National Politics

By Marshall Cohen and Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — The acting top federal prosecutor in Washington under President Donald Trump is furious about recent leaks to the press and also specifically directed staff to scrutinize a former official’s work on January 6 cases after she rebuked him on TV, according to internal emails obtained by

By Ted Barrett, CNN Washington (CNN) — Senate Democrats on Tuesday voted to filibuster a GOP-led bill to sanction International Criminal Court officials. The measure was designed to punish the ICC for issuing arrest warrants for top Israeli officials. The court issued those warrants last year for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his former defense

By David Wright, CNN (CNN) — Democratic Sen. Gary Peters of Michigan announced Tuesday that he will not seek reelection in 2026, leaving Congress at the end of his second term and opening up a highly competitive battleground Senate seat. Peters announced the decision in an interview with the Detroit News, saying, “I always thought

By Zachary Cohen, Jeremy Herb, Evan Perez and Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the FBI, has for years battled US intelligence agencies over the handling of some of the government’s most sensitive national security secrets. As a Republican congressional aide and Trump national security staffer, Patel fought

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — A lawsuit brought by two federal employees alleges that the Trump administration has set up an email distribution system for the entire federal workforce that raises security concerns for workers’ private data. The lawsuit accuses the US Office of Personnel Management – which handles many personnel operations for the

By Jennifer Hansler, Andy Rose, Tami Luhby and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Tuesday afternoon temporarily blocked part of the Trump administration’s plans to freeze all federal aid, a policy that unleashed confusion and worry from charities and educators even as the White House said it was not as sweeping an

By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn and Morgan Rimmer, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Senate confirmed Scott Bessent as Treasury secretary on Monday, elevating the hedge fund manager to the new administration’s top financial job as President Donald Trump forges ahead on an ambitious economic agenda. The vote was 68-29. As head of the Treasury, 62-year-old Bessent

By Priscilla Alvarez, Haley Britzky and Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — Thousands of Afghans who worked directly for or on behalf of the US government in Afghanistan have been cut off from critical resources and face huge uncertainty over whether they’ll be able to travel to the United States following moves by the Trump administration

By Hannah Rabinowitz, Katelyn Polantz and Paula Reid, CNN (CNN) — More than a dozen officials who worked on the criminal investigations into Donald Trump have been fired, according to sources familiar with the matter. A letter from acting Attorney General James McHenry to the officials said they cannot be “trusted” to “faithfully” implement Trump’s

By Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — A push by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to crack down on ballot initiatives could have unforeseen consequences for the business interests of his state’s most prominent resident: President Donald Trump. DeSantis, a Republican, has proposed a sweeping overhaul of citizen-led amendments to the state constitution — including new restrictions