National Politics

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — Two law firms targeted by President Donald Trump’s executive orders – Jenner & Block and WilmerHale – filed lawsuits Friday as the legal industry continues to grapple with the unprecedented attacks from the White House. Both firms, which have connections to former special counsel Robert Mueller, are now the

By Katie Bo Lillis and Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Current and former US officials have told CNN they believe two texts sent by national security adviser Mike Waltz and CIA Director John Ratcliffe in the now-infamous group chat involving senior US officials discussing battle plans to strike Houthi targets in Yemen, may have done

By Hadas Gold and Brianna Keilar, CNN (CNN) — Some military spouses who work in the federal government were notified by their respective agencies this week their remote work exceptions were being rescinded, despite them being granted just days or weeks earlier, several military spouses told CNN. The guidance from the Office of Personnel Management,

By Brian Todd, CNN (CNN) — The call centers that America’s military veterans rely on to schedule appointments and arrange medical care may no longer have a live voice on the other end of the line because the agents who handle the calls are set to be laid off, according to multiple sources familiar with

By Devan Cole and John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department’s decision to invoke the rarely used state secrets privilege in a bid to avoid giving a federal judge details on two deportation flights has opened a complicated new front in the government’s ongoing resistance to turning over the information. The department’s invocation of

By Kaanita Iyer and Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump took his most consequential action against federal employee unions yet late Thursday, signing an executive order aimed at ending collective bargaining for government employees whose work include national security aspects. The expansive order applies to workers across many federal agencies, including the departments

By Katelyn Polantz and Clay Voytek, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday directing agencies to suspend the security clearances and access to federal buildings of lawyers for the law firm Wilmer Hale, the former firm to one time-special counsel Robert Mueller. The order also directs agencies to “refrain from hiring

CNN By Alayna Treene, Kevin Liptak and Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — Vice President JD Vance on Friday made the highest-profile case to date for American control of Greenland during a controversial visit to the semiautonomous island, which its residents had resisted and its leaders said was unwelcome. “We want to have good relationships with

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration has temporarily restored funding to an initiative that tracks alleged Russian war crimes after cutting its assistance, according to a congressional source familiar with the matter. Funding for the Ukraine Conflict Observatory has been restored for six weeks, the source told CNN. This will allow the

By Veronica Stracqualursi, Morgan Rimmer and Ted Barrett, CNN (CNN) — Congressional Republicans are grappling with how to respond to senior Trump administration officials’ use of a Signal group chat to discuss a military strike, with a key Senate committee requesting a watchdog probe of the matter as some in the GOP say there’s no

By Alayna Treene, Kevin Liptak and Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — Vice President JD Vance on Friday made the highest-profile case to date for American control of Greenland during a controversial visit to the semiautonomous island, which its residents had resisted and its leaders said was unwelcome. “We want to have good relationships with everybody,”

By Sarah Ferris, Arit John, David Wright and Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — Top Republicans grew so concerned about the lackluster performance of their own GOP House candidate in an upcoming special election in Florida that President Donald Trump’s team and members of House GOP leadership decided to personally intervene. A top adviser to Trump

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Thursday ordered key Trump administration agencies to preserve messages sent on Signal between March 11 to March 15. Judge James Boasberg made the ruling in a preservation lawsuit brought in the wake of the revelation that Cabinet officials were discussing war plans on Signal. The

By Sarah Ferris, Kevin Liptak and Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — The White House on Thursday pulled Rep. Elise Stefanik’s nomination to be US ambassador to the United Nations amid concerns over slim margins in the US House of Representatives, keeping one of Trump’s most vocal allies in Congress. President Donald Trump declared he was

By Devan Cole and Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — A veteran AP photographer and top White House correspondent testified Thursday that the news organization has struggled to compete in its coverage of the Trump presidency since White House’s decision to limit its access to presidential events, the Oval Office and Air Force One. Evan Vucci,

By Natasha Bertrand, Zachary Cohen, Jamie Gangel and Katie Bo Lillis, CNN (CNN) — Ever since news broke on Monday that top Trump officials discussed US military attack plans in a group chat that inadvertently included a journalist, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has projected unflinching confidence. “I know exactly what I’m doing,” Hegseth told reporters

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration has terminated a majority of its funding for a key Syrian civil and humanitarian organization, the White Helmets, according to internal documents and the organization. The funding from the US Agency for International Development (USAID) for the White Helmets’ firefighting, search and rescue, and community resilience

By Hannah Rabinowitz and Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — Federal law enforcement officers captured an alleged “major leader” of the MS-13 gang Thursday morning, President Donald Trump said on social media. “Just captured a major leader of MS13,” he wrote. The alleged 24-year-old gang member, was arrested in the early hours of Thursday in Prince

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — ActBlue, a fundraising juggernaut for liberal candidates and causes, is facing stepped-up scrutiny and criticism from Republicans on Capitol Hill and allies of President Donald Trump – as the GOP flexes its new power in Washington and targets one of the key pillars of the Democratic Party’s financial infrastructure.