National Politics

By Natasha Bertrand, Haley Britzky and Jake Tapper, CNN (CNN) — Last month, after news broke that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was using Signal to discuss sensitive military operations in violation of Pentagon policy, one of his closest military aides made an unusual inquiry to the Defense Department’s chief information officer: Would they grant

By Hanna Park and Shania Shelton, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge in Maryland has ordered the Trump administration to facilitate the return of a 20-year-old Venezuelan asylum seeker deported to El Salvador, ruling the removal violated a court settlement protecting some young migrants with pending asylum claims, according to an order issued Wednesday. The

CNN By John King, CNN Mississaugua, Ontario (CNN) — The workday at Lola Blooms begins by unpacking the morning delivery: a colorful mix of dahlias, hydrangeas, carnations, roses and more lifted from boxes and spread across the worktables. Until a few weeks ago, there were almost always flowers from the United States in the mix

By John King, CNN Mississaugua, Ontario (CNN) — The workday at Lola Blooms begins by unpacking the morning delivery: a colorful mix of dahlias, hydrangeas, carnations, roses and more lifted from boxes and spread across the worktables. Until a few weeks ago, there were almost always flowers from the United States in the mix as

By Casey Gannon and Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday issued a memo of directives to Justice Department employees to enforce the Trump administration’s policies targeting gender-affirming care for minors, according to a copy of the memo obtained by CNN. The memo comes after President Donald Trump issued an executive

By Kayla Tausche, Kylie Atwood and Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — Two weeks after President Donald Trump paused plans for steep tariffs with promises that a flurry of negotiated deals would ensue, the relative quiet has been deafening – roiling markets and calling into question the endgame for the administration’s trade war. Since then, there’s

By Betsy Klein and Samantha Waldenberg, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump took aim at the college accreditation process with a new executive order Wednesday, his latest move to exact control over America’s higher education institutions. The order, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, targets the federal government’s process for deciding what colleges and

By Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — Elon Musk said two very interesting and contradictory things related to his government employment during a Tesla earnings call Tuesday. First, he suggested that he’s just about done focusing full time on his ad hoc role taking a chainsaw to elements of the federal government with the Department

By Manu Raju, CNN (CNN) — Dick Durbin, the longtime second-ranking Democrat in the Senate, announced plans to retire at the end of next year, setting off a succession scramble to take his powerful leadership spot in the chamber and a likely crowded primary in Illinois for the seat. “The decision of whether to run

By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn and Sunlen Serfaty, CNN (CNN) — The Department of Education has recently announced that it will restart collecting federal student loans in default on May 5, putting millions of borrowers at risk of having their benefits and wages garnished. More than 5 million borrowers are in default, the department said in

By Haley Britzky and Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — News over the weekend that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s wife Jennifer was included in a second group chat where he shared sensitive military operations details has focused attention on the prominent role she has occupied at the Pentagon without being formally employed during her husband’s short

CNN By Kaitlan Collins, Natasha Bertrand, Jake Tapper and Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — A defiant Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth booked himself on the television network where he used to work as a host Tuesday morning in a bid to address the fallout over revelations that he discussed military plans in a second Signal group