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By Kaitlan Collins, CNN (CNN) — A Department of Homeland Security official conceded Wednesday that an undocumented migrant believed to have been framed with threatening to kill President Donald Trump is no longer under investigation. DHS and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem had initially highlighted the arrest of Ramon Morales-Reyes in connection with the threat

By Priscilla Alvarez and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — A group of migrants the Trump administration sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador earlier this year must now have an opportunity to challenge their removal under the Alien Enemies Act, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. The ruling from US District Judge James Boasberg said that

By Kevin Liptak and Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — For months, President Donald Trump has suggested his personal relationship with China’s Xi Jinping will be what unlocks the world’s most consequential trade dispute. Yet he couldn’t get Xi on the telephone for weeks. The long period of silence between the leaders will — at least

By Kristen Holmes, Jeff Zeleny, Hadas Gold and Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — When Elon Musk declared Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s signature legislation was a “disgusting abomination,” it caught the West Wing by surprise and sent Republican leaders in Congress scrambling, unsuccessfully, to get Musk on the phone. A day later, both GOP leaders

By Devan Cole and Molly Reinmann, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department on Wednesday pressed a federal appeals court to reverse a judge’s ruling that blocked nationwide President Donald Trump’s effort to end birthright citizenship. The hearing before a three-judge panel of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals represents the first time one of

CNN By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — Russian President Vladimir Putin told US President Donald Trump in a phone call Wednesday that Moscow was obligated to respond to Ukraine’s weekend drone attack, Trump said, setting up a potential escalation in the conflict just as the US president hopes to broker an end to the war.

CNN By Arlette Saenz, CNN (CNN) – Karine Jean-Pierre, who served as White House press secretary under former President Joe Biden, has switched her party affiliation to independent, according to a publishing company’s description of her forthcoming book. Jean-Pierre, who has worked in Democratic politics for decades, is set to release a new book that

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — House Republicans’ sweeping tax and spending cuts package would increase the deficit by $2.4 trillion over the next decade, according to the Congressional Budget Office’s analysis of the bill that GOP lawmakers narrowly approved last month. The highly anticipated score, which was released Wednesday, could complicate Senate Majority Leader

By Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — The House Judiciary Committee is expected to interview former Hunter Biden special counsel David Weiss behind closed doors on Friday, two sources familiar with the interview told CNN, as part of a broader Republican effort to revisit previous probes into the Biden family that stalled last Congress but are

CNN By Kristen Holmes, Kaitlan Collins and Samantha Waldenberg, CNN (CNN) — Elon Musk on Tuesday lashed out at President Donald Trump’s agenda bill — which the president is pressuring GOP senators to support — calling it a “disgusting abomination.” “I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore. This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending

By Kristen Holmes, Kaitlan Collins and Samantha Waldenberg, CNN (CNN) — Elon Musk on Tuesday lashed out at President Donald Trump’s agenda bill — which the president is pressuring GOP senators to support — calling it a “disgusting abomination.” “I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore. This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill

By Kylie Atwood, CNN (CNN) — A US consulting firm has canceled its contract with the controversial US and Israel-backed aid organization set up to distribute food and humanitarian supplies as famine conditions worsen in war-ravaged Gaza, a spokesperson for Boston Consulting Group told CNN. “Unapproved follow-on work relating to Gaza lacked buy-in from multilateral

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN New York (CNN) — In New York, Andrew Cuomo’s comeback after resigning in disgrace could end up taking less than four years – with a scandal-plagued incumbent mayor, a disorganized left wing and a feeling that the city is on the brink paving the way. It’s the latest saga in the

By Kylie Atwood, Frederik Pleitgen and Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — A senior Iranian official told CNN the new nuclear deal proposal presented to Tehran in recent days is “incoherent and disjointed,” as sources familiar with the progress of the talks said the momentum behind negotiations to secure a new deal appears to be collapsing.

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Monday paused the Department of Homeland Security’s effort to end the collective bargaining agreement covering tens of thousands of transportation security officers at airports. It’s the latest loss in court for the Trump administration’s drive to reshape the federal workforce. US Senior District Judge Marsha

By Katelyn Polantz and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — A Defense Department official told others in the Trump administration that a $12 million biological threat research grant at Harvard shouldn’t be terminated because of national security risks, according to the school’s latest court filing. The disclosure is part of a trove of internal Trump administration

By Michael Williams, CNN (CNN) — The Department of Homeland Security removed a list of hundreds of so-called sanctuary jurisdictions that it published on its website Thursday following questions about its accuracy and pointed criticism from a major group representing law enforcement. DHS had described it as “comprehensive list of sanctuary jurisdictions including cities, counties,

By John Fritze and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court declined Monday to hear arguments in a pair of significant Second Amendment challenges involving certain semi-automatic weapons and high-capacity magazines, a move that leaves both of those laws in place. One of the appeals dealt with Maryland’s ban on certain semi-automatic weapons such