National Politics

By Whitney Wild, Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge in Minnesota will probe this week whether grounds exist to toss the Justice Department’s case against journalist Don Lemon. It’s the latest example of judges’ growing skepticism of whether the department is behaving ethically behind closed doors in grand jury proceedings. Judges across the

By Holmes Lybrand, Todd Symons, Aida Karimi, CNN (CNN) — The US Secret Service says it’s aware of a video aired by Iran’s state broadcaster appearing to threaten the life of Barron Trump, the youngest son of President Donald Trump. Hard-line Iranian media have repeatedly featured content threatening the life of President Trump and his

By John Fritze, Gabe Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Monday permitted President Donald Trump to move forward with a controversial executive order targeting mail ballots, but the decision will almost certainly not be the final word in whether the administration can actually implement its far-reaching plan. At the center of the dispute

By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed sought to distance himself Monday from Hasan Piker after the left-wing streamer and activist suggested to his Twitch viewers last week that American Jews’ support of Israel will make antisemitism worse and invite violence. El-Sayed, who is facing Republican former Rep. Mike Rogers

By Davis Winkie, Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — A US airman who was arrested twice, once on the steps of the US Capitol while calling for the impeachment of President Donald Trump, was officially criminally charged Monday for his comments, according to a charging document his attorney shared with CNN. Maj. Jason Watson faces the

By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration announced plans to add a $103,265 fee for H-1B visas, months after a federal judge voided the US government’s previous attempt to require a $100,000 application fee. In a proposed regulation posted Monday, the administration said the fee would go toward “recovering” the costs of

By John Fritze, Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Monday said that President Donald Trump could begin carrying out parts of an executive order intended to restrict mail voting, but additional legal challenges could hinder implementation of his plan before the November midterm election. Though the court framed the order as limited,

By Davis Winkie, CNN (CNN) — Two influential Democratic senators are demanding that the Pentagon investigate quality-of-life issues aboard Navy ships participating in the standoff with Iran, according to a letter shared exclusively with CNN. In the letter sent Monday to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao, the lawmakers requested “an

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — The Department of Homeland Security’s decision last year to pull additional federal agents for immigration enforcement resulted in a dramatic drop in fentanyl investigations and seizures by the department’s investigations division, according to a federal watchdog report. The sudden change in approach toward ongoing fentanyl-related efforts stemmed from President

By Arit John | Photographs by Marco Storel New York (CNN) — This August’s Dominican Heritage Reception at Gracie Mansion brought in a different crowd from years past. Dozens of Dominican Americans, including activists more used to protesting than attending the event, mingled over trays of cheese empanadas and sancocho. Dressed in a butter yellow

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration celebrated the arrival of an alleged MS-13 mastermind on American soil in March 2025. But it was Moises Rivera-Luna — a man whom the Justice Department says ordered murders in the US from inside a Salvadoran jail cell more than a decade ago — who fell

By Davis Winkie, CNN (CNN) — The US Army’s Apache helicopters are crashing at a historically high rate amid a widespread problem with the model’s transmission, according to a CNN analysis of military accident data. The helicopter type has experienced five major crashes since October, and a deadly mishap earlier this month in Texas killed

By Chris Lau, CNN (CNN) — The US military said early Monday it struck an alleged drug trafficking boat in the eastern Pacific, marking the first known strike in more than two months. “Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere executed a lethal kinetic strike on a low-profile vessel operating along established narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern

By Alison Main, Julia Benbrook, CNN (CNN) — Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and close adviser, recently met with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries to discuss ways the White House can collaborate with Democrats on key issues, a source familiar with the meeting told CNN on Sunday. The pair gathered privately in New York to

By Patrick Svitek, CNN Orangeburg, South Carolina (CNN) — Pete Buttigieg has been to this small but historic city in South Carolina’s Midlands at least twice before, as an underdog presidential candidate in 2020 and then as the better-known transportation secretary under President Joe Biden in 2023. Now a private citizen eying a second White

By Isabelle Chapman, Andrew Kaczynski, CNN (CNN) — Years before Natalie Harp became a key White House aide to President Donald Trump, she flooded her Twitter feed with posts demonstrating extraordinary devotion to him on January 6, 2021. A CNN review of Harp’s now-removed account on X, previously Twitter, found that Harp posted more than

By Aleena Fayaz, Michael Williams, CNN (CNN) — Spectators began pouring into the center of Washington, DC, on Saturday to catch the first day of the Freedom 250 Grand Prix, a two-day street racing event whose revving engines will echo amid the nearby US Capitol and the city’s neoclassic national museums. The portion of 3rd