National Politics

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — In his inaugural address to the Justice Department workforce on Thursday, Attorney General Todd Blanche pledged to make the department “more faithful to its highest ideals than when I found it.” Blanche’s speech, delivered in the great hall of the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building, was meant

By Brian Todd, Adam Cancryn, CNN (CNN) — A month after House Republicans failed to pass a veterans health bill, lawmakers are meeting behind closed doors to try to get the legislation back on track. But there’s one key person they haven’t invited to the table: Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins. Collins and his team

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration abruptly declined to renew a contract for a cybersecurity firm it hired to examine voting equipment in Puerto Rico after the company didn’t echo administration officials’ false claims of voter fraud, the firm’s executives said in their first extensive public remarks on the episode. After hearing

By Pamela Brown, Ross Adkin, CNN (CNN) — A sailor went overboard earlier this month off of the USS Abraham Lincoln, three US officials told CNN, amid reports of worsening mental health for crew members on the ship during an extended deployment for the Iran war. The sailor was rescued within an hour, according to

KFMB, U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND PUBLIC AFFAIRS, UNITED STATES NAVY, CNN By Pamela Brown, Ross Adkin, CNN (CNN) — A sailor went overboard earlier this month off of the USS Abraham Lincoln, three US officials told CNN, amid reports of worsening mental health for crew members on the ship during an extended deployment for the Iran

By Eric Bradner, Jeff Zeleny, CNN (CNN) — One month after he suspended his campaign, David Crowley’s victory in Wisconsin’s Democratic primary for governor on Tuesday marked an astonishing turn around. When the Milwaukee County executive re-entered the race 10 days after he exited it, democratic socialist state lawmaker Francesca Hong’s momentum seemed near insurmountable.

By Betsy Klein, Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will leave her role at the end of August, President Donald Trump announced Wednesday. The imminent departure of one of the president’s closest allies inside the White House marks a major shakeup for the president’s press operation, with less than three

By Hannah Rabinowitz, Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — A former employee of the Southern Poverty Law Center has been arrested in California on charges that she oversaw secret payments to informants inside of White supremacist groups, one of whom she was allegedly living with and had a romantic relationship with at the time. The woman,

By Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — A Washington, DC, judge has ordered the Kennedy Center to pay a jazz artist’s legal fees after the performing arts institution sued him for canceling his performance over the addition of President Donald Trump’s name to the venue. On Monday, Judge Tanya M. Jones Bosier awarded performer Chuck Redd

By Kevin Liptak, CNN Close personal aides joined President Donald Trump aboard a smaller aircraft flying out of Turkey last month after he snuck out of a larger plane, according to a person familiar with the arrangements, while several Cabinet members remained on the legacy Air Force One that flew without him. The aides with

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The State Department is asking US embassies in the Middle East to create plans to continue operating with a small number of staff on the ground, sources told CNN, as the war with Iran shows no signs of resolution. Additionally, personnel who have been displaced from their posts in

By Aaron Blake, Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — The Democratic establishment roared back Tuesday in Wisconsin, as the party coalesced at the last minute behind the last moderate standing against democratic socialist Francesca Hong in the primary for governor. Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley — who dropped out of the race last month, only to

By Kevin Liptak, Alejandra Jaramillo, Donald Judd, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump secretly slipped out of Turkey last month on an alternate military plane, which he boarded while hidden inside a catering truck, as part of an elaborate ruse prompted by an Iranian threat, according to a US official. The clandestine security plan —

By Adam Cancryn, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration on Tuesday finalized a rule that will bar Medicaid from covering gender identity healthcare for children enrolled in the government’s low-income insurance program. The new policy prohibits states from using federal Medicaid funds to pay for any gender identity care for enrollees under 18, marking the

By Allison Gordon, CNN (CNN) — Dan Cohen sat across the table from a former classmate who had spent years antagonizing him when they were growing up together and playing baseball. The classmate had something he wanted to get off his chest. “He was newly sober and just apologizing for just being mean to me,”

CNN By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s latest effort to curb birthright citizenship is facing fresh skepticism in court, with immigrants who successfully fought his earlier bid to end the right asking a federal judge to stop the president’s new gambit. The Supreme Court ruled in June that an executive order Trump

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s latest effort to curb birthright citizenship is facing fresh skepticism in court, with immigrants who successfully fought his earlier bid to end the right asking a federal judge to stop the president’s new gambit. The Supreme Court ruled in June that an executive order Trump issued

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — Communications that President Donald Trump has with advisers who don’t even work for his administration can be protected by executive privilege, the Justice Department said in a memo Monday evening that comes amid lawsuits and a possible Democratic takeover of Congress. The legal memo boldly formalizes an aggressive stance