By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — Amid reports the Justice Department is weighing banning transgender people from owning firearms in response to last month’s mass shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic church, the National Rifle Association said Friday it will oppose any blanket rule that limits Second Amendment rights. Their declaration comes after CNN and other
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By Shania Shelton, CNN (CNN) — A 2019 mission in North Korea, which intended to have Navy SEALs plant an electronic device to intercept communications of the country’s leader Kim Jong Un, resulted in an unsuccessful operation that left unarmed North Koreans dead, according to a report from the New York Times on Friday. The
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By Alexandra Skores, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — The White House says it plans to roll back proposed rules by the Biden administration, including some that required passengers to be compensated by airlines for disrupted flights. According to a public document posted Thursday by the White House, the Department of Transportation will withdraw an advanced
Continue ReadingAssociated Press (AP) — Rep. Ronny Jackson announced that the Navy has restored his retired rank of rear admiral, overturning a 2022 demotion that followed a scathing investigation, which found major issues with his behavior while he was the top White House physician. The Texas Republican on Wednesday posted a June 13 letter from Navy
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By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — The Social Security Administration’s acting inspector general has opened a review of the agency’s call center wait times and its ability to deliver services to Americans. The investigation was requested by Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, who has repeatedly voiced concerns about the agency’s performance after a Department
Continue ReadingBy David Wright, CNN (CNN) — America’s aging power grid has faced strain for years, exacerbated by severe weather events, an explosion of data centers and the demand created by artificial intelligence. Now, electricity is emerging as a top issue on the campaign trail. Campaigns in this fall’s races for New Jersey and Virginia governors,
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By Ellis Kim, CNN (CNN) — The national political furor around the Jeffrey Epstein case files has escalated in recent days, even as President Donald Trump has sought to dismiss the calls for more transparency as a “Democrat hoax.” On Capitol Hill, the effort to pry loose more records from the Justice Department’s Epstein case
Continue ReadingBy Joan Biskupic, CNN Chief Supreme Court Analyst (CNN) — As she launched her media tour to promote a new memoir on Thursday night, Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett rejected the notion that the country could be on the brink of a constitutional crisis. “I think the Constitution is alive and well,” Barrett told journalist
Continue ReadingBy Kylie Atwood, CNN (CNN) — The United States and Ecuador are in the final stages of establishing an agreement that would allow the US to send asylum seekers to the country, a senior State Department official said on Thursday. “It is not 100% finished,” the official said, adding that the so-called safe third country
Continue ReadingBy Rashard Rose, CNN (CNN) — Two Venezuelan military aircraft flew near a US Navy vessel in international waters on Thursday, in a move the US Department of Defense called “highly provocative.” “Today, two Maduro regime military aircraft flew near a U.S. Navy vessel in international waters. This highly provocative move was designed to interfere
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By Arlette Saenz, CNN (CNN) — Joe Biden recently underwent Mohs surgery, a procedure used to remove skin cancer lesions, a spokesperson for Biden said Thursday, just a few months after the former president, 82, was diagnosed with prostate cancer. The spokesperson did not detail when the surgery took place, but the news came as
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By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN Tampa, Florida (CNN) — As the federal government continues its crackdown on illegal immigration, the Justice Department announced Thursday that it would surge resources to the US-Canada border to combat an uptick in human smuggling operations in the north. The surge will include sending agents from the joint DOJ and Department
Continue ReadingBy Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department filed a lawsuit Thursday against Boston’s Democratic Mayor Michelle Wu over the city’s so-called sanctuary policy, which limits cooperation with federal immigration efforts. The lawsuit, which also targets the city’s police department and its commissioner, alleges that Boston’s policy is illegal because “cities cannot obstruct the
Continue ReadingBy Adam Cancryn, CNN (CNN) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s tumultuous tenure atop the US Health and Human Services Department is starting to wear on some prominent Republicans. But so far, President Donald Trump is not one of them. He said at a White House event Thursday that he didn’t watch the hearing, but added:
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By Kristen Holmes, Gloria Pazmino, Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams is putting up a fight, at least for now, denying that he is planning to exit the race for mayor to take a job in the Trump administration even as conversations are said to be continuing about possible roles
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By Samantha Waldenberg, Haley Britzky, Alejandra Jaramillo, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday to rebrand the Pentagon as the “Department of War,” telling reporters in the Oval Office it was a more “appropriate” name given the state of the world. “I think it’s a much more appropriate name, especially in
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By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to allow him to fire a member of the Federal Trade Commission in an emergency appeal that could further erode the autonomy of independent federal agencies. At the center of the latest legal battle over Trump’s ability to control
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By John Fritze, CNN Memphis (CNN) — Justice Brett Kavanaugh appeared eager Thursday to squelch growing tension within the federal judiciary, praising a meeting of judges for their work on the “front lines of American justice” and defending the high court’s opaque emergency decisions as a product of compromise. “Keep doing what you’re doing,” Kavanaugh
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By Samantha Waldenberg, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump will host tech leaders for a dinner in the State Dining Room, after inclement weather forced him to scrap plans to hold it in the Rose Garden, a White House official said. The event would have been the first to be held in the newly renovated
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By Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — The Republican-controlled Missouri legislature began redrawing its congressional map Thursday to target one Democratic-held seat in the US House, responding to demands by President Donald Trump and his allies to help the GOP eke out more seats in next year’s midterm elections. Lawmakers in the Missouri House are holding
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