Politics

By Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the military to prepare plans to make drastic budget cuts over the…

By Sarah Ferris and Lauren Fox, CNN Washington (CNN) — Senate Republicans announced Wednesday they are muscling ahead with their preferred…

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s executive order grasping far greater control over independent federal agencies embraces…

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Donald Trump is on a lying spree about Ukraine. In remarks to reporters on Tuesday and in a…

By Natasha Bertrand and Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — Some defense officials responsible for drafting lists of civilian Pentagon employees to be…

By Lauren del Valle and Kara Scannell, CNN New York (CNN) — Wednesday’s much anticipated hearing on the Justice Department’s motion to…

By Jeremy Herb, Kevin Liptak and Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — When Donald Trump was convicted on 34 felony counts by a jury last May, there was…

By Casey Tolan, CNN (CNN) — Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency disclosed for the first time this week a snapshot of some of the…

By Sunlen Serfaty, CNN (CNN) — As federal workers get fired by the thousands, the news has sometimes come in unceremonious, callous ways.…

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Trump administration is expected to issue a public health order as soon as this week labeling…

By Marshall Cohen and Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — While Trump administration officials were preparing to install a seasoned conservative lawyer as…

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s false declaration Tuesday that Ukraine “started” the Russian war on…

By Joan Biskupic, CNN Chief Supreme Court Analyst (CNN) — President Donald Trump has expounded an extraordinary vision of his authority over…

By Kit Maher and Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday to develop policy…

By Priscilla Alvarez and Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration ordered legal service providers working with…

By Associated Press Washington (AP) — Louis DeJoy, the head of the US Postal Service, intends to step down, the federal agency said Tuesday,…

By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston was briefly closed due to the “sudden…

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge considering whether to indefinitely block President Donald Trump’s executive order banning…

By Devan Cole and Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge declined on Tuesday to temporarily block Elon Musk and his Department of…

By Zachary Cohen, Alayna Treene and Hadas Gold, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration has quietly fired multiple members of the “privacy…

By Jeff Zeleny and Kevin Liptak, CNN Palm Beach, Florida (CNN) — As President Donald Trump orders federal workers to return to the office, he…

By Katelyn Polantz, Jamie Gangel, Dana Bash and Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The top criminal prosecutor in the Washington, DC, US Attorney’s…

By Kara Scannell and Lauren del Valle, CNN (CNN) — The federal judge overseeing the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams has…

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump and top allies who have questioned the constitutionality of recent court orders blocking the…

CNN By Gloria Pazmino and Mark Morales, CNN (CNN) — Four top deputies in Eric Adams’ administration submitted their resignations Monday, in…

By Associated Press (AP) — The Social Security Administration’s acting commissioner has stepped down from her role at the agency over…

By Kevin Liptak and Jeff Zeleny, CNN (CNN) — As President Donald Trump presses ahead with his attempt to end the war in Ukraine, he is leaning…

By Gloria Pazmino and Mark Morales, CNN (CNN) — Four top deputies in Eric Adams’ administration submitted their resignations Monday, in the…

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of hedge fund executive and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. Personal Birth date:…

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump is heading to the Supreme Court for the first time in his second term, using an emergency…

By Alayna Treene and David Goldman, CNN (CNN) — Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is seeking access to the Internal Revenue…

By Jeff Zeleny and Kevin Liptak, CNN Washington (CNN) — Joe Biden left the White House nearly a month ago, but he’s never far from Donald…

By Curt Devine, Majlie de Puy Kamp and Audrey Ash, CNN (CNN) — Canceled meetings, blocked webpages and limited updates on life-threatening…

By Edward-Isaac Dovere and Gloria Pazmino, CNN New York (CNN) — Eric Adams has united Democrats in New York City. From across the boroughs and…

By Pete Muntean, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration has started firing hundreds of Federal Aviation Administration probationary employees who…

CNN By Betsy Klein, Katelyn Polantz and Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Saturday offered a cryptic, one-sentence insight…

By Betsy Klein, Katelyn Polantz and Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Saturday offered a cryptic, one-sentence insight into…

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump will ask the Supreme Court to allow him to fire the head of a government ethics watchdog…

By Arit John, CNN (CNN) — In his nearly four weeks in office, President Donald Trump has unveiled a constant stream of policy priorities in…

By Steve Contorno and Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — Through blunt conversations and terse texting exchanges, Steve Bannon, the populist strategist…

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — Amid Democrats’ shock and bickering over how much to respond to President Donald Trump is a deeper…

By Betsy Klein, Samantha Waldenberg, Jennifer Hansler and Mariya Knight, CNN (CNN) — Top Trump administration officials are set to meet with…

By Zachary B. Wolf, CNN Washington (CNN) — When we asked you, readers of CNN.com and the What Matters newsletter, for your questions about the…

By Tierney Sneed and Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — “I don’t know.” That’s the answer that Justice Department attorneys, when asked basic…

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — In less than a month in office the Trump administration has simultaneously dismantled foreign aid programs that…

By Eric Bradner and Lauren Fox, CNN (CNN) — Sen. Mitch McConnell was a generational force for the Republican Party — using procedural tactics…

By Jamie Gangel, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration is forcing out senior leadership at the National Archives and Records Administration in a…

By Priscilla Alvarez and Gabe Cohen, CNN (CNN) — One week into the Trump administration, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem issued a…

By Kara Scannell, Evan Perez, Hannah Rabinowitz and Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — The morning after the mass resignation of prosecutors sparked a…