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By Eric Bradner, Tami Luhby, Sarah Owermohle, Sunlen Serfaty, Brian Todd and Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — More than 100 days into Donald Trump’s presidency, many federal workers have decided to do something that was unthinkable on inauguration day: quit their jobs. As the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency cuts budgets and headcounts across

By Kevin Liptak and Jeff Zeleny, CNN Washington (CNN) — In a sweltering Rose Garden on Thursday, as President Donald Trump intoned at length about restoring faith to the White House, he took a moment to single out a man sitting right up front. “When I have a problem, I call up Marco,” Trump told

By Natasha Bertrand, Josh Campbell, Zachary Cohen, Haley Britzky and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration has been examining whether it can label some suspected cartel and gang members inside the US as “enemy combatants” as a possible way to detain them more easily and limit their ability to challenge their imprisonment, according

By Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on Thursday strongly criticized President Donald Trump — without naming him — for his attacks on judges, arguing that the rhetoric of the president and his allies threatens democracy, according to Politico. Politico reported that Jackson, speaking at a legal conference in Puerto

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s administration urged the Supreme Court on Thursday to unwind deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans that have been temporarily left in place by a lower federal court. At issue is a decision earlier this year by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to end a

By Michael Williams, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Trump administration this week continued digging in on its claim that symbols tattooed on the fingers of Kilmar Abrego Garcia – a cross, a skull, a smiley face and a marijuana leaf – are proof that the man they wrongly deported to El Salvador is a member

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — Pete Buttigieg is putting the podcast microphones aside and heading out on the road. The former Transportation secretary, who in March passed on a run for a US Senate seat in Michigan — guided by what people close to him confirmed was interest in a possible second presidential bid

By Eric Bradner, Arit John and Arlette Saenz, CNN Indianapolis (CNN) — In his bid to unseat Rep. Andre Carson, the 50-year-old Democrat who has represented Indiana’s 7th Congressional District since 2008, 34-year-old challenger George Hornedo has argued the Democratic Party isn’t working, nationally or locally. Some voters in the district are open to hearing

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s drive to deport immigrants and block new arrivals could chip away at Social Security’s finances at a time when the program is already on shaky financial footing, experts say. In addition to Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s push for more removals, the Trump administration is also trying

By Joan Biskupic, CNN Chief Supreme Court Analyst (CNN) — Over his 20 years on the Supreme Court, Chief Justice John Roberts has demonstrated an ability to slowly build the scaffolding, case by case, for a major development in the law. At the same time, he is also known for famously decrying “jolts” to the legal

By David Wright and Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Former Vice President Kamala Harris rebuked President Donald Trump in her first major speech since leaving office, accusing her former rival of setting off the “greatest man-made economic crisis” in modern history through his across-the-board tariffs, and warning that his conflicts with the courts were moving

By Evan Perez and Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — As controversies pile up around President Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as US attorney for Washington, DC, Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee met behind closed doors this week to discuss concerns about Ed Martin’s nomination and whether senators should take the extraordinary step of holding

By Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — At what might have been his last Cabinet meeting for the foreseeable future, billionaire presidential adviser Elon Musk donned two baseball caps, one stacked atop the other. The first, emblazoned with the name of his government-slashing “DOGE” agency, was covered by a red and white “GULF OF AMERICA” hat,

By Annette Choi, CNN (CNN) — Twenty-seven states have passed bans on gender-affirming health care for transgender children and teenagers, according to a CNN analysis of data from the Movement Advancement Project, a nonprofit think tank that advocates for LGBTQ rights. An estimated 40% of transgender youth ages 13 to 17 live in these states,

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — An American detained in Belarus has been freed, a US official told CNN on Wednesday. Youras Ziankovich was arrested in Moscow in 2021 and then was brought to Belarus’s capital Minsk, where he was accused of being part of a US-backed coup plot against Belarus’ strongman leader Alexander Lukashenko.

By Annie Grayer, Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, CNN (CNN) — Ed Martin, President Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as US attorney for Washington, DC, did not recall some of his most controversial past statements in response to a series of questions put to him by members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, reviewed by CNN.