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By Annie Grayer, Arlette Saenz, CNN (CNN) — GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik plans to launch a bid for New York governor in November and has hired a number of key senior aides, a source familiar with the planning told CNN. Stefanik, who served in House GOP leadership, is one of President Donald Trump’s key allies

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Attorneys for former FBI Director James Comey argued in a filing Thursday that the indictment against their client is too vague and have requested a detailed explanation of what false statements, exactly, Comey allegedly made to Congress. The dispute is at the heart of a new motion to dismiss

By Alison Main, Manu Raju, CNN (CNN) — Sen. John Fetterman was exasperated with his colleagues Thursday, as the Senate heads home in the stalemate’s fifth week and millions of Americans are due to lose federal food assistance this weekend. “It’s an absolute failure what occurred here for the last month, and now things are

CNN By Alison Main, Manu Raju, CNN (CNN) — Sen. John Fetterman was exasperated with his colleagues Thursday, as the Senate heads home in the stalemate’s fifth week and millions of Americans are due to lose federal food assistance this weekend. “It’s an absolute failure what occurred here for the last month, and now things

By Kevin Liptak, Kylie Atwood, CNN (CNN) — When Chinese leader Xi Jinping inserted a reference to “twists and turns” in his relationship with President Donald Trump in the opening remarks of their summit this week, he could hardly have imagined the twist that came minutes before the talks began. Writing from Marine One, which

CNN By Brianna Keilar, CNN (CNN) — As military families lurch from one pay day to the next, they’re suffering collective anxiety, unsure if paychecks will arrive as the government shutdown passes a month with no signs of resolution. Just days ahead of pay day, the Trump administration has shifted Pentagon and Department of Homeland

By Annie Grayer, Ellis Kim, Morgan Rimmer, Manu Raju, CNN (CNN) — Democrats say the Trump administration still won’t share critical details of recent US military strikes on suspected drug boats in the western hemisphere, asserting that Pentagon lawyers were pulled at the last minute Thursday from a briefing on Capitol Hill. As they emerged

By Kevin Liptak, Alejandra Jaramillo, Way Mullery, Rachel Wilson, CNN (CNN) — What to get the man who has everything, including his own Boeing 747 and a set of nuclear launch codes? The conundrum of the diplomatic gift has preoccupied foreign leaders and their envoys in Washington for decades, never more so than when Donald

By Katelyn Polantz, Evan Perez, Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — Failing to win Senate approval as US Attorney for Washington, DC, has made Ed Martin a more formidable force inside the Trump Justice Department. After three chaotic months as interim US attorney earlier this year, Justice Department officials placed Martin in the department’s headquarters in

CNN, POOL By Devan Cole, Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge in Boston indicated Thursday that she will intervene in a high-stakes fight over the Trump administration’s decision to not tap into billions of dollars in emergency funds to help cover food stamp benefits for tens of millions of Americans in November. “Right

By Katelyn Polantz, Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department’s decision to sideline two US attorneys and remove mentions of Donald Trump and the US Capitol attack from court papers before the sentencing of a pardoned January 6 rioter is being viewed by former and current career prosecutors as an alarming whitewashing of history.