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By Donie O’Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — No sooner had a gunman tried to storm the ballroom of the Washington Hilton, where the White House Correspondents’ Dinner was taking place Saturday night, than social media was awash with conspiracy theories about what was still unfolding in real time. From the collapse of the Francis Scott Key

By Sarah Ferris, Lauren Fox, CNN (CNN) — Top Republicans on Capitol Hill have spent 10 weeks struggling to end the bitter stalemate over funding for the Department of Homeland Security. Now, as federal workers — including US Secret Service agents who protected the president in this weekend’s shooting in Washington — prepare to miss

By Alejandra Jaramillo, Brian Stelter, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump called Monday for ABC to fire late-night host Jimmy Kimmel after he jokingly called first lady Melania Trump an “expectant widow” during a White House Correspondents’ Dinner skit on his show last week. Hours earlier, Melania Trump had implied Kimmel should lose his job

By Fredreka Schouten, Steve Contorno, Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — The Republicans who control Florida’s Legislature on Tuesday will take up a new map proposed by Gov. Ron DeSantis to give the GOP an edge in four seats now held by Democrats – in what is likely the final maneuver in the coast-to-coast redistricting battle

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether the US Department of Labor is empowered to enforce working conditions for foreign farm laborers, delving into an immigration program that the Trump administration is attempting to expand. At the center of the case is a dispute between a New Jersey

By Sarah Owermohle, John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — When a group of mothers and wellness influencers, including surgeon general nominee Casey Means, was asked to go to the White House this month, some of them assumed a few staffers would hear their grievances about the health risks of weedkillers. Instead, it turned into a two-hour

By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — “A bad noise.” That was first lady Melania Trump’s first reaction, according to her husband, to hearing gunshots outside the ballroom where she and President Donald Trump were seated onstage for Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner. She straightened, eyes ahead, as law enforcement rushed toward the dias, then crouched

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — When an investigation into a Virginia bank robbery went cold a few years back, local police turned to Google. Authorities served the tech giant with a “geofence warrant,” which required the company to parse location data on millions of people to find a handful whose cellphones pegged them within