By Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said Friday night the United States reached an oil agreement with Venezuela, a move he said will more than double American oil reserves, increase oil supply and lower gas prices. “At my direction, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, working closely

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to uphold its policy banning transgender Americans from serving in the military, the latest significant case involving trans Americans to reach the conservative court in recent years. Days after taking office last year, Trump signed an executive order directing the Pentagon

By Lauren del Valle, Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge again denied President Donald Trump’s legal effort to get his New York state criminal hush money case moved to federal court, a move that could have made it easier to reverse his conviction. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein said in a ruling Friday that

By Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — Wyoming’s Republican Gov. Mark Gordon voiced concerns about the Justice Department election monitors who observed the primary election in his state last week, saying he’s asked his attorney general to look into their “aggressive” behavior. The Justice Department sent two Civil Rights Division attorneys to Laramie County, Wyoming, which

By Adam Cancryn, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said Friday that he will make it easier for ranchers to process their own meat, in an effort to weaken the control the nation’s four largest meatpacking firms have over the process. The move comes shortly after Trump was pressed on the issue by conservative radio

By Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump, a native New Yorker, will forgo a visit to ground zero for the 25th anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks to instead mark the occasion with remarks at the Pentagon, two people briefed on the plans tell CNN. Trump is not attending the ceremony that

By Dan Berman, Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge in Boston has temporarily blocked the US Postal Service from carrying out a plan, issued under an executive order from President Trump, that could limit mail voting. Democratic states and voter advocacy groups challenging the recently released USPS rules were granted a temporary restraining

By Aleena Fayaz, CNN (CNN) — Amid a growing trade war with one of the United States’ closest allies, President Donald Trump on Thursday moved to rename Lake Ontario to “Lake America,” needling Canada further after trade talks collapsed. Trump’s executive order marks the president’s latest attempt to use rebranding as an assertion of power

By Devan Cole, Tierney Sneed, Michael Williams, CNN (CNN) — The Kennedy Center board told a federal judge Thursday it will not attempt to add President Donald Trump’s name to the building or grounds until October 8 at the earliest, a one-month delay from previous plans. The announcement came in a one-sentence court filing following

CNN By Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday afternoon to change the name of Lake Ontario to “Lake America,” further needling Canada as he engages in a tense trade war with the United States’ northern ally. Flanked in the Oval Office by large maps of the Great Lakes

By Lauren Fox, Allison Gordon, CNN (CNN) — Republican Rep. Chuck Edwards is lobbying his colleagues to vote against a possible censure over allegations that he repeatedly made unwanted advances toward two female staffers, asserting that familiar conduct toward his employees was not necessarily inappropriate. “An affectionate friendship is not a sexual proposition,” the North

By Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday afternoon to change the name of Lake Ontario to “Lake America,” further needling Canada as he engages in a tense trade war with the United States’ northern ally. Flanked in the Oval Office by large maps of the Great Lakes —

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. Personal Birth date: September 6, 1962 Birth place: Newark, New Jersey Birth name: Christopher James Christie Father: Wilbur “Bill” Christie, an accountant Mother: Sondra (Grasso) Christie Marriage: Mary Pat (Foster) Christie (1986-present) Children: Bridget, Patrick, Sarah and

By Adam Cancryn, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump has disclosed making another 1,000-plus stock transactions in June, continuing an unprecedented pace of trading activity while in office that has drawn scrutiny over his ability to personally profit off of the presidency. The trades, submitted in a filing to the Office of Government Ethics, included

By Kevin Liptak, Zachary Cohen, Katie Bo Lillis, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s central intelligence chief traveled to Moscow this week with a warning to Russia not to stage an attack in NATO territory, among other issues, according to two people familiar with the matter. CIA Director John Ratcliffe also used the trip, which

By Adam Cancryn, Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump has touted his one-of-a-kind midterm convention as the spectacle his party needs to reenergize voters and alter its political fortunes ahead of the midterms. But as the two-day extravaganza approaches, Republicans are privately questioning if it strikes the right tone amid the electorate’s tightening

By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — Former leaders of the National Archives — which preserves and protects the nation’s most important documents — are urging a federal appeals court to reject the Trump administration’s effort to ignore the Presidential Records Act, a decades old law that requires presidents save all official records from their

By Lauren Fox, CNN Cleveland (CNN) — The senior US senator from Ohio sat with his daughter on a wooden bench in the hallway of the Cuyahoga County courthouse Wednesday, awaiting their turn as a judge in the room next door considered other domestic relations cases, then waiting again as that same judge swiftly declared

By Ashley Killough, Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge declined on Wednesday to intervene in a politically sensitive extradition fight over an ICE agent who is currently detained in Texas but is facing state charges in Minnesota for allegedly shooting an immigrant in Minneapolis earlier this year. Texas hasn’t agreed to extradite the

By Davis Winkie, Zachary Cohen, Alejandra Jaramillo, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration sent the nuclear cooperation agreement it had signed with Saudi Arabia to Congress on Monday, an administration official and multiple congressional aides told CNN. The civil nuclear deal, which could allow for uranium enrichment on Saudi soil, will go into effect in

By Patrick Svitek, CNN (CNN) — A month after he became the Democratic nominee for Senate in Maine, Troy Jackson is ramping up his appeals to women and voters who care about abortion rights, looking to sharpen a contrast with Republican Sen. Susan Collins that has long been at the center of the race. The

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — US officials on Wednesday exposed a major alleged Chinese cyber-espionage campaign they say has compromised or attacked numerous federal agencies including NASA, the Federal Reserve, the departments of Justice and Energy and the US Senate. Hackers affiliated with the Chinese military and intelligence services allegedly used a Chinese tech

By Aleena Fayaz, Kaanita Iyer, Richa Sharma, CNN (CNN) — A man arrested with a guillotine in the bed of his pickup truck near the US Capitol told officers it was “the real deal,” according to an affidavit. Philan-Tam-Duy Le, 35, of Julian, California, was arrested Tuesday and charged with carrying a dangerous weapon, US

By Aleena Fayaz, CNN (CNN) — Two Dan Sullivans will be on the ballot in November for Alaska’s Senate seat, CNN’s Decision Desk projects, an outcome that could benefit Democratic former Rep. Mary Peltola’s bid to flip the seat. While incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan and Peltola were virtual locks to advance from last week’s all-party