal midterm races this year. “The Republicans should say, we want to take over, we should take over