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By Morgan Rimmer, Ted Barrett and Manu Raju, CNN (CNN) — The Senate narrowly voted to confirm embattled Pete Hegseth as secretary of the Department of Defense, in a major win for President Donald Trump and his new administration. Vice President JD Vance cast the 51-50 tie-breaking vote after former GOP Leader Mitch McConnell and

By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — Federal agencies have been told to move to terminate “to the maximum extent allowed by law, all federal diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility and ‘environmental justice’ offices and positions” within 60 days, according to a US Office of Personnel Management memo dated Friday. Agencies have until January 31

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The State Department has suspended processing passport applications seeking the gender marker of “X” and will only process and issue passports for people identifying as male or female, according to a department spokesperson. The move aligns with an executive order signed by President Donald Trump on Monday that says

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The US State Department has frozen nearly all foreign assistance worldwide, effective immediately, days after President Donald Trump issued a sweeping executive order Monday to put a hold on such aid for 90 days. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sent a cable, seen by CNN, to all US diplomatic

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — Several members of the Oath Keepers, a far-right extremist group, cannot enter Washington, DC, or the grounds of the US Capitol without first receiving court permission, a federal judge said Friday, days after President Donald Trump commuted their prison sentences. The brief order from US District Judge Amit Mehta

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide whether states may reject religious charter schools from receiving public funding, agreeing to hear arguments in an appeal out of Oklahoma involving the first such school in the nation. St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School applied last year to take part

CNN By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — Until hours before California Gov. Gavin Newsom greeted President Donald Trump with a bro-hug on the Los Angeles tarmac Friday, his advisers had spent the week monitoring new White House advance staffers’ social media accounts, hoping for clues for where Trump was going to talk about the wildfire

By Kaitlan Collins, CNN (CNN) — Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp criticized President Donald Trump’s decision to pardon virtually every convicted rioter at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, including those who beat up members of law enforcement. Without mentioning him by name, Kemp condemned Trump’s broad pardons while also taking a swipe at

By Katelyn Polantz and Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — High-profile January 6 rioter Guy Reffitt showed up in Washington, DC, on Wednesday to celebrate with his wife and supporters who’d been hoping for his release from federal detention for months. But he should not have been walking free — even after President Donald Trump on

By Curt Merrill and Amy O’Kruk, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s second term is off and running with a cascade of executive actions signed in his first few weeks and more promised in the weeks to come. Trump has vowed to enact a sweeping agenda and reshape the federal government, saying in his inaugural