National Politics

By Joan Biskupic, CNN Chief Supreme Court Analyst (CNN) — For more than 40 years, since his service as a young Reagan administration lawyer, Chief Justice John Roberts has pressed for an exceptionally powerful US president, one who could fire the heads of independent agencies at any time. In one memo to the White House counsel

By Nina Giraldo, Sarah Ferris, CNN Westfield, New Jersey (CNN) — One day before Republican Rep. Tom Kean Jr. returned to Capitol Hill for the first time in months, the long-missing congressman sat on the steps of his tidy Tudor-style home in North Jersey, sifting through mail beside his wife. Kean, wearing a gray polo,

By Morgan Rimmer, CNN (CNN) — A spokesperson for Sen. Ruben Gallego said Monday that President Donald Trump is “targeting” the Arizona Democrat with a Justice Department investigation into his campaign finances. Reacting to a report of the inquiry in Axios, the spokesperson accused the Justice Department of having been “weaponized” and said the administration

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — Justice Sonia Sotomayor received more than $4,000 in concert tickets from a Puerto Rican record label that counts Bad Bunny among its clients, according to a financial disclosure report made public Monday. Sotomayor, a member of the court’s liberal wing, disclosed receiving $4,333 in concert tickets from Rimas Entertainment

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court’s ruling letting more than a dozen states keep their post-election grace periods for mail ballots is a defeat for President Donald Trump and Republicans ahead of the midterms, but the GOP can still capture significant victories in major election-related cases coming further down the pipeline. On

By Adam Cancryn, Kristen Holmes, Ellis Kim, Morgan Rimmer, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Monday remained undecided over whether he’d sign a bipartisan housing bill, saying shortly after the House speaker sent it to the White House that it was “so unimportant” compared with his efforts to secure a controversial overhaul of federal

CNN By John Fritze, Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump a significant win Monday by allowing him to remove the leaders of once-independent federal agencies at will, toppling a 1935 precedent in the process that could reorder the way the government functions. At the same time, the court made

By John Fritze, Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump a significant win Monday by allowing him to remove the leaders of once-independent federal agencies at will, toppling a 1935 precedent in the process that could reorder the way the government functions. At the same time, the court made it

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the use of a “geofence warrant” to capture location data from cell phones in search of a robbery suspect constituted a search for Fourth Amendment purposes, a decision that means officers will have to obtain a warrant to access such data in

By Aileen Graef, CNN (CNN) — The New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq will be opened from the Oval Office next week to mark the launch of Trump Accounts, White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett said Monday. “We’re having a big opening bell ceremony next week where Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court will review the legality of mass voters purges in the final weeks before an election, as part of a larger case the justices are taking up examining the methods Arizona uses to keep non-citizens off the voter rolls. The dispute will not be resolved before the midterms,

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court Monday declined to take up an appeal from President Donald Trump over a $5 million verdict and finding that he sexually abused and defamed E. Jean Carroll, a decision that means the president will now have to pay the magazine columnist. Carroll sued Trump in 2019 for

By Andrew Kaczynski, CNN (CNN) — Darializa Avila Chevalier, the Democratic congressional nominee endorsed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who ousted longtime Rep. Adriano Espaillat in Tuesday’s primary, maintained a since-deleted Twitter account with repeated sympathetic references to communism, Marxist ideology and Soviet figures, including Vladimir Lenin. Avila Chevalier, a sociology PhD student

By Dana Bash, CNN (CNN) — For the first time in 40 years, retiring Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California will not be returning to Congress in January. CNN has learned where she will direct her legendary energy — at the University of California, Berkeley, which is creating the Nancy Pelosi Institute. The institute, dedicated

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — John Yoo — a well-known and, in some legal and political circles, infamous conservative lawyer — will assist a Justice Department investigation that has theorized a yearslong conspiracy against President Donald Trump and is looking at several former high-ranking federal officials. Yoo, now a law professor at the University

By Sunlen Serfaty, CNN (CNN) — The $1.7 million “ozone nanobubbler” being used in an effort to make the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool water crystal clear has a unique ability to shoot 500 million microscopic bubbles into every teaspoon of water. The injected oxygen is supposed to oxidize — or, unscientifically speaking, smash through —

By Arit John, CNN (CNN) — Almost immediately after scoring a series of upset victories in New York last week, members of the rising progressive movement started looking ahead to their next target: Colorado’s 1st Congressional District. Melat Kiros, a 29-year-old democratic socialist and lawyer, is challenging 15-term Rep. Diana DeGette for the solidly blue